Pythagorean, Chaldean, and Kabbalistic schools of numerology: origins, calculation methods, letter correspondence tables.
Chaldean numerology is a system of letter-number correspondences traditionally attributed to the ancient Chaldeans. In its modern form it is known through 20th-century reconstructions, above all through Cheiro's book Cheiro's Book of Numbers. Two key features distinguish it from…
Chinese numerology is not a single school but two distinct layers that are constantly conflated in popular accounts. The first layer is the classical "study of symbols and numbers" (xiang shu): a philosophical system of ancient China connected to the I Ching, the trigrams of the…
Gematria is a method of Jewish exegesis that assigns numerical values to Hebrew letters and seeks hidden meanings in words and names by summing those values. The term appears in rabbinic literature as early as the second century CE. By tradition, words with equal gematria are con…
"Mayan numerology" in its modern popular form is the calendar tradition of the Maya, above all the sacred Tzolkin calendar (260 days = 13 × 20), along with its contemporary interpretations: the destiny kin by birth date, 20 solar "seals," and 13 tones. To avoid mixing different t…
Pythagorean numerology is traditionally traced back to the philosopher's doctrine of numbers: a person's name and date of birth are reduced to numbers from 1 to 9, and each number is assigned a character and an influence on destiny. However, under the name of Pythagoras three dis…
Tibetan "numerology" is not an independent school like Pythagorean or Chaldean, but rather a layer of elemental astrology — the so-called "black calculations" (nag-tsis). The central role in it is played by nine mewa — numbers of a 3×3 magic square, assigned to the year of birth.…
Vedic (Indian) numerology is a popular system traditionally traced back to the Indian astrology of jyotisha. Its central indicators are the soul number (based on the day of birth), the destiny number (based on the full date of birth), and the name number, with each number from 1…
