Emotional plane
The birth name’s letters B, I, O, R, S, T, X and Z, added and reduced: how numerology reads feeling, imagination and creativity.
Meaning
The emotional plane is one of the four planes of expression, the groups into which numerology sorts the letters of the birth name. It is the largest group, with eight letters: B, I, O, R, S, T, X and Z.
The tradition links this plane to feeling, imagination and creativity. Its number is read as the way a person lives emotions and puts them into what they do: relationships, art, care. Where the mental plane works things out, the emotional plane responds.
Two things are read. The count of letters shows how much of the name leans on feeling. The number shows the style of that feeling, with the usual meaning of each number:
- A 2 here is read as sensitivity to others and a need for closeness.
- A 3 is read as feelings that want to be expressed, often through art or words.
- A 6 is read as warmth and care, love shown through looking after people.
- A 9 is read as wide compassion, feeling for people beyond one’s own circle.
- An 11, kept as a master number, is read as heightened sensitivity and inspiration.
A name with few letters here is not read as coldness. Numerology reads it as feelings that tend to pass through another channel, such as action or thought, and that can be given words on purpose.
In practice
Take a made-up person, Camille Marie Laurent. Her name has 19 letters. Five fall on the emotional plane: the I of Camille, the R and the I of Marie, and the R and the T of Laurent.
Ulune adds them in one total: 9 + 9 + 9 + 9 + 2 = 38 → 11. The 11 is a master number, so Ulune keeps it and writes 11/2.
Five letters out of nineteen is a fair share. Her mental plane has seven letters and her physical plane five. Numerology would read her as someone who thinks a great deal, and whose feelings, though less numerous, run deep. The 11 is read as fine emotional antennae: quick to sense moods, often moved by beauty or ideals.
A reader might add a kind note. An 11 on this plane is read as a gift of sensitivity. What helps is quiet time, so the antennae are not overwhelmed.
Across traditions
- Jung’s feeling. C. G. Jung’s Psychologische Typen (1921) names feeling as one of four functions: judging things by the value they hold for us. It is the closest of the four to the emotional plane.
- Water. Liz Greene’s Relating (1977) pairs Jung’s feeling type with the element water. Through her pairing, the emotional plane meets the water signs’ depth of feeling. This is a resemblance, not a rule of numerology.
- The Soul Urge. The Soul Urge, made from the vowels of the name, is read as the heart’s wishes. Two of its vowels, I and O, are also emotional letters, so a reader may compare the two numbers.
Origin and history
The planes of expression appear in twentieth-century Western numerology. Florence Campbell’s Your Days Are Numbered (1931) already speaks of them. Hans Decoz, whose rules Ulune follows, gives the letter groups Ulune uses: B, I, O, R, S, T, X and Z for this plane. The values of the letters are the Pythagorean ones.
How Ulune calculates it
- Ulune takes the full name at birth and finds every B, I, O, R, S, T, X and Z in it. Accents are dropped first, so Ï counts as I and œ as O and E.
- Their values: S is worth 1, B and T 2, O and X 6, Z 8, I and R 9.
- All of these letters are added in one total for the whole name, not name by name.
- The total is reduced by adding its digits until one is left. 11, 22 and 33 are kept and written with their root (11/2).
- A total such as 14 or 19 on the way is not marked as a karmic debt: debts belong to core numbers only.
- A name with none of these letters has no emotional number. Ulune shows none, never a 0.
Correspondences
| Emotional plane | |
|---|---|
| Letters | B, I, O, R, S, T, X, Z |
| Values | S 1, B 2, T 2, O 6, X 6, Z 8, I 9, R 9 |
| Theme | feeling, imagination, creativity |
| Jung’s function | feeling |
| Element, after Greene | water |
| Sister planes | physical, mental, intuitive |
Related
- Planes of expressionThe birth name’s letters in four groups, physical, mental, emotional and intuitive, each added and reduced on its own.
- Physical planeThe birth name’s letters D, E, M and W, added and reduced: how numerology reads the body, the senses and practical action.
- Mental planeThe birth name’s letters A, G, H, J, L, N and P, added and reduced: how numerology reads thinking, logic and ideas.
- Intuitive planeThe birth name’s letters C, F, K, Q, U, V and Y, added and reduced: how numerology reads insight, inspiration and a sense of the unseen.
- Number 11The first master number, kept whole instead of reduced to 2, which numerology reads as intuition and inspiration at a higher intensity.
- Soul Urge numberThe vowels of the full birth name added, each name reduced on its own, then together: what a person wants deep down, the motive behind their choices.
- Master numbers11, 22 and 33, which numerology keeps whole instead of reducing them, read as stronger, more demanding forms of 2, 4 and 6.
Sources
- Florence Campbell, Your Days Are Numbered, 1931
- Hans Decoz and Tom Monte, Numerology: Key to Your Inner Self, 1993
- C. G. Jung, Psychologische Typen, 1921
- Liz Greene, Relating: An Astrological Guide to Living with Others on a Small Planet, 1977