The Little Giant Encyclopedia
of Numerology
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Introduction:
How to Find Your Numbers

LIKE ASTROLOGY, NUMEROLOGY IS BASED on the rhythms of one's birth date, but includes in addition a study of one's name. Each letter of the alphabet has a matching number (from 1 to 9). Here is a table showing the number value of each letter.

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I
J	K	L	M	N	O	P	Q	R
S	T	U	V	W	X	Y	Z

Soul Urge
To find out how a person views life, we look at the number of his or her soul urge, which is found by adding up just the vowels of the name. The soul urge tells us the motives that lie behind one's acts. In your soul urge is revealed your heart's desire, your attitudes toward things and people, and what you consciously want out of life.

The Quiet Self
The sum of the consonants in a name is called the quiescent or quiet self. It tells of one's daydreams, one's fantasies, and what one is like when alone. It is you in a state of rest, devoid of ambition and aspiration. As soon as another person enters the room, you are no longer your quiescent self.

The Expression
The full name, including both vowels and consonants, is called the expression. It is the you that the world sees and judges. Its number tells how you characteristically express yourself. As the sum of all the letters in a name, the expression shows natural abilities and indicates the kinds of things you can do most easily.

Some things to remember:

Chapter 11:
The Numbers of Karma - 13, 14, 16, 19

In Chapter 5, you learned that the missing numbers in your name are called karmic lacks; that the absence of these numbers represents principles or experiences that you have avoided in former lives. These missing numbers represent your personal karma. In this chapter, we will look at the numbers of universal karma, i.e. 13, 14, 16, and 19. These numbers deal with universal principles and the misuse of those principles; they also relate to myths, archetypes from the collective unconscious, to race memories and experiences shared by all of us. Their origins date back to the dawn of civilization, mythology, and the Bible.

Historically, 13 also relates to the Middle Ages, 14 to the Age of Discovery and the Renaissance; 16 to the Age of Reason and Enlightenment, and 19 to the 19th and 20th centuries. Perhaps, some of us with a karmic number in our name or birth dates have had past life times related to these periods of time.

Whether or not we have these karmic numbers in our names or birth dates, all of us get to experience these numbers at ages 13, 14, 16, and 19. If you've ever wondered why adolescence is universally considered to be a painful period, it's because during that time we all have to deal with these 4 karmic numbers. People with 13 in their names or birth dates are apt to have difficulty in expressing their feelings, often keeping them deeply hidden - and this is true of most 13 year olds. Sexuality and freedom are concerns of the 14 year old and for those with 14 in their numberscopes; many people with 16 in their birth names or birth date experience difficulties with love - and that is also true for many adolescents who at age 16 experience their first romantic crushes and their first broken hearts; and coming to terms with one's own individuality, power, and upcoming place in the world is often the concern of the 19 year old. - and for people with 19 prominent in their names or birth dates.

It was St Augustine (born Nov 13 354 A.D.) who said that Time (or karma) as we know it began with the original sin and subsequent Fall of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden into the cycle of death and rebirth, in other words, the cycle of the four seasons, Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall. The reason why there are four karmic numbers is that there are 4 seasons; and the four seasons can be correlated with the numbers 13, 14, 16 and 19. In the words of the poet John Keats (13/4 expression), "There are four seasons in the mind of man" who has "his winter too of pale misfortune/ Or else he would forego his mortal nature."

13 is associated with the Death Card in the Tarot deck and wasting time when we should be working; 14 means misuse of freedom and sex in a former lifetime with a likelihood of accidents and/or sexual indiscretions; 16 means crucifixion of the self on the cross of love due to a past life time of illicit love; and 19, a misuse of power in a former lifetime. If you have one of these numbers in your name or birth date, you'll be put into similar situations that you experienced in former lifetimes with the chance to do it right this time around.

Karma, though, deals with principles and not events. If something bad happens to you, it's not because of your karma; rather, it's because you misused the principle(s) associated with that karmic number. Karma is not Mosaic Law; it is not tit for tat, or "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth; it is not cosmic revenge. People with karmic numbers have the karma of doing something with their lives to correct the misuse of the principles associated with that number.

