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Read about Soul Urge Number
About this reading: Your Soul Urge Number is calculated from only the vowels in your name, converted into numbers. Where the Expression Number (calculated from every letter) reflects your outward self, the vowels-only Soul Urge Number is said to reveal the deeper wish or motivation at the core of who you are.
The Soul Urge Number uses only vowels because, in numerology, vowels are treated as the sounds that spill out naturally from the heart, while consonants are the sounds we consciously shape. The wider the gap between your Expression Number (the self you show outwardly) and your Soul Urge Number, the more likely you are, it's said, to feel worn down by the distance between what you show and what you actually want. As we see it here, comparing the two is a way of holding the self you present up against what you actually want, and seeing where they differ.
Lore column: Hide Your True Name: The Fear of Being Known
A short read on the legends and strange tales around this reading, with this site's own view.
The Man'yoshu, Japan's oldest poetry anthology, opens with a poem in which Emperor Yuryaku asks a young woman picking greens on a hillside for her home and her name. In ancient times, asking a woman her real name is said to have meant a proposal of marriage, and revealing it meant accepting. A name was thought to hold a person's soul, so letting it be known was close to offering up one's innermost self.
In the Heian period, a person's real name during life was called imina, and it was considered rude for anyone other than a parent or lord to say it aloud. Calling someone by their real name was felt to be akin to controlling them, so people addressed one another by official titles, common names or courtesy names. Many of the women who served at court are known only by the names used in service, and the fact that their real names have largely vanished from the record is thought to reflect this custom.
The imina custom originally came from China, where it began as avoiding the names of the dead and later extended to the names of the living.
As we see it here, hiding one's true name was a way of locking the door to protect the soul from unseen forces. This is our own conjecture, but to people who feared curses, a name may have seemed the easiest weak point to steal. A reading that finds your hidden desires in the vowels of your name seems to carry on, somewhere, that old sense that your true self lives deep inside the name you keep hidden.
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