The Soul Urge or as it is sometimes called, the heart's desire, is an important
core influence in numerology. This number is made up from the vowels (a, e,
i, o and u, and w and y when they are used as a vowel) in your full name. A
Y is a vowel when there is no other vowel in a syllable (Lynn or Carolyn) and
when it is preceded by a vowel and sounded as one sound (Hayden). A W is
a vowel when it is preceded by a vowel and sounded as one sound (Howell).
The sum of all of these letter, converted to numbers, and reduced to a single
number or a master number is your Soul Urge. This means your inner craving,
likes and dislikes. This number denotes what you value most regardless of
Life Path (what you are from birth) and expression (what you will become in
life).
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2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
11
22
Your Soul Urge is the number 1. With a Soul Urge number of 1, you want to
lead and direct, to work independent of supervision, by yourself or with
subordinates. You take pride in you abilities and want to be recognized for
them. You may seek opportunities to display your strength and usefulness,
wanting to create and originate. In your desire to manage the big picture and
the main issues, you may often leave the details to others.
The positive 1 Soul Urge is Ambitious and determined, a leader seeking
opportunities. There is a great deal of honesty and loyalty in this character. If
you possess positive 1 Soul Urge qualities, you are very attainment oriented
and driven to success. You are a loyal friend and strictly fair in your business
dealings.
The negative side of the 1 Soul Urge must be avoided. A negative 1 is apt to
dominate situations and people; the home, the spouse, the family and the
business. Emotions aren't strong in this nature. If you possess an excess of 1
energy, you may, at times, be boastful and egotistic. You must avoid being
too critical and impatient of trifles. The great need of the 1 Soul Urge is the
development of friendliness, and a sincere interest in people.
With the Soul Urge number 2, your motivation is centered on friendships,
partnerships, and companionship. You want to work with others as a part of
a cooperative team. Leadership is not important to you, but making a
contribution to the team effort is. You are willing to work hard to achieve a
harmonious environment with sensitive, genial people.
In a positive sense, the 2 Soul Urge is sympathetic, extremely concerned and
devoted. The nature tends to be very sensitive to others, always tactful and
diplomatic. This element in your nature indicates that you are rather emotional.
You are persuasive, but in a very quiet way, never forceful. You are the type
that makes really close friendships because you are so affectionate and loving.
If this number is over-emphasized in your makeup, you may be over-sensitive,
with a delicate ego that is too easily hurt. You may be timid or fearful, too
easygoing for your own good.
With the Soul Urge number 3 your desire in life is personal expression, and
generally enjoying life to its fullest. You want to participate in an active social
life and enjoy a large circle of friends. You want to be in the limelight,
expressing your artistic or intellectual talents. Word skills may be your thing;
speaking, writing, acting, singing. In a positive sense, the 3 energy is friendly,
outgoing and always very social. You have a decidedly upbeat attitude that is
rarely discouraged; a good mental and emotional balance. The 3 Soul Urge
gives intuitive insight, thus, very high creative and inspirational tendencies. The
truly outstanding trait shown by the 3 Soul Urge is that of self-expression,
regardless of the field of endeavor.
You may at times become too easygoing and optimistic, tending to scatter
forces and accomplish very little. Often, the excessive 3 energy produces
non-stop talkers.
With the Soul Urge or Motivation number of 4 you are likely to strive for a
stable life. You tend to follow a rather orderly pattern and systematic
approach in your endeavors. You have an inner desire to serve others in a
methodical and diligent manner. You want to be in solid, conventional, and
well-regulated activities, and you are somewhat disturbed by innovation and
erratic or sudden changes. Excellent at organizing, systematizing, and
managing, you have a way of establishing order and maintaining it. You are
responsible, reliable and and in the final analysis, practical. Highly analytical,
you can see your way through all sorts of situations and generally have a clear
understanding of the issues. You are a very honest, sincere, and conscientious
individual.
The negative side of the 4 is rigid, stubborn and somewhat narrow-minded.
There is a tendency to hide feelings, or to really not be aware of real feelings.
Avoid being too rigid and stubborn in your thinking, and try to always see the
big picture rather than becoming to involved with the detail. Don't be afraid to
take a chance once in awhile.
The 5 soul urge or motivation would like to follow a life of freedom,
excitement, adventure and unexpected happening. The idea of travel and
freedom to roam intrigues you. You are very much the adventurer at heart.
Not particularly concerned about your future or about getting ahead, you can
seem superficial and unmotivated.
In a positive sense, the energies of the number 5 make you very adaptable
and versatile. You have a natural resourcefulness and enthusiasm that may
mark you as a progressive with a good mind and and active imagination. You
seem to have a natural inclination to be a pace-setter. You are attracted to the
unusual and the fast paced.
You may be overly restless and impatient at times. You may dislike the routine
work that you are engaged in, and tend to jump from activity to activity,
without ever finishing anything. You may have difficulty with responsibility.
You don't want to be tied down to a relationship, and it may be hard to
commit to one person.
With a number 6 Soul Urge, you would like to be appreciated for your ability
to handle responsibility. Your home and family are likely to be a strong focus
for you, perhaps the strongest focus of your life. Friendship, love, and
affection are high on your list of priorities for a happy life. You have a lot of
diplomatic tendencies in your makeup, as you a able to rectify and balance
situations with an innate skill. You like working with people rather than by
yourself. It is extremely important for you to have harmony in your
environment at all times.
