Way back to ancient times numerology was recognised as a spiritual path in which our lives are dictated. It is deemed that our lives go in spiritual cycles of nine. Our life path is dictated by the date in which we are born.
So for example 4/4/1961 is determined by adding the numbers together (4+4+1+9+6+1 = 25 (you reduced the number to digits below 9).

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