The Everything Numerology Book: Discover Your Potential for Love, Success, and Health Through the Science of Numbers

Introduction

Welcome to the amazing subject of numerology, the science of understanding the interaction of energies as they join together in a single unit. Today, people use numbers in math, which influences many aspects of our lives. We count, measure, estimate, and equate numbers. They are so much a part of modern life that it’s hard to imagine our world without them. There was a time when the numerological aspect of numbers played an equally great role in human life, but we have gradually allowed numerology to lag behind.

For most people today, numbers are nothing more than mathematics, which they either love or hate. But numbers can be so much more–agents for more loving relationships, for more money, for better health, for personal growth, for spiritual awareness, and for greater luck. Maybe you, like other skeptics, say, No way! Well, it’s time to clear your mind.

In numerology, each number is alive, a living energy that flows from and into infinity carrying positive and negative characteristics. When these energies combine, they create the spark of life. In ancient times the magi–early numerologists–became so skilled at directing and arranging these flows of universal life, they could shift the expected outcomes of events according to their wishes.

The magi used the power of numerology to shift reality in larger arenas. Today, you can do the same in your personal arena. Numerology will help you understand yourself through the wisdom of the numbers. Remember: The numbers are alive, they have personality. Beyond that, they are the substance of life and energy that empowers our spirit and soul. Use numerology wisely; it is the language form of the universe, and it has the power to show you how to live your life in joy and prosperity.

In beginning your exploration of numbers and their deeper natures, you are embarking on a journey that is filled with wonder and riches, betrayal and defeat, and the triumphant steady restoration of numerology, numbers as energy, numbers as universal communication, and numbers that live. This book will take you back to the ancient times when amazing accomplishments were gained as math and numerology joined forces to create wonders. When you have completed your journey, you will have a better understanding of the amazing past, present, and future of numerology. You will be more in tune with some of the cultures that used it wisely to enhance life. You will have the tools at your fingertips to become a part of this lineage of wisdom. You can use numerology as a guide to help you make decisions as you seek self-knowledge, establish satisfying relationships, improve your love life, and become more financially successful; in general, it will help you make your life more fulfilling than ever before. This life is at your fingertips.

Numerology as we know it today is designed to help you progress through life’s dilemmas. If you’re not satisfied with your life or areas of your life, you have the power to create different outcomes through what you learn from the numbers. Then, you can learn how to create and apply the true inner changes into behavioral changes that change your life to be the way you want it, every day.

What are your personal reasons for taking your precious time to learn this new skill? Do you want to improve your life? Have you always been curious about numerology? Maybe a good friend or a close relative has been encouraging you to learn more about this fascinating subject, and you are finally interested?

Experience improves when you focus your intent through action. Take the time to sit back and examine your reasons for getting interested in the subject of numerology. Decide what you want to get out of studying it. Then pick up The Everything® Numerology Book and keep on reading.

Your journey, any journey, starts with the first step, and it’s always into unknown terrain. Stretch your mental muscles, shake out those cobwebs, and join in for a countdown to numerology. This journey will continue to expand your perceptions and add value to your life.

CHAPTER 1

The Birth of Numbers

Humanity’s connection to numbers may be traced to the very dawn of human existence. Numbers came from symbols found in nature, making them our original language, and they continue to provide the common ground of communication for all people, in each and every culture.

The Perfect Language

Pythagoras, Einstein, and Merlin–among many others–have said that numbers, mathematics, and the metaphysical understanding of numbers and vibrations together form the perfect language. As you will see, numbers have connected us to our survival since the very beginning of human existence, and they continue to help us understand and describe our differences physically, emotionally, and mentally.

Numbers are our common root. Over time, they have expanded in usefulness from counting perils, to defining emotional differences, to clarifying mental skills and accessing spiritual qualities. Now numbers still lead us, show us, and give us the language to continue forward into uncharted terrain. They are now showing us how to complete the circle of evolution. This language from the humblest of roots has been sought, honed, and passed down throughout the generations by great men and women of many disciplines.

Humans have relied on numbers for thousands of years. Today, numbers are used today by scientists, mathematicians, I Ching masters, Tibet’s holy teachers, Christian scholars (who follow Jesus’ triune teaching), and ordinary people like you and me who are just trying to get a handle on it all.

At the Very Beginning

Life was very different for early humans two to three million years ago. The world was not made for humans to rule over. There were no cities, roads, medicine, science. Life consisted of two environments–the protective habitat inside the cave, and the unprotected outside world.

