Your Intimate Number
In-Depth Analysis

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Your Intimate Number Explained

The Intimate Number, also known as the "the hidden self", is the unconscious base of your personality. It forms a little of the "keep" or the main tower of your castle. Through it you search for strength when you feel the need ; particularly in conflicting situations, each time you must confront an important problem or undertaking, when you are tense, tired or when your primordial interests are threatened. At such a time you will stop using the vibration of your Expression Number in order to lean exclusively on your Intimate Number. It is your way of reacting. The Intimate Number's vibration allows one to know the hidden character of the human being, to reveal the profound needs and to know reactions in cases of tension.

All of your psychological structure rests on the Intimate Number ! Consequently, it is important that it's integrity is preserved from all attacks or the result will be nervousness, anguish and indecision. This number, that becomes significant in adulthood, is calculated by reducing the sum of the consonants of your full name given at birth.

Your Intimate Number is 1.

Priority needs of 1 : Autonomy, independence of choice and activity. Doesn't like to be managed or influenced. Looks for originality and sometimes conquest. Great need for undertaking things.

This number is the one of individuality, independence and originality. You function from ideas, new things, and you will enhance all areas that you are involved in. In fact, you are extremely productive when you have a well defined goal in mind or when you think the subject is of value. Then you are enthusiastic, enterprising, active, determined and rather audacious. It is your "go-getter" temperament that takes the lead. Otherwise you are content with an acceptable achievement. If things don't go your way or you feel that you depend on others, you could become quickly irritable and difficult. A strong need to be the first exists in you or at least to be free and independent in the areas close to your heart. This profound desire pushes you to have initiative (new project, new concept) and even to make conquests (to relativize according to the rest of your analysis). You could have the desire to withdraw into yourself in order to draw on the strength in your Intimate Number. Then others will find you to be suddenly more harsh, more egocentric or proud, but what does it matter when from that moment you become more resourceful.

You have probably had to tackle with a dominant parent (or older brother, sister) or teacher in your childhood. During your rebellious phase, your tendency towards independence and aggressiveness could have been very annoying for others. You liked to go against the grain, but this was an unconscious way for you to affirm your own identity. It is only some years after that you have understood that it was possible to be respected without confrontation or hierarchical conflicts.

You know how to listen to others while rarely following their advice. You prefer to base yourself on your profound convictions and often the suggestions from others only have substance for your ideas. You like to find original and creative formulas, you don't like to replicate what has already been done. Once you are convinced by an idea, you share it passionately and you can arouse enthusiasm in others. You prefer close, loyal and frank friendships, individual to individual, rather than numerous superficial contacts. You are demanding, and look for change rather than routine. Besides, games and competitions don't frighten you, on the contrary !

Your system of values drive you to take avant-garde initiatives and to persevere in your undertakings, at least as long as you see them as valorizing or motivating. Otherwise you become indifferent quickly as well as demotivated. Watch out, this is one of your weak points. You are quick to innovate, to invent, to put things in place, but you don't always exploit your initiatives. It could even be that others profit from your efforts and harvest more of your fruits than you do. You function essentially according to your degree of confidence. If it was undermined during your youth or if you suddenly doubt yourself (which sometimes happens !), you will lack initiative and assurance and will have the tendency to put failures or abortive attempt down to bad luck and injustice. With this perspective, you will have the tendency to become passive with regard to life and of course less productive or creative. If this continues you could become egoistic and prefer bragging or manipulation to the spirit of enterprise. You will have to wake your sense of initiative up and perseverance in order to renew your relationship with success.

In love, your profound base is such that it is preferable for you to live with a partner who is also gifted with a strong will-power, capable of motivating you as well as supporting you. You have a tendency for openness in love and you approach the relationship directly, with intensity (in all cases, when you have decided). You are energetic sexually and rather unconventional. Loyalty, seduction and reciprocity are the key elements for you to have a satisfying relationship. When the balance is upset, you could become tyrannical or dominating with close ones, unless you use up your aggressiveness at work. In a general way, you need a stable relationship and regular periods of relaxation to get the best out of life. After a disease or an other problem your recover quite quickly due to your important reserve of energy.

Certain conflicting situations or situations that you perceive to be conflicting can lead you to overflow this harmonious frame, setting into some excesses. The simple fact of being conscious of it will help you readjust and avoid these excesses. You are capable of lively mood outbursts, cutting remarks, a great impatience and you become unpleasant very quickly. You are the kind of person who know how to defend itself, and to put others in their place. Luckily, you return to normal quite rapidly. When you lose your balance or support, you become demanding to the utmost on hygiene, rules or other details without real importance. At the extreme, your system of values, centered on yourself, can supply you with pretexts for pride or for monopolizing that which you desire without respecting others, the uses or even the laws. Don't waste your time in sterile hierarchical conflicts, concentrate rather on your dynamism, your will-power, your creativity and above all your healthy independence. These qualities form the system of defense for your personality and strength. With an Intimate Number 1, you will only be happy when you can take precise, clear, firm, serene decisions, and when you stop hesitating faced with numerous choices or facilities you can have. Professionally, you will be comfortable in all activities where you can show your originality, your aptitude to command or to be independent (you don't like receiving orders).

Your Intimate Number is 2.

Priority needs of 2 : A co-operative and gentle atmosphere. Tact in relationship. The preservation of emotional balance. Doesn't like combat. Needs to be associated with someone who makes [him,her] feel complete.

