Numerology guide
How to calculate your Life Path number from your birth date
The Life Path is the best-known number in Pythagorean numerology. It comes only from your birth date, and you can work it out in under a minute with pen and paper.
Step by step, with an example
1. Write the full date
Use day, month and a four-digit year. In the example, the date is July 14, 1990.
07/14/1990
2. Add up every digit
Split the date into single digits and add them all at once, zeros included.
0 + 7 + 1 + 4 + 1 + 9 + 9 + 0 = 31
3. Reduce to a single digit
If the result has two digits, add them again. Repeat until you reach a number from 1 to 9.
3 + 1 = 4
4. That's your Life Path
Someone born on July 14, 1990 has Life Path 4.
Life Path = 4
What about 11, 22 and 33?
If the sum is 11, 22 or 33, stop there: these are master numbers and are not reduced. A sum of 22, for example, stays 22 instead of becoming 4.
Why other tools sometimes give a different result
Some methods reduce the day, month and year separately before adding them. For most dates the final result is the same; the difference shows up in some master-number cases. Here we add all the digits at once.
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