THE MEANING OF THE ESSENCE CYCLE NUMBERS.
The Essence Number and the Personal Year Number are the two essential indicators of the
forces that will influence your life during the course of any year. While the Personal Year
runs from January to January, the Essence is most strongly felt from birthday to birthday.
For example, if your essence number is 8 for the year 1988, you would begin to feel the
influence of that
8 most powerfully after your 1988 birthday. The influence would begin to wane during 1989
and would finally end at your birthday of 1989.
The Essence number indicates the lessons you will be dealing with during that year. It
says a great deal about how you will perceive your environment. It also gives clear advice
on how you can be most successful during the year, that is, which types of behavior will
be supported by your milieu, and which ones will be less effective.
1 Essence
You will now begin an entirely new phase of your life. You are on the threshold of a new
beginning. Not only will fresh ideas come into your life, but you will accept and even embrace
them. It is a time of radical change, and in all likelihood you are ready for it. Now is
the time to advance the new, and let go of the old. All inefficient methods will have to
be eliminated from your life. In the same way, you must let go of relationships that no
longer serve your future. Discard habits and liabilities that you have been holding on to.
A new identity is emerging, one that is efficient, innovative, highly creative, and courageous.
Your leadership qualities will rush to the surface. Your environment will demand that you
stand up to challenges, and face difficulties head on. You can no longer hide from the truths
of your life. The facts are now blatantly clear. You must make a stand. Change is a given.
But you possess the power to make those changes. All you need is the will and the energy
to enact your plan.
This is a period of struggle and great reward. You have the chance to achieve independence.
But it will not be handed to you. You must wrest from old habits and inertia of the past.
As with all beginnings, this one will be marked by false starts and blind alleys. You will
be forced to start again and again. You are like a baby learning to walk. There will be
falls. You will have to persevere. This is a period in which your willpower will be tested.
You are, in fact, forging your own determination. You must not give up. But the rewards
are great. The general influences are raising you to new heights of independence, courage,
and self-esteem. At the conclusion of this 1 Essence, your self- knowledge and self-respect
will be greatly increased, as will your capacity to stand on your own two feet.
2 Essence
You must learn to cooperate with others in order to accomplish some greater good. This
is not a time to lead, but to follow. You must be content to draw your guidance from the
environment and those in positions of greater power. You must maintain your own center,
but avoid arrogance, rigidity, and stubbornness. The more you insist on your own priorities,
the more resistance will you meet.
This is a period of partnerships. Your success depends on your ability to work with others.
You will be extremely sensitive and intuitive. Your powers of understanding will be at
an all-time high. These abilities will give you the insight you need to perceive subtle
changes in people and situations. You will therefore be better able to adapt to changing
circumstances.
Your intuition makes it possible to accomplish great tasks, even though you may not be
in a leadership role. The reason: you instinctively know how to react to change, and to
gently advise people to go in the right directions.
Your role as an advisor or confidant is the key to your success during this period. You
are learning the lesson of interdependence. You will also come to know how valuable you
can be in a more passive role. It is a period to serve, to be the helper, the assistant.
Your ability and willingness to work with others will be tested and rewarded.
It is essential that you listen. Be shrewd in your evaluations of others and of situations,
but do not enforce your judgments directly on people.
Your sensitivity will make it necessary for you to seek out harmonious and peaceful environments.
Be careful of the health of your nervous system. You can become anxious more easily during
this period. Therefore, seek out people you trust; share your deeper feelings; allow yourself
to be supported by friends and loved ones. Keep your spirits high and avoid depression.
Music plays an important role during this period. Any musical talent you possess will be
enhanced. You even possess a certain physical grace that can emerge in dancing, athletics,
or simply walking down the street.
In your passive, centered way, you will be charismatic and attractive to others. People
will sense your fine intuition and sensitivity and seek you out for private talks. Be loyal
to friends and partners.
Remain strong inwardly and flexible without. In this way you will avoid the obvious difficulties
and remain on your path to success.
This is a period of accomplishment through gentle persuasion.
3 Essence
Your ability to express your self will reach an all-time high. Any talent you possess in
the arts -- especially in writing, acting, or other performing arts -- will be greatly enhanced.
