Numerology

Your name and your birthday carry numbers, and the numbers carry a pattern. What you're here to do, what you want underneath it, and the year you're actually in.

The short answers

What do my numerology numbers say about me?

Numerology is the practice of reading meaning in number. It takes two things given to you at birth, your date and your full birth name, and turns them into a small set of core numbers. Your life path comes from your birth date and describes the road you are on. Your expression number comes from your full name and describes what you are equipped to do. Your soul urge comes from the vowels in your name and describes what you want beneath everything. Your personal year changes annually and describes the season you are in.

What does my life path number mean?

Your life path number comes from your full date of birth, added together and reduced to a single digit, unless it reaches 11, 22 or 33, the master numbers, which are kept whole. It describes the road of your life: the central lesson, the direction, and the kind of experience you will keep being given until you are skilled at it. A 1 is learning to stand alone and lead. A 2 is learning partnership without disappearing into it. A 7 is learning to trust what cannot be proven.

What does my expression number mean?

Your expression number, sometimes called your destiny number, comes from every letter of your full birth name, each converted to a number and added together. Where the life path describes the road, the expression describes the equipment: your natural talents, the way you work, the contribution that comes most easily to you. It is often the number that explains your career, or why your career has never quite fit.

What does my soul urge number mean?

Your soul urge number, also called your heart's desire, comes from the vowels of your full birth name. It is the quietest of your core numbers and often the most revealing. It describes what you want beneath everything: not what you would say in an interview, but what makes you feel alive, safe and satisfied. A 2 wants closeness. A 5 wants freedom. A 6 wants a home full of people they love. A 7 wants to understand.

What is my personal year number, and what does this year mean?

Your personal year number comes from your birth day and month added to the current year, then reduced to a single digit. It places you within numerology's nine-year cycle, and each year in that cycle has its own work. A 1 year is for beginning. A 2 for patience and partnership. A 3 for expression. A 4 for building. A 5 for change. A 6 for home and responsibility. A 7 for turning inward. An 8 for authority and harvest. A 9 for endings and clearing space.