Numerology: Your Life Path Number

In numerology the life path number is worked out from your birth date and describes the shape of your temperament: what you reach for, what tires you, and where you keep running into the same wall. Enter your date below and the sum is shown step by step.

All life path numbers

1 Life Path Number 1 You are built to start things, and you feel most yourself when the direction is yours to choose. 2 Life Path Number 2 You read rooms before anyone speaks, and your quiet patience holds people and agreements together. 3 Life Path Number 3 You think out loud and make things brighter, and your challenge is finishing what your imagination starts. 4 Life Path Number 4 You build things that last, with method and patience, and people rely on your word without asking twice. 5 Life Path Number 5 Variety keeps you alive, and you learn fastest when the scenery, the people and the plan keep changing. 6 Life Path Number 6 You notice what people need before they say it, and home, family and fairness sit at the centre of your life. 7 Life Path Number 7 You need to understand before you agree, and solitude is not loneliness for you but the place you think best. 8 Life Path Number 8 You understand how the real world works, and you are happiest with something substantial being built under your hands. 9 Life Path Number 9 You feel the wider picture and give easily, and your lesson is learning to name what you need in return. 11 Master Number 11 Add the ones of 11 and you get 2, but the same sensitivity runs at a much higher voltage in you. 22 Master Number 22 Two twos make 4, so you have the builder's patience, aimed at something far larger than one steady life. 33 Master Number 33 Reduce 33 and you land on 6, but your care reaches far past your own doorstep and needs firmer edges.

How the number is worked out

The month, the day and the year are each reduced to a single digit first, then added together and reduced once more. Reducing the parts separately matters: it is what keeps a master number visible instead of dissolving it into the total.

Master numbers 11, 22 and 33

Three results are left as they are rather than reduced. Eleven is read as an intensified two, twenty two as an intensified four and thirty three as an intensified six. The underlying theme is the same, but it arrives with more force and asks more of you.