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To find your First Pinnacle, add the numbers of your month and day of birth, arriving at
a single-digit number. For example, if you were born on May 15, 1949, your First Pinnacle
would be found by adding the 5 (for May) and the 6 (for the fifteenth) to arrive at 11.
Master numbers encountered during the Pinnacle calculations are not reduced. Someone born
on November 5 would add 11 (for November -- a Master number) and the 5 to get 16, which
is 7.
To find your Second Pinnacle, add the day you were born to the year of your birth. Using
May 15, 1949 again, add the 6 (for the fifteenth day) and the birth year 5 (for 1949) and
arrive at another 11.
To find your Third Pinnacle, add the sum of the first and the second Pinnacles -- in our
example, 11 plus 11 -- and arrive at 22. The 22 is a Master number and is therefore not
reduced.
To find your Fourth and last Pinnacle, add your month and year of birth. Using the example,
add 5 (for May) and 5 (for 1949) to arrive at 10, which reduces to 1.
NOTE: The calculation methods for the Pinnacles are similar to the Challenges, except that
we subtract to find the Challenges, and for the Pinnacles we add the birth date units. This
must have given some numerologists the idea that the Challenges are cycles covering the
same time ranges as the Pinnacles. This is not the case. Challenges are not considered.
The influence of the 1st, 2nd, and 4th Challenges weakens
or strengthens during the early, middle, and later part of life respectively, while the
Main Challenge is in place throughout your life.
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| The First Pinnacle (in Tom’s case a 1) is shown above the month and
day of birth. The Second Pinnacle is a 3 and appears above the day and year of birth.
The Third Pinnacle is a 4 and is centered right above the day of birth. The Fourth
Pinnacle is a 7 and occupies the top triangle of this star-shaped figure. |
The Pinnacles are also found on the bottom row of the wave. |
Audio Lecture; The Pinnacle cycles. 18 Minutes. (Available on CD only.)
THE MEANING OF THE PINNACLE CYCLE NUMBERS.
The Pinnacles are four long-term cycles, or periods, on our Life Path. Each Pinnacle represents
a particular lesson we are working on. The first Pinnacle usually lasts from birth to between
the ages of 30 and 35 (your specific Pinnacle periods are provided below). The middle two
Pinnacles each last nine years. The last Pinnacle will stay with you for the remainder of
your life.
The Pinnacles are very important. The transition from one Pinnacle to the next is always
strongly felt. Your Pinnacles reveal the general conditions and events you will experience
during the period. The Pinnacle describes the atmosphere, or the essential challenge you
will be faced with.
You can prepare yourself for the times ahead by knowing your approaching Pinnacle number.
The transition from one Pinnacle to the next is usually prepared for approximately 2 years
in advance. The latter part of that two year period is particularly strong. You will likely
make some life-altering decisions -- marriage, job or career change, or any number of major
changes in your character.
Perhaps the most strongly felt change -- internally as well as externally -- is the transition
from the first to the second Pinnacle. This change usually takes place in your late 20s
or early 30s -- the exact date depends on your Life Path number. You begin to feel the impact
of this coming change approximately two years prior. This is usually a difficult transition,
but once crossed provides a clear sense of direction in one's life. It also gives you a
much firmer sense of your identity. It is a gateway to maturity.
1 Pinnacle Cycle
This is a period requiring much independence, courage, resiliency, and initiative. You
must bounce back after many difficult experiences. The challenge of this Pinnacle is to
gain will power.
There is not a lot of support from others or from family. You must draw from your own strength.
You will have to guard against self pity or surrender.
Keep focused on your dreams. This Pinnacle will require an iron will to keep hold of your
goals, and also the flexibility to maneuver around difficulties, and bend with the winds
of adversity.
This is a period of rapid self-improvement and growth. You will be forced to use every
talent and capability you possess. You will need to be resourceful.
You must continually put out effort, but with it comes great reward. Without it, there
is no accomplishment nor satisfaction, only a negative attitude toward life.
Be careful not to become too self centered, headstrong or self important. Be strong but
flexible. Be open to the counsel of others, but make up your own mind.
The benefit of this Pinnacle number is a strong sense of your individuality and strength.
You will know what you are made of. There are many hidden gifts in this period, perhaps
the greatest of which is faith.
Your Pinnacle provides you with the characteristics of leadership, boldness, and daring.
You will have many unconventional ideas and the skill and courage to make them a reality.
