The Name Number
The Name Number, depending on which numerologist you consult, is also known as the Expression Number or the Environmental Influence Number. Your birth number is the path you are destined to follow in this life. Your name number describes how you are going to interact with your environment along the way. Late numerologist Matthew Goodwin see the name number as how you express yourself to others; more like a personality number. Numerologist Nick Newmont calls it the Environmental Influence Number because the numerical influences behind your name are subconsciously going to affect how people in your environment react to you, which will in turn, affect your fortunes in life and where you will end up living and working.
The Vowels Number
The Vowels Number, depending on which numerologist you consult, is also known as the Soul Urge Number or the Conscious Motivation Number. The Vowels Number is of course, the sum of all the numbers of all the vowels in your full name, reduced to a single digit or Master Number. This number indicates what your conscious desires in life are, what you know you want. It can be very helpful to know another person’s Vowel Number, because when you know what they chiefly-prioritize in life, you can tailor your pitch to them accordingly.
The Consonants Number
The Consonants Number, depending on which numerologist you consult, is also known as either the Secret Self or the Sub-Conscious Motivation number. It is the sum of all the consonants in your full name, reduced to a single digit or Master Number. Goodwin called the Consonants Number the ‘Secret Self’ number, because he considered it to be “…a pleasurable fantasy, usually a fantasy of achievements which the individual makes little effort to actually accomplish.” Numerologist Nick Newmont calls it the Sub-Conscious Motivation Number, because it is “the number of your deepest longings, buried in the recesses of the psyche.” When you identify your Sub-Conscious Motivation Number, says Newmont, you can identify those longings, bring them to the surface, honor them, make them a part of your conscious mind, and act upon them with intent. Newmont says realization of the Sub-Conscious Motivation Number doesn’t usually come until around age 35 or 40, because you need a certain amount of life experience before you realize your Vowels Number, or Conscious Motivation Number isn’t fully satisfying you.
In my personal experience, Numerologist Nick Newmont has the more correct interpretation of the Consonants Number than the late Matthew Goodwin. Certainly, his depiction of my Sub-Conscious Motivation Number exactly reflects my long-term life plan. For more on this, I encourage you to get hold of a copy of his book, New-mero1ogy: From Sex to Stocks, It’s All in the Numbers.
The Growth Number
The Growth Number comes from Numerologist Matthew Goodwin. This number, which is derived from your given (first) name, reduced to a single digit or Master Number, is a lesson which has either helped or can help you grow as a person. For a more thorough explanation on this, I direct you to Matthew Goodwin’s Numerology: The Complete Guide, Volume 1: The Personality Reading, Chapter 15, page 153, and the appendix to this, which starts on page 327. Nick Newmont has a wonderful chapter (Chapter 4) in his book about compound numbers, which I think does an even better job than Goodwin does about delineating the challenge of your Growth Number.