Also called arithmancy, Pythagorean numerology, life path number
The practice of turning birth dates and names into single numbers and reading them as clues to character and life themes. Modern Western numerology took shape in early twentieth-century America, borrowing older letter-number systems.
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Take care: Numerology is a reflective tool with no scientific support, so never use it to choose medical treatment, judge a partner, or make large money decisions.
Greek and Hebrew letters doubled as numerals, so every word had a number. Isopsephy compared words with equal totals, and gematria became an interpretive tool in Jewish mysticism. These are the deep roots modern numerology borrows from, though they work with whole words and sacred texts rather than birth dates.
The palmist Cheiro (William John Warner) promoted a system he called Chaldean, in which letters run only from 1 to 8 and 9 is held back as special. It gives different name totals from the modern 1 to 9 method, and his books focused on names, lucky days and compatibility. The link to ancient Chaldea is a label rather than documented history.
Mrs L. Dow Balliett of Atlantic City treated numbers as vibrations tied to tones and colors and read them from names and birth dates. She is usually credited with keeping 11 and 22 unreduced as master numbers. Her student Juno Jordan later shaped the method most popular books still teach.
Numerology is often credited to Pythagoras, and his school did hold that numbers underlie the world, but no writing by Pythagoras survives and nothing ties him to birth-date readings. The older roots are letter-number systems such as Greek isopsephy and Hebrew gematria. The English word numerology does not appear in print until about 1907, and the older term arithmancy dates to the 1570s.
The modern method began with Sarah Joanna Dennis, who wrote as Mrs L. Dow Balliett from Atlantic City, New Jersey. Her 1905 pamphlet and her 1908 book The Philosophy of Numbers set out readings from names and birth dates. Juno Jordan and others built on her work, and the Irish palmist Cheiro popularised a rival system in Britain. There is no scientific evidence that these numbers predict personality or events, though many people find them a useful starting point for reflection.
Opening a respected book at random and taking the first passage your eye or finger lands on as an answer to your question.
Tossing three coins six times to build a hexagram from the Chinese Book of Changes, then reading its text as counsel on a situation.
Reading the shape, lines and mounts of the hand as a map of character and life tendencies. It has roots in India and the ancient world and was revived as a Victorian craze.
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