THE LIFE PATH NUMBERS

The main numbers in a numerology chart are called the Life Path, the

Expression and the Soul Urge. The Life Path is the major lesson to be

learned, the central focus in a person‘s life. The Expression represents a

person‘s potential natural abilities, and the Soul Urge represents the

person‘s inner nature, what he/she wants to do or be. The Life Path is the

most important of these and represents about 40%  of the whole. The

Expression accounts for 30% and the Soul urge 20%. The remaining 10%

is made up of other factors, particularly the day of birth.

The first step is to calculate your Life Path Number. To work it out, you

simply add together your year, month and day of birth and reduce the

total to a single digit. This must be done following the formula outlined

below. If you add the numbers in an incorrect sequence, you‘ll get a false

reading. For someone born on December 9th,1946 the correct way to add

For example

Year    1946

Month  12

Day    9

-------just add 9+12+1946=

1967 = 1+9+6+7= 23, and 2+3=5.

This person has a Life Path of 5. The reason the adding up has to be done

in this particular way becomes apparent with an example using Master

Numbers.

A good friend of mine was born on February 29

,1944 (a leap year baby).

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To work out her Life Path we set it out as before:

Year    1944

Month  2

Day    29

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1975 = 1+9+7+5= 22

22 is a Master Number, so we do not reduce it any further. If we had

added up her numbers by stringing them out in a row we would have

found a different answer:

2+9+2+1+9+4+4 = 31, and 3+1 = 4.

By adding up the numbers this way we lost the Master Number. To avoid

losing them make sure you add the numbers up in the right way every

time.