Meanings

What each number means

Nine digits and three master numbers. The same number means something different depending on where it appears, so each has a page per position as well as a general one.

General meaning

By position

Life Path

The Life Path comes from your date of birth and is the single most-cited number in numerology. It is calculated by reducing the month, day and year separately — preserving 11 and 22 in each component — and then reducing the total.

Expression

The Expression number, also called the Destiny number, comes from every letter of your full birth name. It describes the abilities you work outward with, and it changes between letter systems.

Soul Urge

The Soul Urge comes from the vowels of your full birth name and describes private motive rather than visible behaviour. Whether Y counts as a vowel depends on the system and, in Pythagorean, on its position in the word.

Personality

The Personality number comes from the consonants of your full birth name. It describes the first impression you make — the part of you people respond to before they know anything else.

Missing numbers in the Lo Shu grid

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