This is a period of success through personal creativity. You have much opportunity to advance
yourself and career through your own personal expression, charm, and creative talent.
This is a social time, filled with much fun and friendship. You will feel lighter, fresher,
more alive than in previous years. It is as if life has relieved you of a burden, allowing
the more creative, upward, and joyful energies to flow more freely.
People are naturally attracted to you. They sense your joie de vivre, your spirit, and
creativity.
Your challenge is to focus your heightened creativity on a worthwhile task. Discipline
is essential. Choose a goal worth reaching. Pour your energies into something that will
last. In this way, you will emerge from this period having accomplished something worthwhile,
and learned to harness your creative abilities.
If you fail to focus, you will likely spend your opportunity and creative urges on loose
talk, superficiality, and socializing.
This is an emotional period. The upward, heart-centered energies are peaking, bringing
with them many old emotional issues. You can easily exaggerate the importance of an unkind
word, or react too emotionally to a troubling situation. In short, you need perspective
now.
You are in a highly volatile period, making you highly creative, sensitive, and given to
emotional mood swings.
You are highly romantic and given to fantasy. There can be many wonderfully romantic times;
however, it is important to avoid being swept away by your fantasies. Do not fail to see
people for what they are.
This is a time when you will learn the value of your personal expression, and your own
uniqueness. It is a time of personal accomplishment and advancement.
4 Essence
This a period of much work, attention to detail, and advancement in your career. Your rewards
will be directly proportional to your effort. Much will be demanded of you, but you now
have the opportunity to lay a sound foundation for your life.
You must be orderly and disciplined. Attention to detail in all areas -- especially in
personal finances and business -- is a necessity. Your workload will likely increase. Only
through the correct management of time and resources will you be able to apportion your
energies correctly to meet the increased demands made of you.
You are now being trained in the ways of the world, and only sound practical management
will bring you the results you desire. Any flimsy or unsound business practices will likely
bring trouble and increased work for you. Only by dealing with reality -- that is, by facing
situations exactly as they are, and not how you might like them to be -- will you be able
to find the correct path to success.
Avoid feelings of restriction or limitation. Be economical in all your expenditures. Be
sure to care for your health. Maintain a healthy diet and follow a sound exercise routine.
Pay attention to preventive health methods and get the rest you need. But know when to allow
yourself some breathing room. Be moderate in all things, including moderation. Balance is
the key to this period.
In-laws and family members can be demanding during this period. People see you as a rock
of stability and are naturally attracted to you for support. Be helpful without allowing
yourself to be used.
You are being called upon to work hard and establish a firm foundation upon which your
life will rest for many years to come.
5 Essence
This is an important time of progress and advancement along the lines of your talents.
You will experience a relief from burden and increased personal freedom. Any talent you
possess in writing, public relations, and the arts will be greatly enhanced. At the same
time, business matters flow quickly and new opportunities for expansion seem to arise out
of nowhere.
People are attracted to you and seek to help you achieve your goals. You possess an almost
magical ability to promote yourself. Your fluency with words is greatly increased. You are
more charming and attractive, which opens many new doors.
This is a period of travel and much learning. Opportunities to visit distant lands, encounter
foreign cultures and peoples, and learn about life will come to you. Your personal growth
will speed up considerably.
As such, many old habits and outdated methods will fade from your life. It is as if you
are being catapulted from the old and outworn, into a new and fast-paced period of personal
growth and development.
Your desire to satisfy your senses will also increase dramatically. You must be careful
not to overindulge in food, alcohol, sex, and even drugs.
Sudden events and chance occurrences will come your way. You must be alert to your opportunities.
This is not a period of sitting back and waiting, but a time to move ahead rapidly.
Your challenge is to remain focused on your more long term goals. Be disciplined in your
work. Don't have too many irons in the fire. Sort out the important projects and endeavors
and see them through from start to finish. Focus, discipline, and completion are the keys
to your success.
6 Essence
This is a time of responsibility, duty, family matters, and high ideals. You will be called
upon to support others and maintain a high life condition while you do it. Others look to
you as an inspiration and a source of guidance. There is an element of self-sacrifice present
in that you must serve those closest to you. Unselfishness and a willingness to be of help
to others are the keys to your success.
