Numerology

Your five core numbers

Life path, destiny, soul urge, personality and birthday, computed the Pythagorean way, plus your name total in Chaldean — the older system most Indian practice follows. Where the two disagree, both figures are given rather than one picked silently on your behalf.

Your details

Full name

Date of birthTime of birth

The time matters more than anything else here. Two hours out and the ascendant moves a whole sign, which rearranges every house in the chart.

Birth place

Gender (optional)

Two readings are defined in terms of it — the Kua number in vastu and the luck pillars in the Chinese chart — and neither has a formula for anything beyond male and female. Answer “other” or leave it and those two say so instead of guessing. Nothing else in your chart uses it.

Methods

PythagoreanLetters by alphabet position. The system most Western numerology uses.
ChaldeanLetters by sound, never assigning 9. Older, and what most Indian practice follows.
Vedic · Ank JyotishMoolank and Bhagyank, each read through its ruling planet — 1 Sun through 9 Ketu.
Lo Shu gridThe birth date's digits placed on a 3×3 grid. Which cells fill, and which stay empty.
KabbalahThe name alone, reduced against 22 paths rather than 9 digits.

All five are on to start with. The systems disagree with each other by design — where they do, both figures are given rather than one picked for you.

The name matters here in a way it does not elsewhere on this site — three of the five numbers are computed from its letters. Use the spelling you actually go by.

What gets computed

Life pathFrom the birth date. The one number a change of name cannot move.
DestinyFrom every letter of the full name.
Soul urgeFrom the vowels alone.
PersonalityFrom the consonants alone.
BirthdayFrom the day of the month, on its own.
Chaldean name numberThe older system, which most Indian practice follows.

Master numbers — 11, 22 and 33 — are left unreduced rather than folded to a single digit, which is why a life path can come out as 11 rather than 2.

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