Life path number calculator: numerology by birth date and name

Your life path number is the most important number in numerology. You calculate it from your full date of birth in three steps:

Why reduce each part of the date separately? Because that way the master numbers hidden in a date don't get lost. Take November 9, 2000: the day is 9, November is 11 and the year 2000 gives 2, so 9 + 11 + 2 = 22, a master number. Add up all the digits at once instead (1 + 1 + 0 + 9 + 2 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 13, and 1 + 3 = 4) and you'd get an ordinary 4.

That's why online calculators sometimes disagree: some add up every digit at once, others reduce the month, day and year separately. We use the second method and show every step, so you can easily check the result on paper.

Name numbers come from the Pythagorean chart. Each letter of the alphabet has a value from 1 to 9: A is 1, B is 2 and so on up to I, then from J you count from 1 again. Use the full name on your birth certificate, so your birth surname, not one you took when you married.

Your name gives three numbers. The expression number, also called the destiny number, is the total of all the letters and speaks of your talents. The soul urge number, from the vowels alone, describes what you want deep down. The personality number, from the consonants, is the impression you make on others.

Each word, meaning each first, middle and last name, is reduced on its own before the results are added up. A hyphenated last name counts as two words. Just as with the date, this protects master numbers: Carter adds up to 29, which reduces to 11.

11, 22 and 33 are master numbers, the only two-digit numbers numerology doesn't reduce. Each is an amplified version of its digit: the 11 carries a 2 (1 + 1), the 22 a 4 and the 33 a 6. They mean greater potential, but also more tension: someone with an 11 is often more sensitive than a typical 2, and someone with a 22 feels the pressure of big plans.

In our calculator master numbers are kept at every stage: when they show up in the day (11, 22 or 29, which reduces to 11), in the month (November), in the year (for example 1993, because 1 + 9 + 9 + 3 = 22) and in the final total. Only the personal year and personal month are always reduced to a digit from 1 to 9, because they describe a nine-year cycle.

Your personal year shows where you are in a nine-year cycle. Add the current year to your birth day and month, reducing each of these numbers to a single digit. The result is always a number from 1 to 9, one higher each year: after year 9 a new cycle begins at 1.

We calculate it for the calendar year, from January 1 to December 31. Your personal month is your personal year plus the number of the month, also reduced to a single digit.