LIFE PATH:
The Life Path number gives us a broad outline of the opportunities, challenges,
& lessons we will encounter in this lifetime. Your Life path is the road you are
traveling. It reveals the opportunities & challenges you will face in life. Your Life
Path number is the single most important information available in your Personality
BIRTHDAY
The day you were born bears great significance in understanding who you are
& where your talents lie. The day of birth indicates some special talent you
possess. It is a gift to you that will help you along your Life's Path. Your day of
birth is one of your four core numbers -- the Life Path, Expression, & Heart's
Desire being the other three. It is the least significant of the four core numbers,
but perhaps the most finite, in that it reveals a specific ability you possess in a
marked degree.
EXPRESSION
Your Expression number reveals your physical & mental constitution, the
orientation or goal of your life. Some numerologists refer to this number as the
Destiny, because it represents a lifelong target at which you are aiming. You
work at fulfilling this potential every day of your life. Thus, the Expression number
reveals your inner goal, the person you aim to be.
The Expression number reveals the talents, abilities, & shortcomings that
were with you when you entered your human body. Your name, & the numbers
derived from it, reveals your development, as well as the talents & issues you
will be working with during this life.
For those for whom reincarnation is an accepted philosophy, the vibration of
your full name can be seen as the totality of your personal evolution, the
experiences, talents, & wisdom accumulated over many life times. Every
experience, no matter how great or small, along this evolutionary path has
influenced your development, & brought you to your current state of being.
The Expression is your being; the Life Path is the major lesson you are
attempting to learn this time around. Time allows the gradual emergence of your
personality. By reading the Expression number below, you will come to
understand your basic nature & the abilities & issues inherent in your being.
MINOR EXPRESSION
The Minor Expression number is based on the current (or short) name; the
name you now use to introduce yourself including your last name.
The influence of the short name is minor in comparison to your full name.
Interestingly, the short name often compensates in some way for numbers (and
their related characteristics) that are missing or out of balance in the full name.
For instance, a number missing in the full name may show up prominently in
the short name; or a number (or numbers) that appears in excess in the full name
can be compensated for in the short name. If a name change takes place later in
life through marriage or for professional reasons, it adds or subtracts certain
qualities. It can also focus & intensify existing characteristics or talents that
may be latent.
HEART'S DESIRE
Your Heart's Desire is the inner you. It shows your underlying urge, your true
motivation. It reveals the general intention behind many of your actions.
Consequently, it dramatically influences the choices you make in life. The Heart's
desire is seen as part of the larger picture, called the core numbers, which
includes the Life Path, Expression, Day you were born, & Personality. But
each points to a different aspect of you.
The Expression number reveals your talents & abilities, & your general
direction in life. The Life Path is the central lesson you came into the world to
learn. The Day you were born is very closely connected to your Life Path. It
reveals specific talents you possess, which will be helpful to you in dealing with
your Life Path. The Personality reveals how people tend to see you. It also
demonstrates what characteristics you are projecting to the world. The Heart's
Desire demonstrates the identity of the soul that joined the earth -- you, the
spiritual being.
MINOR HEART'S DESIRE
The Minor Heart's Desire number is derived from the vowels of your current name;
the name you now use to introduce yourself. The current name is a refinement
of the more complex qualities of your longer name (the full name at
birth). It sharpens & bundles the energies that are reflected by your full name.
It intensifies certain aspects of your being , & de-emphasizes others. For this
reason, the short name often provides insight into what you truly want in life. It
also often reveals the extent of your understanding of what you want from this life.
It reveals both your strong desires, & the limits you place upon your potential.
Your feelings about your current name are different from your full name. It
affects how you feel about yourself; it changes your identity slightly.
PERSONALITY
Your Personality number is derived from the consonants of your full name at
birth. Your Personality is like a narrow entrance hall to the great room that is your
true nature. It is those aspects that you feel comfortable sharing with people at
the outset of a relationship. With time & trust, you invite others into the deeper
aspects of your nature; you reveal more of who you really are, in effect, your
Heart's Desire, Expression, & so on.
Your Personality number often serves as a censoring device, both in terms of
what you send out, as well as what you allow to approach. It discriminates in the
kinds of people & information you let enter your heart & mind. For this
reason, your Personality is usually much more narrow & protective in its
definition than the real you. It can screen out some of what you do not want to
deal with -- people or situations -- but it also welcomes those things that
immediately relate to your inner nature.
Your Personality number also indicates how others perceive you. No one can
be objective about himself or herself. Even our closest friends & relatives have
trouble describing how they see us.
MATURITY
Your Maturity number indicates an underlying wish or desire that gradually
surfaces around age thirty to thirty-five. This underlying goal begins to emerge as
you gain a better understanding of yourself. With self-knowledge comes a
greater awareness of who you are, what your true goals in life are, & what
direction you want to set for your life. This, in a nutshell, is the gift of maturity:
You no longer waste time & energy on things that are not within your own
special identity.
