Life Path number
Your Life Path number is the main number in Western numerology, found by reducing your full date of birth to a single digit or a master number (11, 22 or 33). It describes the broad direction and lessons of your life.
Also known as: birth path number, lifepath number, lp number
The Life Path is the number most numerologists start with. It comes from your complete date of birth, so it never changes, and it is read as the overall theme of your life: the strengths you grow into and the lessons that keep returning.
To work it out, reduce the month, the day and the year separately, then add the three and reduce again. For 14 August 1990, the month is 8, the day 14 becomes 5, and 1990 becomes 1 + 9 + 9 + 0 = 19, then 10, then 1. So 8 + 5 + 1 = 14, and 1 + 4 = 5. If 11, 22 or 33 appears along the way, it is kept as a master number.
People use the Life Path to understand their natural style at work and in relationships, and to compare numbers within a family. The Destiny, Soul Urge and Personality numbers, taken from your name, then add detail to this broad outline.
Different books and calculators sometimes disagree. Some add every digit in one long string; others reduce month, day and year first. The single digit is the same either way, but a master number can show up in one method and not the other. The Indian Bhagyank uses the same digits and always reduces to 1–9.