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People experience different internal responses to life's challenges. Some withdraw from difficult situations to think them through; others withdraw from their emotions, to try and keep themselves from feeling anything. Some explode with emotions, but allow the explosion to pass quickly. Others linger with their feelings, holding on to them well past the time they should have let them go.

Often, these are conditioned or emotional responses that emerge without thought or analysis. We have been influenced to respond in this way. Maturity and self-development help us to learn new and more effective methods of handling our world and the problems we confront. Your Balance number provides you with the guidance on how best to deal with difficult or threatening situations.

The Balance number is found by adding the numerical value of the initials of the full name at birth and reducing it to a single-digit or until a Master number is encountered.
Example: In John Peter Hancock, the initials of J, P, and H, translate to 1, 7, and 8, which add to 16, which adds to 7 (the 16 being a Karmic Debt number, is written as 16/7).

Your Maturity number indicates an underlying wish or desire that gradually surfaces around age thirty to thirty-five. This underlying goal begins to emerge as you gain a better understanding of yourself. With self-knowledge comes a greater awareness of who you are, what your true goals in life are, and what direction you want to set for your life. This, in a nutshell, is the gift of maturity: You no longer waste time and energy on things that are not within your own special identity.

No matter what your age is at present, you life is being channeled in a specific direction, toward a very specific goal. That goal can be seen as a reward or the fulfillment of a promise that is implicit in your current efforts, often without your knowing it consciously. While the characteristics of this number are usually visible during childhood, we tend to lose sight of these aspects until later in life. But our lives are always being affected by this influence, nonetheless.

Your Maturity number begins to have a more profound impact on your life after the age of 35. The influence of the number increases steadily as you grow older.

The Maturity number is the sum of the Life Path and the Expression number reduced to a single-digit or a Master number.

The Minor Expression number is based on the current (or short) name, the name you now use to introduce yourself including your last name.

The influence of the short name is minor in comparison to your full name. Interestingly, the short name often compensates in some way for numbers (and their related characteristics) that are missing or out of balance in the full name.

For instance, a number missing in the full name may show up prominently in the short name; or a number (or numbers) that appears in excess in the full name can be compensated for in the short name. If a name change takes place later in life through marriage or for professional reasons, it adds or subtracts certain qualities. It can also focus and intensify existing characteristics or talents that may be latent.

As a rule, I recommend that you don't change your name on impulse. Marriage, of course, does not leave much room for choice, although more and more women are hyphenating their names or staying with their maiden names. However, if you must change your name (for professional reasons, for example), try to choose a name already in your family, and thus connected to you through your ancestors. Those characteristics are already present in your lineage, which makes the new name easier to assimilate into your personality.

To find your Minor Expression number, use the same formula used to find the Expression number, but apply this formula to the name you now use to introduce yourself, including your last name.

The Minor Heart's Desire number is derived from the vowels of your short name. The short name is a refinement of the more complex qualities of your longer name (the full name at birth). It sharpens and bundles the energies that are reflected by your full name. It intensifies certain aspects of your being , and de-emphasizes others. For this reason, the short name often provides insight into what you truly want in life. It also often reveals the extent of your understanding of what you want from this life. It reveals both your strong desires, and the limits you place upon your potential.

To find your Minor Heart's Desire number, add the sum total of the vowels of your short or current name in the same manner as that described under Heart's Desire.

The Minor Personality number is based on the consonants of your short or current name, and it gives additional information about how you present yourself to the outer world. This number reveals in particular those aspects of your personality that your are, or have become, most comfortable with.

A name change that occurs later in life, such as through marriage or for professional reasons, can have a significant impact on your approach and your attitude in dealing with others, and this is reflected in your Minor Personality number. For this reason, name changes should be considered carefully, perhaps with the guidance of a numerologist. With a marriage, for instance, a hyphenated name is suggested, to add traits without changing your attitude entirely.

To find your Minor Personality number, add the numerical value of the consonants of your short name, and reduce to a single digit, just like you did for the Personality number.

So far, we have talked about the strongest, and usually the most obvious, aspects of a person's character. But now we enter into the more hidden realms, where people are driven by desires or ambitions that even they may not be aware of. In order to become free human beings, we must make these subtle, unconscious traits conscious. We must become aware of ourselves in our deepest recesses in order to take control of our lives. Otherwise, we are slaves to our unconscious desires.

Numerology is based on the understanding that we enter life with certain strengths and weaknesses. Karmic Lessons are areas that we are currently weak in, and that we must face and work on in this life. There can be more than one Karmic Lesson.

As we have already seen, each letter in your name corresponds to a specific number. Certain numbers repeat within your name, while others may be missing. Karmic Lessons are indicated when one or more of the nine single-digit numbers are missing in your name. A Karmic Strength is suggested when a number is represented two or more times (See Hidden Passion)

The letters and numbers of your name point to talents and abilities that you possess. These characteristics can be compared to a workshop in which certain tools are available to you. Missing numbers, those that are not represented in the letters of your name, imply tools that are unavailable, and that must be learned and mastered during this lifetime.

For people with three or more numbers missing, it is supremely important to focus on your career and talents, and to persevere in the face of any difficulty or obstacle. The kind of keyhole energy suggested by such a name gives you the ability to achieve great success in a specific part of life; but before such a success can be achieved, adversity must be overcome. Perseverance, therefore, becomes the key to happiness.

The Karmic Lessons are found by finding which numbers are missing among the letters in the full name at birth. You can have none, one, or several Karmic Lessons.

For example, in the name Thomas John Hancock, we find the following numbers to be present:

T	H	O	M	A	S	.	J	O	H	N	.	H	A	N	C	O	C	K
2	8	6	4	1	1	.	1	6	8	5	.	8	1	5	3	6	3	2

We find all numbers represented except the 7 and 9, which are missing. Therefore, Thomas has two Karmic Lessons: 7 and 9.

As I mentioned in the text on Karmic Lessons, numbers that appear several times in your name represent a particular strength or ability. The number that is most often repeated in your name represents your specific field of expertise, or a concentrated talent.

Metaphorically, this talent can be seen as having a power all its own to shape your life. Its existence gives you a strong desire to develop and to express that particular ability. Having the talent demands that you express it, that you experience this part of you, and that you live according to its nature. In this way, the Hidden Passion shapes your personality, and guides your life.

In our example above of Thomas John Hancock, you will notice that the number 1 is represented more often than any other number in Thomas name. His Hidden Passion therefore is 1.

The Balance number and other aspects of the Numerology chart.