The life path is actually the sum of the birth date of a person. This number represents what you are when you are born and what all possible traits you will be carrying throughout your life time.

The most important number that will be discussed here is your Life Path number. The Life Path describes the nature of this journey through life.

The Life Path number is established from the date of birth. First, add the Month, day, and year together to arrive at a total. Next, reduce this four digit number to a single digit.

Example: If a person was born on October 23, 1972 (10-23-1972*), add the month 10 to the day 23 plus the year 1972 arriving at a total of 2005. Then add the digits in 2005 arriving at the Life Path number 7.

LIFE PATH NUMER 1:

This number suggests that you entered this world with skills allowing you to become a natural born leader. You always demand for individual intelligence and personal satisfaction is way much crucial to you. Many of the military generals, the corporate leaders are people With the Life path number 1. You love inspiration, and you feel utmost pleasure in learning from them. You are at your best when you are challenged to life situations and you always come out with your head held high. Highly original, you are, you possess several talents as an innovator. You welcome new ideas above everything else in this world. You get tired of routine and highly detailed tasks make you slow. You are ambitious and you love promoting yourself in most of the real life situations. For most of the part, you tend to be a company to others, making them having a good time, and you hate disappointing them. The negative side to 1 comes from the fact that they love to lead but following is strictly not in them. For them to be independent is necessary and that allows them to have enough room to be successful but if they are not able to be independent, they end being dependent on people. Avoid being too bossy or discriminating.

LIFE PATH NUMBER 2:

The Life path 2 states that you came to this world with spiritual insights in yourself; you love peace and harmony, and generally these people end up being peacemakers of the society. They possess the most delicate ability to be balanced, fair and non-prejudiced in life. You can clearly understand other people’s point of views and are a very good listener. You carry a sincere concern for other people around you; your ability to be honest and open in though is well appreciated. You excel in any form of group activity where your expertise in handling and blending people can be used effectively. Manners and tact mark your way with others, and you are not one to dominate a group or situation. You are the master of compromise and of maintaining harmony in your environment. As the ultimate team member, you never demand praise or recognition. On a negative side, you might end up being nervous and dissatisfied with many of life things, you never feel content with the pleasures offered to you. You often struggle for indecisiveness. Number 2 people also find it difficult sometimes to distinguish between reality and fantasy.

LIFE PATH NUMBER 3:

Life path number 3 is the ones who enter the world with a creative nature to them. They possess wonderful communication skills. They possess the most dignified innovational skills and their ability to lead in writing, speaking, debating, public speaking etc are highly noticeable. Your self expression is bright enough that you become very clear about your self images. Then you are not very good in handling money, they live life to the fullest and don’t think about what is going to happen tomorrow. The number 3 people love connecting with other people. A good talker both from the standpoint of being a delight to listen to, but even more importantly, one who has the ability to listen to others. Accordingly, the life path 3 produces individuals who are always a welcome addition to any social situation and know how to make others feel at home. On a negative side, they tend to become moody most of the time, slow thinking and overly contemplative people tend to frustrate you. You become impatient, intolerant to many things in life. You find it very hard to settle down in one place, as you love variety in life. Number 3 are also overly optimistic.

LIFE PATH NUMBER 4:

Life path number 4 people love to plan in life. For them things in their life are just they way they always though they would be. They are one of the most trustworthy, practical and down to earth individuals in this world. They love simplicity above all other things in life. If they have the desire and the willingness to do something in life, they can achieve enormous success, prestige and fame. You always demand as much from yourself as you do from others, and sometimes a lot more. You are very set in your ways and determined to handle things the way you are so certain that they should be handled. Your strength of purpose and ability to get the job done is based on your obsession with the work. You are a wonderful manager with a great sense of how to get the job done. Your life is programmed in an orderly fashion permitting you to catalog and manage the flow of ideas and activities that fill your day. On a negative side you are very narrow minded and a very repressive person.

