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Numerology: Reducing your numbers

I have so many questions. Do we choose the date and time we arrive? And, what about our name? Do we have any influence at all? Or, when we choose the life we step into, is it part of our consideration? 

The instrument below will help you find your sacred numbers and give you a glimpse of what they mean. Please remember to only take from this what resonates, everything was just channeled or made up by someone a long time ago.   

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Core terms (all systems)

The instrument above is based on the Pythagorean system, named for the Greek mathematician Pythagoras. Below are terms used to describe the components of numerology. 

Reducing the numbers
Reduction

Adding the digits of a number together until you reach a single digit (or a master number). 1987 becomes 1+9+8+7 = 25, then 2+5 = 7.

Root number

The single digit left at the end of a reduction.

Compound number

The two-digit number before final reduction, read as its own layer of meaning.

Theosophical reduction

Another name for digit-sum reduction, used in esoteric traditions.

Theosophical addition

Adding every number from 1 up to a given number (4 becomes 1+2+3+4 = 10), revealing what a number contains.

Angel numbers

Repeating sequences (111, 444, 1212) read as messages or signs.

Additional systems

Chaldean numerology comes from ancient Babylon. Chinese and Feng Shui numerology originated in ancient China, Vedic in ancient India, Kabbalistic in Jewish mysticism, Isopsephy in ancient Greece, and Abjad in the Arabic world. Check the Lexicon below for more details. 

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Abjad

The Arabic letter-number system, used in the esoteric science of letters to find meaning in names and words.

Chaldean Numerology

An ancient Babylonian system that assigns numbers 1 through 8 to letters by vibration, holds 9 as sacred, and reads compound numbers alongside single digits.

Chinese Numerology

A system rooted in sound and symbolism, where numbers carry meaning based on what they sound like in Chinese, making some numbers lucky and others avoided.

Feng Shui Numerology

Numbers applied to space and time through the Lo Shu Square, used to find favorable directions for a person and read the shifting energies of a home.

Isopsephy

The ancient Greek practice of adding the numeric values of letters in a word to reveal its number and meaning.

Kabbalistic Numerology

Drawn from Jewish mysticism, this system uses Gematria, the numeric values of Hebrew letters, to uncover hidden connections between words and names.

Master Numbers

11, 22, and 33: totals most modern practitioners leave unreduced, reading them as intensified themes of their root digits.

Numerology

With an ancient history numerology or arithmancy has existed since the discovery of mathmatics. It ties together a divine or mystical relationship between a number and metaphysical phenomena or ideas.

Pythagorean Numerology

The most widely used Western system, attributed to the Greek mathematician Pythagoras, which assigns the numbers 1 through 9 to letters in alphabetical order and centers on the birth name and full birth date.

Vedic Numerology

An Indian system tied to Vedic astrology, where each number from 1 to 9 is ruled by a planet or celestial body.

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