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In short
A master number is a total of 11, 22 or 33 that numerology leaves as it is instead of reducing it to one digit. This app keeps masters for the Bhagyank, the name numbers and the pinnacle numbers, and reduces them for the Mulank, the personal year, month and day, and a few 1-to-9 tables. The books disagree on whether 33 counts.
What the term means
Numerology normally reduces a total by adding its digits until one digit is left, the digit sum. A master number is an exception to that rule: when the reduction lands on 11, 22 or 33, it stops there. The master is still tied to its root digit, 11 to 2, 22 to 4 and 33 to 6, which is what it becomes wherever it is reduced after all.
Where the term comes from
Numerology Made Easy (Ch.2) reduces a name total "unless the total is equal to eleven or twenty-two", and Metaphysical Secrets (Ch.2) says there are only two master numbers, 11 and 22. Advanced Vedic Numerology (p.33) adds 33 and says the three start out reflecting a 2, a 4 and a 6. The AIFAS course notes allow a master Life Path (p.25) and keep 11 and 22 in the Soul Urge (p.50). So the books agree on 11 and 22 and disagree on 33.
How this app computes it
- Kept (11, 22 and 33): the Bhagyank and Life Path, the three name numbers on both letter tables, the pinnacle numbers, and the Chaldean Attitude number.
- Reduced: the Mulank, the personal year, month and day, the Maturity number, and the age bands of the pinnacle and challenge cycles, where a Life Path of 11 is read as 2.
- Read at the root digit in three lookups: the 81 Combinations grid and the punch-line table, which the book prints for 1 to 9 only, and the Vedic Grid, which places a master Bhagyank as 2, 4 or 6. Everywhere else the Bhagyank keeps its master.
A small illustration
A birth on 1 February 1997 sums to 29. As a Bhagyank the engine stops at 2 + 9 = 11. A birth on 29 January 1990 has the same 29 as its day, but the Mulank does not keep masters, so the engine goes on to 1 + 1 = 2. The same total, two answers, depending on which number is being made.
Pages that use this term
- Master number 11 - the full page on 11 and where it is kept.
- Mulank, Bhagyank and Life Path - why one date number keeps masters and the other does not.
- Life Path calculator - shows a master Bhagyank unreduced.
- Number 2 in numerology - the root digit of 11.
- Number 6 in numerology - where 33 would otherwise land.
- Master number 22 - the planned page on 22.
Related terms
- Digit sum - the rule masters are an exception to.
- Karmic debt number - the other two-digit totals the engine watches for.
- Compound number - a total read before any reduction.
- Life Path number - a number that keeps its master.
Life Path Number
Two numbers from one date - the Mulank from your birth day, the Bhagyank from all of it.
This date is sent only to compute the answer. Nothing is stored, no account is created, and no email is asked for.