CONCLUDING REMARKS
I offer this divination technique a little advisedly, because there are some people who would rather not know, even in general terms, how their life is going to go. I like the way the character Maggie the Frog put it in Game of Thrones: “Everyone wants to know their future–until they know their future.” But in this predictive system’s defense, I say this: every primary number has its good points and bad points. The trick is to alert them to the potential negatives of a given number, while also letting them know about the positives about that number, should the subject choose to embrace them.
NOTE: If you are in one of those societies where the birthdate is habitually listed as day-month-year, then it may be the more proper thing to go with that order as First Life Period Number, Second Life Period Number. I don’t know how Matthew Goodwin arrived at Month-Day-Year as the proper order of the Life Periods, but I suspect cultural bias may have factored-in. Experiment with both formats, month-day-year and day-month-year, in order to arrive at the proper order.
Like the square-of-nine chart, this is another divination tool which might work well at a psychic fair or party, where you can’t spend a lot of time with each person, but it gives them enough satisfying information where they feel like they’ve got their money’s worth. Or it can be one of those things you do on an idle, rainy afternoon as a personal entertainment or as a distraction for others. We all come into this life with different talents, tendencies and things we need to experience; this numerological technique gives a bit of color and specificity to the person’s life path number, and how they’ll experience it. It highlights major ‘bends’ in the road.
Perhaps one of the most valuable things this numerological tool can do is bring you a greater understanding of other’s life paths, and why they went through what they did, or may someday endure what they’re apparently destined to experience. Hopefully in some cases, it may bring the subject him or herself to that understanding and acceptance as well.
EXERCISES:
- Do your own General Course of Life chart. Has what has already past, or is currently going on in your life, jibe with what the chart tells you?
- Do the General Course of Life chart for someone you know well. Does it seem to fit their life? If they haven’t hit their second or third life periods yet, can you see their life heading in that direction?
- Do the General Course of Life chart for someone famous from history. How well or poorly does their General Course of Life chart match how their life went?
- EXTRA CREDIT: if you know the ‘birthdate’ of an organization, institution or building, try doing a Course of Life reading for it. How does the course of life reading reflect the changes in this entity’s existence?
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Goodwin, Matthew Oliver. Numerology: The Complete Guide. Volume Two: Advanced Personality Analysis and Reading the Past, Present and Future. North Hollywood, California: Newcastle Publishing Co., Inc., 1981. ISBN: 0-87877-999-X.
A deep-dive into advanced numerology, but a great source book on the subject.