The positive side of the 6 Soul Urge produces a huge capacity for
responsibility; you are always there and ready to assume more than your
share of the load. If you possess positive 6 Soul Urges and express them, you
are known for your generosity, understanding and deep sympathetic attitude.
Strong 6 energy is very giving of love, affection, and emotional support. You
may have the inclination to teach or serve your community in other idealistic
ways. You have natural abilities to help people. You are also likely to have
artistic and creative leanings.
If you have an over-supply of 6 energy in your makeup, you may express
some of the negative traits common to this number. With such a strong
sympathetic attitude, it is easy to become too emotional. Sometimes the
desires to render help can be over done, and it can become interfering and an
attitude that is too protective, rather than helpful. The person with too much 6
energy often finds that people tend to take advantage of this very giving spirit.
You may tend to repress your own needs so that you can cater to the
demands from others. At times, there may be a tendency in this, for becoming
over-loaded with such demands, and as a result become resentful.
With a number 7 Soul Urge you are very fond of reading, and retreating to
periods of being alone and away from the disruptions of the outer world. You
like to dream and develop you idealistic understandings, to study and analyze,
to gain knowledge and wisdom. You may be too laid back and withdrawn to
really succeed in the business world, and you will be much more comfortable
in circumstances that are tolerant of your reserve, your analytical approach,
and your desire to use your mind rather than your physical being. You are
very timid around people that you don't know very well, so much so at times
that casual conversation and social situations can be strained. You tend to
repress your emotions to the extend that some people have a good bit of
difficult understanding you. You tend to be very selective with friends and you
don't easily adapt to new environments or to new people very quickly.
The negative traits of the 7 include becoming too much the introvert and
isolated from others.
With an 8 soul urge, you have a natural flare for big business and the
challenges imposed by the commercial world. Power, status and success are
very important to you. You have strong urges to supervise, organize and lead.
Material desires are also very pronounced. You have good executive abilities,
and with these, confidence, energy and ambition. Your mind is analytical and
judgment sound; you're a good judge of material values and also human
character. Self-controlled, you rarely let emotions cloud judgment. You are
somewhat of an organizer at heart, and you like to keep those beneath you
organized and on a proper track. This is a personality that wants to lead, not
follow. You want to be known for your planning ability and solid judgment.
The negative aspects of the 8 soul urge are the often dominating and exacting
attitude. You may have a tendency to be very rigid, sometimes stubborn.
With a 9 Soul Urge, you want to give to others, usually in a humanitarian or
philanthropic manner. You are highly motivated to give friendship, affection
and love. And you are generous in giving of your knowledge and experience.
You have very sharing urges, and you are likely to have a great deal to share.
Your concern for others makes you a very sympathetic and generous person
with a sensitive and compassionate nature. You are able to view life in very
broad and intuitive terms. You often express high ideals and an inspirational
approach to life. If you are able to fully realize the potential of your
motivation, you will be a very self-sacrificing person who is able to give freely
without being concerned about any return or reward.
As with all human beings, you are prone to sometimes express the negative
attitudes inherent to your Soul Urges. You may become too sensitive and tend
to express emotions strongly at times. There can be significant conflict
between higher aims and personal ambitions. You may resent the idea of
giving all of the time and, in fact, if there is too much 9 energy in your nature
you may reject the idea. You may often be disappointed in the lack of
perfection in yourself and others.
With the 11 Soul Urge, much of your thinking and interests relate to the
abstract, the spiritual, and utopian dreams. You are motivated toward
idealistic concepts, and the sharing of your ideas and concepts with humanity.
This number is not one that is giving in a material or a practical sense, but
rather one who desires to help mankind with a more abstract commodity such
as religion, spiritualism, occult studies, or even psychic abilities.
If you possess the positive 11 Soul Urge traits, you have a dream of the
perfect world; you are highly idealistic and inspirational. Your inner strength
and devotion to your beliefs are extremely strong. You have a very good mind
that is especially well equipped to handle the higher, more abstract forms of
thought.
If there is an excess of 11 energy in your makeup, you may possess some the
negative 11 traits. There is a tendency for the 11 to produce considerable
amounts of nervous tension which is bought on by a very high level of
awareness. You may be too sensitive and overly emotional. In some cases,
these sensitivities and emotions are quite repressed, and this tends to add
even more to the sense of nervousness in the makeup.
The strong 11 is not a very practical person because of the extreme idealism;
often, there is a degree of self-deception present. There is usually a rather
fixed idea of right and wrong held by those showing strong 11 traits, and with
this very often is a resulting attitude of inflexibility.
The Soul Urge of the master number 22 is very much that of the master
builder. You would like to use your abilities in an important humanitarian
undertaking, and have an innate desire is to express the significant power you
feel in a concrete manner, as a builder, engineer, diplomat, etc. In some way
you want to make a considerable contribution to the world. The 22 gives a
broad, universal outlook with a rather practical and common-sense approach.
You have especially high intelligence, with an unusual perception and
awareness. This number often denotes a high degree of diplomatic abilities
and high ideals. You are a very capable person and you may possess special
leadership abilities that you can and should develop. People respect you and
recognize your superior foresight and vision.
The negative side of the 22 soul urge is a high degree of nervous energy and a
tendency to be very dominating. It is unfortunate that all who possess the urge
of 22 do not use its energies to the greatest advantage; but then it should be
recognized that these energies are understandably the most difficult to focus
and direct.