The Expression Number: Analyzing your Names
If your Date of Birth indicates where you are going (the setting), your names indicate who you are (the actor). This is called the Expression Number.
What is the Expression Number?
In numerology, each letter of the alphabet has an energetic vibration that corresponds to a number. Your complete civil status (all your first names and your birth last name) constitutes your psychological "baggage".
The Expression Number (sometimes called Destiny Number) represents your overall temperament, your behavior in society, how you express yourself, and how others perceive you. It is the sum of your "Soul Urge" (calculated with vowels) and your "Inner Self" (calculated with consonants).
Important: For the calculation, you must use your complete birth name exactly as it appears on your birth certificate. The maiden name is essential for married women. Include all middle names without exception.
The Pythagorean Alphabet
To convert your letters into numbers, numerologists use the correspondence table below. The letters are ranked from 1 to 9.
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I |
| J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R |
| S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |
How to do the manual calculation?
The method is to add the value of each letter of all your first names and your last name, then reduce the final sum to a single digit between 1 and 9 (with the exception of the Master Numbers 11, 22, and 33, which are not reduced).
J O H N = 1 + 6 + 8 + 5 = 20
S M I T H = 1 + 4 + 9 + 2 + 8 = 24
Total : 20 + 24 = 44
Reduction : 4 + 4 = 8
John Smith's Expression Number is 8.
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