Life Path
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Destiny number | This is the most important number in your numerology chart and is based on the date of your birth. The Life Path, or Destiny number provides a profound outline of opportunities, challenges, and lessons to learn in this lifetime. | |
| Birthday | The day you were born has a major influence in your life, and portents a great significance in helping you understand who you are, knowing your special talents or potentials. | |
| Expression | Your Expression number derives from your full name, and reveals your physical and mental structure, the direction or inner goal of your life, and represents the daily lifelong aim to fulfilling your native talents and potentials. | |
| Minor Expression | The influence of your short name is not as relevant as your full name, but in different ways, it does often compensate for numbers, their related characteristics, which are possibly missing or out of balance in the full name. | |
Heart’s Desire
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Soul’s Urge | The Heart’s Desire number reveals your soul’s innermost yearning, your heart’s most intimate dreams and desires, which significantly influence all choices you make during this lifetime. It unfolds your underlying motivation, the subconscious intentions behind your decisions. | |
| Minor Heart’s Desire | The Minor Heart’s Desire number is derived from the vowels of your short name, and takes the complex qualities and energies reflected in your full name more into depth. It intensifies some aspects of your structure and de-emphasizes others. Your short name often reveals some deeper insight into what is important to you in life, and unfolds both your strong desires, and possible limitations you place upon your potential. | |
| Personality | Your Personality number is derived from the consonants of your full name, and reveals your true nature, those aspects that you feel comfortable to share with other people. According to your instincts, with time and trust, you will share deeper aspects of your nature with people you choose. | |
| Maturity | Your Maturity number indicates an underlying yearning, or desire that begins to emerge around the age of thirty to thirty-five as you gain a better understanding and a greater awareness of your Self, and your goals in life. | |
| Bridge Numbers | The Bridge numbers indicate how you can make the relationship between the individual core numbers in your chart easier and more compatible. They are not considered shortcomings, but areas where you can improve. | |
| L/E Bridge | In order to make your talents and abilities (Expression number) easily available to your main lesson and expected direction of growth (Life path number), you will want to bridge the gap between these two aspects of your being. | |
| H/P Bridge | You will be more comfortable with yourself when your outer personality (Personality number) merges with your inner needs and desires (Heart’s desire). Merging the core numbers results in becoming whole. | |
| Karmic Lessons | Numerology is based on the understanding that we enter life with certain strengths and weaknesses. Karmic Lessons are areas that we need to work on in this life. There can be more than one Karmic Lesson. | |
| Hidden Passion | Recurring numbers in your name represent a particular strength, ability, or potential. The number most often repeated in your name represents your specific field of expertise, or a highly concentrated talent. | |
| Planes of Expression | We all experience life on four different levels: physically, mentally, emotionally, and through intuition. Each of these areas has a specific way of perceiving and processing information. | |
| Balance Number | People experience different internal responses to life’s challenges: withdrawing from difficult situations, withdrawing from emotions, others explode with emotions, while others linger with their feelings, holding on to them for a long time. | |
| Rational Thought | This number reveals your way of thinking, whether a practical, methodical thinker, or an imaginative dreamer. | |
| Cornerstone | Each letter in your name designates your characteristics, and their location determine their impact. The first letter of your name is called the Cornerstone, and gives insight into your character, particularly into the way you approach opportunities and obstacles. | |
| Subconscious Self | The Subconscious Self reflects the confidence you have in your personal power and competence, as well as in your ability to deal with sudden events and situations. It shows your capacity to correctly assess a situation and to respond appropriately. | |
| Challenges | This number reveals strengths and weaknesses. Numerology looks at life as an educational process which offers an opportunity to evolve improving our talents and turning our weaknesses into strengths. | |
| Pinnacle Numbers | The Pinnacles are four long-term cycles on our Life Path and represent specific attributes to be assimilated. It leads you to deal with the qualities of that Pinnacle number. In the process, the Pinnacle shapes you. | |
| Period Cycle | The Period Cycles are based on the date of birth, and each Cycle lasts approximately twenty-seven years, or three complete epicycles of nine years each. Your Life Path determines the exact age at which you make the transition from one Period Cycle to the next. | |
| Transit Letters | The Transits are found among the individual letters of your name and are used in conjunction with the Essence Chart to provide additional information about your year ahead. | |
| Essence Number | The Transits are the individual letters and individual influences. The Essence number is the combined total of the Physical, Mental, and Spiritual Transits that influence you during a particular year of your life. | |
| Personal Year | The first and foremost of the several cycles that influence your experience of life is the Personal Year Cycle. In numerology, each year of your life is part of an evolving pattern that can be described as a nine-year cycle or epicycle. These cycles begin at your birth and progress, one by one, through nine steps that complete an epicycle, and then begin anew. | |
| Personal Month | Just as we evolve through a nine-year cycle, so, too, we experience nine-month and nine-day cycles, even though their impact is subtle compared to the Personal Year Cycle. | |
| Personal Day | The Personal Day number has the least influence on your life but does add a subtle energy to other influences around you. However, when your Personal Day number matches your Life Path Number or Soul Number, you will want to pay attention, because here the subtle influence is added to what is already a strong influence in your life. A daily reading considers all the influences around you and can be a valuable guide as to how to conduct your affairs each day. This is included in the year forecast. |