LIFE PATH NUMBER 5:

The life path number 5 people are born to make change in this world. They are naturally versatile and passionate about that work that they do, they love motivating people so as to encourage courage among them. They love to communicate with people and especially when it lands them in big deals. Because of this skill, and your amazing wit, you are a truly natural born salesman. This ability to sell and motivate extends to any sort of physical product all the way through to whatever ideas or concepts you may embrace. You love dealing with people, and you have a genuine flair for spokesman ship. A love of adventure may empower your life. This may take the form of mental or physical manifestation, but in either case, you thrill to the chance for exploration and discovering new things. Surely you belong to a group considered the most worldly and traveled. On a negative side, you are supposed to be ambitious and your lack of concentration on your goals and ambition become a problem for you easily. You tend to be very irresponsible in tasks assigned to you.

LIFE PATH NUMBER 6:

You possess great compassion and seek to be of service to others. You have concern for the weak and the sufferer. You are a healer and a helper to others always. You are capable of giving comfort to those in need and will frequently offer a shoulder for others to cry on. Your task in life is to develop the tools necessary to be truly helpful to others, rather than to simply be a listening ear. You must find the balance between help and interference. In the same way, you must learn the delicate art of the counselor who knows when to leave the struggle to others and when to avoid taking away the necessary experiences and lessons of life. You are naturally balanced. Therefore, you are well equipped to support and ground others in times of hardships. It is in your nature to take on responsibility - you often fill the mark left by others - and do not turn away from personal sacrifice. At times, you may feel overburdened by the problems of others. However, the love others bless upon you is your well deserved reward.

LIFE PATH NUMBER 7:

You are the searcher and the seeker of the truth. You have a clear and compelling sense of yourself as a spiritual being. As a result, your life path is devoted to investigations into the unknown, and finding the answers to the mysteries of life. You are well-equipped to handle your work. You possess a fine mind; you are an analytical thinker, capable of great concentration and theoretical thoughts. You enjoy research, and putting the pieces of an intellectual puzzle together. You enjoy your solitude and prefer to work alone. You need time to contemplate your ideas without the intrusion of other people's thoughts. You are a lone wolf, a person who lives by his own ideas and methods. As a result, close associations are difficult for you to form and keep. You need your space and privacy, which, when violated, can cause you great frustration and irritation. When your life is balanced, however, you are both charming and attractive. You can be the life of a party, and enjoy performing before an audience. You enjoy displaying your wit and knowledge, which makes you attractive to others, especially the opposite sex.

LIFE PATH NUMBER 8:

You have hidden depths to your personality and most people will agree that they don't really know you too well. You have piercing eyes that look straight through someone, but like Number Seven's you can also be a real charmer. You have strong drive and ambition and will go all out to achieve whatever you set your mind on. Your ideal partner will be someone born under a water sign - preferably Pisces - you have a strong attraction to the sea but travel will not feature strongly in your life. Most of your energy will be directed into making money and you could benefit well from investments and inheritance. The supernatural is something that intrigues you and you could be drawn towards experimenting or learning about higher forces. You have a sharp tongue and can be considered sarcasm easily if others don’t understand you fully. Your ideal job will be something to do with the military.

LIFE PATH NUMBER 9:

You are the democratic leader, humanitarian, socially awake, and are deeply concerned about the state of the world. You have great compassion and idealism. You are a leader, and will spend your life trying to realize some aspect of your leader dream, sacrificing money, time, and energy for a better world. It is in giving that you will find much satisfaction. You have a broad outlook on life. You tend to see the big picture, rather than the minute details. You naturally attract people from all walks of life who can fit into your larger plans and take over the areas you find uninteresting. The person with a 9 Life Path is rarely prejudiced or accepts social biases of people. Instead, they evaluate people on the basis of what they can do for the larger cause. You are imaginative and creative, especially at arranging the beauty already present in the environment. These abilities can lead you into such fields as interior decorating, art, and photography. But because of your strong social consciousness, you can be an effective politician, lawyer, judge, minister, teacher, healer, and socialist.