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Common characteristics of the numbers
Within Numerology each number represents different qualities and characteristics. Their meanings for you can change throughout your lifetime. Your most important numbers in Numerology are the numbers that are in your name, and your date of birth. These hidden numbers will generally influence your character, behavior, strengths and weaknesses. 


It's important to understand that your personal characteristics and qualities do shift, fluctuate and change as you grow and mature. There will be occasions when you will express, experience and live out the positive or balanced characteristics that a number represents and there will be certain times that you will live out the negative or unbalanced characteristics. No number is necessarily bad and the qualities or characteristics that a number represents don’t have to be harmful, shameful or detrimental. They are simply symbols of potential behavior.



How you relate to a number and the qualities that any number represents depends on how aware and conscious that you are of your own life. For instance, you can be in a good mood one day, but be in a down mood the next. Yet, you might still be expressing similar personality traits. You might only be expressing yourself in a slightly more positive/balanced or negative/unbalanced manner. If you normally act reserved, then when you feel depressed you might withdraw and spend even more time alone. You might pull back from social contact. This might make you seem cool, aloof or isolated.



The chart below will help you to develop a general understanding of the particular qualities and characteristics that each number can represent. Each number is described with a balanced set of characteristics (which are on top) and an unbalanced set of characteristics (which are on the bottom). 

There are also examples of people that you might relate to you. These stereotypical people represent further characteristics that each number can represent. They can give you a deeper glimpse of what each number can symbolize.



This table will be important when you evaluate your Core Numbers or utilize any of the Numerological tools and methods. As an example, consider that if you had a Outer Number of 1 then that would indicate that you were seen by others as creative and artistic. It would also indicate that you had the potential to be seen as arrogant and conceited. The less that you live up to your full potential the more you tend to relate to the unbalanced characteristics that each number represents. 




Numbers are their characteristics


Number 1
able, artistic, autonomous, bold, charismatic, courageous, creative, determined, driven, dynamic, efficient, energetic, free, gifted, guided, hopeful, independent, individualistic, imaginative, ingenious, innovative, inspiring, motivated, original, productive, purposeful, self-sufficient, sovereign, strong, unconnected, unlocked, unrestricted

aloof, arrogant, barren, boasting, chaotic, cocky, co-dependent, conceited, craftsman, dogmatic, egotist, empty, fake, hopeless, hubris, lazy, lost, mired, narcissistic, needy, ostentatious, petty, pretender, pompous, random, rampant, rebel, slow, snooty, stuck-up, tired, uncontrolled, vainglorious, wild,

People: Business owner, Researcher, Actor, Inventor


Number 2
accommodating, agreeable, balanced, blending, builder, charitable, collaborative, communicative, compliant, connected, considerate, cooperative, diligent, friendly, harmonious, helpful, illustrating, insider, managing, meditating, partnerships, peaceful, political, reckoning, relationships, synergistic, willing

back stabbing, cagey, calculating, cold, controlling, cunning, deceitful, derelict, destructive, dictator, forgetful, hoarding, lax, silent, soft, fascist, manipulative, neglectful, opulence, raging, rationing, remiss, self-indulgent, severe strict, unavailable, uncaring, unfriendly, unwilling, violent

People: Counselor, Mediator, Translator, Teacher, Guide, Librarian, Reformer, Social worker


Number 3
abundant, amusing, appreciated, connected, convivial, creative, enjoyable, entertaining, friendly, fun, gleeful, gossiping, grateful, gregarious, happy, hospitality, inventive, innovative, , insider, knowledgeable, light, liked, mingling, mirthful, newsworthy, open, pleasant, pleasurable, plentiful, regaling, rewarding, rich, sharing, social, sparkling, talkative, treasured, wanted, warm, welcoming

academic, acidic, annoying, bookish, boorish, boring, biting, bitter, brutish, cheap, cipher, cloying, destroying, destructive, disruptive, diverting, dull, eccentric, elusive, frugal, hoarding, hidden, hoodlum, hostile, ignorant, insignificant, laggard, nebbish, noisy, rough, rowdy, ruffian, secretive, slow, upstart uninspired, waif

People: Wedding planner, Socialite, Networker, Gossip, DJ, Newswoman/man, Interior decorator, Chef, Host, Hostess


