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Astrology and numerology, side by side

Both start from your birthday. That is where the likeness ends. Astrology reads the sky on that day. Numerology reads the numbers in the date itself.

AstrologyNumerology
What it readsWhere the Sun, Moon and planets stood at the moment of birth.The digits of the birth date and the letters of the name.
What it needsA birth date for the Sun. The time and place for the full chart.A birth date, and a name for the name numbers.
The mathReal astronomy. Every position can be checked against the sky.Simple arithmetic. Anyone can check it by hand.
How oldBabylon, more than 2,000 years ago, then Greece and India.Ideas about numbers are ancient. The system used today took shape in the early 1900s.
Its big splitWestern and Vedic zodiacs, now about 24 degrees apart.Pythagorean and Chaldean letter values.
Is it proven?No. Astrologers matched charts to people at chance level in a 1985 test.No. No controlled test has shown it either.

Why this site keeps them apart

Each tradition has its own logic and its own books. Mixing them, say by reading a Life Path through a zodiac sign, makes claims that neither tradition makes. So they live on separate pages here, each with its own sources, and this page is the only place they meet.

The slow drift behind astrology's two zodiacs

Julia and Derek Parker's Astrology (2007) describes the drift simply: the Earth's axis wobbles, so the starting point of the zodiac slides backward through the stars, all the way around in about 25,920 years. Western astrology kept its zodiac tied to the seasons. Vedic astrology kept its zodiac tied to the stars. That is why one person can have two Sun signs.

Your skyYour Sun sign in both zodiacs, and the Moon that day.Your numbersThe numerology chart for your birth date.