No matter what your age is at present, your life is being channelled in a specific
direction, toward a very specific goal. That goal can be seen as a reward or the
fulfillment of a promise that is implicit in your current efforts, often without your
knowing it consciously. While the characteristics of this number are usually
visible during childhood, we tend to lose sight of these aspects until later in life.
But our lives are always being affected by this influence, nonetheless.
Your Maturity number begins to have a more profound impact on your life after
the age of 35. The influence of the number increases steadily as you grow older.
L/E BRIDGE
The Bridge numbers in your chart are the numbers that indicate how you can
make the relationship between the individual core numbers in your chart easier
& more compatible. Bridge numbers have the potential to "close the gap"
between the Life Path & Expression number, or the Heart's Desire &
Personality number.
In this chapter we will explain what you can do to make your talents, strengths,
& specific abilities (Expression number) more easily available & fitting the
needs of your main lesson(s), & expected direction of growth (Life Path).
H/P BRIDGE
Several Bridge numbers can be found in your chart. The Bridge number
between the Life Path number & the Expression number was described earlier
in your reading. The following Bridge number relates to your Heart's Desire
number & your Personality number. This Bridge number, the Heart's Desire -
Personality bridge, explains how you can make your deeper self -- your needs
& desires, your true nature -- more aligned with the part of your personality
others tend to recognize when they meet you. With a little exaggeration, you
could say that your Personality number is somewhat like your mask. It is the
more superficial you; a protective shield & a camouflage of the deeper you.
You can easily imagine how much more comfortable, & less self-conscious,
the experience of life becomes when your deeper & more real you is closer &
more fitting to the personality you reveal on a day to day basis.
KARMIC LESSONS
Numerology is based on the understanding that we enter life with certain
strengths & weaknesses. Karmic lessons are areas that we are currently
weak in & must be faced & worked on in this life. There can be more than
one Karmic Lesson. These are indicated by the absence of certain numbers in
your name.
The letters & numbers of your name point to talents & abilities that you
possess. These characteristics can be compared to a workshop in which certain
tools are available to you. Missing numbers, those that are not represented in the
letters in your name, imply tools that are unavailable, & must be learned &
mastered during this lifetime.
You may well recognize your Karmic Lessons as weaknesses you have
learned to overcome in the course of your life, however, the challenges implied in
your Karmic Lessons will continue to come up occasionally for the rest of your
life.
HIDDEN PASSION
Your Hidden Passion reveals one or more special strengths & talents that
you rely upon & are available to you. The Hidden Passion represents your
specific field of expertise, or a concentrated talent.
Metaphorically, this talent can be seen as having a power all its own to shape
your life. Its existence gives you a strong desire to develop & to express that
particular ability. Having the talent demands that you express it, that you
experience this part of you, & that you live according to its nature. In this way,
the Hidden Passion shapes your personality, & guides your life.
PLANES OF EXPRESSION
Each of us experiences life on four different levels: with our physical body; our
mental faculty; our emotional makeup; & our intuition. Each of these areas has
a specific means of perceiving information. The physical body is capable of
touch, taste, pleasure, & pain. It provides us with a sense of the physical world.
The mental body, like the emotional & intuitive natures, perceives the invisible
worlds. Our minds deal with the world of thought. The heart, of course, is
preoccupied exclusively with the world of emotion. Our feelings teach us many
things about ourselves & about others. Finally, we have the capacity for direct
contact with the higher realms by way of intuition. Intuitive insight comes in a
flash. It is not rational -- that is the world of the mental plane -- but comes as if it
were placed at the doorstep of our minds. Intuition, therefore, bypasses all effort.
These four faculties exist in all of us. But each of us depends more on one or
two of them for the bulk of our knowledge. Some of us are possessed by our
senses, while others live almost exclusively in our hearts, or minds.
Numerology indicates how we as individuals function on each plane.
The letters of the alphabet are divided in four categories: physical, mental,
emotional & intuitive.
The proportion of each category in your name gives a good indication of which
Planes of Expression are strongest in you, & which ones are weaker.
These Planes of Expression can greatly help you to understand your talents
& abilities.
BALANCE
People experience different internal responses to life's challenges. Some
withdraw from difficult situations to think them through; others withdraw from their
emotions, to try & keep themselves from feeling anything. Some explode with
emotions, but allow the explosion to pass quickly. Others linger with their
feelings, holding on to them well past the time they should have let them go.
Very often, these are conditioned or emotional responses that emerge without
thought or analysis. Maturity & self-development help us to learn new & more
effective methods of handling our world & the problems we confront. Your
Balance number provides you with the guidance on how best to deal with difficult
or threatening situations.
