Find Out How Your Name Can Help You Find Your Life’s Purpose
Your Destiny Number is found by adding all the numbers of your full birth-name. That’s the name you were given at birth, even if you don’t use it in full now.
So what is your Destiny Number?
It’s your core, what you’ve come here to do and what you may find difficult or a challenge in your life. That’s because your destiny is something to be learned.
This is the number that describes your purpose, goal, direction and the shape of challenges you have chosen to tackle in this life. Numerologists believe that the name given to you by your parents set up a vibration giving certain qualities to your journey through this life.
You can use other names like a nickname or shortened name, to find your Destiny Number, but these will act as overtones – not the real essence of your destiny.
Learning to express its attributes may not be easy, but it is your goal in the here and now. It’s your life’s purpose, spiritual mission, and your field of opportunity. Your Life Path Number is found by adding the day, month and year number of your birth. The Life Path number shows the qualities you are familiar and comfortable with and so more easily express. Your Destiny Number shows you what you can aspire to become.
Your Life Lesson Number describes the qualities you’ve come into this lifetime with and your natural tendencies, abilities and attitudes to the world – your line of least resistance if you like.
But your Destiny Number tells you about the qualities you have come here to develop so that you can more fully play your role on the stage of life.
To express your Destiny Number, you’ll use your Life Lesson Number as a kind of buoy, relying on it to shape your life and activities while you refine and learn to work with the qualities of your Destiny Number.
Other names
If you use a nickname, shortened name, married name, then this number is an overtone to your Destiny Number. If you think of names as a vibration then our whole, given name is the vibration that, over time imbues us with its quality.
Other names you vibrate to will also give you their quality, as a secondary effect, so you may have a trickier time, because you’ve got another and differrent quality of vibration impacting on your psyche.
Other numbers that affect you are your soul and personality numbers. Check this site soon for more on these.
Find your Destiny Number 
Here’s an example using the table below to de-code the letters of your whole name into numbers and then add them all together. Reduce them until they make a single digit. This is your Destiny Number.
Read the interpretation of the Destiny Number and think of it as the quality that must be developed, strengthened and trusted to help you work out the quality of your life’s purpose. Then think about how you can use your Life Lesson Number to work in with your Destiny Number so the two are cooperating to help you fulfill your purpose on earth.
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Jesse has a 7 Destiny Number
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Interpretation of your Destiny Number
1 – Your destiny is to lead the way.
You are here to learn about taking the initiative and showing others how you want things done. That means developing the qualities of leadership, trust in yourself and your judgment, working alone or being self-employed, and having integrity, knowing that with power, comes responsibility.
You would be a natural leader and well suited to management, politics, law, sales, or be an entrepreneur and own your own business. Your strength is your power for ideas, comprehending the big picture and empowering others. Your weakness is your procrastination.
Ruled by the Sun
2 – Your destiny is to be of service.
You are here to learn about cooperation and learning to be a mediator, ambassador and show the true meaning of love. You are developing tact, diplomacy and the ability to be a team player, working with others to achieve a goal.
You would be well suited working in the medical field, social work, charity or counseling. By developing your positive imagination you can be artistic, work in advertising, design, or caring occupations. You are the vital person behind the scenes, and the engine room of an organisation. An important learning lesson in this incarnation is to learn how to receive, on all levels, so you’re not always the one who is giving.
Ruled by Neptune.
3 – Your destiny is to be creative.
You are here to learn about self-expression and communication in any form – writing, speaking, painting – you name it. Making social contacts, networking, communication are qualities you are developing so that you can more freely express the real you.
You would be a journalist or author, lawyer, diplomat or travel agent. Anything where you can be with others, and find the joy in sharing and caring. Your lesson is learning how to channel your exuberance, creativity and busy mind so that you can ground your self-expression in something that’s worth while, bringing illumination, vision and joy to others.
Ruled by Jupiter
4 – Your destiny is to create stability.
You have the potential for material success but you are here to learn self-discipline first. If you are prepared to make long term goals and work at it, then you can create the security and stability that you yearn for.
You can attain material power and influence through your physical success if you learn the lessons of planning and endurance. You are here to build for others so use your innate understanding of how the physical world works to benefit humanity. Your great strength is in taking things all the way and you will keep working when others have given up. Politics, building, business, engineering and the finance field would be most suitable for you.
Ruled by Mars.
5 – Your destiny is to understand freedom.
You need to feel alive and excited and to achieve this you thrive on activity, adventure, change and socializing. You have the potential to overindulge in all these things and so your lesson is self-discipline – especially of your physical senses.
You are a communicator, journalist, broadcaster, writer and speaker, often with a quick wit. Your strength is in thriving on new experiences and being adaptable and versatile, but you may wear out your immune system and nerves with a hectic pace. So your challenge is to remember your body is a temple to be respected and nurtured so that it can provide you with a vehicle to understand what freedom really is.
Ruled by Mercury
6 – Your destiny is to express beauty.
You desire beauty and harmony in your life and strive to achieve it. This may be through art, a tranquil home, beautiful children, immaculate dressing or any creative activity.
It’s important to you to live by your values and express them by making your world a little better through art, caring for others, educating, feeding, counseling or nurturing others and your environment in some way. Your challenge is to work out what you really stand and then live life your way as you may have a tendency to compromise for the sake of apparent harmony and for fear of losing love – something you want but don’t always know how to handle when you have it.
Ruled by Venus.
7 – Your destiny is to find meaning.
You love to be alone in nature or a pleasant environment where you can use your wonderful mind to think. Deep and meaningful, inventive and eccentric, intuitive and spiritual – you are here to learn to understand things often too deep or uninteresting to others.
Your challenge is to teach others what you know and have discovered which takes discipline. You are learning to ground your mental meanderings and stop putting off those things related to living in the physical world. Remember that your body is also spiritual, as are your emotions, so trust your intuition and then walk your talk. Consultant, healer, doctor, analyst, intuitive and psychic are all areas in which you can make your mark.
Ruled by Uranus.
8 – Your destiny is to understand power
You are motivated by the drive for influence, money, financial security or what money can buy, and power. And you may have to work hard to achieve it, learning about the relationship between power and the responsibility entailed.
You can be the strength of any organization – yours or another’s – and your hunting ground is often business or some form of empire, big or small. Your challenge is to balance your ambition to organize, achieve recognition and success in the material world, with your personal relationships. Going all out in one direction is not the Noble Middle Way. Business owner, professional, publisher, financier, anything that’s to do with grounding your vision firmly in the world to influence and benefit others is your path.
Ruled by Saturn.
9 – Your destiny is to be humanitarian.
Your goal is to constantly transform yourself to become more like your idea of perfection. But not easily attained you can fall into the trap of being hypercritical – talking one thing and doing another. That’s because the gaps so big between who you want to be and who you are.
Your challenge is to learn compassion, empathy, and that we are all fallible but divine human beings. With perseverance and determination coupled with a good dose of reality checking, you are a humanitarian, philanthropist, teacher, healer, artist and philosopher. Whatever you are involved in, it’ll be for the benefit of others. But your challenge is to live and let live, allowing others to be themselves (requiring that you accept yourself as imperfect), and not try control for their own good.
Ruled by Pluto
For more information contact Caroline: caroline@creativechangemakers.com.au
Sources:
http://www.astrology-numerology.com/num-expression.html
Caroline Fisher©2009