Numerology
Numerology: your life path number
Your life path number is the single most important number in numerology — it reveals your purpose, strengths and the lessons of your life.
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Master numbers
How the life path number is calculated
Your life path number reduces your full date of birth to a single digit. Add every digit of the day, month and year together, then keep adding the digits of the result until one figure remains. A birthday of 14 March 1990 gives 1+4+3+1+9+9+0 = 27, then 2+7 = 9, so the life path is 9.
Two results are left unreduced: 11, 22 and 33 are treated as master numbers, held at two digits because numerology reads them as intensified versions of 2, 4 and 6. If your sum lands on one of those, read the master number page rather than reducing it further.
Numerology questions
What is a life path number?
It is the number derived from your date of birth, and the most-cited figure in numerology. It is said to describe your underlying direction — the themes and lessons that recur across your life rather than day-to-day events.
What are master numbers 11, 22 and 33?
They are double-digit results that numerology leaves unreduced, reading them as heightened forms of 2, 4 and 6: more potential and more pressure attached to the same core theme.
Can my life path number change?
No. It comes from your date of birth, which does not change. Other numerology figures — such as those derived from your name — can shift if the name does.
Is numerology related to astrology?
They are separate systems with different histories, but they are often read side by side because both describe character and timing through symbolic patterns.