You will likely experience advancement in business, career, and financial matters. Progress
comes more easily during this period, as new opportunities open up to you. At the same time,
your achievements bring added responsibility and new demands. You will have to devote yourself
entirely to the task at hand to realize your goals.
This can be an emotional period, as family members may be demanding. The whole issue of
love comes to the forefront. Your ability to love and be loved will become starkly clear.
This is an essence during which many marriages and divorces take place. People discover
how much they truly love their partner, or how little love they have in their lives.
Protect your family relationships. Work to maintain harmony in your home. Especially stay
focused on the needs of children.
There can be a domineering figure in your life who can oppress you during this time. The
key is to be balanced and centered when dealing with all authority figures. Refuse to act
rashly or emotionally. Remain focused and in harmony with your long-term goals.
If you keep a strong hold on your ideals, you will gain many supporters and admirers. This
brings many great rewards and much appreciation. New and lasting friends come into your
life now, and many seek to advance you along the lines of your abilities.
There is a strong artistic urge present. Those with artistic talent, or already working
in the arts, will find their abilities greatly enhanced, with many new and rewarding chances
for advancement.
Most people under the 6 Essence will improve their lives and experience growth in their
career goals.
7 Essence
This is a period of much self-reflection, analysis, and inner growth. The journey now is
inward. You will feel a need to spend more time alone to contemplate your life and those
close to you. The questions that pursue you are the fundamental ones of life: Who am I?
What I am doing? Why am I doing it?
Your environment or milieu will seem more aggressive than during previous years. This is
more a function of your heightened sensitivity and intuition. This will naturally drive
you deeper within yourself, causing you to ferret out the important issues that have directed
your life to this point.
In order to deal effectively with those around you -- especially family members and co-workers
-- you will have to refine your expression in all respects. Don't push people too hard,
lest you damage close friendships unnecessarily. This is not a time for being extroverted
or aggressive. This is a time of introversion and deeper self- understanding. Be gentle
with yourself and those around you. Think carefully before making important decisions. Be
cautious when making major changes.
It is a wonderful time to study and to specialize in one particular field. Your ability
to think deeply and clearly is at an all-time high. Indeed, your mind is your best tool.
You are attracted to the great books, new realms of study, and higher learning. You have
the ability to focus and concentrate. You can penetrate below the surface of subjects, to
see the inner workings of yourself, others, and life around you.
Avoid becoming cynical and skeptical. Don't be too intellectual, lest you leave your heart
behind. This is a time of deep spiritual and psychological integration. The head and the
heart should be working together, not opposing each other.
You will likely discover what you most enjoy doing now. Follow these urges; study areas
that you have long neglected but wanted to pursue. The inner-self guides you during this
time. Listen carefully to its advice.
8 Essence
This is a period when business and career affairs dominate your agenda. A major new opportunity
will unfold to you and you will have to give yourself to it entirely to make it work. It
is a time of progress and much personal power, but the demands of the time are equally large,
thus requiring careful planning and attention to detail.
All business matters -- including personal economies -- will come under sharp scrutiny.
You will likely have more money than during previous years, but, conversely, you must be
more careful with it.
A new start can be made. You sense the need to grasp it. But you also are aware that it
must be treated with great care. Therefore, be astute in all your business dealings. Major
mistakes can be made if you are not careful, and they can affect you for some years to come.
It a time of cautious use of power. You are being asked to develop wisdom in all your dealings.
Balance -- in areas from your mundane affairs to your eminently important relationships
-- is the key to your success. Keep a tight control on your bookkeeping, while providing
strong leadership and gentle guidance to your family or close associates.
It is also a time when old issues -- especially debts from the past -- surface with a vengeance,
making it necessary to pay the piper before further progress can be made. The irony is that
while you have greater resources, there are often equally large demands made of you.
This is a time, too, when you will realize that you are a survivor. No matter what difficulties
you have experienced in the past, this is a period when you can regain a sense of progress
in career matters. You will feel that you are doing important work, and will be richly rewarded
for it.