Your abilities to manage and organize people and institutions are greatly enhanced. You
have vision and confidence in the worth of your dreams.
These characteristics provide great opportunity for success and major accomplishments.
2 Pinnacle Cycle
This Pinnacle causes you to be extremely sensitive, intuitive, and full of insight. It
is a period that requires patience and the development of inner awareness. You are being
asked to use gentle power and persuasion to obtain your desired goals. Direct approaches,
forceful displays, and confrontations will likely work against you. You will find the most
satisfactory roles to be supportive. You are now a gifted advisor, a diplomat and a peacemaker.
Your insight into other people's feelings and motivations is so acute that you seem to be
able to see right to the core of things. But rather than use these gifts to create differences
between people, you must use them to create peace, to mend rifts, to harmonize.
Your challenge during this period is to bring balance to duality in every form, and at
every level. You will recognize the value of both sides of an argument and be able to see
the middle ground where peace can be made. You can create the atmosphere in which both sides
can compromise and work harmoniously. You are the glue that keeps people and important projects
together.
The weaknesses you must face and overcome are too much sensitivity. You may be tempted
to indulge your feelings, to be too easily hurt. You may lack self-confidence, especially
at the beginning of the Pinnacle when your heightened sensitivity and awareness make you
conscious of your own shortcomings. You may succumb to fear and hesitation. All of this
can lead to emotional turmoil.
You need courage and the willingness to reach out for support.
Your sensitivity will make you acutely appreciative of beauty and harmonious environments.
At the same time, you need beauty and harmony around you.
You have an increased appetite for music and the arts in general. You may find that your
musical talents coming to the surface. If you do not already play an instrument, give in
to any inclination to take one up.
A person in a 2 Pinnacle who uses his or her sensitivity, understanding, and insight is
very appreciated by others. You may not fully realize just how much others appreciate and
respect you. This may cause you to feel undervalued, or that you are not getting the recognition
you deserve.
You appear shy and humble, particularly if this is your first Pinnacle, but inside there
is much pride that must be kept in check.
You may want to hide from the tumult of life, or from difficult situations. This may tempt
you to color the facts in order to protect harmony. Be careful of this tendency, because
it often backfires.
You have an eye for precision and detail. Your taste in all aspects of life is enhanced
and you possess a certain class that others admire. If you make the most of these qualities,
your appearance is considerably improved, making you both attractive and graceful.
The world depends on those who maintain harmony and balance.
3 Pinnacle Cycle
This is a highly creative period. Your self-expression is greatly enhanced. Your creative
and artistic talents will peak. You should do everything possible to refine these abilities
and make the most of them. Many under the 3 Pinnacle are drawn to writing, the theater,
singing, and dance. Your chances of success are also heightened. Hard work in any artistic
field that one has a talent for can result in much reward.
This is also a highly social and emotional time. You attract friends and admirers with
your charm and gregarious nature.
You have the ability to inspire and motivate people. Your upbeat energy causes people to
want to work with and for you.
This is a lucky period, as well. You can overcome problems with considerably less effort
than in the past.
All of this can lead to self-indulgence and lack of productivity. Life is a little easier,
which can make you less vigilant. You need focus and discipline. Under the influence of
this Pinnacle, hard work is the key and the challenge to making the most of your opportunities.
Be careful of impulsive behavior or doing things on a lark. You must know your limits during
this period. Be careful of your money; balance your accounts. Guard against disorderly thinking
and behavior. Otherwise, you may do things you regret or simply squander away so many opportunities.
Children born under this Pinnacle must be disciplined and kept from being spoiled. An early
education in the arts will inspire the child to make the most of his or her artistic talents.
4 Pinnacle Cycle
This is a Pinnacle of hard work and many rewards. You have the opportunity to build a foundation
that will last. Your abilities as an organizer, manager, or simply the rock of any institution
are greatly increased. You are dependable and reliable. Your ability to fulfill responsibilities
is likewise enhanced.
As a result of your industry and perseverance, success is well within your reach. It is
a step-by-step process in which you build something by small bricks laid one after another.
You will find yourself caring for others in a very material way. Family and in-laws can
be burdensome, since you are seen as the cornerstone of the foundation.
Your life is preoccupied with details and responsibilities that must be taken care of.
You have set in motion projects that are your children, demanding your constant attention.
While there are many rewards, there are also many frustrations. Your sense of your own limits
and the consuming nature of details may at times seem overwhelming.
You must remember that things that last require slow growth. You may mistakenly believe
that your progress should be faster, or happen with greater ease.
