The Tao of Numbers

The daunting question is, how do we begin this process of change? We can begin with a better understanding of why we are who we are as individuals. Numerology is an insightful and extraordinary tool. It can facilitate in the process of unraveling our complex personalities and understanding the life experiences that we attract. What are our strengths and potentials? What challenges and opportunities in life will be presented to us? Are there better or perhaps less favorable times to pursue our dreams and desires? We can also gain valuable insight into the motivation of others. Numerology answers the question: Why is this happening to me again (and again)? Moreover, awareness of the metaphysical teachings that support numerology can facilitate a life lived more congruently and with compassion for our fellow man.

As a child, I can remember gazing out of my bedroom window, fascinated by the moonlit heavens and the brilliant stars twinkling in the night. Always curious, my questions were endless and typically pertained to the nature of God and man. I was raised as a Catholic, and for me the Sunday Mass, heavy with the pungent aroma of incense and hypnotic chanting, was a reverent, mystical, and awe-inspiring experience. Who was God? Where was God? I begged my parents to enroll me in parochial school, and when they complied I felt certain that “all would be revealed." Hey, I was just a kid! However, in school when I pressed for answers to perplexing questions, the customary reply was, “it's God’s will.” Although I humbly accept that there are limits to our understanding of divine nature, this pat answer, combined with my years of religious schooling, left me with a feeling of confusion….and a newfound resentment and anger toward “God." Was I (were we all for that matter) at the mercy of a vengeful and schizophrenic deity? For many years following my parochial school experience, my questions remained unanswered. Inevitably, my quest for spiritual truth led me to the filed of metaphysics and down many varied paths, some difficult, all enlightening.

Approximately twenty-five years ago, I was introduced to a well-known metaphysician and numerologist, Dr. Kevin Quinn Avery. A close friend of mine gifted me with a personal numerological reading with Kevin in Manhattan. I knew nothing of numerology, had never read any of Kevin’s books, and my knowledge of astrology was limited to my sun sign. Kevin startled me with a very matter-of-fact and accurate reading of my personality and present life situation. How does he do that I wondered? Kevin told me that this “reading” was not psychic; it was quite simply based on my full name at birth and my birth date. He went on to explain that names and birth dates have certain vibrational influences and, when correctly interpreted, would present an accurate picture of one’s past, present, and future. It would also indicate motivation and personality traits. I was intrigued. But just in case… I sent a number of my friends to Kevin for a reading. They too came away feeling as I did. Now I wanted to learn more about this newfound science. My brother offered to purchase Kevin’s teaching manuals for me, and I gladly accepted, with Kevin’s assurance that he was only a phone call away. Little did I know that I had just embarked on a lifelong journey that would ultimately reveal the answers to my questions as well as prove to me the existence of a loving God-force. Kevin did indeed avail himself to me whenever I had a question. I’m quite sure that, for those first few years I tried the man’s patience; however, he always remained steadfast--sometimes stern, always helpful.

Kevin also communicated a few words of caution that I now pass on to you. Although I do not subscribe to fear tactics, nor am I neither a fatalist nor a pessimist, I do believe in karma as a keystone of this experience that we call our "life story." I believe that once you open the scared book of knowledge to any of the metaphysical sciences you become responsible for the moral use of this information. To use it to manipulate, control, or in any way hurt another person will incur a monumental karmic debt. So be forewarned. I wish I could say that all of those involved in the metaphysical field adhere to a code of ethics, but unfortunately it is not true. Along the way, we all must learn how to discern truth from fiction. Development of your spiritual self is the key.