The Essence number is the combined total of the Physical, Mental, and Spiritual Transits that are influencing you during a particular year of your life. The First Name tells about Physical Transit, The Middle name tells about Mental Transit and The Last Name tells about Spiritual Transit.
If someone does not have Middle Name, Last Name tells about Mental and Spiritual Transits.
If someone has more than one middle name then merge both middle names as a single long middle name.
If someone has more than one last name then merge both last names as a single long last name.
When it comes to knowing how the particular year or particular age will be for any individual, without considering the Essence cycle number you cannot get the exact idea. For example, if you want to know at age 24 how the timing will be, you must have to analyze the Essence number for age 24 along with the Personal Year number.
The Essence number is based on your name and it is a yearly indicator of what event can be occurred and how that can influence your life during that particular year.
On the whole, the Essence Cycle Number helps you obtain a fair idea of what may happen during the different periods of your lifespan. Each Essence Cycle Number has completely different characteristics.
How to calculate Essence Number
In order to calculate the Essence number, we have to consider First Name, Middle Name, and Last Name separately for each personage.
Take an example of Mahatma Gandhi and his first letter M and G. The value for M & G is 4 & 3 respectively.
So the influence of M will last for 4 years and G for 3 years. So the first three-year essence number will be 4(M) +3(G) =7. And 4th Year Essence will be 4 (M) +1(A) =5.
When arriving at the Essence number, it is particularly important to look for Karmic Debt numbers 16 & 19 and master numbers 11, 22 &33.
To illustrate what I have just explained, see an example of Mahatma Gandhi Essence chart:
M =4, A=1, H=5, A=1, T =4, M=4, A=1
G =3, A =1, N=5, D=4, H=5, I=1
Take first Name: MAHATMA
Since the value of M is 4, so it is getting repeated 4 times and after that A occurred only once because A has value as 1. Likewise, we have to fill with other letters H, T, M & A.
Since
Take the Last Name: GANDHIvalue of G is 3, so it is getting repeated 3 times and after that A occurred only once because A has value as 1. Likewise, we have to fill for other letters N, D, H and I.