The Life Path number is a key to understanding your life’s purpose, innate tendencies and talents, and the obstacles you’ll face as you continue to master the lessons to be learned in your life. The Life Path number indicates the primary mission in life—it outlines what you’re learning, mastering, and evolving into. So while you will have innate gifts and talents in this particular arena, you will also have more distinct or heightened obstacles in getting there.

It is comparable to the Sun Sign in Astrology.

So how do you calculate the Life Path number?

Let’s use Jim Carrey as an example.

His birthday is January 17, 1962  

To calculate the Life Path number, you simply add the MONTH + DAY + YEAR

Remember:  You always reduce to a one-digit number (unless you get an 11, 22, or 33 – these are Master numbers and therefore aren’t reduced).

Month is January = 1 (because it is the 1st month of the year)

Day is 17 | 1 + 7 = 8

Year is 1962 = 1 + 9 + 6 + 2 = 18 and 1 + 8= 9

Now add together:

1 + 8 + 9 = 18

Keep adding:  1 + 8 = 9

Jim Carrey has a 9 Life Path.

Do you know anyone who has a 9 Life Path?

The 9 Life Path is the embodiment of unconditional love, compassion, and humanitarianism. In numerology, the 9 contains all of the potentials and all of the challenges of all the numbers 1-8. The wise old soul, the 9 Life Path is charisma personified. The 9 is all about completions, letting go, and embodying the freedom of impermanence. Highly creative, the 9 Life Path is here to both give and receive love and to live with – and from – the heart.

Also keep in mind that we’re all challenged with the opposing forces to our life’s mission in some way, shape, or form.  Misalignment for the 9 Life Path can present as under-active (selfish and materialistic, for example) or over-active (bitter and reclusive, for instance). 

3 Reasons Why Everyone Needs A 9 Life Path In Their Life

1.  When the 9 Life Path is in their groove, they are the kindest and most generous people on the planet. These people will give you the shirt off of their back, so to speak. If you want a person whose GENEROSITY of spirit will blow you away, hang out with a 9!

2.  The 9 Life Path is QUIRKY AND CREATIVE in their own unique way. Even the most “traditional” 9 Life Path strays from the norm and infuses their sense of compassion into their interactions.

3.  If you want a friend or partner who is COMPASSIONATE, the 9 Life Path has a big heart. This person is a giver and has an innate desire to make the world a better, kinder, and nicer place to live.