Here's an example of a person who turned a negative (i.e. karma) into a positive. Abraham Lincoln was born with a 14 life path and the karma of misuse of freedom in a former lifetime. In his lifetime, though, he freed the slaves. In other words, karma for him became a mandate to correct a misuse of freedom. The writer Erich Segal was born on June 16th, a day associated with misuse of the universal principle of love. He wrote the best seller Love Story. Karen Silkwood, who was born on February 19, the number of misuse of power in a former lifetime, was the whistleblower who exposed her company's dangerous misuse of plutonium.

Though we do not have full access to the origins of numerology, and its karmic side for the most part remains occulted, in the examples of contemporary writers, poets, and statesman, et. al., who have dealt with these numbers, we have the legacy of how a modern person in a modern civilization has dealt with the ancient truth of karma.

It may be hard for us, divorced as we are from the spirit that informed many of our traditions with the truth of their meanings, to understand such concepts as death and rebirth, karma, and reincarnation. However, our Lincolns, our Freuds, and Hemingways in their lives and works have, so to speak, updated karma, and have not only shown us how they personally have dealt with karma, but also have given us insights into the universal meanings of 13, 14, 16, and 19.

For those of you who don't believe in karma, suffice it to say, the fact remains that these four numbers are difficult and that we can learn how best to handle them from those who have already done so.

Crucifixion of the Self on the Cross of Love

Because it is bitter and because it is my heart.
- Steven Crane, 16 soul urge

Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Scarlet Letter
The writer Nathaniel Hawthorne's birth name was spelled Nathaniel Hathorne, which adds up to an 11 expression. When he began his writing career he added a W to his name, i.e. a 5, and became a person with a 16 expression. Though he would always retain the inventiveness and genius of his number 11 birthright, his writings reflect the themes of the number 16. Of especial note is his The Scarlet Letter, which deals with the themes of adultery and ostracism (7) of the self (1) from the community (6) Could we not say that with an 11 expression, Hawthorne became a channel, a medium for voices from higher planes to get across the meanings of 16 to humanity, for 16 is the number associated with illegitimate love in a former lifetime - with adultery?!

In the novel, Hester, a mother with an illegitimate child, is sentenced to wear a scarlet A, signifying Adulteress, as a token of her sin. The community shuns her, but during her period of ostracism, she develops sympathy for other unfortunates, and her works of mercy gradually win her the respect of her neighbors. Here we have a moral tale of sin and redemption, or as the great numerologist Florence Campbell might have put it, 16 equals crucifixion of the self (1) on the cross of love (6) in order to attain a more spiritual (7) approach to life.

Katharine Hepburn, Judy Garland, A.E. Houseman
To be in love with someone who isn't free (actress Katharine Houghton Hepburn, born May 12, 1907, with a 16 life path, in love with the married Spencer Tracy) or who is unable to reciprocate your love (singer Judy Garland, birth name Frances Ethel Gumm, 16 quiet self, in love with gay actor Mark Herron) is the sometimes fate of those with 16 prominent in their names or birth dates.

The British poet A. E. Houseman was born March 26, 1889, with a 16 life path. While a student at Oxford, he developed a homoerotic attachment for Moses Jackson, who was his roommate, but who did not reciprocate his feelings. Houseman, though, never fell out of love with Jackson and often told him that he was the reason he wrote poetry. They remained lifetime friends, but never was their relationship consummated.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Princess Di and Arthur Miller
16 in its simplest meaning is a broken heart, such as that experienced on more than one occasion by writer Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (16 soul urge) in his marriage with zany Zelda Sayre, or that experienced by playwright Arthur Miller (10/ 17/1915 = 16 life path) in his relationship with Marilyn Monroe (6/1/1926), herself born with a 16 life path. And could we not say that Princess Di (Diana Frances Spencer) with her 16 life path (7/1/1961) also was crucified on the cross of love?

If there truly is a karma associated with 16, can we not say that Judy Garland in her heartfelt singing (Over the Rainbow et.al.), Princess Di with her humanitarian work, F. Scott Fitzgerald (see his The Crack-up, Tender is the Night), and Arthur Miller (see The Crucible) in their writings have so to speak paid back their karma by giving us a better understanding of the principles associated with the number 16.

