What is Numerology?
Origin: The West
Numerology adds up every digit in your date of birth and keeps reducing until it's a single digit. For March 15, 1994, that's 1+9+9+4+3+1+5 = 32, and then 3+2 = 5.
The number you end up with is called your Life Path number, and it's said to show the big direction of your life. Your birth day reduced on its own is your Birthday number, said to show your natural talents. 11, 22 and 33 are treated as special numbers and aren't reduced to one digit.
How is it calculated?
- 1
Find your Life Path number
Add up every digit of your date of birth and reduce it to one digit.
- 2
Find your Birthday number
Reduce just the day of the month you were born.
- 3
Find this year's number
Add this year to your birth month and day, then reduce it. This tracks a flow that cycles every nine years.
What it reads well
- The math is simple, so the results don't wobble. It needs neither your time nor your place of birth.
- It sums up the big direction of your life in a single word.
What it can't see
- It has the thinnest basis of the four. Since one number speaks for your whole personality, it has less to say than the other systems in the finer areas.
- So at Crossfate, it sits out some areas. We didn't think a single number gives any basis for judging how you handle conflict or how well you stand up to pressure.
How Crossfate uses it
At Crossfate, Numerology weighs in on seventeen of the nineteen areas. It sits out the two where it has nothing to base a call on.