How Cheiro read a person
Cheiro worked with three numbers. The birth number is the root of the day of birth, what we call the mulank, and he treated it as the number a person naturally acts from. The fate number is the root of the full date of birth, the bhagyank, and he read it as the number life pushes towards, growing stronger after the twenties. The name number is the Chaldean total of the name in daily use, which he believed should be made friendly to the birth number.
The birth number and the fate number together
When the birth number and the fate number are the same, Cheiro considered the person unusually consistent throughout life. When they differ, he read the fate number as the destination and the birth number as the vehicle. Both readings survive in Indian practice as the mulank and bhagyank pair our mulank calculator shows together.
Cheiro's lucky numbers and days
Cheiro carried the old associations into his book: 1 with the Sun and Sunday, 2 with the Moon and Monday, 3 with Jupiter and Thursday, 4 with Rahu, 5 with Mercury and Wednesday, 6 with Venus and Friday, 7 with Ketu, 8 with Saturn and Saturday, and 9 with Mars and Tuesday. He also repeated the traditional advice that dates carrying a person's own or friendly numbers are chosen for launches and weddings. The same chart used in our vehicle and phone number tools.
Cheiro and the number 8
Cheiro is often quoted on 8, Saturn's number, as the number of fate, of waits and of delayed success that arrives to stay. He advised number-8 people to accept the slow years rather than fight them. This captures his general method: read the number's nature, then work with it.
How to use his method today
Cheiro's method is exactly the arithmetic on this site: a mulank from the day, a bhagyank from the full date, a Chaldean name total, and the friendly-number chart between them. Start with the name calculator, then check the numbers that fill your daily life. Try your phone and vehicle.