Numerology

Numerology is another powerful way to gain valuable information about your purpose in life. The date you were born was no accident; it translates into a blueprint of gifts you came here to give to the world.

I highly recommend Dan Millman's book, The Life You Were Born to Live, as an excellent guide to finding your life purpose. Below you’ll find directions on how to calculate what “number” you are based on your birth date, plus a summary of the main attributes and challenges of that number.

No.

Definition

Attributes

Challenges

1

Creativity & Confidence

Brings positive creative energy into the world. Channels high energy and inspiration into creativity and service

Feels blocked, stuck, frustrated, inferior, ill, lethargic, insecure; possibly addicted

2

Cooperation & Balance

Clarifies the limits of their responsibility and learns to work with others in a spirit of harmony, balance, and mutual support

Feels overwhelmed; resistant and reactive; starts out overly helpful, then suddenly withdraws

3

Expression & Sensitivity

Utilizes their emotional sensitivity to bring positive, heartfelt, self-expression into the world

Feels depressed and disappointed; overly sensitive; complains and criticizes; filled with self-doubt

4

Stability & Process

Achieve stability and security by patiently following a gradual process toward selected goals

Wants it all now; skips steps; ambitious, impatient, confused, lacks stability or follow-through

5

Freedom & Discipline

Finds inner freedom through discipline, focus, and depth of experience

Swings from extreme dependence to independence; scattered; tries to do too much; bluffs and pretends

6

Vision & Acceptance

Reconciles their high ideals with practical reality, accepts themselves, their world, and the present moment through an expanded vision of life's inherent perfection

Hypercritical; judges self and others against perfectionist standards; gets lost in petty details

7

Trust & Openness

Trusts the light or spirit within them, in others, and in the process of their lives so that they feel safe enough to open up and share their inner beauty with the world

Feels bitter, betrayed, paranoid; uses mind as shield; doesn't trust self or others

8

Abundance & Power

Works with abundance, power, and recognition, applying their success in service of the common good

Afraid of, yet preoccupied with, issues of money, power, control, and recognition; sabotages self

9

Integrity & Wisdom

Lives in accord with their highest integrity, aligns their life with their heart's intuitive wisdom, and inspires others by their example

Has lost sight of higher purpose; feels lonely and cut off; locked in the mind; out of touch with heart and intuitive guidance

0

Inner Gifts

Inner gifts or potential resources that tend to enhance the energies of the other number; signals refined or amplified qualities of sensitivity, strength, expressiveness, and intuition

Hypersensitive and nervous; stubborn; sarcastic, caustic expression; confused by internal feelings or intuitions

 

How to Calculate Your Number

Write out your birth date numerically, using all four digits for the year you were born. For example, if you were born on May 5, 1945 you would write down 05+05+1945. Next figure out the sum of all these individual digits when added together. For example, 5+5 +1+9+4+5=29. Then add the digits of this number together until you reach a single digit. In our example, 2+9=11, 1+1=2, so this person’s birth date would make them a “2.”