Master Numbers in Numerology
The secret to staying young and being happy is loving what you do and loving the person you are with
- Gillian Lynne, Choreographer
When it comes to understanding the outer world we draw on the physical sciences such as physics and chemistry.
But to understand our inner world we can draw on the metaphysical sciences such as numerology and astrology.
Numerology offers a great depth of insight into human personality and determining our individuality.
Consider the experience of Gillian Lynne.
At school, she had a distinct lack of focus, constantly fidgeted and significantly underperformed.
Unable to sit still, she gained the nickname Wriggle Bottom. Gillian felt hopeless, her teachers were exasperated, and her mother was at the end of her tether. The condition of ADHD had not been born yet.
Concerned that something was amiss, her parents sought out the expertise of a doctor to help explain why she was languishing.
The doctor had the intuition that she was someone interested in movement rather than rote learning.
After Gillian’s mother outlined her daughter’s symptoms, the doctor asked Gillian to leave the room so he could speak to her mother privately.
He then turned on the radio and walked out.
“Look at your daughter,” he said as Gillian danced with abandon to the radio.
Rather than prescribe her ADHD medication or berate her for being a poor student, he suggested they enrol her in dance school.
“In dance school, everyone was like me! They needed to move to be able to think. It was wonderful!”
Just as a parent can be too close to their child to understand their deepest needs, so too can we be too familiar with ourselves to figure us out.
In addition to drawing on the expertise of psychologists and other specialists who can help us gain self-understanding, esoteric sciences such as numerology and astrology also offer insight into our unique makeup and the makeup of our loved ones.
Soul Blueprint
Born on the 20th of February, Gillian had a Pisces sun sign.
It is the zodiac sign that indicates a life where fulfilment is to be found through directing feelings into creative endeavours.
Art provides an outlet for their deep feelings.
While Pisces are gifted with creative intelligence, their challenges tend to revolve around being ungrounded and getting lost in their imagination or addictions.
Through pursuing her fascination for dance and theatre she was able to give expression to her astrological blueprint.
‘I lead with my heart and dream with my passion’ - Pisces sentiment
Master Numbers in Numerology
Your life path number is the sum of your date of birth digits reduced to a single digit.
The one exception to this is if your number adds to 11, 22 or 33.
These numbers are considered master numbers, just like musical notes have higher octaves of the same notes.
They can be thought of as an opportunity to get a PhD in life.
As such they tend to involve greater challenges.
Born on the 20th of February (2nd month) in the year of 1926, her numerology life path was that of a Numerology master number 22, or 22/4.
The numerology life path calculator is found simply by adding all the digits in your date of birth.
Looking at Gillian’s example 2 + 0 + 2 + 1 + 9 + 2 + 6 = 22.
In the case of Gillian, she lost her mother in a car accident at the fragile age of 13.
Dancing became a way for her to blot out the grief of losing her mother so young.
Gillian’s 22 life path number reduces to a 4 (2+2 = 4).
4 is regarded as the vibration of the builder.
They are hard-working, practical and physical.
Through their endurance, discipline and step by step processes, they often leave a legacy (Oprah Winfrey and the Dalai Lama both being examples of life path 4).
Having the master number 22/4 as her life path, Gillian incarnated with the potential of becoming a master builder.
#4 the Dedicated Worker
Let’s see how this played out in her life.
Her career began at the age of 16 when she took up ballet roles.
By the time she turned 20, she received her first major solo role in Sleeping Beauty, performed at the Royal Opera House.
In her mid 20s, she transitioned into dancing in theatre roles before being cast opposite Errol Flynn in the film, The Master of Ballantrae.
She worked in television as both a dancer and actress. Gillian also worked in numerous operas.
Later in life, she would produce an exercise video for people over 50 as well as her memoir, A Dancer In Wartime. Her career in entertainment continued well into her late eighties.
Gillian fulfilled both the potential of her artistic Pisces sun sign and her practical, master builder numerology life path number.
Everything holds an energetic frequency, including our names
Names in Numerology
If our date of birth produces our strongest influence in our numerology, then our name is a close second.
Our expression, or name number, can be found by adding the value of each letter relating to the numbers 1 through 9.
A=1, B=2 … H=8, I=9, J=1, K=2 etc.
The letters in her birth name, Gillian Barbara Pyrke add up to 92.
9 + 2 = 11 and as 11 is one of the master numbers, we don’t reduce it to a single digit.
Her name resonates as 11/2, a master artistic force with 1 being the energy of creativity & confidence.
The 1 archetype is a pioneer and inventor, while the 2 archetype loves to collaborate and bring people together.
It captures a person who has come to provoke people to think beyond the mundane day to day reality and contemplate the transcendent one. As Gillian once said:
“To me, a dancer’s life is an amalgam of three crucial elements: The impossible and the spiritual, all wrapped up with a ribbon of passion.”
Although a very talented dancer, Gillian achieved her greatest success in the theatre world, choreographing the dances for Lloyd-Webber's Cats and Phantom of the Opera.
They became two of the longest-running shows in Broadway history.
During her career, she worked on more than 60 shows in the West End and Broadway.
Working in numerous areas of entertainment Gillian was both prolific and gifted in a range of artistic endeavours.
Master Number 33/6 is the bridge builder
Master Number 33
The third master number in numerology is 33/6, considered the archetype of the master healer.
Like Gillian Lynne, Albert Einstein was also a Pisces.
Creativity is one face of the sign, spirituality the other.
With his 33/6 life path, Einstein went on to bridge what was regarded as the impassable divide between science and mysticism at the time.
Everything is named or numbered, but few people are conscious of the degree to which names and numbers influence their experience, progress & communication.
- Juno Jordan
Too often we struggle through life stuck in the wrong careers and with little clarity as to where we fit in life.
When we understand our numerological blueprint and learn what themes and lessons we’ve chosen to work on, then we are better positioned to flow with life rather than swim against the current.
As Parker J. Palmer pointed out:
Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am. I must listen for the truths and values at the heart of my own identity, not the standards by which I must live — but the standards by which I cannot help but live if I am living my own life.
Over my life I have explored an array of areas, mainstream and esoteric, to garner greater self-understanding.
In my experience, numerology has proved the most revealing.