Lesson Three
Welcome to Lesson Three!
In this lesson, we will talk about a few things including Numerology because it is closely related to Arithmancy.
Birthdays
Before we begin our Numerology discussion, we must take a second to discuss another number we can add up to find our vibrational number. This one involves our birthday. To calculate this number, you take your birth month, your birthday, and the year you were born and you add them all together. For instance, say you were born on February 22, 1998. You would take the month, in this example, it would be 2, since it's the second month in the year and add that to 22 and 1998. Altogether, that adds up to 2 + 2 + 2 + 1 + 9 + 9 + 8 = 33 = 6. Therefore, your final number would be 6.
Numerology
Now, onto Numerology. Numerology is essentially the muggle form of Arithmancy. It's is also a discipline dealing with numbers. This is also why the required books for Arithmancy have Numerology in the name like "Numerology and Grammatica" and "New Theory of Numerology." Just like Arithmancy, it is a belief that numbers have a significance on people's lives, affecting their personalities and other important factors of a person. In Numerology, the Agrippan method is referred to as the Pythagorean System after Pythagoras because muggles do not know of Cornelius Agrippa of course and, therefore, had to come up with their own name.
Chaldean System
There is another way to calculate numbers that is similar to the Agrippan Method. This kind of calculation is called the Chaldean System after the Chaldeans that we talked about in Lesson One. To calculate numbers using this system, the letters assigned to each number differs a bit. Take a look at this chart:
1 - A Q Y I J
2 - B R K
3 - G C L S
4 - D M T
5 - E H N X
6 - U V W
7 - O Z
8 - F P
Whereas with the Agrippan Method, we added together the numbers from every letter in a person's name, the Chaldean System has us add together the numbers from each name separately. This leaves us with three separate number and each one means something separately. These are called the name numbers since they come from a person's name of course. The number that comes from the first name shows how the person presents themselves in public and what they want others to see them as and it deals with their habits and what interests them. The middle name, on the other hand, deals with the deeper parts of yourself and the parts of you that you don't want others to see. It is called the soul energy number. Your middle name shows your deepest desires and what your soul really wants. The number of the last name deals with the domestic influence of a person's family. As you can see, each number means something different which differs quite drastically from the Agrippan method where everything was added up until there was one digit and you had one number at the end.
Abjad System
The last system we will briefly discuss is called the Abjad system. This deals with the Arabic alphabet. Every letter in their alphabet has its own numbers assigned to it. The first few letters have numbers 1 - 9 assigned to them and then we have the multiples of 10 assigned and then the multiples of 100 assigned up to 1,000. Whereas with the other systems we've seen letters assigned to numbers 1-9, here we see one letter assigned to one number.
Golden Ratio
It is important to briefly discuss the Golden Ratio because it is an incredibly important number that has fascinated many people like scientists and mathematicians for a long time. The number is 1.61803398875. Mathematically, the equation looks something like this:
A + B is to A as A is to B to put that in a semi making sense kind of a sentence. The symbol for the Golden Ratio is the Greek letter phi. In nature, the Golden Ratio is found as well. People have found this pattern in various forms throughout nature:
The curve that we see go to the top of the box then wrap around the right side and running through each box is found in many patterns like leaves, snail shells, and roses.
These numbers in nature are referred to as the Fibonacci sequence because when divided they are very close to the golden ratio of 1.61803398875. For instance, take a look at the picture of the line going through the boxes again. On the left, in the largest box, we see it say 21 by 21 and in the next largest box on the left, we see it say 13 by 13. Divide 21 by 13 and you get 1.61538461538 which is remarkably close to the Golden Ratio. Let's do that again with 13 by 13 and the next largest dimension 8 by 8. 13 divided by 8 and we get 1.625 which is also rather close to the Golden Ratio. As the numbers that we divide by become smaller, they get farther and farther away from the Golden Ratio.
That's a lot to comprehend but just remember how the Fibonacci Sequence and the Golden Ratio are connected and look for examples of it next to you're outside.