Reference
Every term, defined plainly
Every term this site uses, defined plainly and in one place. Each has its own anchor, so you can link straight to a definition.
- Angel number
- A repeating or patterned number sequence someone notices and looks up, like 111 or 1234. We read these as present-moment prompts, not messages.
- Birthday number
- The number of the day of the month you were born, reduced. A secondary influence on top of the Life Path.
- Chaldean numerology
- The older of the two main systems, using a sound-based letter table running 1 to 8 and tying numbers to planets.
- Compound number
- A two-digit number read for its own meaning before reduction, such as 11 or 21. Strongest in the Chaldean tradition.
- Expression number
- Also called the Destiny number. Comes from every letter of your full name, read as your overall range of talents.
- Life Path number
- The main number in numerology, from your full birth date reduced to a single digit or master number. Read as your core nature.
- Master number
- 11, 22, and 33, held unreduced as intense higher octaves of 2, 4, and 6. The main reason calculators disagree.
- Personal Year
- Your own yearly cycle, from your birth month and day plus the current year. The season you are in, turning over each January.
- Personality number
- From the consonants of your name. The version of you people meet first.
- Plane
- One of the three rows of the numerology grid: Physical (doing), Soul (feeling), Mind (thinking). Every number sits on one.
- Pythagorean numerology
- The modern Western system, assigning letters to numbers 1 to 9 in alphabetical order. The site’s default.
- Reduction
- Adding the digits of a number and repeating until one digit remains, the basic operation of numerology. Master numbers are the exception.
- Soul Urge number
- Also called Heart’s Desire. From the vowels of your name, read as what you want underneath the doing.
- Synchronicity
- Carl Jung’s term for a meaningful coincidence. Our explanation for why a noticed number can feel significant.
- Universal Day
- Today’s date reduced to one number, the same for everyone. The shared background tone of the day.