What this position describes. An expression number is the sum of every letter of a name, reduced to a single figure. The tradition reads it as a manner: how a person goes about a thing, and how they come across in the first few minutes. It is counted from the SPELLING rather than from the person — the same letters give the same figure to anybody, and a different spelling of the same name gives a different one. Here the count has been run twice, once per name, and from here on the two figures are compared with each other and with nothing else. The letter-by-letter working is printed in full, so every digit can be checked rather than taken on trust.

"Sofia" — S=1 · O=6 · F=6 · I=9 · A=1. The name's number: 5.

"Daniel" — D=4 · A=1 · N=5 · I=9 · E=5 · L=3. The name's number: 9.

A letter becomes a digit by its place in the alphabet: nine positions, and then the count starts again. No letter weighs more than any other, and the whole calculation is that translation plus one addition.

A question to sit with: If you had one word for your own manner and one word for the other person’s, would those two words sit close together?

This is a general description. What it means in a specific situation is what a practitioner works through with you.

What this position describes. The two name numbers are compared around a circle of nine positions, not by subtraction. On such a circle the gap is never more than four steps: nine and one are neighbours here, and a plain difference of eight would say the opposite of what the method says. The method tells three positions apart — a match, a near miss, a divergence — and stops there. There is no compatibility percentage in the calculation and there cannot be: nine positions and four steps do not make a scale. Where a percentage is published, it was added on top of the method, and it was not counted from the numbers.

One name gives 5, the other 9. Around a circle of nine positions they stand 4 steps apart, counted the shorter way round: nine and one are neighbours here, not opposites. Four steps is as far apart as anything can get on such a circle, which is why this calculation has no percentage in it — it has three positions.

The figures diverged — three or four steps, which is as far apart as a circle of nine positions allows. The tradition reads this as two different manners of acting, and says outright that divergence is not conflict: two approaches to one task complement each other more often than they obstruct, and it is precisely this position that the descriptions associate with a division of roles. What is worth keeping in mind: the things that feel self-evident are the ones that will need explaining — by both of you, not by one.

A question to sit with: Where do the two of you differ more often — in WHAT to do, or in how fast?

This is a general description. What it means in a specific situation is what a practitioner works through with you.

What this position describes. Five is associated with movement and change, and as the number of a pair it is read as a pair with few settled forms: the plans change, the surroundings change, and both are more enlivened than tired by it. The resource named is the ability not to fall apart through a move, a change of work, or a foreign country — where others need a familiar order, these two manage without one. The same mobility has its price: an agreement is easily reopened, and the habits you could lean on in a bad month never have time to form. The descriptions suggest keeping at least one thing unchanged, not for the sake of order but as a point of reference.

5 + 9 = 14, which reduces to 5. It is the one figure in the calculation that belongs to neither of the two on their own.

A question to sit with: What has stayed the same between you over the past year — and did you choose it, or did it just happen?

Numbers describe how a date is put together. They say nothing about where you are now, who is beside you, what you have already tried and how it ended. That is usually exactly where the question sits that reports like this get opened for — and no page here answers it.

What this position describes. This is the chief limit of the whole count, and it is not a cosmetic one. A person has one date of birth and it never changes; a name changes — it is shortened at home, replaced at marriage, written in Latin letters on a passport and in another script in a message. Each spelling gives its own figure, and inside the method every one of them is equally legitimate: it counts letters, not people. So what was read above describes not two people but two SPELLINGS, and how they stand next to each other. The neighbouring sites keep quiet about this caveat because it removes half the promise; it stays true regardless.

Everything counted above was counted from the spellings "Sofia" and "Daniel" — from those letters and no others.

A question to sit with: What name are you called at home — and is that the name you typed into the calculation?

This is a general description. What it means in a specific situation is what a practitioner works through with you.