You need to associate yourself, to feel appreciated and loved in order to be able to express yourself fully. Unconsciously, you look for someone who can bring you security (affective or professional). Your base structure is sociable. It's contours are not as harsh and distinct as the Intimate Number 1's. It can be characterized by a certain softness, a gentleness, a desire not to make waves. In fact, you prefer co-operation to confrontations and your principal assets are your aptitude for collaboration, your welcoming sense, your diplomacy and your kindness. It's possible that critics or pressure, which you have been a victim of or witness to during your childhood, made you sensitive to tension and disagreement. You don't like conflicting situations and you react to them quite badly. You have a latent fear of the reaction of your interlocutor which can sometimes hinder you. Don't be too sensitive to the behavior of others. Learn to become detached from it. Your unconscious desire to avoid frictions pushes you, most certainly, to establish harmony and understanding, but sometimes to the point of abandoning your demands in order to avoid confrontation. This is one of your weak points. Watch out for domestic tyrants who will appreciate and exploit your malleability. You suffer if you're not understood or rejected, because you offer tenderness and compassion and wait for the same thing in return.

Such an orientation of your hidden self makes you able to adapt easily to situations and people. You will be particularly productive when working within a group where you will know how to use your qualities, your imagination and your concern for detail with efficiency. You have a good memory, a synthetic vision of things and a certain intuition. In order to reach your objectives, you know better than anyone how to be tactful and open, while using your diplomacy and giving good advice. You would make an excellent negotiator, clever and not coercive. The fact that others harvest a part of the fruits from your labor doesn't inconvenience you because you accept the role of right hand man easily (to relativize according to the other aspects of your analysis).

Your sensitivity and receptivity make you able to evolve easily in the inner and outside worlds. This sensitivity can be seen as a certain prescience of events which one calls intuition, but it will only wake up within you when you have learnt to suppress your intellect a bit in order to feel the situation and listen to you inner self. However, this talent is generally unexploited due to a certain passivity of the 2 on the contrary of the 11. A number 2 Intimate Number gives the qualities of diplomacy necessary to give out love and sympathy, also for commencing a co-operation. Under your likeable and calm appearance, under your accommodating nature and your smile, could hide sometimes a strength and an unexpected tenacity even if you avoid direct confrontation. In effect, you could show cunning and perseverance when you want to obtain something. It's only when you feel pushed to the limit, you could become vindictive and contemptuous.

Your charm and behavior generally incites others to help you. Your success often depends upon the people that you attract to help you or complete you in your undertakings. You appreciate social activities and you accept (sometimes too easily) their game rules. For example you will not call into question an established hierarchy or habit. You grow in marriage because solitude makes you uncomfortable. In love, your profound base makes you particularly sensitive to details concerning your partner as well as atmosphere. You need a partner who knows how to take things in hand, to stimulate you in your communal life while being warm, gentle and sensitive. You could get married out of a concern for security or to avoid feeling alone. You will make a good parent.

Conciliation, sympathy, sensitivity, imagination, courtesy, balance and co-operation are your strong points. The excesses which accompany this vibration can be shyness, a tendency for apathy or depression, indecision, inconsistency and an unbridled imagination. If the conditions necessary for a 2 to feel good are missing, [he, she] will be tiresome, tedious, critical, negative. In becoming aware of this it will help you to find the path of balance, to re-center yourself and regain your self control if that is necessary. Be careful of your sensitivity ; being too emotional can be harmful to your health.

Your Intimate Number is 3.

Priority needs of 3 : To be able to express [him,her]self, to create, to externalize. Doesn't like being put in the shade, being ignored or having [his, her] joy of life tempered.

Your intimate personality is based on your capacity to express yourself well, to create and radiate your joy of living. You need to talk, to write, to communicate, in other words, to express yourself. Your base structure pushes you towards numerous interests. It is versatile, communicative and naturally lively. Contacts and communication are necessary for your stability. It is from this base that you can express yourself best. Love of yourself is very important for you ; it is a quality but can sometimes be a fault. You can easily make your words flowery (exaggeration in order to make your story more interesting), as you don't like the dull and ordinary. You were made for words and you can be fluent, funny and even fascinating (but you privileged image, presentation, anecdote to substance). You need company and friends. Your sociability and ease are assets which allow you to perhaps become a ringleader. Although full of confidence, you can forget promises made beforehand. You are particularly attractive and comfortable with the opposite sex and your life can be full of epic and intriguing experiences of love, if you dare to live them. You are quick to seize things but you need a practical sense in order to balance your overflowing imagination. All that is dull, heavy or too rigorous will impede your need for expression and disturb your confidence in the long run !

You need joy, beauty, leisure activities and possibility of expression. You are optimistic and full of hope for the future. You can desire a luxurious environment, or in all cases comfortable with good taste. Your home is pleasantly decorated (your creative side), your guests feel welcome there.

In love, your profound base needs emotional harmony. The duration of your relationship depends on it. You are deeply affectionate and need your partner to prove [his, her] affection in return. Otherwise you can become aggressive. You like colorful environments, verbal communication, all things that will present you on your best. You look for peace and balance in your home and prefer a partner who is strong and responsible.

Your overflowing imagination sometimes needs to be controlled to avoid scattering and losses of time. You don't disperse yourself so much and attach yourself to the practical aspect of things. Your need to be noticed must not push you to delusion, exaggerating or melodramatic scenes. Know how to moderate this constant need to be the center of attention. This reflex belongs to the number 3 vibration : in a conflict, you opt to impress your adversary by diverse tricks. You can also be unpleasant in situations with strong competition. In this case, all your expressive qualities are degraded in a system of defense centered on criticism, lying and craftiness. You can be prone to underhand behavior and also to hold excessive grudges. Don't fall into this mediocrity ; avoid this trap. Due to the love of talking, you could forget to listen (it's not polite). You can be deeply hurt when you are ignored. If you feel rejected, you can slowly lose all esteem in yourself and become unproductive. Don't let this bitterness or these complexes check your creativity and growth ; this would really be a pity. In channeling your self-love and your expression in a balance fashion, you can propel yourself to the peaks of creativity and prestige, so don't waste your talent.

Your Intimate Number is 4.

Priority needs of 4 : Stability, security, clear rules and an established protocol. Don't like to be rushed or plunged into uncertainties or doubt. Can become annoying and difficult to live with if it's base is perturbed.

