When we set out creating Numerology Ace, we made a promise to ourselves that we wouldn’t just offer quick and easy-to-use calculators that you could put your birthday into and find out your life path. No, we want you to understand how your life path is calculated, and how to do it yourself, the old-fashioned way, with a pen and a paper.
What is the Life Path?
The life path number is the single most important feature of your numerological profile. If you boiled everything about you – everything that makes you you – to a single number, it would be your life path number. It offers insight into everything about you: your personality, strengths, weaknesses, challenges, opportunities and more.
The day that you were born, your life path was fixed. And although your life path number doesn’t change throughout this life, some of the numbers it interacts with will. You still have an active role in your life, and you still have important choices and decisions to make. The life path represents your direction. It reveals your potential.
How Do You Calculate Your Life Path?
Truthfully, calculating your life path is quite simple with even a little bit of practice. All you need is a full date of birth (month, day and year). To calculate the life path, follow these simple steps:
- Reduce each unit (birth month/day/year) of the birth date to a single-digit or master number. The master numbers (11 and 22) are not reduced during this calculation.
- Add each of the resulting numbers together and reduce the total again to a single-digit or master number.
As an example, let’s use the birth date January 8th, 1935 (the birth date of the great Elvis Presley).
- First, I usually write out the birth date in numbers.
a. January is the first month = 1
b. 8 needs no reducing because it is already a single-digit number = 8
c. We add the digits of 1935 together (1+9+3+5 = 18), and we reduce 18 (1+8) = 9 - Then we can add these resulting numbers together (1+8+9 = 18) and reduce it = 9
Thus, Elvis Presley’s life path number is 9, which represents someone who is compassionate, charming, and idealistic. We could see how this might fit the direction and drive of Elvis’ life.
Practice
So now that you know how, give it a try! Calculate your own life path, and calculate the life path of everyone you can. Practice makes perfect. For help interpreting the results, you can look at the following blog posts/resources:
- The Meanings of Single-Digit Numbers
- The Meanings of Master Numbers
- The Meanings of Karmic Debt Numbers