What is a Life Path number?

Your Life Path number is the single most important number in numerology. It is derived from your full birth date and describes your core nature — your gifts, your drives, and the direction your life tends to take.

How is the Life Path number calculated?

Reduce your birth year, month and day each to a single digit (or a master number), add those together, and reduce again to a number from 1 to 9 — unless the total is 11, 22 or 33, the "master numbers", which are kept as they are.

What are master numbers 11, 22 and 33?

When a Life Path total comes to 11, 22 or 33, numerology leaves it un-reduced. These "master numbers" are read as heightened, more demanding versions of 2, 4 and 6 — carrying greater potential and greater challenge.

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What your Life Path number says about you

In numerology, your Life Path number is the closest thing to a headline for your whole life — the temperament you were born with and the road you tend to walk. It’s calculated purely from your birth date, so it’s yours from the moment you arrive.

Nine core numbers (1–9) each carry a distinct character, and three “master numbers” — 11, 22 and 33 — are read as heightened versions of the 2, 4 and 6. Yours is written up right here, just for you.