The numbers of numerology
Each number has a character of its own, which shifts with the place in the chart where it appears. Here they all are: tap a number to read its meaning.
The numbers 1 to 9
- Number 1 Yours is the path of the one who arrives first and finds out afterwards who followed.
- Number 2 Your path runs through the bond, not the venture.
- Number 3 Your path is made of expression: something has to come out — words, images, the right joke at the right moment — and until it does you are not well.
- Number 4 Your path is construction: things that stand up, made one at a time, at the pace they ask for.
- Number 5 Your path is movement.
- Number 6 Your path runs through care.
- Number 7 Yours is the path of someone who wants to understand how a thing holds together before using it.
- Number 8 Your path runs through power and money, and not as ornament: they are the instrument by which the things in your head become real.
- Number 9 Yours is the path of the one who gives away.
The master numbers
11, 22 and 33 are not reduced to a single digit: tradition reads them as stronger versions of 2, 4 and 6.
- Master number 11 Yours is the 2's path with the volume turned up: the bond, the sensitivity and the reading of other people, pushed to a point where they become almost a nuisance.
- Master number 22 Yours is the 4's path at a changed scale: construction, but on a measure that looks disproportionate to everyone else.
- Master number 33 Yours is the 6's path taken outside the house: care, but turned towards people who are not yours.
What each page covers
- Life Path
- Calculated from your full date of birth: day, month and year. It is the most important number in the chart: it describes the road your life tends to take, with the talents and trials that come with it.
- Expression
- Calculated from every letter of your full name. It speaks of the abilities you were given and are meant to develop: your potential, more than what you already do.
- Soul Urge
- Calculated from the vowels of your name only. It speaks of what you truly want, the motives that move you from inside even when you do not say them.
- Personality
- Calculated from the consonants of your name only. It describes the part of you others see first: the impression you leave, the front you present.
- Birthday
- It is the day you were born, without month or year. It adds one specific talent, something that shows early and clearly in your life.
Karmic debts
It appears only when, along the way, a sum passes through 13, 14, 16 or 19 before being reduced. Tradition reads it as an open account: a pattern to recognise and resolve in this life.