Life path number
Your life path number is the whole birth date, added up.
Your life path number is every digit of your birth date added up and reduced to one, and it reads as a tendency rather than a forecast.
Step by step
An ordinary date, all the way down.
Take the month, the day and the year separately, reduce each one, then add the three together. This is 15 June 1990.
The month
Junegives6
The day
1plus5gives6
The year
1plus9plus9plus0gives19
The year, folded
1plus9gives10
The year, folded again
1plus0gives1
Month, day and year
6plus6plus1gives13
One last fold
1plus3gives4
Adding every digit of the date in one go gives 31, and 3 plus 1 is 4. The same answer by a shorter road, which is the check worth doing before you trust a number.
When the total is a master number
The same method, and two different answers.
Some dates stop on 11, 22 or 33 on the way down. This is 1 February 1988, and it is the reason two calculators can hand you two numbers.
If your own total never touches 11, 22 or 33, the argument does not reach you and both schools give you the same number.
The month
Februarygives2
The day is already one digit
The year
1plus9plus8plus8gives26
The year, folded
2plus6gives8
Month, day and year
2plus1plus8gives11
One school reads that 11 as a master number. The other adds once more and reads a 2.
The two schools
Which one keeps the master numbers.
Every digit of 1 February 1988
29folds to11
Master number school
11The total stops here and is read whole.
Classic Pythagorean reduction
2The same total folds once more and reads as a 2.
| Total | Master number school | Classic Pythagorean reduction |
|---|---|---|
| 11 | stays 11 | reads 2 |
| 22 | stays 22 | reads 4 |
| 33 | stays 33 | reads 6 |
The master number school is the one most modern English language books, charts and calculators follow, and it is the reading the twelve life path pages here are written against. The classic reduction is the older habit, still standard wherever numerology is taught as plain arithmetic, and it leaves nine life paths instead of twelve.
The adding up is done.
From here the number is read, not counted.
All twelve
Read the number you landed on.
A life path holds to the date, not to the mood.
Questions
Asked most often.
How do I calculate my life path number?
Reduce the month, the day and the year to single numbers, then add those three and reduce the total until one digit is left. For 15 June 1990 the month is 6, the day is 6 and the year is 1, which totals 13, and 1 plus 3 is 4. The life path number is 4.
What happens if my total is 11, 22 or 33?
The two schools of numerology answer differently. The school that keeps master numbers stops there and reads 11, 22 or 33. The classic Pythagorean reduction adds once more and reads 2, 4 or 6. Both are in ordinary use, so a calculator that shows only one answer is showing you a house rule, not a fact.
Can my life path number change?
No. It comes from a date that never changes, so the number never changes either. The numbers that move are the personal year, month and day, and those are calculated separately.
Read here as a language of symbols. Medical, legal and financial questions belong with a professional.
Where next
The number is the beginning, not the reading.
Arcana, element and life path in one image you can keep, made from the same date you just added up.