You need a stable life with a secure environment. You look for a solid foundation to build your life. The basic values on which you learn are loyalty, honesty, uprightness, prudence, logic and order. You are full of confidence and quite devoted. Your natural instinct pushes you towards realism and to regularly carry out the work which comes up because in fact, you search for a solid foundation for your life, affairs and home.

The symbol of the 4 is the square and the unconscious base of your personality look like a square. You are pushed to resolve problems and delicate situations which come to you through a methodical way of working, regular effort and logic. Your approach to things is full of good sense and often tinted with wisdom when you start to have more experience. As long as the work which keeps you occupied doesn't respect your criteria of quality or achievement, you will not show great interest for fun, leisure or idleness (to relativize according to the other aspects of your analysis). You can easily be proud of what you accomplish. Although you are used to discipline, you can sometimes feel enclosed or limited by circumstances. In this case, your frustration accumulates progressively until it explodes ! It would be preferable to learn how to expose your problems and to communicate better rather than accumulating such tension.

You need to live in a civilized world, well organized (secure surroundings, known rules) where people are reliable and straightforward, frank and loyal. Scandalmongering and double dealing repulse you. You like to advance at your own pace and build with order and method. You are very comfortable when you work for a cause in which you can place all your confidence and esteem. In such a case, you like to help others. But watch out, malicious minds can profit from you or your work. A great part of the image that you have of yourself is based on what you or your family accomplish. Property, social status and success are very important for your personal security (or self confidence) and it is not very likely that you will take risks, compromising this security. This tendency can push you to immobilism and you risk missing opportunities ! It would be good for others to shake you sometimes, so that your rhythm and capacity to bounce back increases. Your need to respect the norms, to base yourself on tangible proof rather than ideas, ideals or emotions, could restrain your faculty for innovation, your fantasy and even your creativity. It is unlikely, unfortunately, that you will show audacity and originality (except if vibrations 1, 3, 5, 8, 9 or 11 have a good place in your numerological theme). It would also be profitable for you if you give more importance to intuition and require less material proofs. But it's difficult for you to change your habits.

It is important that you know how to protect yourself from all that could make you lose your stability and balance. This menace could arise from those around you if they push you to the paths of agitation, scattering or dishonesty. It could also come from your own mind if your emotions become excessive or your vision too negative or too materialist. Your pessimism could then blind you. Remember that if you call frustration you will receive it. However, your psychological structure is generally solid (combative, tenacious and stable) and rests on very marked intimate convictions. If it is disturbed, you lose your footing and become bewildered. First you withdraw in yourself. Later you come back with an obstinate but rather defensive return (your counter-attack). In such a case, only a logical and patient approach can bring you to accept an honorable compromise.

If you don't like your profession, all those who surround you will feel it and suffer. If you don't receive compensation or praise for your work, your effort or your progress, your image of yourself will suffer. You can also become absolutely jealous (or hostile) of those who seem to receive more than they merit. Your general attitude is conservative. This number is often showing little respect for passive people without real ambition or always looking for excuses. All these dispositions mean that you don't like to involve yourself in a group very much and you only have a moderate appreciation of small talk.

In love, your profound base is ardent, but generally you can control your passion. You are usually uncomfortable when you must use the pretense sometimes involved in the game of seduction. You need frank, loyal and if possible, long-lasting relationships. In marriage, you find a certain comfort and security. A harmonious and comfortable family life allows you to find your balance. You can sacrifice yourself for your family, especially if you place your pride in it. When certain boundaries are stepped over, you can also become very severe. This applies in your family and at work.

Your Intimate Number is 5.

Priority needs of 5 : To feel free and versatile. Great need to construct [his, her] life from this power of growth or expansion. Doesn't like rigid limits being set on [him,her] or being commanded.

Your fundamental point of support is your feeling of freedom, the impression that there is no hindrance to your unconscious desire for expansion, your need to experiment with some of the many possibilities that life offers. It is necessary for you to be able to move, change, innovate, get out of narrow environments, discover and conquer. You like to live intensely. Vivacity, curiosity and a certain combativeness characterize your base. You are sensual, carefree and have an open mind too.

You are pushed to discover and overcome your own limits. Travelling, meeting new people, competition and games excite you a lot. You like to rove rather than attaching yourself to people or places, and you are rather anti-conformist in your convictions. The stable base which you need in order to express yourself well is in fact very dynamic. It can't put up with being suffocated or deprived of expansion due to sterile rules. If your environment becomes too oppressive, you try to make yourself scarce, to live elsewhere. When this isn't possible, you can rebel and openly flaunt this liberty to which you hold on to so much. This risks displeasing some, particularly if you fall into the excess of provocation. Don't forget that you must conserve your free-will in order to grow and avoid sterile rebellion.

You prefer to participate in events rather than keeping your distance. You have an open mind very vivacious but you know how to play seriously with words and ideas too. It is one of your major qualities. It allows you to deal with diverse people. You like to surpass yourself (sport is essential for your well-being), gain more knowledge and understand your environment. Even philosophy can interest you. You have so many different aptitudes that you find it difficult to concentrate on one thing in particular. Hindrance, delay, slowness irritate you. Routine suffocates you. If your job doesn't satisfy you, you will know how to give yourself outside activities. Besides, life is too short to waste time (it's your philosophy). You quickly become uncomfortable when people try to fathom out your deep psychology because you fear that your personality will be assimilated with superficiality. You avoid these attacks by using humor, rhetoric and your intellectual mobility. This quality is the major characteristic of your Intimate Number. In the case of a conflict, this system of defense renders you unseizable, this makes your strength.