9 Essence
This is a period during which your ideals will be tested and forged anew. You will be broadened
in ways that you would never have dreamed possible. You will likely experience a dramatic
psychological and spiritual expansion. Old relationships that no longer have a place in
your life will be let go of. Even old habits or characteristics that you believed were fundamental
to your identity seem to evaporate.
There is a need to forgive those in your past and let them get on with their lives, as
you must with yours. Hanging on to negative attachments, either out of anger or a sense
that justice has not yet been done, will bring you much misery and, if the courts are involved,
protracted lawsuits.
You now have the ability to reach out to the masses. This is a time requiring much self-sacrifice
and service to others. You are deeply affected by the pain and sufferings of others, and
will feel a need to change your milieu or society for the better.
Those in the arts, especially actors, writers, and other performers, will see an enhancement
of their talents and the opening of many new opportunities for advancement.
Your focus is outward in a big way. Teach, perform, and advance society in your own way.
Dedicate yourself to a higher cause. These are the areas that will meet with much success.
Conversely, selfishness, negativity, and pettiness will blow up in your face. The time
demands a broad view of life. You are now the visionary, who must see the greater trends
in humanity.
Out of this will come much compassion for all. This is the lesson of the period: That as
you work for the greater good of society, you will be personally rewarded, so much so that
your cup will runneth over.
11 Essence
This is a time of enormous sensitivity and equally enormous change. Your intuition is galvanized.
You are capable of even psychic experiences. But your awareness of the higher realms serves
to throw a light upon all that is low and unenlightened in your own life. The contrast can
be shocking.
You are all-too aware of your shortcomings as a human being. This can drive you more deeply
inward. You are extremely self-conscious. There may be feelings of failure and self-recrimination.
These must be kept under control.
All of this stems from an element of shock present in your life. The very ground upon which
your personality is based seems to have experienced an upheaval. This psychic quake can
often be replicated by some event in your life. Consequently, your identity is shaken.
It is a time to search yourself. Are you happy with what you are doing? Is your work directly
in line with your higher values and talents? This is a period of self-review in which you
will have a great opportunity to set your life upon a more deeply spiritual and lasting
foundation.
Consequently, you can make much progress and experience a great deal of future happiness
as a result of this period. There is a realignment occurring that is putting you in touch
with your deeper nature. The inner and the outer are now becoming one. It is a period of
quickened psychological and spiritual growth.
Your intuition now will guide you safely from the storm. While your emotional life may
be turbulent, your intuition gives you a sense that you are on the right track. In fact,
you have not lost direction, but taken a quantum leap along your path. It can be a bit jarring,
but altogether positive.
Meditate, pray, seek out harmonious settings, take walks in the woods, and be close to
nature. Let the inner self guide you to a greater happiness.
There can be many wonderful inner and even psychic experiences that reassure you of the
love and support coming to you from the universe itself. It is a time of illumination on
all levels. Make the most of it. Allow the higher forces to guide your rapid growth.
16 Essence
There are edifices of thoughts and behavior patterns that keep us from experiencing our
true natures and the deeper happiness within. By some great benevolence of the universe,
these edifices collapse from time to time. You are now in one of those benevolent periods.
This is the proverbial dark night of the soul. You will find many things not working out
as you had planned. There can be many unexpected, turbulent, and shocking events. There
are debts to be paid that may seem unduly harsh or imbalanced. The time is confusing and
you may feel that you have lost direction entirely.
Your challenge is to surrender to the larger forces that now seem so threatening. Let the
transformative powers redirect you. This is the surest path out of the confusion that now
dominates your life.
The 16 Essence is very like a storm that seems, on the surface, to be knocking down buildings,
but is in fact rearranging your life so that you emerge healthier and happier than before.
The 16 Essence usually does not last long. You will find yourself on much sounder footing
and in much better circumstances once it passes. You are experiencing the night that will
surely bring the dawn. With it will come a new life.
Part of the lesson you are learning is gratitude. Take time to truly examine everything
that has been given to you. You are overlooking the love in your life, the talents you have
been given, the good things that have been added to your life without your acknowledgement.
