Letters to numbers: Chaldean
The older Chaldean table gives letters 1 to 8 by their sound, and keeps 9 apart.
- 6-minute lesson
- Basic course: Anka Shishya
- Numerology
- By sound, 1 to 8
- The same name, a different number
A first look at the lesson
The Chaldean table does not follow the alphabet's order: letters are grouped by their sound. Only 1 to 8 are used. 9 is held sacred and given to no letter, though a total can still reduce to 9.
Work a name the same way: number each letter, add, reduce. The two systems often give different answers, so a reading always says which system it used.
More lessons on this subject
- Letters to numbers: PythagoreanWrite the alphabet in rows of nine: A to I are 1 to 9, and J starts again at 1.
- Hindi names in both systemsA Hindi name is numbered as it is spelt in English letters, so the spelling you use decides the number.
- Numbers as a languageA number has a size and a nature: what numerology reads, and what it can and cannot claim.
- Five systems of numerologyChaldean, Pythagorean, Vedic, Lo Shu and Kabbalah: where each comes from and how it counts.
Your first lesson takes about five minutes
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