Early humans lived in nature in all her wild beauty, but it was a difficult life, full of dangers and the constant struggle for survival. Because there was safety in numbers, the well-being of the tribe ensured the safety of its individual members.

Early Forms of Communication

The issues of living and problem solving were more perilous, although less complex, than they are today. Many people died of disease or were killed young. Old age was unheard of. Life consisted of surviving, and little more. Many needs were predictable, repetitive, and needed no clear verbal communication: to survive, to reproduce, and to be included in the larger, communal group. As a result, natural individuality was suppressed to ensure the tribal communal rhythms of deep compatibility.

Much of interpersonal communication was carried out with eloquent body language, gestures, face and eye movements, and simple sounds. Together, these elements formed a rudimentary language that served the simple needs of those early tribes.

Language need not be a system of words–in fact, it may be any system of communication that is shared among a group of people. Whether it’s sign language or a written language, the system is a language as long as it allows people to communicate. Even communication through numbers, body gestures, clothing, and music may serve as a language.

However, in the world outside of the cave–the dangerous world of enemies, wild animals, the constant hunt for food, and the harsh environment–this rudimentary language began to grow in complexity as the humans came to rely more and more on it to communicate during the hunt.

Early humans had developed only the simplest physical tools to hunt for food as well as to provide protection: chunks of flint that were chipped into arrowheads and hatchet heads, rocks for throwing, fire for cooking and burning, and wooden shafts for anchoring arrowheads or hatchets or for sharpening into lances. It was risky to rely on such weapons, so the key to success lay in the number of fighters. Humans had to pick their battles carefully–if they miscounted, they would be easily overwhelmed by a larger number of prey or enemies.

Numbers became the agreed-upon language that provided them with an accurate way to communicate. The language of numbers also answered their need to define, understand, defend themselves from, and integrate with the world around them. Eventually, this communication allowed humans to gradually realize that each individual human being is separate and distinct from the other members of the tribe.

At first, numbers were expressed through speech. Later, humans developed written symbols to represent numbers visually–on the ground, on cave walls, and so on. Most likely, the inspiration for these symbols–circles, semicircles, horizontal and vertical lines, triangles, cones, and other shapes–came from nature.

The Birth of Architecture

Some say that civilization began when the early humans left the caves and settled down in villages. We might never know how they first learned to build dwellings, but we do know that in order to build them, they had to understand numbers.

How did they figure out the size a structure needed to be in order to contain a family of five, ten, or however many? How did they manage to get poles of the same length in order to build walls? How did they know how many leaves, branches, sticks, or other materials they would need to cover their huts? How did they know how to build an entrance that allowed them to enter but kept out the wild weather and unwanted guests? Architecture.

Architecture combined math, numbers used to measure distance and amounts, and the new, astonishing skill of building shelter. It was at this point that numbers hit the big turning point. They changed from symbols of communication into mathematical science.

At this point genius did what it usually does: It expanded and elevated the human understanding of what may be possible. Our relationship to numbers had changed–as it would change again and again. Before, numbers had stood on their own, each one unique and unblended with any other. With architecture, humans could manipulate numbers by combining and coordinating them for the benefit of their survival, for survival has always been the great driving force behind our constant drive forward, to grow and develop.

Numbers Attain Personal Characteristics

Meanwhile, evolution took its course. Human beings continued to develop their outer world, learning how to hunt with greater skill and preparation, mastering the powerful natural force of fire, and conceiving of and creating the wheel. They learned to domesticate animals and eventually settled down in villages, where they became aware of more emotional differences among themselves. No longer under the relentless pressure of untamed nature, they could relax a bit. As early humans grew more emotionally diverse, numbers evolved right along with this growth.

Numbers that had once been used to identify amounts and measure distances now had a new purpose. They could be used to describe personal characteristics, as follows:

She wants to be number 1.

They prefer each other’s company only–they are a couple, a 2.

Extra support means 3.

A 4 is solid–4 points stand for strength.

Your hand has 5 fingers that reach out into the world to get what you want.

The family is 6.

Gazing inwardly is a concept of 7.

Adding two 4s gets you an 8, a number of great strength.

A 9 represents the humanitarian.

Two hands make up a 10, the highest number, which represents a full and rich person.

These ideas gradually became condensed so that each number came to carry a particular significance.