Ingrid Bergman
In any case, for some 16s, illegitimate love with a subsequent moral outcry from the community was a very real thing for them to cope with in their lives and not merely the stuff of fiction. Witness the example of legendary screen actress Ingrid Bergman (16 quiet self) who left her husband and child to have an adulterous affair with Italian filmmaker Roberto Rossellini in 1949. Keep in mind that Ingrid had played the role of a nun in the film The Bells of Saint Mary's in 1945, and that of a saint in Joan of Arc in 1948. From saint to sinner in the public's eyes, the scandal forced Ingrid to return to Europe, exiled from Hollywood. Not until her marriage to Rossellini ended in 1956 did Ingrid return to the United States.

Charlie Chaplin
Another Hollywood legend who was exiled from the community for moral behavior that outraged the public, was film star Charlie Chaplin (born 4/16/1889). In 1918 he married 16-year old Mildred Harris, and in 1924 he wed another 16-year-old teenager, Lita Gray. Both marriages ended in divorce. His third marriage to actress Paulette Goddard was clouded by rumors that it had never been legalized. During World War II, he was suspected of communist leanings and in 1952 while he was in London, he was denied a re-entry visa to the U.S.A. Chaplin was literally exiled and moved to Switzerland. Not until 1972, twenty years later, was he allowed to return to the United States.

Oscar Wilde, Douglas Mac Arthur, and Richard Nixon
Crucifixion of the self on the cross of love and subsequent ostracism from the community was the fate of celebrated writer Oscar Wilde (born 10/16/1854) whose homosexual relationship with Lord Douglas led to his arrest and a prison term of two years of hard labor. Loss of name, power, and position is a sometimes fate for number 16s whose behaviors are at odds with the moral values of the community. That was certainly true in the case of Wilde, who upon his release from prison, was bankrupt, and went into self-imposed exile to France. Sometimes, it is pride that can lead to a loss of power and position, as in the case of Douglas Mac Arthur (16 letters in his name) who was relieved of his command by Harry S. Truman in 1952. And then there is Watergate. US President Richard Milhous Nixon was born with a 16 soul urge and the Watergate break-in lead to his subsequent resignation and ostracism.

Salman Rushdie
Not all cases of exile from the community and the number 16 relate to politics and illegitimate love. The Anglo-Indian novelist, Ahmed Salman Rushdie (16 soul urge) was condemned to death by leading Iranian Muslim clerics in 1989 for allegedly blaspheming Islam in his novel The Satanic Verses. Rushdie went into hiding under the protection of Scotland Yard, not to surface publicly again until 1998, the year the Iranian government announced it would no longer seek to enforce its decree against Rushdie.

16 and Religion

Emily Dickinson and Gerard Manley Hopkins
People with 16 prominent in their names or birth dates tend to be either very spiritual or agnostic, and possibly atheistic. This faith or lack of faith may relate to a past lifetime in which there was either a positive or negative religious experience. Some people with 16 in this life time have their quarrels with God (Emily Elizabeth Dickinson, poet, 16 expression) and their dark nights of the soul [Gerard Manley Hopkins, poet, 16 soul urge, ["Of now done darkness I wretch lay wrestling with (my God!), my God."]

Mother Teresa and Mother Seton
16 as an expression for Mother Teresa (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu) became a life dedicated to community service, to help those isolated from the community either through poverty or sickness. And America's first saint, Mother Seton (Elizabeth Ann Bayley), also with a 16 expression, experienced loss of name, power, and position when her husband went bankrupt and soon after died. She was born in an aristocratic family, yet she devoted her time to helping those in need. Subsequently, she founded the Sisters of Charity. Her original group consisted of 16 people.

Atheism and Agnosticism
Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist (born May 4 1825) had a 16 soul urge, a 16 expression, and a 16 life path. He is best known for two things (1) as a promoter of Darwin's theory of evolution; (2) as a coiner of the word "agnostic" (note the soul urge of the word agnostic adds up to 16). Robert Green Ingersoll, American politician and orator, (8/11/1833) with a 16 life path was known as "the great agnostic". Katharine Hepburn, with a 16 life path (5/12/1907) was not a person to mince words. She once said, "I'm an atheist, and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for each other". Here, we have atheism mixed with compassion.

