Numerology and Its Sources

Modern numerology, which reduces names and birth dates to single digits and reads a character or fate from them, is a nineteenth- and twentieth-century construction on this older Pythagorean and gematric base, associated with figures such as L. Dow Balliett and Juno Jordan. The atlas distinguishes the ancient number symbolism from the modern popular system built on it.

The entries give each number its traditional qualities across the several sources, from the Pythagorean to the Kabbalistic. The slots of a numerological reading, Life Path, Expression and the rest, are treated under the number-type category.