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The five systems, compared

Pythagorean, Chaldean, Vedic, Lo Shu and Kabbalah: what each one reads, and why they differ.

Numerology is not one system. It is at least five, and they disagree in instructive ways. A chart that only shows you one school is showing you one witness.

Pythagorean

The Western standard. Letters carry values 1 through 9 in alphabetical order, and the headline numbers are the Life Path, Name (Expression), Soul Urge and Dream numbers. Master numbers 11, 22 and 33 are preserved rather than reduced. Its strength is psychological texture: it reads like a personality study.

Chaldean

The oldest school in continuous use, rooted in ancient Mesopotamia. Letters carry values 1 through 8 by sound rather than order; 9 is held sacred and never assigned. Chaldean reads the compound total before reducing it: 23 is the Royal Star of the Lion, 26 a warning about partnerships, each with a character after Cheiro's tradition. This is the school professional name correction is built on.

Vedic (Ank Jyotish)

India's tradition assigns each digit a planet: 1 the Sun, 2 the Moon, through 9 for Mars. Numbers inherit the friendships and enmities of their planets, which yields lucky numbers, colors and days. Its two pillars are the Mulank (your day of birth, which we label the Personality Number) and the Bhagyank (the full date, the Life Path).

Lo Shu

China's contribution places your birth digits on a three-by-three magic square. Full lines become arrows of strength, empty lines arrows of weakness, and missing digits mark absent energies. It is the most visual system and the easiest to read at a glance.

Kabbalah and Gematria

The Hebrew tradition assigns numerical values to letters and reads names as totals. Its conventions vary more between practitioners than any other school, so Numeranks presents it as a secondary lens with its workings shown.

Your Numerograph computes all five side by side and points out where they converge.