The Personality Number

The Personality number is calculated from the consonants of the full birth name, converted by the Pythagorean chart and reduced, and it is the counterpart of the Soul Urge taken from the vowels. Where the vowels are held to sound the inner life, the consonants are the visible frame of the name, so the number they yield is read as the outer self, the persona, the impression a person makes and the part of the character shown to the world, the face rather than the heart behind it.

The three name-based numbers together, Expression from all the letters, Soul Urge from the vowels, Personality from the consonants, form the core of the name reading, with the Life Path from the birth date completing the set. All of it depends on the exact Latin spelling of the name and belongs to the American numerology assembled around 1900 by Balliett and systematised by Jordan, the system called Pythagorean without warrant from antiquity.