What is numerology? How does it work?
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Historical background:
Some specialists think that numerology has originated in the ancient Chinese and Hindu civilizations. Others link it to Pythagoras.
Others yet believe numerology to be based upon the first kabalistic interpretations of the Bible...
To be honest, given the total absence of written evidence, it is almost impossible nowadays to trace down the exact origins of the discipline.
Anyways, it is known that, from their very origin, modern Humans have always tried to break down their environment and origins to rational concepts, easily understandable, in a desperate attempt to understand the obsessing question of the meaning of life..
Numerology is an easy enough method to learn and comprehend. It interprets the numbers as an external manifestation of the universal order and enables some kind of connection between microcosm and macrocosm.
At the turn of the 20th Century, in the United States of America, in a world with more questions than answers and in which absolute truths were starting to become a rare commodity, it was almost predictable that this ancient means would reappear mainly because of its stunning simplicity. Modern numerology has various antecedents. Ruth A. Drayer's book, “Numerology, The Power in Numbers” (Square One Publishers) says that around the turn of the century (from 1800 to 1900 A.D.) Mrs. L. Dow Balliett combined Pythagoras' work with Biblical reference.
Of course, numerology has evolved since those times. It doesn't provide an answer to all the questions but it definitely contributes and helps in its own way. And if, by reading your analysis, some of the mysteries of your life have suddenly become unveiled and helped you make choices and decisions, well, numerology has undoubtedly won its bet!
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A few definitions:
Expression number
This number links information from your first and last names. It represents both the composition and the character.
Growth number (or active number or first key;)
The growth number, based on your first name, explains the influence of your innate composition on your overall personality.
Hereditary number
The hereditary number, based on your last name, represents your character with all of its inherited components and reveals your behavior in your interactions with other people.
Soul urge (or intimate number)
The soul urge number is based on the vowels of your both your first and last names. It symbolizes your underlying capabilities, your ideals, and your abandoned dreams.
Inner-number (or achievement number)
This number is based on the consonants of both your first and your last names. It reveals your skills on a material and/or professional level.
First letters' number
This number reveals a prevailing trait of your personality.
Psychic number
The psychic number (based on your birth day) provides a few additional ideas to help understand your complexity.
Evolution number
Your evolution number is based on your day and month of birth. It represents what you could become (or could have become) had the environmental factors not existed (quite unlikely...).
Temperament planes
Your temperament planes reveal your prevailing nature (emotional, intuitive, mental or physical) and their respective level of importance.
Inclusion table (or karmic table)
The inclusion table helps determine your strengths and weaknesses and sometimes provides paths to help resolve your issues.
Life path
The life path, based on your date of birth, is one of numerology's most important figures. Basically, it provides information about the obstacles you will have to face during your life time and means to overcome or go around them.
Cycles 1, 2 and 3
The life cycles depict the 3 major periods of your life. Depending on your life path, these 3 periods can last slightly longer or shorter. The first cycle is the “formative cycle”, the second one is the “productive cycle” and the last one is the “harvest cycle”.
Attainment 1, 2, 3 and 4
Depending on your life path, you will attain (or have attained)four major achievements at very precise moments of your life.
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And now, the maths...
How do you compute the expression number?
Each letter of the alphabet is mapped to a number between 1 and 9. The conversion is a straightforward process based on the following table:
| 1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
| A |
B |
C |
D |
E |
F |
G |
H |
I |
| J |
K |
L |
M |
N |
O |
P |
Q |
R |
| S |
T |
U |
V |
W |
X |
Y |
Z |
|
For instance: the main numbers for a person named
“Marie-Louise Dupont” are the following:
| M |
A |
R |
I |
E |
- |
L |
O |
U |
I |
S |
E |
| D
| U |
P |
O |
N |
T |
| 4 |
1 |
9 |
9 |
5 |
|
3 |
6 |
3 |
9 |
1 |
5 |
4 |
3 |
7 |
6 |
5 |
2 |
Number from the first name:
4+1+9+9+5+3+6+3+9+1+5 = 55 |
| Number from the last name:
4+3+7+6+5+2 = 27 |
Growth number
(From the first name)
Reduction of the number: 5+5 = 10
(10 is not in the range from 1 to 9...
You have to reduce again):
1+0 = 1 |
| Hereditary number
(From the last name)
Reduction of the number: 2+7 = 9 |
Expression number
Reduction of the growth- and hereditary- numbers
1+9 = 10
Not in the range, so reduce once more:
1+0 = 1 |
It's almost as easy as counting up to 9, isn't it?
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