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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Numerology, 2nd Edition

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I have a whole bookshelf full of numerology books, but it wasn't until I read Kay's book that I developed a good understanding of the subject. The controversy regarding how you go about calculating the numbers is addressed; master numbers and karmic debt numbers are covered well. It has helped me learn how to integrate the numbers in the various positions. I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in numerology. This book is a keeper - I have already worn mine out and bought a 2nd one!

Hello, I am a psychic who wanted to start including some numerology for my clients. My mentor had a difficult to follow book that she trusted, but it wasn't "user friendly". I picked this book up and used the system in this book and it is truly accurate. The karmic and master number coverage has been great. As one of my clients stated after reading his core 5 numbers plus personal year I wrote up for him based on the system in this book "my life is finally making some sense!".

Now I feel I must acknowledge that there are other numerology systems out there and I quickly realized that I could wear myself out (let alone pull my hair out) if I looked into all the systems available and tried to find THE system. I have been completely satisfied with this book and the system it presents and thus far have felt it was accurate while being simple to learn. And incidently, these have corresponded nicely with the more difficult book of my mentor!

I would like to say how I really appreciated that for each category (Soul #, Destiny #, Maturity # etc) she gives a customized take on the numbers in that category so you aren't trying to fit the general meaning of a 6 into how that may apply to a Personality category. Very helpful!

Numerology is not nearly as popular as tarot or palm reading because it involves ... ick, numbers. Those of us who are right-brained enough to enjoy the intuitive arts were probably not all that good at math in school. However this book is a great addition (no pun intended) to everyone's metaphysical library.

I bought the book on a whim, knowing nothing about numerology and not being especially psychic. Soon I found myself doing startling accurate predictions for everyone in my workplace. I'm not sure if I just knew my coworkers that well (probably not because I was also accurately describing their kids whom I'd never met), or if I made good guesses, or what. But I can say that my numerological experiments were easy and a lot of fun because of this book.

Basically you need your subject's full name as printed on a birth certificate. (Each letter of the alphabet has a numeric value from 1 to 9, so the name C-A-R-O-L will add up to a different number than the name C-A-R-O-L-E; so even though a name sounds one way, you can't make an assumption that it follows the most common spelling.) You'll also need your subject's birth-date. Then you just do simple arithmetic (the book will show you the alphabet-to-number correspondence) until you end up with one number from 1 to 9 that describes a person's Life Path, Desity, Soul, Personality, and Maturity. You can stop there or venture into the more detailed readings shown in the advanced chapters where you map out yours or others' Major Cycles, Pinnacles and Challenges, and Karmic Lessons.

I predicted that one coworker's son would become his generation's Donald Trump or Bill Gates (he had the most amazing numerological profile: all 8s), so we'll see! In the meantime, I recommend this book. (As an aside, I got interested enough in numerology that I tried about six other books, many of which were equally comprehensive, but none were as user-friendly as this one.)

You might say that fate was dealing from the bottom of the deck the day I came across this book. The emergency brake on my car broke and I had some time to kill. So I went to a near by bookstore to browse the shelves. Just on a whim, I picked up the book and headed straight to the "Good Stuff"(i.e. How to calculate something meaningful). In this case I ended up on the page about your birthday number. it was simple enough to follow. I didn't need a calculator for it. The result I got had hit home when I read its meaning. Now I'm not talking some playful little swat. I'm talking about hitting home, HARD!!! When I left for home that evening I was carrying this book home. I have had the book for 3 weeks now and I found it easy to get right in there and make up a chart for myself and my wife. Though I didn't use the charts they providied. I created my own in Excel(How to do that is not in the book!) :-)
As long as you are TRULY honest to yourself about who you REALLY are you will find this book to be as I see it.... A book of TRUTH... Prepare to take damage.... :-)

"The Complete Idiot's Guide to Numerology" is an outstanding reference guide for those of us who are just now starting to explore the complex world of numbers. As the author states, "numbers don't lie."

I found myself gasping at the profound revelations I was learning about myself. At the very least, this book has whet my appetite for more in-depth information about my Core numbers. Specifically, I found I have 3 master numbers in my 5 core numbers, one of them apparently being quite rare, with no references to turn to for more information!

If you are looking for a place to begin, this is it. If you are looking for further clarification of what your numbers mean and how to apply their meanings towards a life direction, keep looking.

You might say that fate was dealing from the bottom of the deck the day I came across this book. The emergency brake on my car broke and I had some time to kill. So I went to a near by bookstore to browse the shelves. Just on a whim, I picked up the book and headed straight to the "Good Stuff"(i.e. How to calculate something meaningful). In this case I ended up on the page about your birthday number. It was simple enough to follow. I didn't need a calculator for it. The result I got had hit home when I read its meaning. Now I'm not talking some playful little swat. I'm talking about hitting home, HARD!!! When I left for home that evening I was carrying this book home. I have had the book for 3 weeks now and I found it easy to get right in there and make up a chart for myself and my wife. Though I didn't use the charts they providied. I created my own in Excel(How to do that is not in the book!) :-)
As long as you are TRULY honest to yourself about who you REALLY are you will find this book to be as I see it.... A book of TRUTH... Prepare to take damage.... :-)

I love this book. However, in the first edition of this same title, the characteristics of each number are listed, both positive and negative. This book would be better if it also had lists. A friend of mine has the first edition, which I was unable to get as it's out of print.

This is the first numerology book I've purchased and it was very useful! It is very easy reading (hence the title "the IDIOT's guide . . . ") and I was able to get a lot of information on different areas of my life. I thoroughly enjoyed this book because it went in to a lot more detail than just a simple 2 sentence-long definition of each number. Instead, the book included references to the tarot, and how each number affects different parts of your life. There's a chart included in the back of the book for keywords about each number. If you are new to numerology like I am, I highly recommend this book. One more interesting note to point out before I end this, the book was dead-on about me and my numbers. My family, however, didn't experience the same thing. Some parts were "on" and some weren't. The book worked for me though so I really enjoyed it.

I really loved this book. It was fun,easy to understand. I read this book while on vacation, to Lake Tahoe and found, I just did not want to put it down. I now have a pretty good understanding of Numerology, and new insights. A must read book, great for the whole family... Also would make a great gift to your open-minded friend...

This book purports to trace its teachings back to Pythagoras -- without ever mentioning that the present English alphabet didn't exist in his time period. This books extends for 432 pages without ever mentioning the Hebrew/Chaldean system of numerology, which in my experience has more validity and just, basically, WORKS.