Your PERSONAL (soul,destiny) NUMBER - What Is and How to Calculate

personal number

Numerology is the symbolic translation of numbers. Several personal information such as our last name, first name and date of birth make it possible to determine the different numbers that govern our lives. Each of this information can be reduced to a number between 1 and 9 which can be interpreted in different ways.

Numerology allows us to determine:

• Our personal (destiny or soul) number which tells us about our personality and temperament.
• Our life path which references a set of strengths and weaknesses
• The value of our first and second names give us indications about our character, our heritage and our relationships with the outside world.

First of all, to avoid any confusion, we must remember here that there is a Personal Number (PN) and a Personal Year Number (PYN)

PYN is a number that results starting from the day and month in which you were born and the current year (not the year of birth). Because the current year is taken into account, the value of PYN changes every year. See here how PYN is calculated in detail

In contrast, PN - also known as DESTINY or SOUL NUMBER - is completely different. And numerology allows us to determine our personal number which tells us about our personality and temperament.

How to calculate your personal (soul, destiny) number in numerology?

The personal number is calculated based on the letters of your name. 

Let's say your name is JOHN MILNOR

Here are the correspondences between letters and numbers to find out the numbers hiding behind your first and last name.

Number 1: A, J and S
Number 2: B, K and T
Number 3: C, L and U
Number 4: D, M and V
Number 5: E, N and W
Number 6: F, O and X
Number 7: G, P and Y
Number 8: H, Q and Z
Number 9: I and R

Now we can calculate your personal number (PN) by adding the numbers corresponding to the letters of the name:

J = 1, O = 6, H = 8, N = 5 and M = 4, I = 9, L = 3, N = 5, O = 6, R = 9

so 1 + 6 + 8 + 5 = 20 and 4 + 9 + 3 + 5 + 6 + 9 = 36 

then 2 + 0 = 2 and 3 + 6 = 9, 

Finally 2 + 9 = 11, so 1 + 1 = 2  

Your personal number (PN) is 2.

See here the meaning of soul number