Mental plane
The birth name’s letters A, G, H, J, L, N and P, added and reduced: how numerology reads thinking, logic and ideas.
Meaning
The mental plane is one of the four planes of expression, the groups into which numerology sorts the letters of the birth name. It holds seven letters: A, G, H, J, L, N and P.
The tradition links this plane to thinking, logic and ideas. Its number is read as the way a person uses the mind: analysing, planning, learning, explaining. Where the physical plane acts and the emotional plane feels, the mental plane works things out.
Two things are read. The count of letters shows how much of the name leans on thought. The number shows the style of that thought, with the usual meaning of each number:
- A 1 here is read as independent thinking, forming one’s own view.
- A 3 is read as a lively, verbal mind that thinks by talking and writing.
- A 4 is read as orderly thought: method, lists, step-by-step reasoning.
- A 7 is read as an analytical mind that looks beneath the surface.
- An 8 is read as strategic thinking, aimed at results.
A name with few letters here is not read as a lack of intelligence. Numerology reads it as a mind that tends to work through another channel, such as feeling or doing. Its method can be trained on purpose.
In practice
Take a made-up person, Hugo Pierre Blanc. His name has 15 letters. Six fall on the mental plane: H and G in Hugo, P in Pierre, then L, A and N in Blanc.
Ulune adds them in one total: 8 + 7 + 7 + 3 + 1 + 5 = 31 → 4. His mental plane is a 4.
Six letters out of fifteen is the largest share in his name. His emotional plane has five letters, his physical and intuitive planes two each. Numerology would read thought as his favourite channel. The 4 gives that thought its shape: a mind that likes order, plans and solid reasons before acting.
A reader might add a gentle note. A strong, orderly mental plane is read as a gift for structure. Its classic counterweight is to leave some room for what cannot be planned.
Across traditions
- Jung’s thinking. C. G. Jung’s Psychologische Typen (1921) names thinking as one of four functions: understanding the world through concepts and logical links. It is the closest of the four to the mental plane.
- Air. Liz Greene’s Relating (1977) pairs Jung’s thinking type with the element air. Through her pairing, the mental plane meets the air signs’ taste for ideas and exchange. This is a resemblance, not a rule of numerology.
- Rational thought. Numerology has another number about the mind, the rational thought number, made from the first name and the day of birth. The two can be read side by side.
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, a mental plane among them. Hans Decoz, whose rules Ulune follows, gives the letter groups Ulune uses, with A, G, H, J, L, N and P on the mental plane. The values of the letters are the Pythagorean ones.
How Ulune calculates it
- Ulune takes the full name at birth and finds every A, G, H, J, L, N and P in it. Accents are dropped first, so À counts as A.
- Their values: A and J are worth 1, L 3, N 5, G and P 7, H 8.
- All of these letters are added in one total for the whole name, not name by name. Vowels and consonants count alike: the vowel A sits here beside six consonants.
- The total is reduced by adding its digits until one is left. 11, 22 and 33 are kept and written with their root, such as 11/2.
- A total such as 13 or 16 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 mental number. Ulune shows none, never a 0.
Correspondences
| Mental plane | |
|---|---|
| Letters | A, G, H, J, L, N, P |
| Values | A 1, J 1, L 3, N 5, G 7, P 7, H 8 |
| Theme | thinking, logic, ideas |
| Jung’s function | thinking |
| Element, after Greene | air |
| Sister planes | physical, emotional, 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.
- Emotional planeThe birth name’s letters B, I, O, R, S, T, X and Z, added and reduced: how numerology reads feeling, imagination and creativity.
- 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 4The number of the square, read in numerology as structure, work, method and reliability; also the root of the master number 22.
- Number 7The number of study, reflection and the search for meaning, which numerology reads as depth found in quiet.
- Rational thought numberThe first name and the day of birth added and reduced, 11 and 22 kept, read as how a person thinks a question through and reaches a decision.
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