The method

How a picture of numbers comes about

No secret, no software magic: these are digit sums. Every number on this page can be recalculated with paper and pencil.


The life number

All digits of the date of birth are added and condensed further until a single digit remains.

14.04.1990 → 1+4+0+4+1+9+9+0 = 28
28 → 2+8 = 10
10 → 1+0 = 1

The exception: 11, 22 and 33

These three stay as they are instead of being reduced further. In this methodology they count as qualities of their own — 11 as a heightened 2, 22 as a heightened 4, 33 as a heightened 6.


The name numbers

Every letter has a value from 1 to 9: a=1, b=2, through to i=9, then it starts again at j with 1. Three numbers come out of this.

Soul number

the vowels only

Persona

the consonants only

Body number

the whole name

What happens to umlauts

ä becomes a, ö becomes o, ü becomes u, ß becomes ss. Otherwise “Müller” and “Mueller” would give different numbers for the same person.

In this methodology y always counts as a consonant. Other schools treat it differently depending on its position in the word — this one does not.

Letters that are not in the table

The table only knows a to z. If a name contains other characters — æ, ø, or a non-Latin script — we ask before calculating. No mapping is invented and nothing is silently transliterated.


The quality of time

Day of birth, month of birth and the current year, added and condensed to a single digit. Unlike the other numbers, 11 and 22 do not stay standing here — a quality of time repeats on a nine-year cycle.

The change happens on your birthday, not on 1 January. Someone born in December is still in the previous year throughout November.


Where this methodology ends

A digit sum is a digit sum. It knows nothing about you.

What a picture of numbers can do is offer a question you would not have arrived at on your own. It cannot say what is right, what will happen, or what someone is good for. Anyone who has a decision to make — about health, law, money, relationships or people — makes it without numbers.

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