Numbers and human personality

About Numeric Analysis and Numerology
The following information is from section 7, chapter 17 in Your Love Life and Reincarnation by Stephen Petullo with contributing author Scott Petullo
Numeric Analysis--Understanding Human Character and Identifying Cycles of Time
Copyright © 2001 Scott A. Petullo / S. A. Petullo Corporation
Please note: The following information can provide the numerology novice with a beginning and basic understanding of the science and help him or her gain awareness about life, relationships, and the lives and relationships of others. This awareness will help you more easily understand, have compassion for, and accept yourself and others. However, because of the depth and detail of advanced numerology, the information in this section can’t provide a complete analysis. It is not meant to replace a thorough reading by a professional numerologist.
When I tell people I’m a numerologist, those familiar with numerology may say “Oh, I’m a '5'" (or some other number). The number they usually refer to is their Life Path number, the most important aspect of the several hundred in an advanced numerology chart. What they usually don’t know is that this number only gives a glimpse of the overall personality and timing energy. It’s similar to trying to describe a person's looks from a picture of the eyes alone. A study of one aspect gives a few insights; a thorough analysis of the whole numerology chart provides much more.
How can numbers describe personality or even future events? The “why” and “how” of numerology is a mystery. A numerologist can’t explain why certain types of events transpire time and time again under identical numerological aspects. A numerologist also can’t explain how matching patterns of numerological personality aspects (in different charts) repeatedly and accurately reflect human motivations, abilities, or challenges--they just do. The only reasonable explanation as to why numerologists can make predictions and discern personality through numbers relates to the idea that there exists a divine order in the universe and that we are all intimately connected to it.
Numerology is a science by definition, since results are consistently drawn from the same sets of circumstances. Science is based on observation, not theory. Science also has nothing to do with common sense. Much of today's cutting-edge scientific thought appears unusual to the average person. For example, physicists suspect that the universe is somewhat oval in shape, so it’s faster to travel in space on a curved line. Psychologists believe that we attract those who have qualities we need for balance or who exhibit our own repressed undesirable personality traits. Their theory is that we are all mirrors for each other to help us resolve our personal issues. How do we “prove” the validity of these types of observations? It’s difficult to do, but it’s easy to see the truth in them through objective analysis.
Numerology allows you to know more about the meaning of your life, to understand the various levels of your personality, and to identify the why, how, what and when of your relationships. It also allows you to have one of the keys to relationship success: timing. Quantum physicists have long hypothesized that there exists a harmony between all things and that there is order instead of chaos in the universe. We witness the order every single day in how we can predict when the tides will rise and fall, how many months a woman will carry a child in pregnancy, how an apple tree will bare apples and not oranges, and when changes of season are expected to happen. You don’t have to be a quantum physicist, though, to identify the strengths and weaknesses of your character or to know about the best times for beginnings and endings. All you have to understand is how numbers symbolize our existence.
Definition of Numerology
Numerology is the philosophical and scientific study of numbers and their connection to human personality and time cycles. It is based on the idea that numbers reflect a divine order in the universe and that everything that is named or numbered is cyclical in nature. Numerology uses the energy of the qualities and characteristics of each of the numbers 1 through 10: all numbers are made up of these ten numbers. All dates and times are numbered. Names and places are also numbered through gematria, the science of relating words to numbers (each letter of every alphabet is numbered) where words with the same number totals have equal or similar meanings. One of the more well-known and ancient forms of gematria is the Hebraic number system called Qabala (QBLH). Other ancient forms of the science of numbers include Chaldean, Pythagorean (not to be confused with modern or western numerology), Phonetic and Hindu. Modern numerology is a direct descendent of these sacred codes. The Chinese “Circle of The Heavens,” the Indian “Vedas,” ancient Egyptian texts and records from Sumeria - this planet’s first recorded civilization, all feature coded number systems. The term numerology was created in the early 1900’s in response to growing interest in this ancient science.
Advanced Numerology
Numeric analysis - better known as advanced modern numerology – is a body of work that includes most published and many unpublished deeper aspects of modern numerology. These aspects are validated by numeric analysts over years of applying this scientific approach to many subjects. Numerology is a science based on empirical rules; observation is the key to understanding.
The majority of published numerology books in the western world only scratch the surface of the topic, leaving readers with a nice introduction but failing to provide any thorough depth of understanding. Part of the reason is that advanced numerology isn’t considered a best-selling topic—most readers demand lighter subject matter. Perhaps such simplifying contributes to numerology being falsely considered as only entertainment.
