Numerology Letter Values
A=1 B=2 C=3 D=4 E=5 F=6 G=7 H=8 I=9
J=1 K=2 L=3 M=4 N=5 O=6 P=7 Q=8 R=9
S=1 T=2 U=3 V=4 W=5 X=6 Y=7 Z=8
Master Numbers 11, 22, 33 are not reduced further.
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Calculate your Life Path Number from your birthday and your Expression Number from your full name. Numerology holds that these numbers reveal your personality, life purpose, and hidden talents.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Life Path Number?
Your Life Path Number is calculated by reducing your full birthdate to a single digit (or master number 11, 22, 33). It's considered the most important number in numerology, representing your life's journey, innate traits, and the opportunities and challenges you'll face.
What are master numbers?
Master numbers (11, 22, 33) are considered especially powerful in numerology and are not reduced to a single digit. They represent higher levels of learning and achievement. Life Path 11 is the "Intuitive," 22 is the "Master Builder," and 33 is the "Master Teacher."
How the life path number is derived
Write your birth date as digits and reduce by repeated addition until a single digit remains.
Example: 14 March 1990.
- 1 + 4 + 0 + 3 + 1 + 9 + 9 + 0 = 27
- 2 + 7 = 9
Master numbers
By convention, 11, 22 and sometimes 33 are left unreduced when they appear at an intermediate step, and are treated as distinct rather than becoming 2, 4 or 6.
Name numbers
A separate calculation maps each letter to a value — A=1 through I=9, then J=1 again, and so on — then reduces the total the same way. Variants differ over whether to use a birth name or a current name, which is one reason two sources can give different answers for the same person.
Where the system comes from
The idea that numbers carry meaning appears across many cultures and is often traced to Pythagorean thought, though the modern Western form was largely assembled in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Different schools use different reduction rules and letter mappings, so there is no single authoritative method.
How to take the result
Numerology is not a science. There is no evidence that birth dates or name spellings determine personality or predict events, and the descriptions attached to each number are broad enough to feel personally apt to almost anyone — an effect well documented in psychology.
That does not make it pointless as entertainment, or as a prompt for reflection. Plenty of people enjoy it in the same spirit as a horoscope. It simply should not inform decisions about health, finances, relationships or career, where you want evidence rather than arithmetic on a birthday.