Pythagoras's A Numerology Rundown?

A Numerology Rundown

What this ancient practice is and how it (basically) works

Numbers, on one level or another, have been a cornerstone of civilization and technological advancement since human beings have walked upright. One early proponent of numerology was Pythagoras, who helped formalize ideas found in the Kabbalah and other ancient texts. He did not study numerology though, he studied isopsephy. As with any discipline that's sincerely old, there is a lot of debate over just who "founded" numerology and who made the greatest contributions. Unfortunately, there aren't a lot of hard and fast answers to be found.

Still, we know that Pythagoras opened peoples' minds to using numbers in various ways, and others built upon his concepts.

To be clear, numerology is often considered an occult, or metaphysical practice, which means that the aforementioned relationships can't always be accounted for by scientific or practical means. And by the same token, practitioners of numerology are often drawn to its spiritual component, as is commonly the case with occult practices.

Numbers can apply to science in unusual ways; at times a theory may be suggestive of certain logic used in numerology. Such was the case in the discovery of atomic triads, an observation that was originally written off as numerology or pseudo science, that eventually turned out to be correct. In fact, by looking at the numerical relationship between the lightest and heaviest element in an atomic group and averaging those sums to find a third element, Johann Wolfgang Dobereiner was able to lay the groundwork for the periodic

Normally a master number is not reduced; but if you were not considering the master numbers (either for simplicity or because you didn't want to) you could treat it as you would treat all other double digit numbers by adding its digits together (2 + 2) to arrive at a single digit (4). [spacer height="15px"]

An Example of How to Calculate an Expression, or Destiny Number

The next calculation you make will require the use of your full name at birth, that's first, middle and last; do not use abbreviations.

To calculate the sum of your full name, you will need to know the numbers that correspond to the letters in your name:

1 = a, j, s
2 = b, k, t
3 = c, l, u
4 = d, m, v
5 = e, n, w
6 = f, o, x
7 = g, p, y
8 = h, q, z
9 = i, r

So, if your name were Billy Jon Brown and we were consulting the table above, we could convert your first name to the digits 29337. Then we would add each digit together:

Billy = 2 + 9 + 3 + 3 + 7 = 24; then 2 + 4 =