What's a Life Path Number and How to Find Yours

Life path numbers identify your personality traits, innate skills and abilities. Numerology uses life path numbers to help determine your life’s purpose and gain insight into the path you should follow to achieve your true potential, your highest destiny.

Renowned numerologist Felicia Bender believes we can use numerology to understand ourselves and others on a deeper level. She believes your life path number is “the key to understanding your life’s purpose, innate tendancies and talents, and the obstacles you’ll face as you continue to master the lessons to be learned.”

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On her site she shares a life path number calculator to help you calculate yours.

How do you find your life path number?

Take the numbers of your birthdate and reduce it to it’s numerical value. Group the month, day and year and then add them individually.
Do not reduce the Master Numbers of 11 or 22 to single digits until the final calculation

For example, if your birthday is July 6, 1979

MONTH July= 7

DAY 6= 6

YEAR 1979= (1+9+7+9)= 26 (2+6)= 8

ADD THE TOTALS FOR EACH GROUP (7+6+8)=21
add these numbers (2+1)= 3

Life Path Number is 3

What does my life path number mean?

Each individual life path number represents your personality and how it correlates to the future. Just like your Zodiac sign offers a horoscope reading to gain insight into the unknown, numerology uses numbers to predict your destiny.

Meaning of Life Path Numbers

Life Path Number 1 – The Leader, creativity and confidence
All about power. Make great entrepreneurs, CEOs and commanders.
Life Path Number 2– The Diplomat, cooperation and balance
All about love. Diplomatic, sensitive and bring harmony and peace.
Life Path Number 3– The Socializer, expression and sensitivity
All about performance. Entertainers, musicians, actors who love the fame.
Life Path Number 4 – The Worker, stability and process
All about stability. Hard working, trusted, self sacrificing types.
Life Path Number 5– The Free Spirit, freedom and discipline
Life Path Number 6– The Nurturer, vision and acceptance
Life Path Number 7– The Seeker, sense of spirituality
Life Path Number 8– The Power Player -abundance and power
Life Path Number 9– The Humanitarian – spirituality, creativity

I’m a life path number 8, which ironically enough is the Influencer life path, lol!

According to Numerologist….

If you were born into this numbers vibration, you’re on a personal journey to grow into your power and become an authority in the world. Your highest path will ask you to perfect your relationship with money and learn how to use your wealth to serve the world.

You have incredible self-discipline and manage to maintain goal-oriented even when the going gets tough. Because you’re so often way out in front, people watch and learn when you’re around, whether you know it or not. You’re a stand out example to so many in life, but because of this, any weaknesses or chinks in your armor are also there, for all to see.

WHATEVER YOU THINK YOU’RE CAPABLE OF, NUMBER 8, THIS LIFE IS MEANT TO STRETCH YOU.

It’s not uncommon for eights to play it too small, coming up with excuses for why they’re not doing better. Sometimes low-self esteem and self-worth is a real problem – especially if you sense your huge potential but somehow can’t quite realize it. You don’t need to aim for big business!

Sometimes eights take a much more spiritual path. In these cases, significant personal work may be needed to overcome your blocks to self-worth. But this is necessary if you are to access what you truly deserve in life.