About Numerology

Individual numbers matter, but so do their positions, combinations, repetitions, absences, cycles and the way they interact with one another.

That is where numerology becomes truly fascinating.

What Can a Numerology Chart Tell You?

A full numerology chart can offer insight into many different parts of your life.

Your Life Path describes what you have come here to learn and develop. I often compare it to the degree you have enrolled to study at the university of life.

Your Soul Urge reveals the deeper motivation within you — what you need in order to feel fulfilled and aligned.

Your Personality describes how you tend to present yourself to the outside world and how other people may initially perceive you.

Your Destiny shows where and how the abilities you develop can be expressed in the world.

Your chart also contains Challenges, Pinnacles, Personal Years and other cycles, which can help explain why certain themes become particularly prominent at different stages of your life.

And these are only some of the elements.

A number never exists in isolation. Two people can share the same Life Path and still be extraordinarily different because the rest of their charts are different.

This is one of the reasons I am cautious about simplistic numerology interpretations.

Your Numbers Are Not a Sentence

I do not believe that your numerology chart dictates exactly what will happen to you.

I see it more as a map.

A map can show you the terrain. It can show you where the mountains, rivers, and roads are. It may help you understand why one route has been difficult and why another seems to flow more naturally.

But the map does not walk the road for you.

You still make choices.

Numbers can also be expressed in very different ways. The same energy can manifest constructively, negatively or destructively depending on the person, their circumstances, their level of awareness, and the choices they make.

For me, this is one of the most important aspects of understanding numerology. There are no inherently “good” or “bad” numbers.

There are energies — and there are many different ways of living them.

Knowing Numerology and Understanding Numerology Are Not the Same Thing

Anyone can learn a list of meanings associated with the numbers.

Understanding numerology takes longer.

A 7 may indeed be introspective, analytical, or private. But what does that actually look like in a child? In an entrepreneur? In someone in a relationship? In a person whose chart contains several other highly social numbers?

This is why I have always questioned, tested, and observed what I was taught rather than simply accepting everything I read about numerology.

Books gave me a foundation.

People taught me numerology.

Over the years, I have watched the same numbers express themselves in countless different personalities, circumstances, relationships and stages of life. Some traditional interpretations held up remarkably well. Others needed considerably more examination.

That ongoing observation and research continue to shape the way I practise and teach numerology today.

Why Pythagorean Numerology?

Pythagoras is best known today as an ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher. Ideas associated with the Pythagorean tradition also explored number, proportion, harmony and the underlying order of the cosmos.

Modern Pythagorean numerology takes its name from that tradition and is one of several numerological systems practised today.

Other systems — including Chaldean, Kabbalistic and other forms of numerology — have their own methods and traditions. They should not automatically be treated as interchangeable.

My own work is firmly rooted in the Pythagorean system, which I have studied, practised, researched and taught for more than 25 years.

The Spiritual Dimension of Numerology

For me, numerology also has a spiritual dimension.

I believe that our lives have meaning and that we are here to learn, experience, develop and evolve. Within that worldview, the numerology chart can be understood as a blueprint for the journey of the soul.

Concepts such as karma, reincarnation, soul purpose and universal laws form part of my own spiritual understanding of numerology.

They are not things that science has established as fact, and I do not need them to be.

They belong to the philosophical and spiritual framework through which I explore the deeper questions that have fascinated human beings for thousands of years:

Who am I?

Why am I here?

Why do certain patterns keep repeating in my life?

What am I being asked to learn?

And what might I become if I understand myself more deeply?

Numerology provides one fascinating lens through which to explore those questions.

Numerology Is About Understanding the Individual

One of the things I love most about numerology is its individuality.

We are inclined to put people into boxes: introvert, extrovert, sensitive, ambitious, spiritual, practical, emotional, independent.

A numerology chart rarely allows us to remain in such tidy boxes.

A person can simultaneously have a powerful need for independence and a deep need for connection. They can be highly practical in one area of life and remarkably idealistic in another. They can crave stability while repeatedly being pushed towards change.

Those apparent contradictions are often precisely what make the chart interesting.

The purpose of numerology, as I use it, is not to label a person.

It is to understand them.

And perhaps, through that understanding, to help them understand themselves.

Your Chart Is a Beginning, Not an Ending

Your numbers do not tell you who you are allowed to be.

They give you another way of seeing the patterns, gifts, challenges, motivations, and possibilities that may already be present in your life.

Sometimes they explain something you have known about yourself for years but have never been able to put into words.

Sometimes they reveal a pattern you had never noticed.

And sometimes they simply make you laugh and say:

“Oh heavens. That explains a lot.”

That, to me, is the real value of numerology.

Not prediction for the sake of prediction.

Not putting people into boxes.

Not handing your power over to a set of numbers.

Understanding.

Because the better we understand ourselves, the more consciously we can choose what we want to do with the life we have been given.