Aways ignore "avenue," "street," "road," etc. For brevity, south=2, north=3, west=4, east=9. Here's an example: 23 West 20 Ave. = 2+3+4 (west)+2+0 = 11 = 1+1 = 2. (Remember, ignore "avenue.") This is a "2" house. Here's a more complex example: 454 South Elm Street = 4+5+4+2 (south) +5+3+4 (elm) (ignore "street") = 27 = 2+7 = 9. This is a "9" house. If the property has no street address, use the legal description (including the letters).

A "1" property reflects assertion, exploration, newness, impulse, trying things out, a new start. Males (or your masculine side) will often dominate in this place. Verve, swagger, vivacity, quick reactions, quick passions are the norm. Ambitious people, especially career singles, often choose a "1" address -- and benefit from it, so long as they don't want to build a married life. This house often ages rapidly, needs repairs. But if you lack vim and vigor in your life, it's the place to be. Best to rent rather than buy, as 1's tend to lag in market appreciation. If you want to develop or subdivide a property, 1 is a good number because it vibrates well to cutting, dividing, building, carving a place out of the wilderness. You get a new start here! Back to current column - To the top

A "2" house can be "home sweet home." Calmness prevails, and diplomacy is valued in this home. But if a major fight starts, it can knock the walls down, because no one gives in here, no matter how diplomatic they were at first! It's usually a good buy, appreciates well. Gardening, beautiful interiors naturally spring up here. Nature is a source of deep, sensual or enjoyable moments. Sex is casual, sensual, rather than deep, mysterious, or an instrument of "control." Fill this house with plants and paintings. Fine sound systems and luxury tv's find their way into these homes. A good place for a home-based business concerned with buying and selling. A good address for a retail store. Sometimes 2 households are untidy, as laziness seeps in. You'll tend to put on weight here. Anorexia clinics should be located at a 2 address. Back to current column - To the top

A "3" home is filled with conversation. Even if you live alone in a 3, you'll be on the phone a lot, or will subscribe to many newspapers. A great place for making contacts: fill it with fax machines, computers, appointment book. An excellent place for journalists, internet workers, graphic artists, etc., and a good business address for newspaper, distribution, or telecommunications firms. People in a 3 home are restless, optimistic, seem to have an uncanny luck, but seldom form deep bonds. It's good for those with itinerant lifestyles such as athletes, a town home for a traveling executive, etc. Students live happily in 3's, but they'd get a better education in a "9." It's rather hard to sit and plan in this home's atmosphere. At times, you could feel you're on a merry-go-round and can't get off. If this feeling predominates, it might be time to hunt for a "4" address. Back to current column - To the top

The "4" house is truly a home. It's the base, the foundation of life, the place where roots are sunk and families raised. Adults who grew up in a 4 usually look back fondly on childhood's golden age. This home tends to appreciate, and will often provide retirement security via its long-term market value. But its real value is in the enduring home life that blooms over the years. Dysfunctional families can occupy a 4 home, but even here the preservation of the family, of the "home base," tends to direct everyone's actions. The kitchen and good, solid food are the focal point. It's a great place to heal, to take a sojourn from life while planning your comeback. The 4 shelters. Family storms occur, but dissolve. Owners often feel reluctant to sell a "4," even after the kids are gone. It's a good address for a hotel or revenue house, because people subconsciously seek out "4" for shelter, food, rest and regeneration. And they tend to stay there. It means "end of journey." Pick a 4 address for a farm or nursery. Back to current column - To the top

A "5" home spells passion and beauty. Singles find romance here (but when they form a durable bond, they often move out). Pleasure predominates, whether it's the luxury of a 60-inch tv, or bouquets of flowers sprucing every hallway. Artists, architects, designers, etc. should live here, for a 5 enhances creativity and self-expression. It promotes risk. People often buy a 5 on impulse, yet it's usually a fortunate impulse. A 5 isn't particularly good for young marrieds because romance, if over-emphasized in a marriage, will suffocate it. When the baby arrives, head for a 4 or a 6. (But 5s are good for day care, art classes, etc.) A 5 is not a particularly stable nor enduring environment, and sometimes your soul can lack nurturing here. (Creativity uses soul, rather than feeding it.) A 3 or 2 is better at curing solitude, especially if the number you reach immediately before the "2" is an "11." Back to current column - To the top

The "6" home revolves around domestic love and work. 6 is Mom in the kitchen and Dad comes by and kisses her, and the kids bounce around, and everyone's happy and busy. (6 is "Leave It To Beaver." 4 is "Father Knows Best.") The 6 property competes with a 4 for the best place to raise a family, and is better than a 4 if you have no children. If you need a bit of perking up to get you going, pick the 6. If you're nervous and wired, and want a calm family life, want to not stress out your children, the 4 is better. For young lovers about to marry, 6 is very good, it helps them become "partners." When the careers are established and children come, this young couple might move to a 4. If you want to start a home-based business, this is often a good place, although it furthers productivity, not prestige. If you want a rural address where you can buy some tools and a used bobcat and reshape your property and rebuild your house, find a 6. As a business premises, the 6 is good for service corporations, machinery/tools, factories, etc. Back to current column - To the top