The need for efficiency, orderliness, and methodical systems limit your creativity.
Your challenge is to be flexible and adaptable. Learn to play more and allow yourself to
be more spontaneous.
Children born under this Pinnacle will tend to be serious and affected by the financial
limitations of their parents. The child may feel the need to leave home early and start
a family of his own. He or she must be encouraged to be more farsighted and flexible. The
child should avoid jumping into the harsh realities of life too soon.
5 Pinnacle Cycle
This is a period that will teach the realities of freedom and expansion. You will travel
great distances, meet many new and interesting people, experience many adventures, and essentially
come to know the world. You are in a period of accelerated experimentation and learning.
Experience is your teacher.
Your ability with words is greatly increased. You can write and speak with ease. You are
also able to successfully promote yourself. In fact, this is the source of much adventure;
new opportunities for work, travel, and exotic experiences present themselves with regularity.
Your challenge is to prevent yourself from becoming a rolling stone. You need to ground
yourself in a particular discipline, career, or relationship. This will not limit your freedoms
so much as give you a base for operation. Otherwise, you may find yourself skipping from
one meaningless job to the next, one superficial relationship after another. You can also
fall victim to the abuse of food, alcohol, sex, or drugs.
You may fear being anchored or tied down, which can cause you to skim the surface of a
pursuit you enjoy, or important relationships.
You must come to know the true meaning of freedom, which is unconditional love. You give
your love and energy without the condition of holding on to a place, a person, or an occupation;
and you expect the same in return -- to be loved for what you are, rather than someone who
belongs to another. There is a highly spiritual path offering itself that requires detachment
without loss of love.
Many turn away from this and instead choose to maintain a superficial relationship with
the world, or with other people.
You must cultivate your talents, especially your verbal and writing abilities. You are
likely a gifted salesperson, or promoter.
You must accept limitations as a necessary base for your freedom. Freedom cannot exist
without limitations, otherwise you would be without identity, and without existence.
6 Pinnacle Cycle
Under this Pinnacle you will be very involved with family, friends, and your community.
You will face an increase in responsibilities and duties, but you have a greatly enhanced
sense of balance and perspective that allows you to handle emotional issues well.
Your family demands much of your attention. Matters involving spouse and children require
much security, love, and sacrifice. You are the centerpiece of your family, the one people
come to for solace and understanding. You may feel an increased burden, as you carry the
cares of many. You will experience a deep sense of being needed.
This Pinnacle is full of love, closeness, and warmth, but you must rise to the challenges
that close relationships bring. You must settle and bring harmony to personal conflicts
between others. You are often the only one with perspective in a conflict. It is as if you
are the keeper of justice, bringing understanding and compromise to situations that are
polarized.
Under the influences of this Pinnacle -- especially at its outset -- people are often married
or start families. Children are born, in-laws come into your life. You are the nucleus of
a little world.
You must maintain your dignity. This is a period that makes it easier to sacrifice, but
you can overdo it, becoming a doormat for others to step on simply to maintain a degree
of peace. Know your limits and maintain healthy relationships.
This is a fine period for growth in business and financial matters. You attract people
with resources who can help to further your personal goals. Moreover, you are balanced in
your approach to business affairs. This can bring many rewards.
Your heightened sense of harmony and your genuine compassion makes you an excellent counselor
and healer, especially if you already have native talent in any of these areas.
Personal health matters can also surface, causing you to reflect on diet, exercise, and
other health habits.
Your desire to help others is also increased. But this can lead you to poke yourself into
situations where you do not belong, or delve too deeply into other people's personal affairs.
Be careful not to meddle or interfere.
The 6 Pinnacle is a time of progress and growth as a full human being. You are capable
of developing yourself in many different directions -- as a loving mate and parent; a sound
businessperson; and as a pillar of your community. The time requires the balance you possess,
since you can easily stretch yourself in too many directions and ultimately feel burned
out by the demands in your milieu.
7 Pinnacle Cycle
This is a period of inner development and soul searching. You will deal with the deeply
important questions of personal existence and the meaning of life. You will need time to
be alone to contemplate your inner world. This is a time of spiritual growth. You will experience
a heightened sense of faith. The power of the universe will be the force that carries you
along.
You have an enhanced appreciation of poetry and nature. Walks in nature provide great therapeutic
value and spiritual nourishment.