You like to learn, to tempt new things and define new approaches. Vibration 5 is an excellent impulse of growth, from which you learn to find lessons in your experiences. If you lack confidence, you will have the tendency to repeat the same experiences in an almost infantile manner, without any apprenticeship. Take a step back from your experiences, this will help you to assimilate the substance. If you haven't succeeded to reach this maturity, you will probably fall into the excesses of this number : negligence, superficiality, a tendency for alienation through the senses or fleeing to artificial pleasures. Learn to select the experiences that will benefit your balance judiciously and avoid those that bring nothing good. Know that the secret of your happiness lies in your capacity to accept the magic of present well-being and not to run all the time after the new, the sensational. Know how to enjoy the present as it happens. Sports activities will be welcome for your balance.

In love you need to seduce others, to please yourself and to a lesser degree, to give pleasure. Your profound base pushes you to appreciate company of the opposite sex. You have a lot to give for as long as you stay close to your companion. Your need for freedom and your repulsion of routine makes sentimental attachment difficult and you are inclined to flirt and to flightiness. You prefer sexual variety, the unusual. You are very sensual and you appreciate when there is a good rhythm. In marriage, you like to feel free and all will depend on the attitude of your partner who will have to seduce and attract you, but never suffocate you. It is difficult for you to adapt to the demands of a family and home, but if you are satisfied by it, you will know how to be very attractive and amusing.

Your Intimate Number is 6.

Priority needs of 6 : Harmony, communication, exchange, balance and refinement. A great need to have pacifying and conciliating options respected. Doesn't like pressure or aggressiveness. Renders service spontaneously but doesn't like too many obligations. Doesn't appreciate things or person that lack elegance, cutting remarks, vulgarity, coercion.

This number is the vibration of responsibility, of helping others, justice and family life. Emotional harmony and peace are necessary for your balance, they form the stable base which you need. Your thoughts turn naturally towards others and the needs of loved ones ; you are thoughtful, conciliating, helpful and generally appreciated. This sentiment of duty towards others seems to be an intrinsic part of your nature. Unfortunately, certain people interpret these qualities as a form of weakness, completely inadequate to a cold, hard world and they will attempt to exploit you. Prove them wrong by showing that a noble heart is powerful.

When you concentrate on yourself, you will have the reflex to take your responsibilities, to assume them with uprightness and conscientiousness. You could make an excellent leader. People will find you to be warm an human, a refuge for those who need assistance, advice or attention. You feel the intimate need to establish harmony around you and if you don't succeed, you can become destabilized. Don't accept all engagement so easily (material and moral) because an excess of responsibilities will make you lose your efficiency. You are sometimes lead to lie because you don't know how to say "no" to those who want your help. The sense of duty, justice and the search for harmony constitute your favorite areas. Friends are very important for you and you are particularly sensitive to the approval and praise that others give you. Often, you believe that you know what is best for others and you want to intervene even if you are not invited to do so. Beware ! It is not always adequate. Your balance and happiness are a result of a better acceptance of yourself and others. Don't try to take the misery of the world onto your shoulders, think also of your own well-being. Your health can suffer if you make such a mistake.

You force yourself to live according to the conventions of society, but you know how to modify your attitude when it's a matter of responding to an immediate need, more particularly if it's a matter of going to the aid of someone. Be careful not to get involved in interdependent relationships which are too complex, because this could impede your freedom ! Although particularly sensitive to the atmosphere of places and people, you can sometimes become suspicious or on the contrary credulous when faced with a new interlocutor. Beware ! When you feel aggressed or that your emotional base is threatened, you could become completely illogical. You find rejection of your natural helpfulness difficult. If your approach is assimilated to an interested attitude or if you discover that people try to exploit you, you feel offended and show those around you an indignant and dismissing attitude for quite a long time. You must also take care of the atmosphere. The negative feelings that surround you can sometimes make you melancholic, discouraged and cut into your energy.

Faced with conflicts, your Intimate Number has an almost chivalrous strategy. In order to safeguard this harmony that please you so much, your natural reflex is to take the sting out of the conflict even if you have to loose some grounds or some of your advantages. You show your moral principals, adopt a civilized and conciliating behavior to bring your adversary to see reason. You are ready to forgive a lot. This strategy is efficient as long as the protagonists are civilized and also convinced of the worth of co-operation. What happens with the others ? You wait patiently until your tolerance limit is exceeded and then become astonishingly inflexible because you think that the attitude of your adversary presents a danger for the community. But how do you know where is the limit of tolerable ? You don't have a precise idea. This fuzzy image allows everyone with sufficient craftiness to manipulate you at leisure, being careful not to step over certain limits.

In love, your profound base is sentimental, idealistic, considerate and protective. Emotional harmony is necessary for your sexual growth. Your general balance depends a large part on your sentimental balance and the harmony around you. Discord and battlefields displease you greatly. You rarely make offensive remarks. You are sincerely capable of affection and sacrifice. When doubt enters a relationship, you can become possessive, jealous, vindictive or reject the one you love. You are very attracted by beauty and you are sensual. You need luxury, comfort and pleasure. You were made for family life. Every day, the pleasure of giving assistance and being generous finds an echo in your heart. You like to give pleasure by lavishing help, presents and affection. Know also, how to receive. Once you have found the ideal companion (your desire for perfection sometimes makes the choice difficult), the home can become a source of joy for all those who enter it.

Your Intimate Number is 7.

Priority needs of 7 : The preservation of [his, her] secret garden and tranquility of [his, her] world. The construction of a solid inner structure, the exploration of areas of knowledge and [his, her] own psychology before turning to the outside and towards others.

This is an intellectual vibration, reserved and sometimes wise. You lean on your sense of analysis, on your capacities of observation, reflection and introspection. Your functioning is independent, your power of concentration and analysis are as important as your calm. These qualities form the stable base which you lean on to grow.

