Matthew Godwin once worked for the HR department in an unnamed company. There was a secretary in that department who, when handing over a new-hire’s file to him, would venture her unsolicited opinion about how that person was going to work out with the company. Time after time, Godwin noticed this secretary had been accurate in her opinions about the individual’s work at the company. When this secretary was about to retire, Godwin finally asked her how she did it. Turns out she was an amateur numerologist. Having access to the new hire’s name and birth data, she was able to work out their numbers and hence, how they were likely to fare at that company. Godwin said if he hadn’t seen the effectiveness of numerology demonstrated on a regular basis for years, unaware, he would never have been convinced that numerology had any practical value.
I have owned this two-volume set since it was first published in 1981. Though a little dog-eared, taped, and showing their age, I have found them a good reference source on numerology to which I have turned time and again over the years.
Dodge, Ellin. Numerology Has Your Number. New York: Simon & Schuster, BCE Edition. 1988. I would describe this book as almost a ‘Cliffs Notes’ version of Godwin’s two-volume slog. Ellin Dodge gets right to the point. I think she’s better than Godwin on how to identify and effectively cope with some of the self-defeating patterns attendant with the various numbers. I used to own this one, but I got rid of it, since I found myself not consulting it as often as some of my other numerology books. A good, basic intro to the subject of numerology.
Newmont, Nick. New-merology: From Sex to Stocks, It’s All in the Numbers. San Diego, Calfornia: Jodere Group. 2003. ISBN: 1-58872-037-3. Newmont has his own system, which he terms ‘new-merology’. He regards the compound number used to arrive at the single-digit or master number as an important component in the delineation of a person’s character, and future. For example, in calculating the birth number (which he calls the birth-path number), his system calls for reducing the month, day and year of birth to two-digit numbers, then adding those numbers up as a sum (not a line problem), then using both the resultant compound number, as well as the resultant single-digit/master-number, in order to more-accurately describe how the birth-number will manifest itself in the person’s life.
Though an innovative way of doing the addition, I have found Newmont’s approach to numerology works, and I have consulted his book when I want more details. Godwin considered the consonants number in a person’s name to reveal a ‘secret self’ which never sees the light of day, remaining as more of a ‘private fantasy’. Newmont calls the consonants number the ‘sub-conscious motivation number’ and he said it does manifest itself in a person’s life, usually after ages 35 to 40. I think Newmont has it right, because my sub-conscious motivation number in his system is pretty-much exactly my life-plan.