Chaldean numerology
Chaldean numerology gives each letter a value from 1 to 8 based on its sound, leaving 9 unassigned. Popularised by Cheiro, it is the method most Indian numerologists use for name numbers and name correction.
Also known as: cheiro numerology
The system takes its name from the Chaldeans, the star-watchers of ancient Babylon. The letter table used today, though, was set out in the early twentieth century by writers such as Cheiro, whose Book of Numbers made it famous. In India it is the usual method for name numerology.
Letters are valued by sound rather than alphabetical order: A, I, J, Q and Y are 1; B, K and R are 2; C, G, L and S are 3; D, M and T are 4; E, H, N and X are 5; U, V and W are 6; O and Z are 7; F and P are 8. The number 9 is held sacred and given to no letter.
A name’s total is read twice: first as a compound number, the two-digit total that Cheiro gave its own meaning, then reduced to a single digit. ANIL, for example, is 1 + 5 + 1 + 3 = 10, a compound 10 that reduces to 1. Cheiro’s table runs from 10 to 52 and reads each compound as fortunate, mixed or a warning; a higher total is read by taking away 9 until it falls inside the table. The result is compared with your Moolank and Bhagyank.
The same name can give different numbers in different systems: ANIL is 9 in the Pythagorean table but 1 in the Chaldean. Neither is wrong, but mixing tables is the commonest reason two calculations disagree. Cheiro also held that the name you are actually known by is the one that counts.