Life path numbers 1–9, and the planets behind them
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Your life path number — the bhagyank of Indian numerology — is reduced from your full birth date and read as the broad direction of a life. In the Chaldean tradition each digit from 1 to 9 is ruled by one of the nine planets of Jyotish, so every number below is read through its planet’s classical character.
- Life path 1
Ruled by Sun
- Life path 2
Ruled by Moon
- Life path 3
Ruled by Jupiter
- Life path 4
Ruled by Rahu
- Life path 5
Ruled by Mercury
- Life path 6
Ruled by Venus
- Life path 7
Ruled by Ketu
- Life path 8
Ruled by Saturn
- Life path 9
Ruled by Mars
How the life path is calculated
Add every digit of your birth date and keep reducing the total to a single digit, pausing only at the master numbers 11, 22 and 33. The life path is one of several core numbers — the birth-day number, expression, soul urge and personality each describe a different facet, and a reading weighs them together.
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