Your core numbers
- Life Path comes from your full birth date and describes the main direction of your life. It is the most important number in a chart.
- Expression, also called the Destiny number, comes from every letter of your birth name and describes your talents.
- Soul Urge, or Heart’s Desire, comes from the vowels in your name and describes what you want deep down.
- Personality comes from the consonants and describes how other people see you.
- Birthday is your day of birth and adds one specific gift.
- Maturity is Life Path plus Expression and describes where life leads after about age 40.
- Personal Year changes every year and sets the theme of your current year in a nine-year cycle.
How the numbers are calculated
Each letter has a value from 1 to 9. Totals are reduced by adding their digits until a single digit remains, except for the master numbers 11, 22 and 33. Every result above includes the full working, so you can check it by hand.