Significance of Numbers

singular

couple

creativity

structure

shaker-mover

harmony

inner reflection

strength

humanitarian

completeness

How the Numbers Evolved

As human evolution continued, the challenges posed by nature only worked to further develop human skills and mental strength. Humans continued to improve their tools. They learned the art of healing through herbs and other techniques. They became more successful at providing themselves with food through better hunting techniques as well as by learning the arts of agriculture and domestication of animals. As an evolving species, they took their use of numbers to the next level as well, making the meaning of each number more complex and defining its positive and negative characteristics, like this:

an action-oriented originator, a leader or a fool

a balance of two things; a point of vacillation

fun or dilettantism

the ability to organize or repress

the one who created movement or inconsistency

harmony of health and home, or interference

the deep intellect of seeking, or aloofness

power and success, or ambition for self and material possessions

the one who expressed universal love or aimless dreaming

the one who saw the whole picture or imposed personal beliefs

The Evolution of Numbers Gave Us Numerology

The spiritual evolution of numbers led human beings to develop numerology, a way of using numbers to show them–teaching them, as living agents–how to define and understand that which already existed.

The lion exists in life, but 1 defines it as a singular animal. Similarly, numbers help define and understand characteristics as they emerge, providing a bridge for us to bring into understanding that which already exists but is not yet defined, understood, or utilized.

As humans continued to evolve spiritually and came to wonder about the meaning of life and their place in it, numbers led the way to greater understanding. Numbers and numerology gave them the language in which to form their great questions and seek out their answers. Numbers helped define crucial relationships like these:

represents destiny, force, or dictatorship

loving; overly protective

inspired; overly enthusiastic

gives stable security; controlling

a number representing change; scattered

harmonious; eccentrically out of touch

psychic; withdrawn

unifying; possessive

universality; martyrdom

grasp of the whole picture; excessive attachment to one way

Numbers are a part of us. They have always been. That’s because we have brought them right along with us, using them to help us understand the stage of the world we are stepping into. As we progress from stage to stage of our existences, numbers are the only constant, perfect form of communication.

Four Areas of Personal Growth

Humans developed one step at a time through each of the four levels of evolution: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. Even today, all individuals are faced with the necessity of integrating these four areas of themselves into inner harmony as they grow daily and live through all the experiences life sends their way. That is why numbers continue to provide a vital tool for understanding ourselves, others, and our place in the fabric of life.

The number 1, representing a single lion, became a single person who stood alone emotionally. That single person then became a single, unique thinker, then finally a single force for cosmic power. Numbers have always shown the way, allowing us to define our experience of life, one another, our relationship to life, and our place in this world.

Numbers took a leap into coordinates and combinations, and it was then suddenly possible to duplicate the forms and shapes in nature with accuracy. Then someone could also pass on a skill in a way that it became easily repeatable. The vistas that opened, the enhanced possibilities for survival, the blossoming aesthetic values–it must have boggled the mind.

Our Flip-Flopped World

Our world today is radically different from that long-ago world of the early humans. In modern life, our time is centered upon lists of things we need to accomplish, and we judge ourselves and each other by our success in completing these goals. We buy much and long to buy more.

The dangerous outside world beyond the cave has diminished dramatically as humans have turned it into their own realm. We have medicine, science, psychotherapy, education, planes, heating, huge homes … the list goes on. However, the deep inner rhythms of the tribe–what we now experience as the couple, the family, the community, the state, country, and the world–are a daily struggle to find, let alone maintain. Now it is the family circle–our tribe, so to speak–that we struggle with most, as people fail in their personal, intimate, and family relationships.

The New Challenges

We long to reinstate unity, harmony, trust, and commitment to others in our lives. These are all ideals that have been sacrificed one step at a time as humans worked to make nature safer and improve their lives physically and materially.

We pushed hard and grabbed at Earth’s bounty, its space and resources, but we are about to reach the limits. We now need to complete the circle in this evolutionary process; we need to balance the outer development with inner unity. We must return to the inner harmony of the tribe. Of course, our tribe has grown to incorporate billions of people of differing skin color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, and many other characteristics. But it is in our power to regain our tribal oneness again, for our tribe is the world.

Deep within ourselves, locked in our genetic code, we carry the memories of unifying inner rhythms that reduce ego differences, petty grievances, and the desire to destroy another’s life; they have the power to fill us with the desire and ability to resolve difficult issues. We must reduce our compulsion to destroy or devour that which we feel threatens us because the threat is us and we stand too close now. We can no longer do it to them without doing it to ourselves.