But what are we to make of Madonna, born on August 16, 1958? The crucifix-against-the-crotch imagery that accompanied the video of the song Like a Virgin seemed to be blasphemous to some people; yet subsequent recordings have spiritual references. Is she another 16 who was crucified on the cross of love, only to subsequently obtain a more spiritual approach to life? Did the material girl become a spiritual girl?

Alcoholism and Drug Dependency

Isolation from the community for some 16s occurs through the misuse of alcohol and drugs. However, just as people from all walks of life may become dependent on drugs or alcohol, people with any number can become addicts.

However, when a 16 abuses drug or alcohol, there are often tragic consequences. Listed below are the names of some prominent and beloved celebrities with 16 prominent in their numberscopes who experienced problems with drugs or alcohol.

Alcoholics Anonymous
William Griffith Wilson (soul urge 16) had a recurring problem with alcohol abuse. However, while incarcerated for the fourth time at Manhattan's Towns Hospital in 1934, Wilson experienced a flash of white light, a liberating awareness of God - that led to his recovery and subsequently to the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous and Wilson's revolutionary 12-step program.

Five sober months later, Wilson went to Akron, Ohio, on business. The deal fell through, and he almost relapsed. He wanted a drink and stood for a while outside of the bar at the Mayflower Hotel. Suddenly, he became convinced that by helping another alcoholic, he could save himself. After a series of desperate telephone calls, he found Dr. Robert Smith, an alcoholic whose family persuaded him to give Wilson 15 minutes. Their meeting lasted for hours. (This was the first ever A.A. meeting.) A month later, Dr. Bob Smith had his last drink, and that date, June 10, 1935, is the official birth date of A.A., a day which adds up to the number 16. Today more than 2 million A.A. members in 150 countries hold meetings in church basements, hospital conference rooms and school gyms.

Betty Ford
When President Richard Nixon resigned in 1974, Betty Ford (Elizabeth Anne Bloomer), who was born with a 16 soul urge, became the nation's First Lady. Shortly thereafter she was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent a mastectomy. Suffering from a pinch nerve and the after effects of her illness, Ford became so hooked on painkilling drugs and alcohol that in 1978 she entered a hospital to kick the habits. Inspired by the experience, in 1982 she founded the Betty Ford Center for Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation in Rancho Mirage, CA. The center was one of America's first prominent centers devoted solely to such recovery, and today, it is regarded as the premier treatment facility in the nation.

Betty continues to be active in her efforts to cure and treat alcoholism and is a shining example of a person who uses her 16 to good use.

Conformity vs. the Need to Be An Individual

Sinclair Lewis and Arthur Miller
The Nobel Prize winning author (Harry) Sinclair Lewis was an alcoholic and he was also crucified on the cross of love with two marriages that ended in divorce. Like many people with 16 prominent in their name or birth date, he (1) was a top-notch critic (7) of society (6) and its values; his novels give us important insights about the nature of 16, the number of his expression.

For some 16s, the 6 in 16 becomes all-powerful, resulting in individuals (1) who, in the process of subscribing to society's conventions (6), become spiritually and intellectually impoverished (7). This was the subject matter of Sinclair Lewis' first successful novel Main Street. His next novel, Babbitt (1922), is a portrait of an average American businessman, a Republican and a Rotarian, whose individuality (1) has been erased by conformist (6) values.

Arthur Miller's (16 expression) Death of a Salesman is the tragic (7) story of Willy Loman, an ordinary man (1) who is destroyed by his false values, which are in large part the values of his society (6). One must have the courage to follow the dictates of one's own conscience (7) despite society's (6) pressures to conform (6) and this is the subject matter of many other works by Miller.

16 and Ethics

Sinclair Lewis' satirical novel Elmer Gantry was written in 1926. It was later made into a film in 1960, with Burt Lancaster (whose first name adds up to 16) receiving an Oscar for his portrayal of a con-man preacher who's a liar, a womanizer, a hypocrite, a boozer, and a seducer, Elmer Gantry chronicles the rise and fall of this Pentecostal evangelist who reaches the heights of his profession only to experience a subsequent fall, triggered, in part, by pride and sexual indiscretions. In this novel, Lewis skewers evangelists who abuse their ministry for materialistic ends.