There is something of a blind spot in you that has brought about the current period of confusion.
Now is a time to self-reflect and to truly take stock of your life. Gratitude is one of
the keys to a healthy transformation. Offer thanks to the Universe for all that has been
provided you.
This is an act of true magnanimity because you likely feel that you have been treated unjustly
by the greater forces. But such thinking is a delusion that has blinded you to your true
nature and destiny. Open your heart. Accept that your vision is not of the infinite, but
of the relative world. Accept that the infinite is guiding you lovingly and toward higher
planes of consciousness. Surrender to the greater forces. This will cause you to open up
to the higher planes and allow them to guide.
Now is a time to develop faith. The power of faith can help you feel secure in the midst
of change. Faith allows you to feel that you are heading in a good direction, even when
you do not know what that direction is. Faith is the key to your happiness now.
Meditate, pray, do regular spiritual practices. Take care of your health with sound diet
and exercise programs. Try to eliminate all unhealthy attitudes and practices. Live a more
enlightened inner life. Trust.
19 Essence
You are in a struggle for independence and possessed by personal ambition. You will feel
the need to work hard to establish yourself and your foundation. You are forward looking
and even visionary, but for personal gain.
This is a period of struggle. It is a time when you may feel torn between your personal
desires and your concerns for others. It can be a time marked by stubbornness and rigidity,
characteristics you will have to keep in check.
This duality between the lower desires and the higher realms of love can cause you much
internal conflict. Secretly, you may feel torn between a desire to serve some greater good,
and your ambition for personal accomplishment. You are aware of the needs of others. At
the same time you are skeptical of ideals and idealists. You may tell yourself now that
you must be realistic in your dealings with the world. But you must avoid shutting out the
voice of your higher nature. Do not let your higher ideals go, lest you be guided exclusively
by materialism and greed.
All too often, those in the 19 Essence finally resolve this conflict by conceding to personal
ambition and selfishness. This can lead you to much trouble. People may perceive you as
greedy and self-centered. Because you are driven by ambition, you may be attracted to people
who have no other priority but personal gain. For some, this will lead to shady business
practices and even brushes with the law.
This can be a time when you feel a need to pull back from others and become less social
than during previous years. But this can lead to isolation. You may also feel frustrated
because your ambitions want instant gratification, which the time does not allow.
The challenge during this time is to strike a balance between your worldly needs and your
inner spiritual nature. The time requires much soul searching and a willingness to accept
the perspective of others. Don't shut yourself off, or become jaundiced to your more idealistic
brethren.
At the conclusion of the 19 Essence, the person is often better off materially, and far
more independent, but there may also be a sense of disconnectedness from friends and loved
ones. Therefore, it is important to work at maintaining close ties. Be open to others, and
recognize that "man does not live by bread alone."
22 Essence
This is a period of enormous demands and, consequently, the chance to achieve greatness.
You will find yourself at the center of some larger movement or social cause. Power has
come to you, but you will need every ounce of strength to accomplish the task that lies
before you.
You now serve some greater social good. Selfishness, pettiness, and timidity will cause
you much trouble. They are antagonistic to everything that you have set your sights on.
Now is a time to build some great and lasting edifice. That edifice may be physical --
a building or a business, for example -- or it may be social
-- advancing a truly worthy social cause. Whatever it is, it has come to you from a higher
plane, or what might be termed the archetypal world.
You will see this truth everywhere you look. Practically speaking, people's well-being
-- their livelihoods or general attitudes -- rests in a large measure with what you do.
People naturally look to you for leadership and inspiration. Your vision is truly wide and
distant in scope. Your actions have dramatic effects. Therefore, you are more cautious and
responsible with what you do.
This can be a sensitive period. You are being asked to live according to higher ideals.
Your values must be above reproach. Avoid disagreements; be magnanimous and patient with
others. Take the slower, sure path toward problem solving. Get sufficient rest and take
care of your own personal needs. Be balanced in your activities. Avoid excessive work.
Pay attention to detail without losing your vision of your longer term priorities. You
are now building a foundation for something that will serve a greater social good. Think
big and take practical steps to ensure that your dreams become reality.
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