Numerology · Three traditions
Your name and your date, weighed number by number.
Numerology is the old art of reading number as character — the idea that the letters of your name and the date of your birth reduce to a small set of numbers that say something true about you. Choose a tradition. The Pythagorean count is the modern Western one; the Chaldean is older and reads by sound, keeping the compound number as the omen; the Kabbalistic weighs the name in Hebrew gematria and places it on the Tree of Life.
The system taught in the West since Pythagoras: every letter takes a value from one to nine, and the birth date gives the Life Path. Master numbers 11, 22 and 33 stay unreduced, and the karmic debts 13, 14, 16 and 19 are named where they fall.
Enter your full birth name, a date of birth, or both. The name gives the Soul, Personality and Expression numbers; the date gives the Life Path.
The twenty-two paths and ten sefirot
Read the guide →In Kabbalah the ten sefirot of the Tree of Life are joined by twenty-two paths, one for each letter of the Hebrew alphabet — the same twenty-two that the Papus and Wirth tarots assign to the Major Arcana. Gematria weighs a name in those letters; reduced modulo twenty-two it names the path a life travels.
- א 1 · Aleph · 1the breath that begins; air, the unshown source, the fool's open stepKether to Chokmah · Air; first breath and the invisible passage from crown to wisdom
- ב 2 · Beth · 2the house; a vessel made to hold, speech and inner sanctuaryKether to Binah · Mercury; the word that gives the crown a dwelling in understanding
- ג 3 · Gimel · 3the camel; wealth carried across the desert, patient givingKether to Tiphareth · Moon; descent from the source into the heart's reflected light
- ד 4 · Daleth · 4the door; fertile threshold, the opening of a settled worldChokmah to Binah · Venus; the threshold between wisdom and understanding
- ה 5 · He · 5the window; revelation, breath given form and taughtChokmah to Tiphareth · Aries; revelation carried from wisdom into beauty
- ו 6 · Vau · 6the nail; the link that joins heaven and earth, choice as bindingChokmah to Chesed · Taurus; the joining nail between wisdom and mercy
- ז 7 · Zayin · 7the sword; discernment, the cut that separates true from falseBinah to Tiphareth · Gemini; the discerning blade between understanding and beauty
- ח 8 · Cheth · 8the fence; the enclosed field, protected life and inheritanceBinah to Geburah · Cancer; the protected field between understanding and severity
- ט 9 · Teth · 9the serpent; coiled force, hidden good, instinct turned wiseChesed to Geburah · Leo; strength held between mercy and severity
- י 10 · Yod · 10the hand; the seed point, the smallest letter from which all others comeChesed to Tiphareth · Virgo; the careful hand shaping mercy into beauty
- כ 11 · Kaph · 20the open palm; grasp and release, the turning of fortuneChesed to Netzach · Jupiter; expansion carried from mercy into endurance
- ל 12 · Lamed · 30the ox-goad; learning and teaching, the aspiring heartGeburah to Tiphareth · Libra; balance, justice and instruction between severity and beauty
- מ 13 · Mem · 40the waters; the maternal deep, dissolution and gestationGeburah to Hod · Water; severity reflected into form, language and ritual
- נ 14 · Nun · 50the fish; movement in the deep, faithfulness through descentTiphareth to Netzach · Scorpio; death and renewal from beauty into desire
- ס 15 · Samekh · 60the prop; support, the tempered circle that upholds the workTiphareth to Yesod · Sagittarius; the sustaining arrow from beauty to foundation
- ע 16 · Ayin · 70the eye; seeing and its illusions, the wellspring of perceptionTiphareth to Hod · Capricorn; the eye that tests beauty through intellect and form
- פ 17 · Pe · 80the mouth; utterance, the word that breaks and rebuildsNetzach to Hod · Mars; speech and rupture between endurance and splendour
- צ 18 · Tsadi · 90the fish-hook; the just one, meditation that draws from the deepNetzach to Yesod · Aquarius; meditation drawing desire into foundation
- ק 19 · Qoph · 100the back of the head; the hidden sanctuary, sleep and holinessNetzach to Malkuth · Pisces; dream and sanctuary descending into the kingdom
- ר 20 · Resh · 200the head; the countenance, renewal and the sun of the personHod to Yesod · Sun; splendour shining into the image-making foundation
- ש 21 · Shin · 300the tooth, the flame; transforming fire, spirit as judgementHod to Malkuth · Fire and spirit; transformation descending into manifestation
- ת 22 · Tau · 400the cross, the mark; completion, the seal set on the whole workYesod to Malkuth · Saturn and earth; the final seal between foundation and kingdom
The ten sefirot
- 1KetherCrownunity and origin; will before it has a shapefirst swirlings, pure source, crown, the first point and white brilliance before form
- 2ChokmahWisdomthe first outpouring; insight that arrives wholeMazloth, dynamic wisdom, father principle and the flash of intuition
- 3BinahUnderstandingform-giving intelligence; structure, sorrow, comprehensionthe great mother, limitation, memory and the cup that gives shape
- 4ChesedMercygenerous expansion; loving-kindness and abundancegrace, law as kindness, largeness, order and blessing
- 5GeburahSeveritystrength and restraint; the necessary cutcourage, correction, discipline and the blade that protects
- 6TipharethBeautythe harmonising heart; sacrifice and balanceheart, beauty, mediation and the image of the higher self
- 7NetzachVictoryendurance and desire; the long push of feelingdesire, art, devotion, instinct and emotional endurance
- 8HodSplendourreflection and form; intellect, ritual, exactnesslanguage, analysis, ritual form and exact symbolic thought
- 9YesodFoundationthe channel; imagination and the gathering of forcesdream, image, memory, subtle body and the astral foundation
- 10MalkuthKingdomthe manifest world; body, work, the finished vesselthe four elements, body, matter, daily work, manifestation and the visible world