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Like most stories, there are three great divisions in our lives. The First, or opening period, finds us groping to find our true nature. At the same time, we are trying to cope with the powerful forces that are present in our environment, our parents, and the socioeconomic conditions of our family, for example.

The second Cycle, or middle period of our lives, brings about the gradual emergence of our individual and creative talents. The initial part of this cycle, the early and mid-thirties, forties, and early fifties, see us with a greater degree of self-mastery and influence over the environment.

The Third and final Cycle represents a flowering of our inner being. Our true nature has come to fruition. It is during this period that one has the greatest degree of self-expression and personal power.

Your Period Cycles are based on the date of your birth. Each Period Cycle lasts approximately twenty-seven years, or three complete epicycles of nine years each. The exact age you make the transition from one Period Cycle to the next is determined by your Life Path, just like your Life Path is determined by your Period Cycle numbers.

Life Path number	End of First start of 2nd Cycle	End of 2nd start of 3rd Cycle
1	26-27	53-54
2 and 11	25-26	52-53
3	33-34	60-61
4 and 22	32-33	59-60
5	31-32	58-59
6 and 33	30-31	57-58
7	29-30	56-57
8	28-29	55-56
9	27-28	54-55

Notice that each Period Cycle consists of exactly 3 sets of nine-Personal Year cycles (each of which starts with a 1 Personal Year and ends with a 9 Personal Year), plus however many Personal Years are required to reach the first 1 Personal Year of that Period Cycle.

For example, with a 5 Life Path one's first Personal Year cycle at age 0, is also 5. (Your first Personal Year cycle is always the same as your Life Path number.)
In this example, the first 1 Personal Year Cycle comes exactly five years following the year of birth: the year this person turns 5.
Add to that three complete nine-year cycles (27 years), and the transition into this individual's Second Period Cycle will be at age (5 + 27) 31-32.
(Starting the year at age 31 and turning 32 during the course of that year.)

NOTE: The years you make your transition from one Period Cycle to the next, are always extremely important and quite often represent significant milestones in your life.

Your First Period Cycle is your month of birth. In the example of October 12, 1936, the 10 for October is reduced to 1.

Your Second Period Cycle is your day of birth reduced to a single-digit or until a Master number is encountered (remember: we don't reduce Master numbers). In our example the 12th day computes to a 3 Second Period Cycle.

Your Third Period Cycle is your year of birth reduced to a single-digit or until a Master number is encountered. In our example, 1936 reduces to 1.

Each of us is born with both strengths and weaknesses. Numerology looks at life as if it were an educational process that is meant to bring out and enhance our talents, and turn our weaknesses into strengths. This serves to complete our being.

There are four Challenges to be faced during our lives. For many of us, the same challenge is repeated, while others have four distinctly different lessons to learn.

The job of becoming whole is one in which you must face your weaknesses, and consciously work to improve yourself. The Challenges on your life path provide specific lessons that you must attend to, and, in order to inspire and help you, life will place you in situations that require the specific characteristics of your Challenge numbers.

The four Challenges you are required to overcome during the course of this lifetime will influence you during different periods of your life, except for the Third or Main Challenge, which lasts from birth until death.

The Challenges are fluid periods of your life, not confined to specific years so much as general periods. All of your Challenges are present at birth, like actors standing in the wings.

Your First Challenge moves to the foreground in the early part of your life, and often endures to early mid-life, by which time you will have overcome this obstacle.

Before you conclude your First Challenge, the Second Challenge will be influencing you. Your Second Challenge will be felt most intensely in the middle part of your life.

The Third or Main Challenge is unique. It will be felt during your entire life, and is more strongly felt than the other Challenges.

The Fourth and last Challenge begins in late mid-life, and endures throughout the rest of your life.

The Challenge number is one of the few areas of numerology in which subtraction is used. It is derived from your date of birth, using the month, the day, and the year, in that order. (The European style of using first the day, then the month, then the year should not be used.)

