By Heather Killen
Spectator
NovaNewsNow.com
It seems to add up that Prime Minister Stephen Harper will be forced to practice his people skills a lot more this year.
Local numerologist Jo Leath says for many of us, 2011 will be a year to put new ideas into practice. Last year we struggled to rebound from the economic fallout that began with subprime loans in 2009. Then we watched helplessly as the environment paid the crude price of oil spilling into the Gulf.
“This year is vibrating with a four energy,” she said. “Four is about building foundations, bringing new ideas into form.”
Numerology looks at the relationship between numbers and living things. Birthdates and names are given numeric values and each number has a characteristic vibration. Everything in the universe has a particular number and a particular vibration, according to numerologists.
Once you determine the root number or vibration, you can get insight into the energy surrounding it. This year we are all being challenged to practice the lessons we learned last year as we shift towards the collective positive change being predicted for 2012.
Harper’s Numbers
When Leath adds up the numbers in Stephen Harper’s birthday, she finds that he’s spent the first part of his life being very purpose-driven. When he wants something done, it gets done, she says. This year however, he will be forced to compromise with other people and learn to work cooperatively rather than his usual top-down style of getting things done.
Leath said she first heard about numerology in 1983. She was driving across Kamloops Bridge and listening to CBC radio’s phone-in show. She no longer remembers where she was headed, only that she turned off at the nearest library to find out everything she could about Numerology.
“It was more like remembering than learning,” she said. “It all made total sense.”
The only book she could find, “The Romance in Your Name,” changed the way she thought. Excited to try out the new system, she did charts for various people including her parents. Without fail, the numbers often painted a picture that surprised her.
Charts
Her father’s chart indicated he was shy, while she knew him to be an outgoing man who was actively involved in his community. After asking some personal questions, she learned he was shy as a child. But her mother’s chart posed a problem.
No matter how Leath added it all up, her mother was not the person she was supposed to be. Turns out, her mother was using a name given to her at six months old, not her actual birth name. When Leath did the math again using her mother’s birth name, it all added up.
“I think of the birth name as a table, we put things on it but it always has the same value underneath,” she said. “Sometimes we are given nicknames and this is a way we elicit the response we want from someone and not what they were born to give.”
Numbers
She added that each number has a positive and a negative aspect. The number one has a strong drive to discover oneself and it can be expressed in egotism or self-actualization. The number four is about creating stability, but if it’s expressed negatively it can lead to rigidity.
“We live up to or down to any number,” she said. “The clue is in the vowels, the vowels carry the sacred intent.”
Leath bases her interpretations on the sum of the numbers contained in birth dates and the sum of value of the letters in a person’s birth name. The numbers offer an interrelation of vibrations showing insights into a person’s character, life purpose, and clues to talents and motivations.
She also offers readings in I Ching and Tarot. For more information visit www.joleath.com, or visit Nan’s Rock Shop in Wilmot, call 825-2700.
