Life path numbers

Twelve numbers, each a description of a tendency rather than a measurement. Every page states how often the number actually occurs across calendar dates, which contradicts the thing this category repeats most often.

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The twelve numbers

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Master numbers are not the rare ones

Counting every date from 1940 to 2010, the six ordinary numbers — 1, 3, 5, 7, 8 and 9 — take about 11.1% each. The numbers that come out rare are 2, 4 and 6, because the convention keeps totals of 11, 22 and 33 unreduced instead of collapsing them. Life path 2 lands on 1.60% of dates while 11 lands on 9.51%: the master number is roughly six times more common than the number it replaces.

These figures count calendar dates, not people or actual birth records. They use the full-date digit-sum method, preserving 11, 22 and 33, across the stated years. A different method or year range can produce different shares.

Questions people ask

What are the life path numbers?

The single digits 1 to 9, plus the master numbers 11, 22 and 33, which the tradition keeps unreduced. A date of birth reduces to exactly one of them.

Which life path number is rarest?

Over 1940–2010 it is life path 2, at about 1.60% of dates — rarer than every master number. That is the opposite of what most numerology sites claim, and it follows directly from keeping 11 unreduced.

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