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In short
A personal year is a number from 1 to 9 for one year of your life, made by adding your birth day and month to a year and reducing. This app computes two versions: a calendar-year one from day, month and the current year, and a Vedic one that runs birthday to birthday and adds the weekday of the birthday. Master numbers are always reduced here.
What the term means
A personal year is a one-year cycle number. Unlike the Mulank or Bhagyank, it changes every year: the birth day and month stay fixed and the year moves. The numbers run 1 to 9 and then start again, which is why the books read them as a nine-year cycle.
Where the term comes from
Numerology Made Easy (Ch.9, p.80) takes the calendar or Universal Year and makes it personal by adding the month and day of birth. Metaphysical Secrets (Ch.8) gives the same sum but lists eleven Personal Year numbers, 1 to 9 plus 11 and 22. Advanced Vedic Numerology (p.145-146) prints two methods: a Western one from day, month and full year, and a Vedic one that adds the Moolank, the birth month, the year without its century and the number of the weekday the birthday falls on, running "from birthday to birthday".
How this app computes it
- Calendar version: birth day + birth month + the current year, as numbers, reduced to one digit. It changes on 1 January.
- Vedic version: Mulank + birth month + the last two digits of the year + the weekday number of this year's birthday (Sunday 1, Monday 2, Tuesday 9, Wednesday 5, Thursday 3, Friday 6, Saturday 8), reduced. It changes on the birthday.
- Both reduce master numbers away, so an 11 becomes 2. That is where this app parts from Metaphysical Secrets.
- "Today" is the reader's calendar date, in India Standard Time when the reader's time zone is unknown, so the year turns over at local midnight, not at 05:30 IST as it did when the date was read in UTC.
A small illustration
For a birth on 11 March 1994, the rules document's example, 2026 gives 11 + 3 + 2026 = 2040, then 6. For the book's own Vedic example, 1 April 1988 in 2021, the engine returns 2 (1 + 4 + 21 + 3, the 3 for a Thursday birthday), valid from 1 April 2021 to 1 April 2022, the same answer as the book.
Pages that use this term
- Your Personal Year - the full essay on the dated number.
- Personal Year calculator - both versions, with the date used.
- When astrology and numerology disagree - a personal year set beside a dasha.
- Number 1 in numerology - reads 1 as a year number too.
- Personal year 1 - the first of nine year pages.
- Numerology feature - where the current year is shown.
Related terms
- Personal month - the year number plus the month.
- Personal day - the month number plus the day.
- Pinnacle cycle - the long cycles beside the yearly one.
- Digit sum - how the totals are reduced.
Personal Year Number
The year you are in, by two methods that do not always agree.
This date is sent only to compute the answer. Nothing is stored, no account is created, and no email is asked for.