The personal year cycle lasts exactly one year. It begins in January and ends in December.

Every 9 years, the cycle number sequence repeats. The sequence is 1 through 9, then start over at 1. (When a person has a master number as a core number, then there may be personal year numbers 11, 22, or 33 in lieu of 2, 4, or 6.)

Therefore, after cycling through the numbers, one every year, last year your personal year number was the number 7 again. This year, your personal year is the number 8.