Perhaps, if ex-Reverend televangelist Jim Bakker, with 16 letters in his birth name, (James Orsen Bakker) had read this book, he would have learned from his fictional counterpart the folly of tempting fate with reckless improprieties - and he wouldn't have lost everything - his job, his fortune, his wife, his reputation, his freedom, and his self-respect.

The same can be said of another defrocked televangelist, Jimmy Lee Swaggart (with a 16 life path and 16 letters in his name). His downfall came in 1988, a year after Jim Bakker lost his ministry and fell from power due to his affair with his secretary Jessica Hahn and the subsequent disclosure that he had bilked his supporters out of $158 million dollars.

In Swaggart's case, photos taken of him with a Louisiana hooker spelled the beginning of the end. He was asked by his superiors to stay off of TV for a period of two years. When he refused and stated with overbearing pride that his TV ministry couldn't survive without him, the church that had ordained him defrocked him.

The number 16 seems to be ever present at significant junctures in Jim Bakker's life. The sexual rendezvous with Jessica Hahn on December 5, 1980 occurred in hotel room 538, which adds up to 16. Jessica received hush money to keep silent about their tryst and she ended up with $265,000. Part of that money was paid by the PTL, whose board members agreed to pay her $115,000 on 2/27/1985, a day that adds up to 16. It took the US government 16 months to complete its investigation of this case and Jim Bakker was subsequently indicted with the charge of fraud on 12/5/1988, a day that adds up to 16. Jim Bakker began his prison term on 10/24/1989, another day that adds up to 16. He did not serve out his 45-year sentence but was paroled in 1994.

But the saga of Jim Baker and 16 continues. In 2003, nearly 165,000 people who sued Jim Baker in a class action suit 16 years earlier received $6.54 each. The money came from $3.7 million placed in a settlement fund by former PTL accountants.

Jim Bakker returned to Christian Television with The New Jim Bakker Show, which broadcasts from Bronson, Missouri and made its debut on 1/2/2003, exactly 16 years to the day of his last broadcast of the PTL Club on 1/2/1987. It now airs on more than 32 stations in 20 states, as well as more than 200 cable stations - and it is also broadcast via satellite in 93 countries.

16 and the 16th Tarot Card: The Tower

Insights into the meaning of the number 16 can be gained by a look at the 16th Tarot Card, sometimes called "The Tower". Depicted on the card is a lightening-struck tower, with a man and a woman with a crown on her head falling headfirst from the top of the tower. These falling figures represent the "loss of name, power, and position" that can suddenly occur to individuals who misuse the principles of 16.

There is also a large crown knocked from the tower by the lightening flash. The crown represents the mistaken notion that matter and form are the ruling principles of existence. As Florence Campbell has noted, only the power of the spirit can keep the tower from falling.

O'Henry, Clifford Irving, and Martha Stewart
All people with 16 in their names or birth dates must strictly adhere to the straight and narrow in their business dealings. Unethical behavior leads to strict retribution in the guise of loss of name, power, and position. The writer O'Henry with 16 letters in his birth name (William Sydney Porter) perfected his writing talents while serving time in prison for embezzling funds. Another writer, Clifford Irving (Henry Dieter Irving), with 16 as his quiet self, also was sentenced to jail for his fraudulent biography of billionaire Howard Hughes.

Even the hint of scandal can prove deleterious for 16s, as in the case of entrepreneur Martha Stewart whose birth name, Martha Helen Kostyra, adds up to 16. With an 8 soul urge and 8 life path (8/3/1941), she had created a billion dollar enterprise, yet she was forced to resign her position as head of her own company and experienced a subsequent loss of much of her fortune when she was accused of trading stock on the basis of insider information. She was sentenced to five months in prison for lying about the stock scandal on July 16, 2004.

© 2006 Daniel Heydon, All Rights Reserved

Excerpted with permission from The Little Giant Encyclopedia of Numerology by Daniel Heydon, published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc., (ISBN 080695485X). Available for purchase from www.amazon.com, or your local bookseller.