Your name holds a vast book of knowledge about you. Your name isn’t just something that your parents chose for you. They didn’t choose it at all.
Two factors drive most of the things that we look at in numerology. The first is your date of birth, and the second is your birth name. In this article, we’ll be looking at your name.
In name numerology, we can draw three main impressions about you. First, your destiny number (or expression number) is the sum of your full birth name. Second, your soul urge number (or heart’s desire number) is the sum of the vowels in your name. Third, your inner dreams number (or personality number) is the sum of the consonants in your name.
Always use your full birth name; if you don’t, you’ll get results that aren’t accurate. If you’re a junior or a 3rd or third, ignore those to work with name numerology. We’ll discuss changed names at a later date. For right now, we’re concentrating on just your FULL birth name.
How to Reduce Your Name to a Single Number
Use the chart below to determine the numbers that correspond to the letters of your name.
Determining Your Destiny Number
Coming up with your destiny number. Your destiny number is the sum of your full name as it appears on your birth certificate.
Reduce each name to a single number, then reduce the sum of those numbers to a single digit. As always, we leave the master numbers 11 and 22 whole.
As an example: Johnathan David Pierce would reduce to a destiny number of 7
Johnathan = 1 + 6 + 8 + 5 + 1 + 2 + 8 + 1 + 5 = 37 and 3 + 7 = 10 and 1 + 0 = 1
David = 4 + 1 + 4 + 9 + 4 = 22
Pierce = 7 + 9 + 5 + 9 + 3 + 5 = 38 and 3 + 8 = 11
Destiny Number = 1 + 22 + 11 = 34 and 3 + 4 = 7
Determining Your Soul Urge Numerology Number
Coming up with your soul urge number. Your soul urge number is the sum of the vowels in your full birth name.
Add the corresponding numbers and reduce them to a single digit, keeping master numbers 11 and 22 as a whole.
A, E, I, O, and U are always vowels. Y is a vowel when it is used in place of a traditional vowel.
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Determining Inner Dreams Number
Coming up with your inner dreams number. Your inner dreams number is the sum of all the consonants in your full birth name.
Add the corresponding numbers and reduce them to a single digit, keeping master numbers 11 and 22 as a whole.
If you use Y as a vowel, then it isn’t counted as a consonant. If Y has not been used as a vowel, you would add it when determining your inner dreams number.
Destiny Number
In numerology, the destiny number is by far the most important. It describes the actions that you must take in your lifetime to meet your full potential.
Another way of looking at it is that it shows you the opportunities you have at your disposal in this lifetime. These opportunities may not be easy to accomplish, but they are available to you, and you should strive to achieve them.
Soul Urge Number
Some refer to this as the heart’s desire number. It represents what you love most in life. What drives you to accomplish daily tasks?
Satisfying these inner desires will make you feel content and complete. Still, this number is not exceptionally important in name numerology as it’s normally kept secret within yourself and not shared with others.
Inner Dreams Number
The inner dreams number is sometimes called the personality number. Both names describe what this number represents.
The inner dreams number represents your greatest subconscious hopes and dreams. You wish for these things so much in your subconscious that they are visible to others in how you interact with them when you first meet them.
Ironically, the inner dream is never meant to be met and is not an especially important number in numerology.
Final Thoughts
As you can see, the name holds great power in numerology. Name numerology gives us insight into what we will become, enjoy, and desire. Those three items are very meaningful to a person.
Name numerology is one of the base aspects of numerology to master if you are looking to pursue numerology further. It can seem a little intimidating when you’re first getting into numerology. Just keep with it, and it’ll all fall together!