How to Calculate the Foundation Number

A foundation number is a number calculated from a multi-digit number. The number represents the foundation of the numerology energy represented by the multi-digit number.

The foundation number almost always is a single-digit number. In some cases — for some personal numerology chart positions — the foundation number may be the master number 11, 22, or 33.

You are likely to see the foundation number referred to as a reduced number. That's because the number is reduced from a multi-digit number using calculations that result in a single-digit number.

But the single-digit number does not represent all of the energy the multi-digit number represents. It is the foundation, not the whole thing.

You see, each individual digit of a multi-digit number also represents numerology energy. The individual-digit energies are combined with, or blended into, the foundation number energy.

With the energies represented by the foundation number combined with the energy represented by each of the multi-digit number's digits, the result is a wholistic energy that the multi-digit number truly represents.

Calculation of the foundation number is required for creating numerology charts. The calculation reduces a multi-digit number to either a master or single-digit number. That is the foundation number.

The foundation number is required for almost all personal numerology chart positions that are represented by a number.

Calculating the Numerology Foundation Number

For dates, the date numbers are added up, then reduced to the foundation number. (Months are calculated as if they were numbers — January being the number 1 and December the number 12.)

For names, the letter values are added up, then reduced to the foundation number. (A letter-value chart is further below.)

To reduce a multi-digit number to a foundation number, do this:

If you are being alert for a master number while doing the calculations, end the calculations if the result equals 11, 22, or 33.

As an example, let's calculate the name number for Daiy Jane Fictive.

To get started, we need to know the letter value of each letter in her name. Letter values are derived from this chart.

in the letter-value chart, the number value of each letter is above the letter in the first row of the chart.

Here are the calculations for the name, Daiy Jane Fictive.

Daiy Jane Fictive
4197 1155 6932945
4+1+9+7+1+1+5+5+6+9+3+2+9+4+5 = 71
                                7+1 = 8

The multi-digit number is added up to 71. The foundation number 8 is found with the 7+1=8 calculation

8

7

1

The above bar graph shows the relative amount of influence the energy of the foundation number 8 has compared with the energy of the two individual digits, 7 and 1.

Numerology Readings and the Foundation Number

Many numerology readings are done by only interpreting the energy represented by the foundation numbers — virtually all free online readings and many professional readings.

Foundation number energies have much influence. An adequate reading can be constructed by interpreting only those energies.

However, the energies of the individual digits of multi-digit numbers also have meaning. A lot of meaning.

The calculator for any number presents a graph indicating the relative influence of the energy represented by each digit in a multi-digit number alongside the energy represented by the foundation number.

Doing Your Own

As indicated, foundation numbers are multi-digit numbers reduced to either a master number or a single-digit number.

If you wish to do your own calculations, you now know how. If you prefer to use a calculator, Calculator for Professional Numerologists shows both the multi-digit number and the foundation number for various numerology chart positions.

All dates and multi-digit numbers can be reduced using the above method of adding the digits of the number together, repeatedly, until the result is a single digit foundation number.