RATIONAL THOUGHT
Your Rational Thought number reveals what can probably best be described as
the way you think. Are you a practical, methodical thinker, or a dreamer? Do you
frequently allow your imagination to color your perception? Are you
unconventional & original in the face of a practical problem, or do you stick to
proven methods?
CORNERSTONE
The first letter of your first name gives an additional indication to your
character, particularly as to the manner in which you approach opportunities &
obstacles. The first letter is called your Cornerstone.
CHALLENGES
Each of us is born with both strengths & weaknesses. Numerology looks at
life as if it were an educational process that is meant to bring out & enhance
our talents, & turn our weaknesses into strengths. This serves to complete our
being.
The job of becoming whole is one in which we must face our weaknesses &
consciously work to improve ourselves. There are four Challenges to be faced
during our lives. For many of us, the same challenge is repeated, while others
have four distinctly different lessons to learn.
The Challenges on your life's path provide specific lessons that you must
attend to, &, in order to inspire & help you, life will place you in situations that
require the specific characteristics of your Challenge numbers.
The four Challenges you are required to overcome during the course of this
lifetime will influence you during different periods of your life, except for the Third
or Main Challenge, which lasts from birth until death. The Challenges are fluid
periods of your life, not confined to specific years so much as general periods. All
of your Challenges are present at birth, like actors standing in the wings.
PINNACLES
The Pinnacles are four long-term cycles, or periods, on our Life Path. Each
Pinnacle represents a particular lesson we are working on. The first Pinnacle
usually lasts from birth to between the ages of 30 & 35 (your specific Pinnacle
periods are provided below). The middle two Pinnacles each last nine years.
The last Pinnacle will stay with you for the remainder of your life.
The Pinnacles are very important. The transition from one Pinnacle to the next
is always strongly felt. Your Pinnacles reveal the general conditions & events
you will experience during the period. The Pinnacle describes the atmosphere, or
the essential challenge you will be faced with.
You can prepare yourself for the times ahead by knowing your approaching
Pinnacle number.
CYCLES
Like most stories, there are three great divisions of our lives: the First, or
opening period, finds us groping to find our true nature; at the same time, we are
trying to cope with the powerful forces that are present in our environment, our
parents & the socio-economic conditions of our family, for example. The
Second Cycle, or middle period of our lives, brings about the slow emergence of
our individual & creative talents. The initial part of this cycle -- the early & mid
30s -- represents a struggle to find our place in the world, while the late 30s, 40s,
& early 50s, sees us with a greater degree of self-mastery & influence over
the environment. The Third, or final Cycle, can represent a flowering of our inner
being, such that our true nature has finally come to fruition. It is during this period
that one has the greatest degree of self-expression & power.
TRANSITS
The Transits are the individual letters of your name that combine to form the
Essence, which is the number that reveals a great deal about your year ahead.
Your name can be seen as a piece of music that vibrates in time. Each note, or
letter, has a specific duration & influence over the course of your life. Claude,
your life, therefore, can be seen as a musical score, with the individual letters
making specific contributions at given points, just as notes in a musical piece are
played at specific points to give a piece of music its rhythm, character, &
nuance.
The Transits appear as part of your Progressive Chart & will tell you much
about specific influences taking place in your life during given years.
ESSENCE
The Essence Number & the Personal Year Number are the two essential
indicators of the forces that will influence your life during the course of any year.
While the Personal Year runs from January to January, the Essence is most
strongly felt from birthday to birthday. For example, if your essence number is 8
for the year 1988, you would begin to feel the influence of that 8 most powerfully
after your 1988 birthday. The influence would begin to wane during 1989 &
would finally end at your birthday of 1989.
The Essence number indicates the lessons you will be dealing with during that
year. It says a great deal about how you will perceive your environment. It also
gives clear advice on how you can be most successful during the year, that is,
which types of behaviour will be supported by your milieu, & which ones will be
less effective.
PERSONAL YEARS
Your Personal Year number is a strong indication of the trends &
circumstances you will experience during the year ahead. Your Personal Year
cycles are based on the Universal Year cycles & therefore run concurrent with
the calendar year. Transit & Essence cycles are based on the letters of your
name & run from birth date to birth date.
There are nine personal year numbers, which makes up a complete Epicycle.
Each Epicycle reveals the progression or evolution of a specific part of your
growth. Claude, your progress along this Epicycle can be seen very logically,
from the infancy or beginning of a growth period in your life, to the conclusion or
culmination of that process. The 1 personal year indicates your first steps in a
new direction. The years that follow indicate your progress along this path,
concluding with your 9 Personal Year, which completes the cycle. Below is a
description of your current Personal Year. It indicates where you are on the 9
year Epicycle.
