Suggested Strategy For Starting Your Journey Into Numbers
It may seem a little presumptuous for an author to tell you how to read his or her book. If you feel that way, you have probably not gotten this far anyway. The text is diverse, and perhaps you may be uncertain about where to begin. This may seem particularly true if you are just starting to study numbers.
Possibly you are a little overwhelmed by cosmological theory and karmic accumulation. You may not know what a progressed chart is, and have never really considered letters to have symbolic importance. You are, however, interested in yourself and your immediate life. If so, I would suggest that you go to Chapter six on the Wisdom in Your Name. Very carefully follow the guideline for giving each letter a numerical value. After calculating the numbers, read your own personality number, then soul number, and then the integrated self. You can then go to the brief introductory descriptions for the single digit numbers 1-9.htm or if you find master numbers to the master numbers introduction page master-num.htm. There you will find an introductory description of the numbers. If you find this intriguing, you may want to purchase the full edition orderbooks.html. In addition, you may then want to look at the numbers of your spouse, friend, lover or relative.
It can be helpful to read the preface or author’s page so that you have an understanding of the author’s personal experience and approach to the subject. By now you have a little feeling for the subject matter and you are encouraged to follow your intuition as to what becomes your next priority. Best wishes for discovery and added growth.
If you already have your own terminology and technique, it is easy to just rush to the interpretations without looking at the manner in which the numbers were calculated. Almost every category of numerical calculation herein is a departure from the previous standards written in the nineteen thirties, seventies, and nineties, etc. I have, on several occasions, altered my own previous methods because new information coming in seems timely and appropriate for the moment and age in which we live.
You may choose to adapt the ideas presented herein. Whether you choose to implement them or not, be very careful to see how they have been calculated. That way you will not confuse them with previous methodologies. These interpretations have been aligned cosmologically, systematically, and humanly as best I understand these at this time. It is, of course, influenced by my human limitations (and subject to change upon enlightenment!).
You may feel at times the information for your chart does not seem accurate. All authors have a personal perspective and style of presentation. Perhaps my style simply does not resonate with your way of receiving. It is possible that you may not have thought about some of the information presented, making it entirely new to you. It is possible you have worked through the issues described. If you find yourself strongly rejecting the information that deals with negative issues and dysfunction, it is very likely you are in denial.
Although I have tried not to use formal psychological and diagnostic jargon, there are many occasions where I have presented specific toxic and dysfunctional descriptive phrases. You may want to discuss the issues with a trusted insightful friend or second party. Another suggestion would be to read the same information at a later date. Time tends to bring truth into light.
Having practiced for decades as a psychotherapist, I have naturally uncovered deeply repressed blocks and negative unconscious complexes. I have worked some of the insights for recognizing dysfunction into the interpretation of numerology hoping to awaken new seekers to the dark side of self. Once you recognize these, you have the possibility of working it out of your life. Until then you remain the victim of your own hidden nature. There are suggested strategies in the writing to give you guidelines for getting out of negative patterns (particularly in chapter fourteen).
Every family has dysfunction. Every human has some hidden issues to work through. I trust that with time you will appreciate the truth you find herein—the good, the bad, and the ugly.