Okay, so, I was messing around with this whole numerology thing, right? I got curious about this thing called the “Life Path Number” – sounds a bit new agey, but I was like, “why not?” I started by looking up what the heck it even means. Turns out, it’s all about finding a number based on your birth date that’s supposed to tell you about your personality and life journey. I read that it represents who you are at your core and the person you are meant to become. I followed this by calculating my number, which involves adding up all the digits in your full birth date until you get a single digit or a master number like 11, 22, or 33.
I’m born on March 15, 1985, so I added 3 (for March) + 1 + 5 (for the 15th) + 1 + 9 + 8 + 5 (for 1985). That gave me 32, and then 3 + 2 equals 5. So, my basic Life Path Number is 5, pretty straightforward. But then I saw something about adding your month and day numbers to the year number and then adding these sums together. I gave it a shot. March 15th is 3+1+5=9, and the year is 1+9+8+5=23. Then I added these sums together 9+23=32. Again, I reduce it to a single digit: 3+2=5. That seemed interesting because it matched my basic number, but then I did it a different way. I added the month and day sum, which is 9, to the full year 1985 to get 1994, then added those digits 1+9+9+4=23. When I added these digits, 2+3, I got 5 again.
Then I stumbled upon something about the number 38. It’s not one of the typical Life Path Numbers, but some folks talk about it. I wanted to see if there was another way to get to 38 from my birthdate. I played around with the numbers some more, this time adding the month and day sum, which is 9, to the reduced year number, which is 23 (from 1+9+8+5), giving me 32. Then I added the year number 23 to the month and day sum 9, and again got 32. I thought, “What if I combine these sums in a different way?” So, I multiplied the month and day sum 9 by the year sum 23, which gave me 207. Then, I added these digits 2+0+7=9, still not 38. But I wasn’t giving up.
I decided to add the month and day sum 9 to the full year 1985, getting 1994. Then I took this number and added it to the year sum 23, which gave me 2017. Adding those digits 2+0+1+7=10, and 1+0=1, still not there. I kept experimenting, trying different combinations, but 38 just wouldn’t show up directly from these calculations. I realized that the number 38 wasn’t popping up in my calculations, but that’s okay. This whole thing got me thinking about how numbers can be combined in so many ways, and how people find meaning in them.
I found out that 38 is supposed to represent a mix of creativity from the number 3 and leadership and ambition from the number 8. I guess in my case, the number 5 kept showing up, which is cool, but the whole 38 thing got me digging deeper. It is said the number 38 symbolizes creativity and abundance, which was interesting to learn. So, my Life Path Number might be 5, but this little adventure taught me that there’s more to these numbers than meets the eye, and sometimes you find interesting stuff even when you don’t get the exact number you’re looking for. It’s like a little puzzle, and I had fun trying to solve it, even though I didn’t find 38 in my numbers. It was more about the journey of playing with the numbers and seeing what I could come up with.