Number 4
able, adequate, competent, constructive, dedicated, determined, effective, experienced, honesty, honorable, laboring, marshalling, mature, modest, orderly, organized, patient, perfectionist, performing, persistence, planning, practical, prudent sincere, solidifying, structured, successful, systematic, unassuming, valued, worthy

careless, charlatan, childish, cold, degrading, dependent, dubious, excessive, false, greedy, helpless, hopeless, ignorant, inadequate, incompetent, lazy, liar, lost, lousy, meager, messy, needy oafish, prudish, quack, sloppy, slovenly, thieving, uneducated, uncaring, unkempt, unskilled, unsuitable, whining

People: Business owner, Family man or woman, Investor, Banker, Skilled professional


Number 5
adaptable, adjusting, bookish, brainy, challenging, changeable, compliant, curious, dynamic, educated, educator, flexible, inquisitive, insight, intellect, intuition, learning, mindful, movement, questioning, researcher, responsive, schooling, scientific, seeking, teachable, testing, thinking, trainable, traveling, willing, wondering

asinine, bellicose, bellowing, bigot, childlike, closed, constricted, dogmatic, fixed, dull, egotistical, empty, flighty, foolish, gullible, hermit, ignorant, imbecile, irrational, ixed, lighthearted, obnoxious, rejecting, restricted, scattered, shallow, silly, simple, slick, slimy, susceptible, unwise, verbose, witless

People: Teacher, Guidance counseler, Researcher, Scientist, Explorer, Author, Artist, Inventor


Number 6
altruistic, caretaker, caring, charitable, civil, comforting, compassionate, concerned, consoling, curing, dedicated, family based, focused, forgiving, friendly, giving, good, healing, hospitable, humane, humanitarian, kind, nurturing, parenting, peaceful, providing, sacrifice, soft, sympathetic, tender, warm

acidic, angry, bossy, carping, childish, closed, cold, critical, disconnected, diseased, dishonest, disloyal, disobedient, distrustful, distrusting, gall, glib, glutton, greedy, hard, hostile, hurtful, ill, immature, lacking, petty, rebellious, self-centered, selfish, shallow, unavailable, uncaring, unconcerned, unconscious, unemotional, wounding

People: Family man or woman, Nurse, Doctor, Healthcare provider, Religious person, Waiter, Waitress


Number 7
accountable, analytical, calm, cautious, cerebral, clarity, contemplative, deliberating, direction, focused, fruitful, goals, guidance, hope, hopeful, insight, introspective, meditative, orderly, patient, planning, prudent, reflective, relaxed, respectful, responsible, seeking, self-examining, speculative, strategy, thoughtful, timely, vision, wary, wisdom, wise

bitter, chatty, co-dependent, cold, critical, dangerous, delayed, doubting, fearful, gossiping, harsh, heedless, hopeless. hurried, inattentive, inconsiderate, lost, out-spoken, reproachful, rushed, self-absorbed, silly, tired, uncaring, unconscious, unkempt, wandering, wasteful, worried

People: Strategic planner, Project planner, Architect, Engineer, Scientist


Number 8
accomplished, assurance, athletic, authority, champion, commanding, complete, control, dependable, direction, experienced, expert, guidance, impeccable, investing, judging, leader, master, masterful, might, official, planning, power, powerful, professional, proficient, providing, self-assured, skilled, solid, truthful, whole, wisdom

angry, attacking, bitter, brutal, callous, controlling, cruel, dangerous, deceitful, destructive, draining, flawed, follower, frightening, greedy, guile, hardened, harsh, hopeless, malevolent, manipulative, nacissistic, parasitic, powerless, rebel, rough, ruthless, silly, simple, vile, wrong

People: Business owner, Athlete, Explorer, Researcher, Mentor, Craftsman, Warrior


Number 9
adept, caring, clarity, comforting, complete, completed, experience, finalized, focused, foresight, growth, guidance, healing, insight, instinctive, intuition, learned, learning, master, maturity, mystery, opportunity, patience, perceptive, profound, purpose, purposeful, reflective, serious, spiritual, vision, visionary, whole

absent, blind, brash, broken, charlatan, childish, critical, depressed, draining, dull, empty, failure, flippant, foolhardy, foolish, hollow, hurtful, ill, impatient, impulsive, incomplete, irrational, lost, nothing, stumbling, unhealthy, vacuous, wounded

People: Professor, Grandparent, Parent, Teacher, Mentor, Magician