Your personality gives off a strong feeling of self-knowledge, and a little severe impartial temperament. Words aren't always necessary when such a strong personality affirms itself. Anyway, this is what you believe. In discussion, you can disarm your interlocutor in feigning not to understand what [he, she] means and asking [him,her] to be more precise. You are a profound thinker and you know how to expose your beliefs with determination. Logical and cerebral, it is difficult for you to deviate from your position. This aptitude to decorticate facts adds to your tendency to consider your intellectual capacities as a power tool can intimidate those around you. In case of conflict, your Intimate Number could be assimilated to a black knight (or the black fortress), the one who inspires a certain fear because [he, she] symbolizes the unknown, the mysterious. You impress your opponent because he is never sure of the way you will react. It is difficult to anticipate your behavior when faced with a conflict whose outcome is important to you (you can bounce back or trap yourself in a long sulk mixed with grudge). This secret side is the key to your defensive strategy.

Your singularity rests in your faculty of reflection and interiorisation. When there is a conflict or tension and you take refuge in your Intimate Number, you become very dignified, serious and even stoic ; you deepen the question, you reflect and you end up finding a solution which is often original, logical or energetic. You mustn't lose sight of the practical aspect of things. Not everything can be solved through the intellect. To overestimate the possibilities of mental knowledge will push you to become arrogant and deprive yourself not only of intuitive information but more importantly could impede your ability to make the most of the good moments of life. If you are ready to combine intuition, practical sense and spontaneity with reasoned knowledge, you can then reach a superior success.

Unconsciously, you need a calm and solitary life, or at least independent, in order to lead your personal quest. Your faculty of interiorisation give you a secret garden, a sacred refuge which you don't like others to penetrate. You don't appreciate pressure, quick changes of rhythm or questions which are too personal (or that can show one of your weakness you try to hide). Despite that, you don't mind observing and analyzing others. In fact, your base structure pushes you naturally towards analysis, thoughts and other intellectual work. It could allow the best among you to profound reflections and even to achieve notorious discoveries, especially in the scientific area.

In love, the main ingredient of your profound base is the intellectual relationship with your partner. A sentimental relationship, according to you, must above all, be loyal and not menace your autonomy. The inflexibility of your attitudes can make you reserved and distant when it comes to emotions or sensuality easily (to relativize according to the other aspects of your analysis). You have an uncertain confidence in your feelings. Learn to be comfortable with them without trying to contain or analyze them. Then you will be capable of deep and long lasting sentiments.

What are the possible excesses of such a vibration ? A mind which criticizes too easily, a lack of human warmth and a certain intellectual vanity. Isolation and melancholy leading to a spiral of negative thoughts is also possible.

Your Intimate Number is 8.

Priority needs of 8 : A mixture of power and mastery. Great need to master the situation. A drive to express power in the material area. Doesn't appreciate people trying to reduce [his, her] value or prestige.

This vibration carries strength of character, an aptitude to carry things out, success (often financial), power and leadership. You appreciate healthy rivalry and you are at your peak when you are in charge of a successful project. Prestige, audacity and competitiveness are the corner stones of your edifice. In order to express yourself well (see Expression Number), you must feel independent, ambitious and have the feeling of being master of the situation. You need to make yourself feel worthy in the material world by accepting challenges. Your natural cold-blooded qualities and combativeness linked to your efficiency, help you to succeed and reach prosperity as long as you show a certain self-discipline. You have an unshakeable faith in your capacity to master any situation at home or in business, when you attach importance to it or you feel that your territory is threatened. This is typical of the Intimate Number 8. You count on your pugnacity, cold-blood, your impressive courage as well as your surprising capacity to get back up after a failure or an illness (due to your inner energy). You are capable of putting up an amazing fighting spirit that can lean sometimes towards the aggressive side. You can quickly become impulsive or suddenly intolerant, but happily it doesn't last long.

Materialistic and turned towards efficiency (rather than chattering, hesitation or scattering), you possess a great lucidity and a good intellectual analysis. Your personal opinions are generally well defined. A remarkable psychological finesse, a sense of opportunity and a spontaneous enthusiasm can make you an excellent manager, demanding and respected, but often generous. However, lucidity and psychological finesse don't always go hand in hand with tact and diplomacy and you sometimes lack them completely. If it is sometimes conceivable to relegate the human dimension to second place when it's a matter if organizing, managing or solving important problems, it would be better not to make a habit of it !

It is important for you to feel that you have power in the areas that you approach, that you can master the situation. The feeling of controlling things is the best stimulant for your confidence and creativity. When you have these, you are ready to invest all of your power, intelligence and efficiency. You are led by a strong inner will-power that can sometimes change to stubbornness (careful) and consequently lead you to make errors of judgment. You need to feel that nobody is trying to limit your vital space, restrain you or put you down, otherwise you become particularly inflexible and impulsive. If you feel that events escape you, you will certainly become intolerant and aggressive. Fortunately, you know how to pull yourself together again.

You usually get your power from your cold-blood and when you stumble, which doesn't often happen, it is because you wanted to force destiny. You love yourself and you use this as a mask to hide your deep emotions. You hesitate in externalizing your tenderness from fear (more or less unconscious) that others will see it as weakness, which would compromise your influence and prestige. This mask is harmful to your personal balance because feelings like tenderness and generosity exist in you and they must find a way to externalize themselves.

In love, it looks like all or nothing. Your profound structure requires that you assert yourself (through the importance of the role you play) and that you feel your partner respects you. If it's not the case, your relationship will not grow sentimentally. In the case where it does, you will appear to be benevolent, fair, kind, magnetic and seductive. You prefer a strong, competent partner who is a winner and knows how to stimulate you. You can also appreciate the company of someone who has a good potential, where you take pleasure in waking this potential up and helping it grow. Symbols of success attract you and your partner could be a part of this. If success doesn't come, your manners will be cold, harsh and sometimes suspicious. You could also behave in a particularly demanding manner with your family and collaborators. Searching for more self-confidence you could in this case multiply your sexual conquests.

Your Intimate Number is 9.

Priority needs of 9 : A means to express sensitivity (artistic or humanistic), ideals and ideas. Doesn't appreciate rigor, harshness or coldness. A feeling of elevation is necessary for well-being.

