
Your Life Path Number is designed to reveal essential inner truths about yourself and is one of the most important numbers according to numerology. This number can highlight your skills and strengths and help you navigate any challenges you may discover throughout your life. Your Life Path Number helps to uncover who you are, gives direction and indicates which traits to hone in order to assist your journey through life.
How to Calculate Your Life Path Number
Group the Month, Day and Year and add them individually until you reduce a single number for each. Once you obtain a single number for each Month, Day and Year, reduce these together to a single number.
For Example:
Birth Date: March 21, 1980
March = 3
21 = 2+1 = 3
1980 = (1 + 9 + 8 + 0) = 18 = (1 + 8) = 9
Now, add the numbers together from each group
(3 + 3 + 9) = 15 = (1 + 5) = 6
Life Path 6
* If you obtain 11, 22, or 33 do not reduce these values because they are considered Master Numbers in Numerology and have their own specific properties and meanings.
For Example:
Birth Date: April 11, 1968
April = 4
11 = 11 (do not reduce)
1968 = (1 + 9 + 6 + 8) = 24 = (2 + 4) = 6
(4 + 11 + 6) = 21 = (2+1) = 3
Life Path 3
* Keep in mind, the order of the calculation does matter. You won’t get the correct number if you add the numbers together without grouping them.
For Example What NOT to Do:
Birth Date: April 11, 1968
(4 + 11 + 1 + 9 + 6 + 8) = 39 = (3+ 9) = 7
According to Numerology, the calculation order is important and this number would be incorrect. As calculated above, for the birth date April 11, 2963, the Life Path Number is 3
What Does Your Life Path Number Mean
Each Life Path Number has its own set of characteristics. We’ve summarized each below to help you get started. Each number and individual possesses both light (strengths) and shadow (challenges). Find your number and interpret these strengths and challenges loosely to apply them to your life in order to assist life direction, obstacles, relationships and your life as a whole.
Life Path Number 1
Ambitious & Charming
Light: Successful, natural born leaders who attract prosperity and are innovative in all aspects of their life
Shadow: Quick to anger, prone to critique others and fierce determination can be a challenge in relationships
Crystal: Aventurine
Life Path Number 2
Artistic & Empathic
Light: Calm, kind and skilled with the words constantly learning and adapting in relationships that are peaceful, compassionate and caring
Shadow: Deep sensitivity, prone to passivity and hesitant to speak up
Crystal: Sodalite
Life Path Number 3
Spiritual & Strong Vibration
Light: Successful in the creative field, optimistic and generous in relationships and honest communicator
Shadow: Difficulty focusing or committing and will withdraw fully when hurt emotionally
Crystal: Amethyst
Life Path Number 4
Reliable & Determined
Light: A hardworking, organized and disciplined individual who is logical and determined
Shadow: Can come across as stubborn or rigid
Crystal: Red Jasper
Life Path Number 5
Inquisitive & Intellectual
Light: Free spirit, adventure seeker and brave at heart
Shadow: Difficult to get to know, always on the move and can seem distant in relationships
Crystal: Citrine
Life Path Number 6
Curious & Compassionate
Light: Nurturing, empathic and a desire to heal or help others with a deep connection to animals
Shadow: Puts everybody else first and can hold the world on their shoulders
Crystal: Carnelian
Life Path Number 7
Detail Oriented & Intuitive
Light: Creative individual who thrives in the artistic space and in nature
Shadow: Insecure with a tendency to overthink and desire perfection
Crystal: Tiger’s Eye
Life Path Number 8
Ambitious & Prosperous
Light: Hard worker, intellectual, magnetic personality excellent for achievement and financial security
Shadow: Tends to overwork and neglect loved ones
Crystal: Malachite
Life Path Number 9
Light: Natural leaders who want to help others and have an ability to adapt and be malleable
Shadow: Difficult past that can create feelings of dissatisfaction
Crystal: Rose Quartz
Life Path Number 11
Heightened Intuition & Alignment with Self
Light: Higher sense of spirituality and awareness with a deep healing presence
Shadow: Can be overwhelmed with their heightened senses
Crystal: Clear Quartz
* Life Path Number 2 is considered the base
Life Path Number 22
Transformative & Creative
Light: Great spiritual understanding and ability for manifestation and building their dreams from the ground up
Shadow: Fear of failure and can be insensitive
Crystal: Selenite
* Life Path Number 4 is considered the base
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