This is a time of specialization. You will pursue some course of development with fervor
and focus. Your ability to concentrate will be greatly increased. Your desire to study in
all forms -- reading, self reflection, and contemplation -- will reach an all-time high.
Your intuition is much more sensitive, making your path a little easier and more direct,
since you know intuitively the appropriate next step.
Under this Pinnacle, you will become an expert in one particular field. Your capacity to
penetrate the depths of a subject area is enormous. You will look below the surface in virtually
everything you encounter. It is very possible that you will find yourself in a teaching
role.
You must consciously work on your closer relationships, especially with your spouse and
children. You must explain that your desire to turn inward is not an escape or an avoidance
of those you love, but a deep need for knowledge.
During this 7 Pinnacle, spiritual growth, increased knowledge, and wisdom are the big rewards.
The 7 Pinnacle provides the basis for contentment in older age, because you now begin to
understand life more deeply.
Your challenge is to avoid becoming critical or cynical of others. You can become so withdrawn
from society that you look down on others. You may forget that you, too, are part of the
imperfect human race. Sarcasm is the lowest form of communication, and a trap you could
fall victim to.
Your desire to attain some high degree of perfection is sincere. But that pursuit can make
you miserable if you lose perspective and fail to realize the relativity of human existence.
Perfection is a Utopian goal, but an unrealistic ambition. It can cause you to be dissatisfied
with yourself and others.
The 7 provides the possibility of true refinement, insight, and a high degree of wisdom.
This deep understanding is the basis for self-love and true happiness.
8 Pinnacle Cycle
Under the influences of this Pinnacle, you will have greatly enhanced talent for dealing
successfully with business and finances. This is a time of material growth, a time of expansion
and reward. It is the cycle of harvest.
The 8 Pinnacle also increases your personal power. You have sound judgment and vision.
In fact, this is the basis of your financial success.
People sense your power and effectiveness. They defer to you much more easily, and look
to you for answers. This makes it easier for you to use power without having to be a bully
or force your way through situations. They perceive your ableness and want to join you in
your vision. Others have faith in you.
You will be able to organize large enterprises. Problems do not threaten you so much as
provide a challenge. You yourself sense your enhanced personal powers and feel a growing
sense of stability and centeredness. You will be capable of influencing matter in an almost
magical way. As a result, you are extremely goal oriented, moving toward the realization
of your dreams with confidence and clarity.
Your challenge during this period is to maintain a hold on your human and spiritual values.
You must remain balanced between heaven and earth. There will be enormous temptations to
make money and status your only priorities, excluding the more human or immaterial matters
entirely. This will undoubtedly lead to losses. You are being tested and instructed in the
real value of money -- it's natural place in life. If money is placed on a high altar, overshadowing
all other facets of life, you will become its slave.
If you are balanced in your approach to money, and have proper perspective, this can be
a truly rewarding period, both materially and spiritually. That is the true promise of the
8.
The number 8 symbolizes the balance between the finite and infinite, matter and spirit.
It offers a great opportunity to grow.
9 Pinnacle Cycle
This is a period in which you must identify with some larger project or goal that is bigger
than you. Your greatest satisfaction will be in providing for others, as well as for yourself.
Those in business will draw much personal gratification in knowing that they are helping
their employees support their families. Those involved in social activism -- a particularly
appealing choice of careers during the 9 Pinnacle -- will feel themselves strengthened by
the knowledge that they are advancing the safety and well being of society. The 9 Pinnacle
is a time in which you apply your energies to the good of the larger community.
As a result, there is an element of self-sacrifice present. To some degree, you must subordinate
your personal priorities to those of a larger cause. We are not suggesting martyrdom, but
making a conscious effort on your part to strike a balance between the good of your milieu
and your own personal desires.
This is a good time for financial growth and progress in business affairs. It is a period
in which you face a large challenge and must give yourself entirely to it.
The 9 Pinnacle also promises much reward in drama, writing and art. You have a heightened
esthetic sense, and any latent artistic talent you already possess will be enhanced and
brought to the surface. If you have been in business, you may suddenly be drawn to the arts
as a benefactor or patron, supplying support for theater productions or artists.
You will feel an increased sense of social responsibility and compassion for the many.
You will want to help those less fortunate than yourself and will likely apply yourself
to some social cause or philanthropy. This is a period in which you feel a greater love
for the good of your community, country, and the world.
Interestingly, you are not restricted by prejudice or boundaries of class or country. You
see humanity as a whole. Your love is not personal, however, but for the many.
