Rational thought number

Meaning

The rational thought number is one of the finer numbers of a numerology chart. It joins the first name, the name a person is called by every day, with the day of the month they were born on.

Numerology reads it as a style of thinking: how a question gets weighed, which reasons count, and how a conclusion is reached. It is not a measure of intelligence, and no number thinks better than another. A 4 thinks logically, step by step, facts first. A 3 thinks in images and words. A 2 weighs how a decision will land on people. A 7 combines analysis and intuition.

Each style comes with a small piece of advice in Ulune’s readings. The 2 is helped by setting a moment to decide, so the weighing does not run on. The 5, drawn to options, is helped by narrowing the choice to two.

The day of birth is also the Birthday number, which Ulune reads as a particular talent. Here it blends with the first name, so the same day reads differently from one person to the next. Beside it, the balance number tells how a person copes under pressure, and the attitude number the stance they show.

In practice

Take a made-up person, Lucas Henri Morel, born 17 August 1995.

• The first name, Lucas: L 3 + U 3 + C 3 + A 1 + S 1 = 11, kept as a master number.
• The day of birth, 17: 1 + 7 = 8.
• 11 + 8 = 19, then 10, and 10 reduces to 1.

His rational thought number is 1. Ulune’s reading: an independent thinker, who forms a view quickly and trusts it. Checking it against one other opinion keeps it sharp.

The 11 of Lucas is kept on the way, as in his Expression, yet his total still comes down to 1. Born on the 29th, he would add 11 + 11 = 22: a rational thought 22, read with its own text.

Origin and history

The rational thought number belongs to modern name numerology. Ulune follows Hans Decoz, who presents it among the numbers of a complete chart in his book with Tom Monte (1994). On his website, Decoz remarks that numerologists often leave it aside.

How Ulune calculates it

• The first name is the first word of the full name at birth, or else of the chart’s own typed name. Jean-Pierre counts as one name.
• Every letter of it counts, vowels and consonants, with its Pythagorean value. Accents are dropped first.
• The first name’s total is reduced to one digit, keeping 11 and 22. A 33 becomes 6.
• The day of birth is reduced the same way: the 11th and the 29th give 11, the 22nd gives 22.
• The two are added and reduced again, keeping 11 and 22. No karmic debt is read.
• Without a name, there is no rational thought number.

Decoz also describes rational thought numbers of 11 and 22, and Ulune keeps them, each with its own text. The balance number, by contrast, stays within 1–9.

Correspondences

The rational thought number takes the values 1 to 9, 11 and 22, summed up here in Ulune’s own words.

The related positions are the other finer numbers, the balance number, the attitude number and the subconscious self. The first name also gives the cornerstone and the first vowel.