To find your Challenges, use the following formula. I will use an example to make the steps easier to understand.

NOTE: When calculating your Challenge Numbers, all Master Numbers are reduced to single digits.

In our example of October 12, 1936 we reduced each of these units (the month, the day, and the year) to single digits. Namely 1, 3, and 1.

To find the First Challenge we subtract the month of birth from the day of birth, or vice versa. In our example, we subtract 1 from 3 = 2

The Second Challenge results from subtracting the day of birth from the year of birth or vice versa.
In our example, we again deduct 1 from 3 = 2

The Third and main Challenge is found by subtracting the First and Second Challenge or vice versa.
In our example, 2 - 2 = 0

The Fourth Challenge is found by subtracting the month of birth from the year of birth or vice versa. In our example, we deduct 1 from 1, which again is 0.

The Pinnacles are four long-term cycles on our Life Path. They represent specific attributes that must be assimilated into your being. This process occurs by having to measure up to the demands and opportunities the Pinnacle presents to you. It forces you to deal with the qualities of that Pinnacle number. In the process, the Pinnacle shapes you.

The First Pinnacle lasts from birth until age thirty-six, minus your Life Path number. Each of the next two Pinnacles lasts nine years. The Fourth and last Pinnacle lasts for the remainder of your life.

A Pinnacle change always takes place during the 9 and the 1 Personal Years, which signify the end and the beginning of long-term cycles. While we go through numerous nine-year cycles, each one of which causes changes in the beginning and the end, the Pinnacle changes mark intense episodes of transformation in our personal lives.
Because we start out in one Pinnacle, everyone experiences only three Pinnacle changes during the course of a lifetime.

You can prepare yourself for the times ahead by knowing your approaching Pinnacle number, and the time these changes occur.

To find your First Pinnacle, add the numbers of your month and day of birth, arriving at a single-digit number. For example, if you were born on May 15, 1949, your First Pinnacle would be found by adding the 5 (for May) and the 6 (for the fifteenth) to arrive at 11. Master numbers encountered during the Pinnacle calculations are not reduced. Someone born on November 5 would add 11 (for November -- a Master number) and the 5 to get 16, which is 7.

To find your Second Pinnacle, add the day you were born to the year of your birth. Using May 15, 1949 again, add the 6 (for the fifteenth day) and the birth year 5 (for 1949) and arrive at another 11.

To find your Third Pinnacle, add the sum of the first and the second Pinnacles -- in our example, 11 plus 11 -- and arrive at 22. The 22 is a Master number and is therefore not reduced.

To find your Fourth and last Pinnacle, add your month and year of birth. Using the example, add 5 (for May) and 5 (for 1949) to arrive at 10, which reduces to 1.

Your Expression number reveals your physical and mental constitution, the orientation or goal of your life. Some numerologists refer to this number as the Destiny, because it represents a lifelong target at which you are aiming. You work at fulfilling this potential every day of your life. Thus, the Expression number reveals your inner goal, the person you aim to be.
Your Expression number also reveals your talents, abilities, characteristics and shortcomings. The extent to which you learn to use these abilities and to tap into your inner potential defines who you are.

To the numerologist, your individual talents and characteristics are presented by each letter in your name and its corresponding number. Like a mosaic, these combine to form a totality, a picture that reveals the real you. Your name at birth can be seen as a blueprint of your potential. The key word here is potential.

The Expression number is derived from your full name at birth, meaning your first, middle (if you have one), and last names. Typically, it is the name that appears on your birth certificate. Occasionally, there are questions about exactly what name is used. A few examples, and how to decide which name to use, are listed below. These examples also apply to the Heart's Desire and Personality numbers.

When clerical errors occur on a birth certificate, if the mistake is accepted by the parents, and form that point onward is the acknowledged name, this name on the birth certificate, with the spelling error, is used to find the Expression number.
If the mistake is not accepted by your parents, and you grow up using the original name given by your parents -- ignoring the clerical error -- that original name is used to provide the Expression number, as opposed to the name with the error that appears on your birth certificate.

