Chinese Numerology

Numerology has always been a field of interest for the people all over the world. Everyone is curious to find out what exactly their numbers mean? Numerology can be based on birth date numbers, number of characters in a person's name, or of both the partners in a relationship. Numerology is considered equally important as astrology and alchemy. Chinese numerology has been followed since a long time. Let us discuss more about it.

Chinese Numerology

There is a famous legend about the origin of Chinese numerology. It is believed that a Chinese emperor saw a tortoise shell with a perfect grid of 9 squares with markings on it. It was a magic square. As it was found on the Lo river, it is called as the Lo Shu Grid/Square. The numbers in the grid are such that their addition in vertical, horizontal or even diagonal manner sums up to 15. The number 15 is the span of days between a full moon day and a new moon day, and vice versa.

The Lo Shu Grid/Square

4	9	2
3	5	7
8	1	6

Lo Shu Grid is the base of Chinese numerology. You can calculate your personality traits and strengths with the help of this grid. Although it looks very complex on first sight, it is quite simple to calculate your personality traits. You just need your birth date, month and year for calculations. Every number is symbolic of certain human traits. Therefore, a person will possess the characteristics of the numbers that are present in his birth date.

The following chart will help you to understand the personality traits associated with each person. One must remember that the number zero is not used in Chinese numerology, only numbers from 1 - 9 are used.

Numbers	Once	Twice	Thrice	Four Times
1	Introvert	Communicative	Talkative	Compassionate
2	Sensitive	Bright	Very Sensitive	Loners
3	Excellent	Creative	Over imaginative	Over imaginative
4	Orderly and stable	Pragmatic	Hard working	More physical activity
5	Caring	Persistent	Determined	Instantaneous action
6	Good advisers	Originative	High tempered	Emotional
7	Learn through experience	Spiritual	Learn through loss	Difficulties in many fronts of life
8	Scrupulous	Adamant	Materialistic	Ceaselessly in motion
9	Intelligent	Critical	Givers	Brilliant but, loners

For eg, if the birth date of a person is 14-09-1988, he will possess qualities related to numbers 1 (twice), number 4, number 8 (twice), number 9 (twice). You can look in the above chart and find out many qualities of this person.

Chinese astrology explains 5 elements, viz, water, earth, wood, metal, and fire, that make up the universe. Each element is associated with a particular number and also its qualities. For eg, the qualities linked to every element are as follows:

Water (1)
Earth (2,5,8)
Wood (3,4)
Metal (6,7)
Fire (9)

Feng Shui and Chinese numerology are very much related to each other. Nowadays, people not only in China but all around the world are found to follow Feng Shui. People take numerology very seriously and follow it in every field possible. There are also certain superstitions about lucky and unlucky numbers. The number 4 is considered very unlucky whereas, 8 is a very lucky number. Hence, 8, 88, 888 and so on, are considered a lucky combination.

We see that one can tell a lot about another person's characteristics and qualities if you know his/her birth date. Chinese numerology will help you to get a proper perception of yourself as well as others.