Numerology
How to Use Numerology for Monthly Reflection
Use your personal month number as an outside prompt for a monthly review: work out the number, read its label as a question, then record what actually happened and judge the fit yourself.
Table of contents
- Example or practical exercise
- What numerology adds to a monthly review
- How to get the month number in four steps
- A constructed year of monthly prompts
- A fifteen-minute monthly session
- The three-column record that keeps you honest
- A swap test: would a different number have fit as well?
- Common questions about monthly numerology
- A year-end look across twelve months
- What this does and does not establish
Example or practical exercise
For a constructed 9 September birthday in 2019, the personal year is 3, so January adds 1 for a Builder month of 4 and August adds 8 for an 11.
What numerology adds to a monthly review
A monthly review is a pause once a month to look back at what happened and set a rough direction for the next. You do not need numerology for that. What the personal month number adds is a prompt: a number, a short label and a question that is not chosen by your mood. For some people that outside nudge helps, much as a journaling prompt does.
It is a prompt and nothing more. The number does not cause or predict anything that happens in the month, and your own record is what makes the practice worth doing.
How to get the month number in four steps
The site’s personal month calculator does this for you, and a hand check takes a minute.
- Work out the personal year for the calendar year: reduce your birth month, birth day and the year to single digits, add them and reduce, keeping 11 and 22.
- Take the calendar month as an ordinary number from 1 to 12.
- Add the personal year to the month number.
- Reduce the total, keeping 11, 22 and 33 by default. The result is the personal month.
A constructed year of monthly prompts
The person is constructed, born on 9 September, and the year is 2019. The digits 9, 9 and 3 total 21, which reduces to 3, so the personal year is 3. Each calendar month number is added to 3. The labels are the ones the site uses, and the prompts are only suggestions.
| Month | Total | Personal month | Site label | A prompt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3 + 1 = 4 | 4 | Builder | Which weekly habit would I like to make steadier? |
| February | 3 + 2 = 5 | 5 | Explorer | What would I try if I allowed a change of pace? |
| March | 3 + 3 = 6 | 6 | Caretaker | Who relies on me, and what do I need back? |
| April | 3 + 4 = 7 | 7 | Analyst | What deserves a quiet hour of thought? |
| May | 3 + 5 = 8 | 8 | Executive | Which unfinished goal needs a concrete date? |
| June | 3 + 6 = 9 | 9 | Humanitarian | What am I ready to wrap up or hand on? |
| July | 3 + 7 = 10 | 1 | Leader | What is one thing I could start small? |
| August | 3 + 8 = 11 | 11 | Intuitive Messenger | What do I keep noticing that I usually brush aside? |
| September | 3 + 9 = 12 | 3 | Communicator | What have I been meaning to say to someone? |
| October | 3 + 10 = 13 | 4 | Builder | Which of my routines held up, and which did not? |
| November | 3 + 11 = 14 | 5 | Explorer | Where did a change turn out better or worse than I expected? |
| December | 3 + 12 = 15 | 6 | Caretaker | How did I look after others, and how did I look after myself? |
A fifteen-minute monthly session
The times are rough guides. The routine is short on purpose, so that you will keep doing it.
- On the first day, work out the number and read its label (3 minutes).
- Write the question in your own words and one sentence about what you want from the month (3 minutes).
- Midmonth, reread the sentence and write one line about how things are going (2 minutes).
- On the last day, fill in the three-column record described next (5 minutes).
- Choose one thing to carry forward and one to leave behind (2 minutes).
The three-column record that keeps you honest
Divide a page into three columns. In the first, list actions the month’s prompt influenced, such as a conversation you started or a task you finished. In the second, list significant things that happened that had nothing to do with the prompt. In the third, list what did not fit at all.
The second and third columns are the important ones. If you write down only matches, the practice would always seem to work, because memory favors hits and forgets misses. Giving misses their own column makes the record fair.
Keep each entry to a line or two. A long entry is hard to reread, and the aim is to compare months, not to produce a diary. If a column stays empty for a month, leave it empty.
A swap test: would a different number have fit as well?
After a few months of notes, take one month’s record and read it against the prompt of a different month chosen at random. Ask how well it fits. If most prompts fit most months, the prompts are broad enough to suit almost anything, and the number is doing little work.
That is useful to know, and it does not make the practice pointless. The review still gets done, and the prompt still gives you a question to answer. You are simply being clear about where the value comes from.
Common questions about monthly numerology
Does the month change on my birthday? Not on this site. It uses the calendar month and the calendar year, so the number changes on the first of the month.
What if my month is an 11? By default the site keeps 11 and labels it Intuitive Messenger. Under the reduce-all setting it becomes 2. Note which setting you use in your log.
What if I skip a month? Nothing is lost. The number is arithmetic and will be the same whenever you work it out, so pick up where you are.
What if a prompt brings up painful feelings? Stop. Write about something lighter, and talk with someone you trust or a qualified professional if the feelings stay heavy.
A year-end look across twelve months
In the last week of the year, lay your twelve one-line entries side by side. Ask which prompts you used, which you ignored and what patterns appear that no number pointed to. Then decide what, if anything, to keep: the monthly session, the three columns, both or neither. A routine is worth keeping only if it helps you, and the number is optional.
What this does and does not establish
The number does not cause or predict anything in your month, and a selective journal cannot show that it does.
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