You need to feel that your base is made from humanism, ideal and that your behavior is not egoistic, scheming or base. The feeling of participating towards making the world better is very important for you. It could be devoting yourself to others, helping them without an ulterior motive, investing you in an ideal (including technological progress if it is beneficial for the world). Your whole structure needs to experience the feeling of elevation and openness in order to be able to express yourself fully (see Expression Number). This latent impression of globalness and the presence of an ideal is necessary if you are to function well. If your ideals are criticized or your principles ridiculed, you will put up a great fight. In general, your mind prefers to be occupied with whole ideas rather than the details. Where others only perceive material aspects, you often glimpse great possibilities and you could be an enlightened rather than authoritarian leader. One could say that your are an idealist, generous, capable of compassion, tolerance and gifted with a great sensitivity.

Although you don't particularly chase after material possessions, you seem to be equipped with a certain luck and generally disposed with a good standard of life, where you can exercise your generosity and natural altruism without having to concern yourself too much with material contingencies. Besides, you don't really like that which demands rigor and exactness (at work or for household), except if it links directly with your ideal. You lean on a base made up of a great sensitivity which you can use in different ways. This quality could be transformed into a real talent in one or more of these domains : music, the arts, writing, fashion, cooking (at a high level), inventions, exploration, new techniques, audio-visual, etc. Your sensitivity can also be expressed through a humanistic vocation. There is a healthy humility in you, perhaps due to your open-mindedness. You will be comfortable in all activities which allow you to reach a feeling of elevation, refinement and moral grandeur. Inertia, heaviness and monotony will be handicaps for you.

However, too much sensitivity also has disadvantages. As long as you haven't acquired the indispensable maturity to overcome the hazards of life, you risk falling into the classic excesses of this vibration. You could easily be manipulated even if you don't recognize it. Your slightly extreme sensitivity can drive you to short-lived periods of apathy, pessimism and depression after phases of liveliness, joy and hectic activities. An excess of naivety and enthusiasm can sometimes lead you to commit some errors of appreciation which make room for a negative vision or give a bad image of yourself. If you are very annoyed or frustrated, you could become envious, vindictive, obstinate, bitter and even anarchistic. Egoism, pride and rejection of others are also possible excesses of the Intimate Number 9. These attitudes can be corrections following an openness or excessive generosity which don't bring the expected fruits. You help others willingly with the condition that you can preserve your identity, your elevated feeling and that you harvest a minimum of respect.

In love, there is again this need to be open, the search for an ideal. Your profound base can make you fall passionately in love, but your quest for the ideal can mask the reality from you, which will emerge sooner or later. Then you risk being disappointed. You look for sympathy and proof of love from the one that you love and you know how to be generous in return. You appreciate non-conformist people who see far. You quest of the absolute can be a handicap for your sentimental happiness. Be less demanding.

Your Intimate Number is 11, which is a master number, in other words, a vibration which is a lot more intense and subtle.

Priority needs of 11 : To make the link between inner richness and the outside world, to externalize [his, her] inspiration.

The number 2 vibration already confers the faculties of receptivity and sensitivity slightly superior to the average ; the number 11 vibration will allow you to approach even more subtle strengths. The 11 vibration can be distinguished mainly by an accrued capacity to take important decisions and to manage life, which are areas where the Intimate Number 2 is generally hesitant and passive. If the 11 vibration is lived correctly, it will bring inspiration, magnetism, intuition and a great energy. Unconsciously, you need to succeed in the material world and win recognition through your knowledge and your refined mind, which gives you a very subtle perception of things and people. Your inner strength pushes you to use your inspiration, to hurl yourself onto difficult routes and surpass appearances. You look to the future and ideals. It is important for you to help society evolve. In love, your profound base is very idealistic and it can push you to search for perfection. This great energy can also mean a well affirmed character and perhaps a tendency to believe yourself to be superior and to show off, because 11 has a secret desire to be liked and admired by everybody. 11 is made up of a double 1, which is a double impulsive energy of life and individuality. As it's sum, 2, this vibration invite to union, co-operation but on a higher register. So the ambiguity of this master number is resumed. An Intimate Number 11 gives great ambitions and a lot of passion for everything undertaken. Value 11 is a profitable support for your success which often means through a management function. The excesses of this vibration are : sometimes dangerous emotions (fanaticism), a use of these psychic talents for a dishonest purpose, intolerance, lack of interest for household, a lack of tact and from good sense that can bring a break up of a relationship.

However, this very intense vibration (sometimes source of nervous tension) will often be lived as a 2, while bringing you a slightly accrued inner strength and sensitivity.

Your Intimate Number is 2 coming from 11.

Priority needs of 2 : A co-operative and gentle atmosphere. Tact in relationship. The preservation of emotional balance. Doesn't like combat. Needs to be associated with someone who makes [him,her] feel complete.

You need to associate yourself, to feel appreciated and loved in order to be able to express yourself fully. Unconsciously, you look for someone who can bring you security (affective or professional). Your base structure is sociable. It's contours are not as harsh and distinct as the Intimate Number 1's. It can be characterized by a certain softness, a gentleness, a desire not to make waves. In fact, you prefer co-operation to confrontations and your principal assets are your aptitude for collaboration, your welcoming sense, your diplomacy and your kindness. It's possible that critics or pressure, which you have been a victim of or witness to during your childhood, made you sensitive to tension and disagreement. You don't like conflicting situations and you react to them quite badly. You have a latent fear of the reaction of your interlocutor which can sometimes hinder you. Don't be too sensitive to the behavior of others. Learn to become detached from it. Your unconscious desire to avoid frictions pushes you, most certainly, to establish harmony and understanding, but sometimes to the point of abandoning your demands in order to avoid confrontation. This is one of your weak points. Watch out for domestic tyrants who will appreciate and exploit your malleability. You suffer if you're not understood or rejected, because you offer tenderness and compassion and wait for the same thing in return.

