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S2 EP7: Numerology: Your numbers, your map

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In this episode of Many Paths, One Mountain, Giada explores numerology as another path towards healing, transformation and deeper self-knowledge.

Numbers are everywhere in our lives, from our birthdays and names to the cycles we move through. But what if numbers are more than tools for counting and measuring? What if they carry meaning, energy and a language of their own?

Giada explores the ancient roots of numerology, from Pythagoras and sacred numbers to Kabbalah, the I Ching and other wisdom traditions. She explains how numbers can reveal patterns, personal cycles, potential and the lessons we may be working with in this lifetime.

She also explores the connection between numerology and shamanic practice, and why she sees both as different languages pointing towards the same underlying truths.

Most importantly, numerology isn't presented as a fixed destiny. It's a map, not a cage. Your numbers may reveal patterns and tendencies, but you still have free will.

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About the Host

Originally hailing from the vibrant city of Milan, I’ve spent the past two decades traversing the globe in a quest for spiritual and personal growth and combined with 25 years of international corporate work experience. From navigating the vast landscapes of Australia in a campervan to finding tranquility living in a Buddhist monastery in Nepal, my journey is nothing short of extraordinary. Along the way, I’ve delved deep into Buddhist teachings, yoga, and shamanism, becoming Shamanic Teacher,  Forest Therapy Guide, Esoteric Numerologist, Shamanic and Integral Yoga Teacher and Ikigai Coach. In 2013 I settled in Edinburgh, where  I founded the Art and Spirituality Centre, a social enterprise and the School of Shamanism, where I passionately help others on their own transformative journeys.

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CHAPTERS

00:17 Introduction: Many Paths, One Mountain

01:17 What is numerology?

03:00 How numerology works

05:41 Master numbers & self-knowledge

07:40 Numerology & shamanic work

09:02 Life cycles, timing & free will

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Giada

But what if numbers are more than tools for calculations? What if they carry a meaning? What if they are a language? One that speaks directly to your soul. And that's what numerology is about.

Introduction: Many Paths, One Mountain

Giada

So far, we've been exploring a different path that leads to the same summit, which is healing, transformation, basically coming home to ourselves. We have talked about the Kigai, about Rishirin-Yoku, about the different ways of accessing what is true with different people in the interviews. And today I want to share another path, one that might surprise you, one that uses something we encounter every day without thinking twice about it. Numbers, because I'm talking about numerology, I'm also a numerologist, and this ancient art of understanding has a spiritual meaning. So numbers can

What Is Numerology?

Giada

become your map for life. Numbers are everywhere: your birthday, your address, your phone number, the time you woke up this morning. Numbers structure our entire lives. We use them constantly to measure, to count, to organize. But what if numbers are more than tools for calculations? What if they carry a meaning? What if they are a language? One that speaks directly to your soul. And that's what numerology is about. And it's one of the oldest wisdom traditions on earth. It isn't new age, it's an ancient one. Pythagoras, for example, the Greek mathematician who lived over 2500 years ago, taught that numbers are the foundation of reality. All is a number, he said. So the universe itself is built on mathematical principles. But for him, mathematics wasn't just about quantity, it was about quality. Each number had a meaning, a vibration, a spiritual meaning. And long before him, other cultures understood this meaning as well. The Egyptians worked with sacred numbers, the Babylonians used numbers for divination, also shamanically. The Chinese developed numerology through the Ai Ching. The Hebrews created geometria, a system that assigns numerical values to letters, revealing hidden meanings in sacred text. Then in the Kabbalah, numbers are the building blocks of creation itself. And each number represents a different aspect of the divine. So when I talk about numerology, I'm not talking about something invented last week. I'm talking about the wisdom tradition

How Numerology Works

Giada

that spans culture, cultures, and millennia. A universal understanding that numbers speak. So how does numerology actually work? That's a huge topic to speak about. And its core numerology is based on reducing numbers to single digits. So it's never uh it's never six. Where does that six come from? Does it come from a 33 slash six? Does it come from a 42 slash six? And it makes a huge difference. And it's not just the life path number, the central theme of your existence, your iki guy, which in my tradition we call it song, because we see um the collective place that we have in the orchestra and also the individual places, just like music. And that's not all about that people think uh uh because in a chart, what we need to read is massive, is really big. Your name carries vibration too, each letter corresponds to a number. And when we add them together and reduce them, then we get uh different uh numbers: your urge of soul number, what your heart truly desires, your personality number, uh, how others perceive you on an individual level, when you are in a group, um personal ears that run in a nine-year pattern, and each year carries a different energy combined together in which the year that we are living into. So one year is about a new course, a new beginning, and then maybe it just in when you are in an year four, you can actually build something because the number four corresponds to the square shapes, which is the only one on which you can build something else. Number nine is letting go, so and so on, and then of course, it's a huge topic. Um, so we are working with specific energies, with specific lessons, and I can't go into the details in a podcast because each reading is totally different. Just as an example, when I got my diploma, uh, the first year there was a lady born on the same day, same month, and same year of myself. What a no coincidence! But because of our different names, middle names, and surnames, our charts were totally different. Um, and from a shamanic perspective, uh, how did I come to this past? I was, of course, already deep in uh shamanic work, um, and I had my uh my shamanic tools from the spiritual point of view, um, but just numerology found me. Um,

