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Life Path number

11Master number

Numbers describe tendencies in a symbolic tradition. They cannot decide health, money, law, marriage or children.

In the sources

But sometimes even eleven receives a favour from God, as in the case of the man who was called in the eleventh hour to the vineyard, who yet received the same pay as the others.

W. Wynn Westcott, Numbers: Their Occult Power and Mystic Virtues (3rd ed., 1911; first published 1890)

About this number

Whether 11 exists as a separate result depends on the writer. Taylor in 1926 keeps it whole, Walton in 1914 reduces it and calls the outcome a strong 2, Cheasley in 1916 reduces it, and Coffman in 1927 keeps it only for spiritual subjects. Method matters as well: Taylor's example of July 4, 1872 is written 11-9, since month and day make 11, yet it comes to 29 and then 11 when every digit is added, while reducing month, day and year first gives 7, 4 and 9, a total of 20 and a plain 2.

Reputation splits the same way. Westcott reports the Kabalists' view of 11 as the essence of what is sinful and imperfect, Agrippa's 1651 English calls it the number of sins, and Sepharial's 1911 list for name totals reads discord, offense and deceit. The American line reverses the verdict: Balliett in 1905 describes someone social and yet always somewhat apart, and Taylor writes of inspiration and a new beginning in a higher cycle.

Current popular numerology follows Taylor and presents 11 as a master number of intuition and heightened sensitivity. The term master number appears in Balliett's 1917 book, where the list also includes 8 and 9. Anyone who gets 11 here can read the 2 page too, since several of the older books would have sent them there.

Where this text comes from

Statements credited to an older writer follow the scanned text named here and are paraphrased unless quoted. The modern readings are labeled as modern and come from none of these works.

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