Your four peak years

Your peak years

How it is worked out

This is Phillips's own example, April 21, 1926.

1. Reduce each part on its own. Month 4. Day 21 becomes 2 + 1 = 3. Year 1926 becomes 1 + 9 + 2 + 6 = 18, then 1 + 8 = 9. The base is 4 3 9.
2. First peak: month + day. 4 + 3 = 7.
3. Second peak: day + year. 3 + 9 = 12, then 1 + 2 = 3.
4. Third peak: first peak + second peak. 7 + 3 = 10. On the third and fourth peaks, 10 and 11 are kept as they are.
5. Fourth peak: month + year. 4 + 9 = 13, then 1 + 3 = 4.
6. The ages. Subtract the Ruling Number (the Life Path, 7 here) from 36. 36 − 7 = 29. The other peaks come every nine years: 29, 38, 47, 56.

Phillips uses 36 because it puts every peak in a Personal Year 9. We checked this for every birth date from 1930 to 2014, and it holds. He keeps a total of 10, 19, 28, 37, or 46 as 10, so it subtracts 10 (first peak at 26). A 22 subtracts 4, and a 33 is read as 6.

The three phases of life

1. Growing up. From birth to your first peak. Phillips describes this phase as mostly physical: learning through the body and the senses, school, family, and finding out who you are.
2. Maturity. From your first peak to your fourth, always 27 years, three full nine-year cycles. Phillips describes it as mostly mental: work, money, family, and learning to handle your feelings.
3. Fulfillment. From your fourth peak on. Phillips describes it as mostly spiritual: wisdom, compassion, and inner growth. He says this phase should be the most rewarding.

When a peak is felt

Phillips says a peak is not a single day. Its influence starts toward the end of the year before (a Personal Year 8), is strongest in the peak year itself (a Personal Year 9), and fades through the end of the Personal Year 3 that follows. So each peak colors about four years.

What each peak number is linked with

• 1

  Phillips links a 1 peak with a stretch of individual effort and more personal expression. He notes it often comes with stepping back from an arrangement that had stopped fitting, or with a relationship changing shape as you speak up more.

• 2

  Phillips links a 2 peak with intuition and feeling coming forward. He describes it as a time of hard work and slow material progress.

  He says pushing for fast material results in a 2 peak tends to bring frustration.

• 3

  Phillips links a 3 peak with learning, reviewing, and thinking things through. Travel as a way of learning often stands out.

  He says an active mind with nowhere to go can turn into criticism of others.

• 4

  Phillips links a 4 peak with work and material results. He says steady, hands-on effort counts for a lot in this period.

  He says greed or working only for gain tends to bring strain instead of progress.

• 5

  Phillips links a 5 peak with changes in how feelings are handled, leading to more emotional control and more personal freedom. He notes old money worries often ease into a more balanced view.

• 6

  Phillips links a 6 peak with strong creative energy. For many people he says it shows up as a focus on home, or a wish to settle into one.

  He says worry about the home, or rushing into marriage, is the same energy pointed the wrong way.

• 7

  Phillips links a 7 peak with sharing what you have learned, often through some kind of teaching, and with being tested by experience. He calls it a period of many surprising changes.

• 8

  Phillips links an 8 peak with independence. He says that with an even Ruling Number it tends toward money and business, and with an odd one toward art or study.

  He says if others hold you back, it can show as a distance that does not feel like you.

• 9

  Phillips links a 9 peak with helping others and with big decisions about work, relationships, and where you live. He notes a move, a job change, or a new circle of people is common in the year after.

  He says some demands on your time are real needs and some are not, and telling them apart is part of this peak.

• 10

  Phillips links a 10 peak with a special ability to help other people through big changes, drawn from your own experience. It can only come on the third or fourth peak.

• 11

  Phillips links an 11 peak with strong intuition and inspired action. He ties it to compassion, balance, honesty, and quiet reflection. It can only come on the third or fourth peak.

Other names, and a word on the history

Many other numerology books use a similar set of four numbers called Pinnacles. They are added up the same way, but they are read as stretches of years rather than single peak years, and the ages can differ by a year or more because of how 10 and 11 are handled. The readings differ too. See your Pinnacles as a timeline →

Phillips links the Pyramids to Egypt, Atlantis, and Pythagoras. There is no historical evidence for that. Read the honest history →

Source

David A. Phillips, The Complete Book of Numerology, Hay House, 2005. Chapter 10 (The Three Phases of Life) and Chapter 11 (The Pyramids). Phillips writes these as predictions; here they are retold as descriptions.