WHAT IS THE FADIC YEAR GOOD FOR?
If you’re a professional numerologist, being able to tell people when they can expect crucial changes in their life and what sort of fundamental change they will undergo is a good skill to have. If you’re in an onerous situation in life, and really want to know when you can expect a meaningful change from an insufferable norm, knowing your next fadic year can offer hope. If you’re the sort who can do sums in your head, you could wow the person you’re talking to by identifying their most-recent life change, and tell them when their next one will be. If you’re of school-age and out for the summer, calculating your fadic years and those of everybody you know can help keep your mathematics skills sharp. Or if you’re the type who doesn’t tolerate surprises very well and would really like a heads-up when something important is coming down the road, being able to identify fadic years can be helpful.
CONCLUSION
Unless you’re a dedicated numerologist, I suppose fadic years calculation could be seen as satisfying idle-curiosity at best. The concept of fadic years begs the question—do we have free will, or are our lives ‘fated’ to a significant degree? And if fadic years occasionally get it right and identify death years for some people, do we really want to know? These are questions which philosophers, ethicists and occultists could probably argue over forever. In the meantime, consult your own inner knowing, or sense of what’s right.
Experiment with this numerological technique—on yourselves, on people you know, on famous people, on dead relatives. Try all three formulas. You may find the recurrent formula turns up the most-significant years for one person, whereas the progressive formula works best for another, and the progressive-reductive formula works best on a third. You may discover some interesting things. I found the progressive and progressive-reductive formulas identified years which were more-important turning-points in my life than they seemed to be at the time. Whatever the fadic year calculations turn up for you, remember:
‘A bend in the road is not the end of the road—unless you fail to make the turn.’
~Helen Keller
EXERCISES:
- Calculate your own fadic days of the year. Do the results accord with your perception of what you perceive your ‘lucky’ days to be?
- Calculate the fadic days of somebody else you know well, or an historical figure. If it’s someone you know, do their ‘lucky’ days seem to match the dates you turned up? If it’s an historical figure, did their ‘lucky’ days match any significant dates in their lives?
- Calculate your own fadic years. Try all three formulas, recurrent, progressive, and progressive-reductive. Did one of them seem to work best at identifying your past fadic years, or did two or all three methods work equally well, albeit in their own ways?
- Calculate the fadic years of someone you know well, and whose birth-year you also know. If you can’t think of anybody, pick a famous person from history. Try all three formulas to calculate this person’s fadic years. Given what you know about this person’s life, how accurately did any of these methods identify the crucial turning points in their lives?
- If you calculated the fadic years of someone deceased, did this person die in one of their fadic years?
- Given your experience with this numerological technique, do you think this is helpful information, or just of passing interest and nothing more? If you were to calculate the fadic years of a friend or family member, would you share what you discovered, or just keep quiet about it?
Gibson, Walter Brown, Gibson, Litzka R, Keshner, Murray. The Complete Illustrated Book of Divination and Prophecy. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1973. Chapter Titled, “The Fadic Number,” pp.55-102.