Such an orientation of your hidden self makes you able to adapt easily to situations and people. You will be particularly productive when working within a group where you will know how to use your qualities, your imagination and your concern for detail with efficiency. You have a good memory, a synthetic vision of things and a certain intuition. In order to reach your objectives, you know better than anyone how to be tactful and open, while using your diplomacy and giving good advice. You would make an excellent negotiator, clever and not coercive. The fact that others harvest a part of the fruits from your labor doesn't inconvenience you because you accept the role of right hand man easily (to relativize according to the other aspects of your analysis).

Your sensitivity and receptivity make you able to evolve easily in the inner and outside worlds. This sensitivity can be seen as a certain prescience of events which one calls intuition, but it will only wake up within you when you have learnt to suppress your intellect a bit in order to feel the situation and listen to you inner self. However, this talent is generally unexploited due to a certain passivity of the 2 on the contrary of the 11. A number 2 Intimate Number gives the qualities of diplomacy necessary to give out love and sympathy, also for commencing a co-operation. Under your likeable and calm appearance, under your accommodating nature and your smile, could hide sometimes a strength and an unexpected tenacity even if you avoid direct confrontation. In effect, you could show cunning and perseverance when you want to obtain something. It's only when you feel pushed to the limit, you could become vindictive and contemptuous.

Your charm and behavior generally incites others to help you. Your success often depends upon the people that you attract to help you or complete you in your undertakings. You appreciate social activities and you accept (sometimes too easily) their game rules. For example you will not call into question an established hierarchy or habit. You grow in marriage because solitude makes you uncomfortable. In love, your profound base makes you particularly sensitive to details concerning your partner as well as atmosphere. You need a partner who knows how to take things in hand, to stimulate you in your communal life while being warm, gentle and sensitive. You could get married out of a concern for security or to avoid feeling alone. You will make a good parent.

Conciliation, sympathy, sensitivity, imagination, courtesy, balance and co-operation are your strong points. The excesses which accompany this vibration can be shyness, a tendency for apathy or depression, indecision, inconsistency and an unbridled imagination. If the conditions necessary for a 2 to feel good are missing, [he, she] will be tiresome, tedious, critical, negative. In becoming aware of this it will help you to find the path of balance, to re-center yourself and regain your self control if that is necessary. Be careful of your sensitivity ; being too emotional can be harmful to your health.

Your Intimate Number is 22. If your base structure is in 22 (which is rare) it will make you a very unusual person, gifted with a superior intelligence, inner strengths and a creative genius which you will use essentially for construction, inventing, organizing and administrating. Your priority need once you have reached a certain mastery, consists of externalizing your creative power. This is linked to great achievements and marked with altruism and the improvement of life for your fellow men. It is in this way that you need to reveal yourself to yourself and to others. Your capacity for work is considerable. Your overall view and your humanistic ideals are your other characteristics. In order to function at such a level, your base structure must have an excellent hygiene of life and privileged relationships with loved ones (otherwise the life as a single person is preferable).

However, this very intense vibration will generally live as a 4, sometimes with an accrued caliber or strength for work.

Your Intimate Number is 4 coming from 22.

Priority needs of 4 : Stability, security, clear rules and an established protocol. Don't like to be rushed or plunged into uncertainties or doubt. Can become annoying and difficult to live with if it's base is perturbed.

You need a stable life with a secure environment. You look for a solid foundation to build your life. The basic values on which you learn are loyalty, honesty, uprightness, prudence, logic and order. You are full of confidence and quite devoted. Your natural instinct pushes you towards realism and to regularly carry out the work which comes up because in fact, you search for a solid foundation for your life, affairs and home.

The symbol of the 4 is the square and the unconscious base of your personality look like a square. You are pushed to resolve problems and delicate situations which come to you through a methodical way of working, regular effort and logic. Your approach to things is full of good sense and often tinted with wisdom when you start to have more experience. As long as the work which keeps you occupied doesn't respect your criteria of quality or achievement, you will not show great interest for fun, leisure or idleness (to relativize according to the other aspects of your analysis). You can easily be proud of what you accomplish. Although you are used to discipline, you can sometimes feel enclosed or limited by circumstances. In this case, your frustration accumulates progressively until it explodes ! It would be preferable to learn how to expose your problems and to communicate better rather than accumulating such tension.

You need to live in a civilized world, well organized (secure surroundings, known rules) where people are reliable and straightforward, frank and loyal. Scandalmongering and double dealing repulse you. You like to advance at your own pace and build with order and method. You are very comfortable when you work for a cause in which you can place all your confidence and esteem. In such a case, you like to help others. But watch out, malicious minds can profit from you or your work. A great part of the image that you have of yourself is based on what you or your family accomplish. Property, social status and success are very important for your personal security (or self confidence) and it is not very likely that you will take risks, compromising this security. This tendency can push you to immobilism and you risk missing opportunities ! It would be good for others to shake you sometimes, so that your rhythm and capacity to bounce back increases. Your need to respect the norms, to base yourself on tangible proof rather than ideas, ideals or emotions, could restrain your faculty for innovation, your fantasy and even your creativity. It is unlikely, unfortunately, that you will show audacity and originality (except if vibrations 1, 3, 5, 8, 9 or 11 have a good place in your numerological theme). It would also be profitable for you if you give more importance to intuition and require less material proofs. But it's difficult for you to change your habits.

It is important that you know how to protect yourself from all that could make you lose your stability and balance. This menace could arise from those around you if they push you to the paths of agitation, scattering or dishonesty. It could also come from your own mind if your emotions become excessive or your vision too negative or too materialist. Your pessimism could then blind you. Remember that if you call frustration you will receive it. However, your psychological structure is generally solid (combative, tenacious and stable) and rests on very marked intimate convictions. If it is disturbed, you lose your footing and become bewildered. First you withdraw in yourself. Later you come back with an obstinate but rather defensive return (your counter-attack). In such a case, only a logical and patient approach can bring you to accept an honorable compromise.