Master Numbers & Self-Knowledge

Giada

and this uh like in the same way, sometimes we are attracted to past, and someone calculated my numbers based on my birth date and names, and then I was keep hearing my spirits saying, Why don't you actually start working a little bit with numbers? And being a person of letters, because I uh studied literature, I've always loved writing and letters in general. I um was with a big question mark about numbers. Then, of course, I was always seeing 11-11, 22-23, 33-33, like the majority of us see in general, and um and then it became a huge wall that I discovered, and then also these master numbers are actually not necessarily always masters. We, in my tradition, we call them mirror numbers because it depends on how clean is your lens to see these numbers that are mirroring the divine. If they are clean, they are master numbers, and then it means you are able to channel what the divine is passing you. Otherwise, is the lens is dirty, is dirty, dirty, they're simply mirroring, they're simply mirror numbers. And numbers, of course, are vibrations. Each number has its own frequency, its own quality. And when you know your numbers, you know what energies you are working with, uh, and you can work with them consciously instead of unconsciously. Um, it's a path to self-knowledge, and self-knowledge is, of course, the foundation of all healing. You can't transform what you don't understand, you can't work with energies that you can't see, and numerology makes the invisible visible. To go back to the topic of my first uh season of the podcast. So when someone discovers their song, there's often this moment of recognition. Uh, that's why I've always been this way, that's why this pattern keeps repeating,

Numerology & Shamanic Work

Giada

uh, that's what I'm here to learn. And that recognition is medicine, it's uh it's a validation, it's the soul being seen. And from that place of understanding, then change becomes possible. Not fighting against yourself anymore, just not trying to be something you're not, but working with nature, fulfilling the potential that was always there. So you might wonder how does this connect to shamanic work? Um, for me, they are deeply intertwined. In shamanic practice, we are always looking for patterns, we journey to understand what's happening beneath the surface. We seek guidance about purpose, about challenges, about soul lessons. Numerology does the same thing, just through a different doorway. So when I work with clients, I often look at their numbers alongside the shamanic work. There is a channeling in that. That's why I do the reading, writing numbers and calculating numbers by hand, because I need to feel the energy of the numbers. Are these numbers flowing or not? Or are they just the calculation? Is the person actually merging with their potential or not? And they are showing me this journey. Uh so these two different languages basically

Life Cycles, Timing & Free Will

Giada

say the same things. That's when you know when you are onto something real. One of the most practical aspects of numerology is understanding cycles, for example. We are not in the same cycle every year, we move through nine-year cycles, and each carrying his own energy. We know now we are in a year number one. Everyone has been speaking about that since the beginning of the year. Uh, but then it depends where you are on your personal cycle, because maybe in your personal cycle you are not in a year one, and then you need to merge the two the two the two um energies, because maybe you're ending these cycles and you need to end that first before the new one can start. Uh, and before things can end, which is not a failure, it's just a completion. Because numbers are always between zero and nine, or between one and nine, because zero is everything and nothing at the same time. Zero contains everything and nothing at the same time. It's like the bindu in the Indian traditions, it's where everything started, it's the point from which, when you're drawing a mandala, for example, everything is starting. So, numerology helps you find the timing. Um plant when it's planting season, harvest when it's harvest time, and just rest when rest is called for. So this mirrors everything I know from shamanic work, the importance of natural cycles, of seasons, or right timing. And numerology shows patterns, tendency, potentials. It doesn't show the destiny written in stone because you still have the free will, you always have the free will to choose what you want. And the challenging aspect can become your greatest strengths. So if you do this work, you can really decide to become the co-creator of reality, working together with the divine. So it's a map, it's not a cage. It opens doors of understanding, it doesn't have all the answers because nothing does. But as a tool for self-knowledge, as a language for understanding who you are and why you are here, I think numerology is one of the other remarkable healing tools that we can deal with, in which we can get access through unexpected doorways. Because numbers carry ancient meanings and they can reveal who you are, why you are here, why you're working with in this lifetime. Um, so different past one month, and this past is written in the language of uh numbers. So, if you're curious, just start exploring what's resonating with you, what's hidden, what's the hidden secret map that is contained in your own story? You can just be in touch and just let me know, and I'll see you in the next uh episode.