Personal Month Number

The calculation is straightforward: take your Personal Year Number, add the number of the current month (January = 1, February = 2, and so on), reduce the sum to a single digit, and that's your Personal Month Number. What it does is layer a shorter rhythm on top of the longer annual one. If your Personal Year is a 4 — all discipline and groundwork — a 9 Personal Month inside it will still push completion and release energy to the surface, even if just temporarily. The numbers 1 through 9 carry the same meanings they do everywhere else in numerology: 1 for new starts, 2 for patience and partnership, 5 for disruption and movement, 8 for material pressure, and so on. Most practitioners, including Hans Decoz and Felicia Bender, treat master numbers (11, 22) as reducible here rather than holding them — though some schools disagree on that point.

Personal Month Numbers belong to the broader system of cyclical numerology that was codified in the United States during the early-to-mid 20th century. The term "numerology" itself was coined around 1907 by L. Dow Balliett, a New Jersey occultist who published several books connecting numbers to names and dates. The layered cycle system — Personal Year, Personal Month, Personal Day — was developed and popularized most influentially by Juno Jordan, who founded the California Institute of Numerical Research and published her major works in the 1960s and 1970s. Her 1972 book "Numerology: The Romance in Your Name" laid out the cycle framework that most modern practitioners still use. Authors like Hans Decoz and Faith Javane and Dusty Bunker later expanded and refined how monthly cycles interact with the annual number.

To find your Personal Month Number, first calculate your Personal Year Number for the current year. Then add the current calendar month (1–12) to that Personal Year Number and reduce to a single digit. So if your Personal Year is 6 and it's October (month 10, reduced to 1), you get 6 + 1 = 7 Personal Month. Track it month by month and note where the monthly number clashes or flows with your annual one — that friction or alignment often explains why certain months feel heavier or more open than others. Felicia Bender's work is a solid starting point if you want more depth on how each monthly number plays out in real terms. Explore deeper: /numerology/personal-year