In numerology, there is this concept of the personal day. Calculating what your personal day number, the thinking goes, will enable you to better make your plans and direct your energies for that day. Up until recently, I’d only been familiar with late Numerologist Matthew Goodwin’s way of calculating the personal day; figure out what the personal month number is for you, then add that number together with the day of the month, then reduce that result to a single number or master number.
This is a different system of daily numerological forecasting I found in The Complete Illustrated Book of Divination and Prophecy by Walter Brown Gibson et al. This uses the combination of factors of date, reduced to a single figure, your date of birth, reduced to a single figure, and the day of the week, it is designed to give the inquirer some idea of the energies present on any given day.
The days of the week are apparently assigned a numerical value, with Sunday being 1, Monday being 2, and so on until you get to Saturday, which is assigned the value of 7. A careful analysis of date, birth number and day-of-the-week number may yield why the author gave each possible day’s prediction the slant he did. But this assumes Sunday as the first day of the week, and the day considered to be the first day of the week can vary, depending on the culture. Saturday or Monday have also been considered the first day of the week in certain cultures. Go with the system as it’s set forth in the PDF starting out, but keep in mind the concept of the ‘first day of the week’ inspires a difference of opinion in some quarters.
Each of the nine birth numbers will have a grand total of 63 possible predictions which can apply to any day over the course of a year, so 365 divided by 63 = 5.79, meaning you have a chance to get the same daily prediction an average of six days over the course of the year.
In the PDF, I have included a recording sheet so you can do your own forecasts ahead of time, then record how that day transpired for you, and how close the forecast came to what actually happened on that day for you. The author also suggests you test the worth of this system by choosing any important day from your past, figuring out the forecast for that particular day, and assessing how close the forecast came to the events of that day.
Personally, I chose the date of my college graduation, and the answer was the following: “Enjoy your friends and activities with others, especially gatherings which place you in better surroundings, but do not neglect family ties either.” The day involved a little of both—saying farewell to friends after an enjoyable weekend, then going home with my parents after the ceremony. So okay, that was a ‘hit.’
CONCLUSION
As I have only recently started testing this system myself, I offer it here with no assertion as to its overall degree of accuracy. You may find Goodwin’s personal-day-calculating method works better for you, or this, Gipson’s method, or the answer could be a little of both. This divination tool is a good illustration of my contention that divination can mean ‘forewarned is forearmed.’ Life can always throw us a curve ball, of course, but for days it doesn’t, this may help.
EXERCISE
- Do the daily forecast for a week to 10 days, noting what happened at the end of each day. Look over the forecasts and your follow-up notes at the end of the period. On the whole, was it a hit or a miss?
- Choose an important date from your own past, and figure out the forecast for that day, using Gibson’s system. Based on your own memory, did the forecast get it right?
- EXTRA CREDIT: Forecast your daily number for the same week to 10 days, using Goodwin’s system. Do a comparison and contrast of the two systems. Was one more accurate than the other, or did then complement each other?
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Gibson, Walter Brown, Litzka R. Gibson, and Murray Keshner. London: England, UK: Souvenir Press, 1974, ISBN: 9780285621411. pp. 103-143.