A "7" property brings you into crucial, face-to-face relationships with others. Often these relationships are challenging. It can bring marriage, but also divorce; contracts -- and litigation; opportunities -- and stiff competition. 7 can be very exciting, enlivening, full of attractions to the opposite sex, deals, contacts, dynamism -- you live life to its fullest here. But don't expect peace and calm! If you're young, energetic, feisty, love life, people and newness, you could love a 7 address. Back to current column - To the top

But avoid a 16/7 (applies if the second-to-last number you reach by adding and reducing the address comes to 16, and then, 1+6 = 7). A 16/7 property signals a destructive episode in your life. It might ultimately free you from a suffocating, stressful or illusion-packed relationship, but you'll feel the pain of something being ripped away. People who finally sell or move from a 16/7 to another place are often "washed clean," ready for a fresh new life. (The "911" file for the WTC attacks in New York was "727" = 16/7.) If you presently own a 16/7, don't worry: when you've changed your life's direction someone will buy it -- I'll tell you why later. Back to current column - To the top

So, an 8 property: If you live in an 8, your life is serious. The 8 address brews deep change, usually through the agencies of sex, finance or health. An 8 address brings the hidden forces of nature to the surface. You'll delve into secrets here. Your interest will grow in investments and your net worth. You might become wealthy, or you could lose big-time, depending on your karma and astuteness. Pregnancy occurs. Extra-marital temptations arise. Young couples can build their empires here, but they should be deeply in love first, for this property indicates many long, slow, deep changes in how you relate to each other. Honesty is essential. Morals need careful cultivation in every area; you'll be lured toward "power plays." This property tends to appreciate well, even very well, but that's not assured. This is a perfect "business premise" for a psychiatrist, editor, diagnostician, researcher, gynecologist, investor, or handler of other people's money. (But they should live in a 4 or other place, to enjoy a rest from work.) Back to current column - To the top

A "9" home is usually serene and mellow. This property doesn't appreciate strongly in price. (Though it can outpace others under certain conditions, especially if located near a financial district, surgery center or research park.) Writers, scholars, professors, lawyers, accountants, and anyone interested in intellectual pursuits will find a nine home or office address imbues a calm, productive atmosphere. While living here, we tend to see the broader picture. A mass of details naturally falls into place and produces intuitive patterns, abstract conclusions. Order keeps gently shepherding the chaos of life. Many non-intellectuals will like this home, also. A sense of ethics and an understanding of society's traditions blossom here, as does a philosophical view of life. Married couples honor their union as an integral part of society. Libraries, files, internet activities, CNN and foreign newspapers creep into this abode. Residents often travel, or have international friends. This isn't the best place to make money, for ideas and discussion groups will outweigh material considerations. This home needs lots of windows. An excellent apartment address for late-middle-agers who are downsizing. Here, you can reflect on life and find true value.

That's the end of the basic house numbers. You can also read these "house meanings" for insights into your own personality: simply calculate your birth date using the method I've shown you for houses. (But count the month as Jan.=1, Feb.=2, etc. Don't add the letters of the month.) In general, you can find one of the best homes for yourself if you add 4 to your birth date. E.g., if you're a 1, live in a 5. If you're a 7, live in a 2 (7+4=11=1+1=2). I promised to discuss some special house/property numbers. Remember, you can only have one final number, between 1 and 9. But when you're adding all the numbers together and reducing them, if the second-to-last number you reach is a "double," this contains an additional meaning. For example: 3254 West 42 = 3+2+5+4+5(w)+5(e)+1(s)+2(t)+4+2 = 33 (=3+3) = 6. The second to last number is 33, a "double." Notice that I've used the whole word "w-e-s-t." Doubles reached by counting west as "4," east as "9," etc. (their contracted forms) don't count. The doubles are: 11, 22, 33 and 44. (Not 55, 66, etc.) These are called "master" or "God-touched" numbers; they signal an extra level of influence. Briefly, the 2 is diplomatic, sensual and acquisitive; but the 11/2 elevates these traits to a universal theme: you'll spread your diplomacy to the world, or acquire objects with valuable meaning for the world.

A 22/4 signals a great project, the nurturing of many rather than merely your own family. Sometimes it signals a powerful life change. A 33/6 indicates not just the domestic love of a 6, but love raised to compassion, the communication of love to many people beyond the home. The 44/8 signals power, finances, sex, just as the 8 does, but hints that these will "give shelter" to many people, or create a new life (e.g., sex leads to pregnancy in this home).

Some readers have asked if the different parts of their address mean anything. They do. Your apartment suite #, or your house #, is like your first name. It indicates your "more immediate" experience of life. Your street or avenue # (add to this your building # if you live in an apartment) shows the general environment you live in. E.g., if your apt. or house # adds to 8, and your street # adds to 4, then you study and use the mysteries of sex or finances privately (8) in a general environment of security (4). But the two combined give 3 -- an overall life of cheerfulness and much communicating (8+4=12=1+2=3). So, perhaps you read (3) many stock market (8) newsletters, or hustle (3) around the community selling real estate (4)! The total, or combined number (in this case a 3) is always the strongest.

© Tim Stephens 2002

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