Many under the 9 Pinnacle are drawn to religion or philosophy and have the capacity to
spread some doctrine or teaching.
In short, you are highly idealistic. You will likely travel extensively during this period
and meet people from many walks of life.
No matter what your area of expertise, you have a chance not only for success but for fame.
11 Pinnacle Cycle
This is a challenging period in which you are at a high point of sensitivity and intuition.
There is so much going on in your psyche that you can suffer much confusion over direction
and identity. On the other hand, there is a wide open channel between the personal consciousness
and the higher realms of the unconscious. You are constantly being inspired and even assaulted
by information and insight.
Because of the intensity of these revelations, you must learn to ground your life in faith
and a practical vocation that keeps your feet on the ground everyday.
This is a period of enormous spiritual and personal growth. You will come out of it with
a highly uncommon clarity and understanding of life. At the same time, it is a period of
enormous demands, emotionally and spiritually. Any attachment you might have to specific
identity traits -- who you think you are and why you are here, for example -- is constantly
challenged.
There is a desire to settle into some field or way of life to attain stability, but the
energy of this Pinnacle is not allowing it. It is as if there is a destination, or destiny,
to which you are being driven. You do not feel in control of this process. Instead, you
are acutely aware of the forces that are shaping your life. You must surrender to them.
Meanwhile, you experience the emotional turmoil that can come with this highly charged
period.
There is a definite, even compelling, sense of being different. You are aware of a feeling
of receiving special attention from spiritual forces. Your perception of life is somehow
more acute than others; you see more clearly and more spiritually due to your high degree
of sensitivity. It is as if you have a perfectly accurate peripheral vision, in which everything
stands out in sharp relief. At times you may feel that you can see into the souls of things.
At the same time, you may feel like a foreigner to the earth. You are completely impractical.
Sometimes you may feel that you do not understand the workings of the physical world. Practical
things escape you. You feel awkward and clumsy at times, and are aware perhaps how fluidly
other lives are going. This increases your sense of being an outsider.
More important than all the awkwardness and feelings of being different is the overwhelming
sense of having a purpose or a message to reveal that will make other people's lives happier,
healthier, and more at peace. You want desperately to bring this out.
The challenge of the 11 Pinnacle is to remain grounded and attached to this dream. You
must find practical and useful ways to be of service to others, at the same time developing
yourself so that one day you may be able to bring forth that which is within you.
The influences of this period make you highly creative, innovative, and inventive. You
have a completely unconventional approach to problems. Trust your intuition, seek harmonious
settings to restore your sense of inner peace, and work hard to keep your feet on the ground.
This period will bring great rewards on all levels, and with perseverance you will find
your rightful place.
22 Pinnacle Cycle
This is a demanding time in which all your personal power comes to the surface and is made
available to you. At the same time, you face an enormous challenge in which all that power
is needed. This challenges is both physical and spiritual. The physical side is obvious
in some large enterprise or dream that you are struggling to make manifest. The spiritual
side is more hidden, but just as important, in that one must deliver the full wealth of
his spiritual understanding and vision to create something great and lasting for the general
well being of society.
Your mental powers are greatly enhanced. At the same time, your determination and efficiency
are proportionately increased, making you the master builder. The 22 is a Master Number,
which means that you must perceive something large in the archetypal world and materialize
it.
Everything you focus on is large -- your plans are big and cover long periods of time;
you envision making an enormous and lasting impact on the world. At the same time, your
problems and challenges are equally large. You will have to devote yourself entirely to
this dream. Without a full commitment to your largest ambitions, you will slip into frustrations
and the world of broken dreams.
This is why the 22 Pinnacle is so demanding -- nothing less than everything you've got
is necessary to bring forth your full potential, and the gift you must give to the world.
This is a Pinnacle of extremes.
You are not alone, however, in your struggle. There is much spiritual and material support
to help you realize your plans. People are attracted to you who intuitively understand your
larger purpose. You gain a close following of friends and supporters who feel enriched by
participating in the dream you have articulated.
Courage is essential. You need confidence and faith to help you endure the challenges of
the period and help you overcome the many obstacles in your path.
You are eminently practical during this period. Your approach to problems is methodical
but bold. You are careful of details, yet courageous in your attack on the problems at hand.
It is a period in which you must dive in, never hesitating over the possible consequences.
Your personal life will likely take a back seat to the excitement of the dream.
This is a Pinnacle of enormous potential requiring much effort. Your day has arrived. Now
you must make the most of it.
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