Another reason for the lack of thorough information about numerology is that it takes a certain type of aptitude and desire, perhaps even obsession, to dig deeper into the hundreds of numeric timing and personality aspects in an advanced chart. It then takes months and years to discern which are essential and how to effectively use them. Because of the limited amount of published advanced numerology information, very few people have explored the deeper side of the science, or at least have wanted to make public their findings. Many analysts who have studied numerology in-depth realize that there is a responsibility that goes with the extraordinary knowledge gained. Some knowledge translates into power and it is sometimes best kept private.
Regardless of how numerology is presented, any sort of insight can be helpful to the beginning student or lay client. However, it needs to be understood that the shorter the reading, the more incomplete is the information, and therefore the more likely the possibility of someone being mislead or misinformed. A short reading may include two or three different timing or personality aspects, while an extensive analysis can include hundreds of aspects and require hours of interpretation. Additionally, the accuracy of any numerology reading depends on the depth of understanding of the analyst.
Reincarnation and Numerology
The more we know ourselves and the more we understand timing opportunities and challenges in relation to character, the closer success and goal attainment becomes. Most numerologists believe in reincarnation; they recognize the cyclical nature of life and time and understand how numbers represent universal truths. Numerology, like other metaphysical sciences, indicates that we reincarnate over and over again until we learn and experience all that we need to for our highest growth. According to this philosophy, most of us will be coming back again and again to get it right—if we’re here on Earth, it means we still have some lessons to learn.
The key to understanding reincarnation is that a person must take full responsibility for everything that happens in his or her life—that means eliminating the concept of blame.
We can embrace the circumstances of our lives with compassion and gratitude, or reject them with misery. Karma is our teacher, not our punisher. Reincarnation research indicates that many circumstances in life are predestined, such as whom our parents and family members will be, the type of environment in which we begin life, the kinds of personality traits that will likely emerge or be repressed, and the kinds of people we will attract to learn our lessons. Numerology informs us about these and other conditions. It symbolizes the orderly rhythm of the mathematical exactness that permeates all creation.
It’s unnecessary to believe in reincarnation to benefit from numerology, but the concept does help to explain the why and how of this science. The following information includes some of the more important personality and timing aspects that numerologists use today.
Zero, Qualities, Fadic Addition and Multiple Numbers
Zero isn’t a number; it is a cipher. It is nothing, but it is all. When attached to a number such as 1, the 1 and 0 become 10; the 0 magnifies the 1, making it a more powerful energy than the 1 alone. 10 is more intense than 1 and 100 is more powerful than 10. Consider the 0 an intensifier that amplifies the number next to it. Additionally, numbers represent qualities, as the statement “she is a 10” shows. Figures, far different than numbers, display quantities, as in “party of 5.” It’s easy to see the contrast between these two distinctly different concepts. Numerology addresses the former, giving full meaning to the qualities behind all numbers.
In order to simplify this introduction to numerology, only the numbers 1 through 9 are covered here. For the sake of simplicity, double and multiple digit numbers will not be discussed nor will master numbers (11, 22, 33…) or karmic numbers (13, 14, 16, 19). In modern numerology, all numbers other than master numbers and karmic numbers are ultimately reduced to a single digit through fadic addition. This is known as Jaffar, the system of numbers reduction (for example, reducing 17 to 8 by adding the 1 and the 7) that was shared by the Chaldeans, Egyptians, Arabians, Hebrews and by Moses. Pythagoras then gave this technique of “final digitting” to the Greeks, and it’s used today in modern numerology. The single reduced number of any double or multiple digit number is more important than the other numbers, but it’s the sequence and the order of the original numbers (from left to right in importance) that makes the full number unique and provides for advanced understanding.
The Life Path
Before we move on to the meanings of numbers, I’ll help you calculate some of your own numbers to refer to. The most important aspect of a numerology chart is the Life Path. This number is found by adding the numbers of the full birth date together as shown in the following example. Reduce each number to a single digit before adding:
December 5, 1955
12 (December is the twelfth month) + 5 + 1955 =
(1 + 2 = 3) + 5 + (1 + 9 + 5 + 5 = 20) =
3 + 5 + (2 + 0 = 2) =
3 + 5 + 2 =
10 =
1 + 0 =
1
This person has a 1 Life Path. Volumes of information exist regarding the number found in the Life Path position in the chart.
The extent of a rewarding or difficult life in relation to the Life Path is found through a study of the remaining personality and timing aspects; all parts of the numeric blueprint harmonize together to create one’s full identity and fate.
Different forms of the number 1 exist. For instance, the number thirty-seven (3 + 7 = 10, 1 + 0 = 1) is recognized as a great deal more fruitful than the number nineteen (1 + 9 = 10, 1 + 0 = 1) in most positions in the chart because the number 19 is most often viewed as karmically challenging.
