18Jan

Numerology Notes and Musings

A quick lesson in numerology, for those of us that have a couple of years to spare. There are all kinds of books out on the market that explain and help you try out numerology on yourself, your family and friends. Some are great reading and go into some history. Some are full of the names of famous people that the author chooses to talk about. Some are superficial and make light reading. Some are complex and take a bit of concentration to get through. The best books I have found, and there are a number of them, tend to be older books that may have to be ordered from your local book store. One of the best is currently out of print and hard to find.

There are some discrepancies between different authors. The most common discrepancy deals with the letters Y and W. To those numerologists that use these letters in a way that is different than the way I do, my only comment is "If it works for you then that is fine. You don’t need to change a thing." For anyone getting interested in numerology for the first time, you will want to try using these letters in several ways, so you can decide for yourself which works best. Therefore, I will give you the way that works for me, and the one that is recommended in several books that I rely on heavily for guidance.

The letter Y is considered a vowel when it is the only sound in a syllable that fits the description, and when it is follows a vowel and is sounded as one as in the names Jayne, Roy, Guy, etc. It is considered a consonant if it is not part of a diphthong as in the name Yuriko or Yolanda.

The letter W also uses the same general principle. If it follows a vowel as in the name Brown, or Rowling, it gets treated as a vowel for delineation purposes. If it precedes a vowel and the sound is separate as in the name William or Ward, it gets treated as a consonant.

Using these letters in the incorrect way will affect mainly the soul urge, hearts desire, inner self or whatever name the practitioner gives to the total of vowels in the name. It will also throw off the calculations for the total of consonants, which goes by so many names in so many different books I can’t keep track of them all. The rest of the chart will be unaffected by this discrepancy.