What is it?

Numerology - What is it?

Numbers are something many people detest: mathematics at school, tax-returns, and even bank-balances all have bad expreiences associated with them!

Not all numbers are so unhlpful, though, and many numbers, when applied simply, can provide immense clarity and insights into apparently complex situations.

Even if you believe you 'have no skill with numbers', read-on and see if you can learn something more about yourself.....you only need to be able to perform simple addition of numbers up to 9....

History

Pythagoras is accepted by many to be the 'Father of Numerology', as his work with numbers (some 2,500 years ago) resulted in his statement: 'Everything is number, and to know numbers is to know thyself'.

There is evidence in ancient Arabic and Hindu teachings of numerology being used much earlier, and also evidence in almost every culture around the world of numerological techniques being used in attempts to describe the workings of the Universe and peoples' relationships to it.

There are now two basic numerological methods in use: the Pythagorean Method, and the Chaldean Method.

The Pythagorean Method (described more-fully, below) uses numbers one to nine in a regular fashion, and recommends using the full name of the individual at birth. The Chaldean Method uses numbers one to eight only, in an irregular fashion, and uses the current 'known-by' name of an individual. Both methods use the same method of calculation, once any letters have been replaced by the appropriate number.

Numbers also appear in other esoteric systems: the Kabbalah (The Tree of Life) and the Tarot use 22 distinct 'paths', each described by numbers, and I Ching is based on the principle that fixed laws map the future, so if the appropriate numbers are known in any situation, the future can also be determined.

Use of Numbers

Pythagorean Numerology uses only numbers one to nine, although certain other numbers have meaning too.

The basic principle in numerology is to represent characteristics with numbers only in the range from one to nine. If a number is greater than nine, then it is processed in a very simple way until the result is a number between one and nine. Note that there is also no 'zero' used in this method.

This idea of 'representing' things with numbers may be unfamiliar to some, so here is an example:

Take the name 'JOHN', and using the following table, replace each letter in the name with the appropriate number at the top of the column in which the letter appears.

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

You should get this result:

J O H N

1 6 8 5

Now add those numbers together:

1 + 6 + 8 + 5 = 20

Twenty (20) is greater than nine (9), so now we must do something else! The next step is to separate the individual digits of the number, and then to add them together. This techniques is known as 'Fadic' addition:

20 becomes 2 + 0

2 + 0 = 2

The number two (2) is the number we are after! The name 'JOHN' can be represented by the number 2!

The mechanical part of numerology is no-more complicated than what you have just experienced. The richness, subtlety, and power of numerology comes partly from the basic numbers, but mainly from the combinations which result from various numbers used to describe an individual, and also associations between those numbers and other things!

Example 'Individual'

For simplicity, and hopefully to avoid confusion, a totally fictional individual is used in the following examples of how to calculate and interpret the relevant numbers.

Please meet: John James Smith, born: 18th May 1965

Apologies to anyone who 'happens' to be called 'John James Smith', who was born on 18th May 1965. Please accept the examples as if they were your own personalised reading, because if you do really exist, that is what they are!

The main numbers which you will need to calculate for yourself are described later, so please read on!