If you don't like your profession, all those who surround you will feel it and suffer. If you don't receive compensation or praise for your work, your effort or your progress, your image of yourself will suffer. You can also become absolutely jealous (or hostile) of those who seem to receive more than they merit. Your general attitude is conservative. This number is often showing little respect for passive people without real ambition or always looking for excuses. All these dispositions mean that you don't like to involve yourself in a group very much and you only have a moderate appreciation of small talk.

In love, your profound base is ardent, but generally you can control your passion. You are usually uncomfortable when you must use the pretense sometimes involved in the game of seduction. You need frank, loyal and if possible, long-lasting relationships. In marriage, you find a certain comfort and security. A harmonious and comfortable family life allows you to find your balance. You can sacrifice yourself for your family, especially if you place your pride in it. When certain boundaries are stepped over, you can also become very severe. This applies in your family and at work.

Your Intimate Number is 33. This is an absolutely exceptional base where the vibrations are very strong and particularly subtle. If this is really your case, you will have the profound feeling of having an important mission to assist the human race. 33 is a fair and responsible person, in love with compassion and altruism. [He, She] is capable of understanding peoples' needs. This is a person with superior intelligence, educated or self-taught, and who has a global vision of things and a lot of wisdom. The principal characteristic of such an Intimate Number is the respect of life (people and nature). Unconsciously, the 33 needs to help the human being and often guide it. [His, Her] interest for humanity is very strong and is often accompanied by the acceptance of personal sacrifice. Usually, the presence of such a vibration will reinforce your qualities of responsibility, harmonization and protection, which you live at level 6.

Your Intimate Number is 6 coming from the master number 33.

Priority needs of 6 : Harmony, communication, exchange, balance and refinement. A great need to have pacifying and conciliating options respected. Doesn't like pressure or aggressiveness. Renders service spontaneously but doesn't like too many obligations. Doesn't appreciate things or person that lack elegance, cutting remarks, vulgarity, coercion.

This number is the vibration of responsibility, of helping others, justice and family life. Emotional harmony and peace are necessary for your balance, they form the stable base which you need. Your thoughts turn naturally towards others and the needs of loved ones ; you are thoughtful, conciliating, helpful and generally appreciated. This sentiment of duty towards others seems to be an intrinsic part of your nature. Unfortunately, certain people interpret these qualities as a form of weakness, completely inadequate to a cold, hard world and they will attempt to exploit you. Prove them wrong by showing that a noble heart is powerful.

When you concentrate on yourself, you will have the reflex to take your responsibilities, to assume them with uprightness and conscientiousness. You could make an excellent leader. People will find you to be warm an human, a refuge for those who need assistance, advice or attention. You feel the intimate need to establish harmony around you and if you don't succeed, you can become destabilized. Don't accept all engagement so easily (material and moral) because an excess of responsibilities will make you lose your efficiency. You are sometimes lead to lie because you don't know how to say "no" to those who want your help. The sense of duty, justice and the search for harmony constitute your favorite areas. Friends are very important for you and you are particularly sensitive to the approval and praise that others give you. Often, you believe that you know what is best for others and you want to intervene even if you are not invited to do so. Beware ! It is not always adequate. Your balance and happiness are a result of a better acceptance of yourself and others. Don't try to take the misery of the world onto your shoulders, think also of your own well-being. Your health can suffer if you make such a mistake.

You force yourself to live according to the conventions of society, but you know how to modify your attitude when it's a matter of responding to an immediate need, more particularly if it's a matter of going to the aid of someone. Be careful not to get involved in interdependent relationships which are too complex, because this could impede your freedom ! Although particularly sensitive to the atmosphere of places and people, you can sometimes become suspicious or on the contrary credulous when faced with a new interlocutor. Beware ! When you feel aggressed or that your emotional base is threatened, you could become completely illogical. You find rejection of your natural helpfulness difficult. If your approach is assimilated to an interested attitude or if you discover that people try to exploit you, you feel offended and show those around you an indignant and dismissing attitude for quite a long time. You must also take care of the atmosphere. The negative feelings that surround you can sometimes make you melancholic, discouraged and cut into your energy.

Faced with conflicts, your Intimate Number has an almost chivalrous strategy. In order to safeguard this harmony that please you so much, your natural reflex is to take the sting out of the conflict even if you have to loose some grounds or some of your advantages. You show your moral principals, adopt a civilized and conciliating behavior to bring your adversary to see reason. You are ready to forgive a lot. This strategy is efficient as long as the protagonists are civilized and also convinced of the worth of co-operation. What happens with the others ? You wait patiently until your tolerance limit is exceeded and then become astonishingly inflexible because you think that the attitude of your adversary presents a danger for the community. But how do you know where is the limit of tolerable ? You don't have a precise idea. This fuzzy image allows everyone with sufficient craftiness to manipulate you at leisure, being careful not to step over certain limits.

In love, your profound base is sentimental, idealistic, considerate and protective. Emotional harmony is necessary for your sexual growth. Your general balance depends a large part on your sentimental balance and the harmony around you. Discord and battlefields displease you greatly. You rarely make offensive remarks. You are sincerely capable of affection and sacrifice. When doubt enters a relationship, you can become possessive, jealous, vindictive or reject the one you love. You are very attracted by beauty and you are sensual. You need luxury, comfort and pleasure. You were made for family life. Every day, the pleasure of giving assistance and being generous finds an echo in your heart. You like to give pleasure by lavishing help, presents and affection. Know also, how to receive. Once you have found the ideal companion (your desire for perfection sometimes makes the choice difficult), the home can become a source of joy for all those who enter it.

For a more basic overview of what your Intimate Number means, visit our Quick Guide to your Intimate Number.