How AskNumera calculates

Pythagorean method, version 3. Your chart is calculated on your device.

The method follows the Pythagorean tradition as set out by Hans Decoz. AskNumera never blends traditions: a result always comes from one method and one version, and two charts are only compared on the same method.

Letters

Each letter has a value from 1 to 9.

• The vowels are A, E, I, O and U. W is always a consonant.
• Y is a vowel when no vowel stands beside it in its name. The Y in Mary and Lynn is a vowel, and in Yolanda and Bryan it is a consonant. The app shows when a Y was counted as a vowel.
• Names are split on spaces, and each is reduced on its own.
• Accents are removed, so José is read as JOSE, and the app says so. Hyphens, apostrophes, periods and commas are ignored.
• A name in another alphabet is not transliterated: you type the Latin spelling you use. A name that can’t be read gives no name numbers at all, never a guess.

Reduction and master numbers

Add the digits until one digit is left. 11, 22 and 33 are master numbers: in the core numbers they are kept wherever they appear, in a unit (a month, a day, a year or one name) or in the total. They are never kept in Challenges, Balance or any cycle.

The Life Path reduces the month, the day and the year separately before adding them. The other common convention, adding every digit of the date at once, reaches the same final digit but can lose a master number:

AskNumera uses units. Compound numbers, from 10 to 52, are the totals behind a reduced number, written before the slash, as in 19/1 or 29/11. A result’s compound is the first total from 10 to 52 in its reduction.

The numbers

A Soul Urge or Personality of 0 means the name has no letters of that kind. It is shown as 0, not adjusted.

Pinnacles and Challenges

The month, the day and the year are reduced first, with master numbers kept for Pinnacles and reduced for Challenges.

The first period runs from birth to age 36 minus the Life Path, with a master Life Path reduced to one digit first. The second and third last nine years each, and the fourth runs for life. Each Challenge shares its Pinnacle’s period. A Challenge of 0 is a challenge of its own.

Period Cycles

These are the month, the day and the year of birth, each reduced, with master numbers kept. The first cycle runs from birth to the first Personal Year 1 on or after the 27th birthday. The second lasts 27 years, and the third runs for life.

Personal and universal cycles

Every cycle ends in a digit from 1 to 9. A February 29 birthday falls on March 1 in years without one.

Dates and time zones

Dates are calendar dates with no time. Today is the date in your chosen time zone, which is your device’s by default, so your Personal Day changes at your local midnight.

Options you can change

The app always says which option is in use. Our article on why calculators give different results shows what each one changes.

What the arithmetic does and does not show

This page explains how a number is produced. It says nothing about whether the meaning attached to that number is true. Numerology is a spiritual and interpretive practice, and the readings are written as invitations to reflect.

Changelog