If you have been adopted, and you have been provided a new name by your adopting parents, use the original name given to you before the adoption.
If you were adopted, and never knew you original name, use the name that is the earliest remembered. However, without the original name, a complete chart may not be possible.

Even if you have never used your original name, that name still represents the blueprint of your life, and is used to find the Expression number.

Names given at confirmation, by a spiritual teacher or guru, or at some other religious ceremony, are not used for the Expression number, but can be used additionally to give further insight into the personality. (See Minor Expression, Minor Heart's Desire later in this chapter.)

If you received more than one middle (or last) name at birth, use all the middle or last names. If there is a junior, senior, the third, et cetera in your name, always discard such additions. They are too general to bear any significance to your name.

The Individual letters of your name are all assigned a specific single-digit number.
Each letter is given a number according to the place it falls in the alphabet: The letter A, being the first letter, is a 1; the letter B is a 2; the C is a 3; D is 4; and so on. Letters that come after the I (the ninth letter of the alphabet) and have double-digits, such as M, the thirteenth letter, are reduced to single digit numbers in the same way as described earlier; that is, by adding the two digits. The letter M therefore becomes a 4.

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

To find your Expression number, write out your full name, and place the appropriate numerical value beneath each letter. Add the numbers of your first name, and then reduce it to a single digit. Do the same for your middle and last names. Now, add the three single-digit numbers, and reduce them to another single-digit number to find your Expression number. If at any time you encounter a Master number, 11, 22 or 33, do not reduce it to a single-digit number.

For more about the Expression number, see: "Do Your Own Reading" - The Expression number.

The vowels are A, E, I, O, and U. All other letters are consonants, except, in some cases, the letter Y.

The letter Y is inherently vacillating in its nature and usage, and consequently is sometimes a vowel, sometimes a consonant, depending upon how it is used in the name.

When determining if the Y is a vowel or a consonant, the basic rule is this:
When the letter serves as a vowel, and in fact sounds like one, it is a vowel. The same is true when the Y serves as the only vowel in the syllable.

Examples of both of these cases are such names as Lynn, Yvonne, Mary, Betty, Ely, and Bryan.

However, if the Y does not provide a separate vowel sound, as when it is coupled with another vowel, it is considered a consonant. In names such as Maloney or Murray, the Y is a consonant, because the vowel sound depends upon the long E in Maloney and the long A in Murray.

In general, the Y is a consonant when the syllable already has a vowel. Also, the Y is considered a consonant when it is used in the place of the soft J sound, as in the name Yolanda or Yoda.

In the names Bryan and Wyatt, the Y is a vowel, because it provides the only vowel sound for the first syllable of both names. For both of these names, the letter A is part of the second syllable, and therefore does not influence the nature of the Y.

The Heart's Desire number is found as follows:
Add only the vowels of each name and reduce to a single-digit.
Next, add the resulting single digits and reduce the result again to a single-digit.

Your Personality number is derived from the consonants of your full name at birth. Your Personality is like a narrow entrance hall to the great room that is your true nature. It is those aspects that you feel comfortable sharing with people at the outset of a relationship. With time and trust, you invite others into the deeper aspects of your nature; you reveal more of who you really are, in effect, your Heart's Desire, Expression, and so on.

Your Personality number often serves as a censoring device, both in terms of what you send out, as well as what you allow to approach. It discriminates in the kinds of people and information you let enter your heart and mind. For this reason, your Personality is usually much more narrow and protective in its definition than the real you. It can screen out some of what you do not want to deal with -- people or situations -- but it also welcomes those things that immediately relate to your inner nature.

Fortunately or unfortunately, this narrow entrance is the first impression people get of you. It either welcomes and intrigues them, or it causes them to lose interest.

Add only the consonants of each name and reduce to a single-digit.

Next, add the resulting numbers and reduce to a single-digit.

THE PERIOD CYCLES; long-term cycles in numerology.