Personal Year number
1
Numbers describe tendencies in a symbolic tradition. They cannot decide health, money, law, marriage or children.
About this number
Personal Year is a modern phrase, absent from every pre-1931 book gathered here. The arithmetic does appear, unnamed, in Ariel Yvon Taylor's Numerology Made Plain of 1926: birth month and birth day added to the digit of the year. For June 12 and the year 2026, that is 6 + 12 + 2026 = 2044, whose digits give 10 and then 1. A different older yearly count is Roy Page Walton's of 1914, which does not use a date at all: it gives each letter of a name one year of life.
Modern practitioners describe a round of nine and put 1 at its opening and attach words like initiative, seeds and independence. The nine-step round is their framing. Taylor's own note about a fresh start is attached to a second sum, the digit of a person's age, and the book's advice for a 1 day was to begin something and ignore what others suggest.
Where this text comes from
Statements credited to an older writer follow the scanned text named here and are paraphrased unless quoted. The modern readings are labeled as modern and come from none of these works.
- Ariel Yvon Taylor, Numerology Made Plain: The Science of Names and Numbers and the Law of Vibration (1926)
Retrieved 2026-11-09
- Dr. Roy Page Walton, Names, Dates, and Numbers: What They Mean to You (1914)
Retrieved 2026-11-09
Our own plain wording. It is not a translation of any single source.