To get an idea of what the number 1 stands for in the Life Path position, read the summary below and pay particular attention to the over-balanced and under-balanced sections. Of course, the energy is modified by all of the other numbers found in the other positions in the chart (as noted above), and so it’s important to get a sense for all the numbers. Until the person is well into maturity, they usually won’t be using the most constructive (balanced) energy of the number in the Life Path position on a consistent basis.
The Life Path: What a Person Must Learn
The true definition of the Life Path is that it represents what a person must learn. Correct application of a distinct group of associated energies sets the person free and allows for faster completion of his or her earthly mission. The Life Path also represents the strongest energy in the personality chart, so the focus is on this aspect to identify the person’s most significant strengths and weaknesses.
The Numbers 1 Through 9 Defined/Love and Time Cycles
First of all, there is no such thing as a bad number. All numbers have positive energy behind them. The problem is when there is too much (over-balanced) or too little (under-balanced) of a particular number/energy. Ultimately, in a spiritual sense, nothing symbolized by numerics is viewed as unpleasant; all situations allow for growth and development. Then again, many occurrences are justifiably interpreted as negative due to the earthly truth that pain - physical, mental and emotional - is unpleasant.
Every number has three main sides: balanced, under-balanced and over-balanced. Each number also has a distinctive set of vibrations linked to it, as described in the following definitions.
In addition to information about the various forms of each number 1 through 9, insight about how each number relates to time cycles in regards to love and relationships is provided below. The numbers relate to love through the timing aspects such as Life Path Periods, Personal Years, and Pinnacles (described later in this text). Love in connection to personality aspects (for example: Main Challenge, Life Path, and Day of Birth) will not be covered here.
Please Note: For absolute accuracy, all numbers in a timing or personality chart must be interpreted in association with each other, and that some positions in the chart carry more importance than others. For example, if you have a 5 Life Path, reading the definition for number 5 below will provide you with a good idea of some of your more important lessons in this lifetime. However, by itself the Life Path number is only a piece of the entire picture and will not give you a complete summary of your personality. Taking into consideration your Life Path, Main Challenge, other personality aspects and timing aspects such as your current Personal Year and Month will give you a better idea of the general trends and probabilities at this point in time. Even though a seasoned analyst must carefully weigh and scrutinize hundreds of numeric aspects to yield an accurate personality profile and overall direction of present and future time cycles, you will be able to gain at least some important insight by applying the calculations and definitions provided in this section. The balanced, over-balanced and under-balanced descriptions of each number relate mainly to the personality aspects (such as a Life Path), but they can also be connected to time cycles.
*For the definitions of the numbers 1-9 and how they relate to love and romance and additional numerological aspects, calculations and information, refer to chapter 17 in Your Love Life and Reincarnation. Included in chapter 17 is information about (and how to calculate) long, medium and short-term time cycles such as Pinnacles, Challenges, Life Path Periods, Personal Years, Personal Months and Personal Days and how these time cycles symbolize the circumstances of our lives.
Relationship Compatibility
One of the most beneficial uses of numerology is determining relationship compatibility. The timing and personality aspects of people’s numerology charts symbolize the duration and meaning of their bonds with others; all personal bonds have time limits. Some relationships are destined to last a lifetime and some for only a day. Two people may still remain in a relationship or friendship long after the emotional or mental connection has transformed.
Although most people would like to find their ‘perfect partner’ for life, their karmic blueprint and level of self-awareness often dictate otherwise.
Relationship compatibility and timing is an area of study in advanced numerology. Hundreds of aspects must be considered in relation to the entire advanced chart for complete accuracy. For a complete and extensive numerology reading, it’s best to consult an expert.
Advanced Interpretation
The three numbers that comprise the full date of birth are also used to derive over 100 other personality and timing aspects. In a complete advanced numerology chart using both the full date of birth and legal birth name, over 400 aspects must be considered for a comprehensive, thorough analysis. This includes the aspects within aspects and cycles within cycles. There are also different levels of each number to read, from the multiple digit number down to the reduced single digit. Each number has similar energies associated with it, but each position in the chart has a different influence. The various aspects in the numerology chart can be grouped into sections such as dominant character traits and timing cycles, modifying agents, ‘directors’ of the overall flow of energy, and outer appearances that, for example, sometimes reflect a facade that is at variance with the true personality. In short, it is best to consult with an expert to get the complete energy at play in the character and timing blueprints for maximum insight.
Personality aspects including the Life Path, Birthday number and Main Challenge and timing cycles including the Life Path Periods, Pinnacles, Challenges, Personal Years, Personal Months and Personal Days comprise an adequate foundation of aspects to begin studying numerology. At least a couple years of serious study, starting with the fundamentals, is required to begin to see the full scope of numerology’s validity. An objective disposition and many charts are essential for the process of study, application and observation. If used wisely, the insight provided through numerology allows for significant strides towards self-actualization.