How to Calculate the Life Path Number

How to Calculate the Life Path Number

The Life Path Number is calculated from the date of birth.

The Life Path Number can be calculated by reducing down, adding across,        or  adding down the numbers in your date of birth; however, most numerologists consider the reducing-down and adding- across methods to be the most accurate. However, between these two methods, neither one is “better”

 

than the other—just different. So it’s simply a matter of personal preference which method you use. The rule of thumb for all     three methods is   to reduce a  double-digit number total to a    single-digit number unless it totals 11, 22, or 33. This is because 11, 22, and 33 are  Master Numbers and do not get reduced down. We’ll discuss Master Numbers a little later on.

Let’s take a look at the first method: reducing down.

Method 1: Reducing Down

Step 1:  Reduce the month, day, and year numbers of your birth date down to three single-digit numbers unless they total 11 or 22.

Please Note : Some numerologists will reduce 11 and 22 down to 2 and 4 at this stage of the calculation, while some won’t because they believe that 11 and 22, as Master Numbers, should  never  be  reduced  down  regardless  of  where  they  appear.  It’s  up  to  you  what  you prefer to do. I’m going to leave the 11 as an 11 in the example below .

Let’s use the birth date December 11, 1969 (12-11-1969), as an example:

Step  2: Add  the  single  totals  together  (and  11  and  22,  where  applicable,  if  you  choose  not  to reduce them down) and continue to reduce down until you get a single-digit Life Path Number. If a Life Path Number totals 11, 22, or 33, it doesn’t reduce down to 2, 4, or 6. It remains 11, 22, or 33 and becomes an 11/2, 22/4, or 33/6 Life Path Number.

Now,  let’s  see  what  happens  when  we  end  up  with  a  Master  Number  total  for  the  birth  date February 2, 1960 (2-2-1960):

Because 11 does not get reduced down, it remains an 11/2 Life Path Number.

Some numerologists consider the reducing-down method to be the most accurate in determining a Master Number.     Method 2: Adding Across   Step 1: Put a plus sign between each of the individual numbers in your birth date and add across. Make sure you write the full birth year—that is, 1969 rather than just 69. Let’s use the birth date December 11, 1969 (12-11-1969), once again as an example: Step  2:  Add  any  double-digit  numbers  together  until  you  get  a  single-digit  Life  Path  Number, unless they total 11, 22, or 33, which then becomes an 11/2, 22/4, or 33/6 Life Path Number. As  you  can  see  with  our  second  example  birth  date,  March  29,  1969  (3-29-1969),  an  extra reducing-down step is required to get a single-digit Life Path Number. In some cases, you may end up with a single-digit Life Path Number in the first calculation, as in the birth date February 4, 2001 (2-4-2001): The advantage of using the adding-across method is that the double-digit number total (compound number) prior to reducing down provides additional insights into the type of Life Path Number it is. For  example,  a  13/4  Life  Path  Number  is  different  from  a  40/4  Life  Path  Number  because  it’s composed of a 1 and 3, rather than a 4 and 0. Even though both are 4 Life Path Numbers, due to the different compound-number combinations, they express themselves in slightly different ways. It pays to explore your compound numbers to gain a deeper insight into your numbers. You will also need to take note of the 0 in compound number totals such as 10, 20, 30, 40, and so forth,  prior  to  reducing  down,  as  0  amplifies  the  energy  of  the  number  preceding  it.  Chaldean numerology places the greatest emphasis on the compound number, and rightfully so. Now let’s see what happens when we use the adding-across method for the birth date February 2, 1960 (2-2-1960), which gave us a Master 11/2 Life Path Number using the reducing-down method: As you can see, when it comes to Master Numbers, there are times when one calculation method will  reveal  a Master Number and another won’t. Before I discuss this in further detail, let’s take a