Tried-and-True Tools for Building a New World

We need tools to rebuild our cave, the place that protects us all from the outer uncertainty while we live together according to our inner rhythms. This process is a process of rebuilding connections, and we can work on it through each interaction we have, hundreds of times each day.

We need the tools to understand ourselves better, to grasp our compatibility with each person, to seek to understand the other and find and elevate our quality as we lead our lives as ordinary people, people very busily engaged in the texture of daily life.

Each One of Us Is Unique

The universe is subject to the law of nonrepetition, and humans are no exception. You are completely unique and can never be duplicated. You and you alone can say what you know and feel and question. To withhold your uniqueness denies a component of the full rhythm to the tribe. The rainbow of humanity will still radiate, but it will be paler for your lack of full engagement.

In order to engage with the universe in a nondestructive, nondevouring way, we must know ourselves, our strengths and weaknesses, our positive and less-than-positive qualities and even those that are truly negative. This self-knowledge will help you create and recreate the wonderful boundary of self that allows the full uniqueness of you, cast from the creator and not repeatable, to resonate out and join in this next step for human evolution. To gain this kind of self-knowledge, you will need great and powerful tools.

The path is wide, and we are all on it, going in the same direction, but each step is ours and ours alone. Numbers light the way. Interested? Read on. It gets better!

Today, each number has retained its uniquely defined, complex, and singular meaning. They still communicate exactly as before. In addition, numbers have the power to combine and to create, and they are still continuing to evolve in much more involved combinations and formats than before.

CHAPTER 2

The Ancient Powers of Math and Numerology

Numbers are the most perfect and pure form of communication. Numbers gave us the tool to expand our universal understanding of what had always been, and to impart that knowledge on to the future generations. As numbers have become the journey of creation both in the physical and metaphysical world, they have never lost their earliest values.

Duality Is a Party of Numbers

This book is about the energy of numbers, which show themselves in two basic ways: physical mathematics and metaphysical numerology. Mathematics and numerology both use numbers–accurately, effectively, and creatively–in a process of learning about and manipulating the environment. We can use both in our continual struggle to improve and enhance human life, making it richer, fuller, easier, and safer. However, the similarities end here.

The difference between mathematics and numerology is like the difference between oil and water. They occupy the same space, they touch on all surfaces, they can exist side by side, but they never mix. In math, the numbers are stationary and physical, while in numerology they are lively and movable. However, both mathematics and numerology build and change reality, whether that means helping to build a new bridge or a new attitude toward life.

Mathematics is the construction of physical systems for understanding Earth’s physical laws. The purpose of this kind of understanding is to figure out how to get numbers to serve us better through education and application. Numerology is the science of understanding the interaction of energies as they join together into a single unit, a metaphysical system for understanding the universe’s bounty of wisdom. By using numerology, we can relate to numbers as living forces, flowing throughout all of life.

Both systems have served us spiritually. Since this is a book about numerology, let’s take a look at where in the forest of evolution the paths of mathematics and numerology diverged.

Combinations, Coordinates, and Equations

Nothing that is now, that has happened in the past, or that will happen in the future will ever be repeated in exactly the same way ever again. In order to work effectively with this law in mind, the early architects of civilization had to use numbers to be able to mimic nature successfully. These attempts could only succeed with the intelligent use of numbers.

Here is an example. A river in its natural course was observed to make six bends before narrowing to become a natural dam, from which animals and humans could drink more easily. Because water became predictably plentiful, herds of animals became regular, making hunting easier. Such observations might be recorded mathematically: the number of bends, the distance between the bends, the varying depth of the river as it progressed to the natural dam, and the accurate measurement of the dam itself. The numbers combined, coordinated, and organized into a system, which could then be duplicated. Trial and error provided the refining of the numbers until accuracy in the duplication was achieved.

Voilà, water as needed, far and wide. That water is quickly put to good use: Drinking water is now in good supply, and it will attract grazing animals that may be hunted. Furthermore, a reliable water source is key to agriculture, one of the earliest signs of settlement and civilization.

Nature Is a Great Teacher

Nature is the great author of life and a consistently wise teacher of how to live and survive successfully. Have you ever had the following experience? You have a problem that is really troubling you. You have turned it this way and that and can’t get a handle on the right way to proceed, so you decide to take a walk, just to get