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Each person has an Annual Number, the number for everyone born in that year. It is useful in itself, but you will also need it to determine your Natal Number in the next section. Finding your Annual Number is easy.

In the table above (and on the next couple of pages), find the year of your birth. In the row (horizontal line) next to your year, you will see a number for men and one for women, marked as follows:

Feb 4 1900 05:45 M1 F5

In the above example for 1900, “M1” stands for Male and the annual number is “1” for men, and the “F5” stands for Female and the annual number is “5” for women.

Be sure that your birth date and time or equal to or follow that date and time given for each year. Otherwise use the pervious year. Here is an example, using Feb 4 1902.

Feb 4 1901 11:37 M9 F6
Feb 4 1902 17:28 M8 F7

If you were born on February 4 1902 at 17:28 GMT or later, then use the numbers for 1902. If you were born before 17:28 on February 4, 1902, then use the numbers for February 4, 1901.

Note: All times are given in military or 24-hour time, thus 17:28 equals 5:28 PM, and so forth. Also all times are given in GMT (Greenwich Mean Time), which is that used in Great Britain and has a time zone of 0 hours. If you were born in the US, you would have to deduct the number of hours for your time zone to determine the correct time. For example, using the time of 17:28 given above, here is what that time would be for the four US time zones:

17:28 GMT = 5:28 PM Greenwich Mean Time
12:28 EST = 12:28 PM Eastern Standard Time (-5 hours)
11:28 CST = 11:28 AM Central Standard Time (-6 hours)
10:28 MST = 10:28 AM Mountain Standard Time (-7 hours)
09:28 PST = 09:28 AM Pacific Standard Time (-8 hours)

And last, but also important, if you are on Daylight Savings Time, there would be one hour less or using the same times above, but in summer time (DST), the times would be:

17:28 GMT = 5:28 PM Greenwich Mean Time
13:28 EDT = 01:28 PM Eastern Daylight Time (-4 hours)
12:28 CDT = 12:28 AM Central Daylight Time (-5 hours)
11:28 MDT = 11:28 AM Mountain Daylight Time (-6 hours)
11:28 PDT = 10:28 AM Pacific Daylight Time (-7 hours)

Don’t get mad at me if the above is tricky. I didn’t invent the time zones.