Tibetan Numerology

The calculator needs two inputs: your date of birth and the gender you select. Only the year is used, after one adjustment: anyone born in January counts in the previous year, a simplified stand-in for Losar, the Tibetan new year, whose lunar date usually falls in February or March. If you were born near that year's Losar, check which side of it you fall. The page then gives a birth mewa, a nine-square mewa grid, a parkha trigram, an element-animal year, five life forces and, with a second person added, a compatibility score.

For the mewa, the last two digits of the year are added until one digit remains. Men take that figure from 11; women add 3; either way the result wraps round one to nine. The parkha is counted through the eight trigrams from 2000, backwards from Li for men and forwards from Kham for women. The animal follows the twelve-year cycle, and the element changes every two years through Metal, Water, Wood, Fire and Earth. The life forces come from the mewa's element through the mother, child and friend relationships of the five elements, the friend being the element the mewa controls, with the soul force taken from a fixed table.

Take a woman born on 14 March 1990. March is past the cut-off, so 1990 stands. Nine plus zero is nine, plus three gives twelve, which wraps to 3: the blue mewa, linked to Water and the East. Counting forward ten steps from Kham reaches Da, the Metal trigram of the West, whose quality is joy. Her year is Metal Horse. Her grid, with 3 at the centre, reads 2, 7, 9 across the top, 1, 3, 5 through the middle and 6, 8, 4 along the bottom. Her forces are Sog in Water, Lu in Metal, Wangthang in Wood, Lungta in Fire and La in Water.

Read the mewa first; its colour and element are the vocabulary for everything else. In the grid, note which number lands in each direction and treat it as a map to reflect on, not a timetable. Compare the parkha's element with the mewa's: in the example, Metal feeds Water, a supportive pairing. The element-animal year is a tone shared with everyone born that year. Use the five forces as prompts about where you feel settled and where stretched.

The partner score weighs four pairings, mewa element, parkha element, animal and year element, so a low figure points to the pairing that clashes rather than judging the relationship.

Because every result comes from birth year and gender alone, the method describes a symbolic pattern shared by many people; it cannot speak to your own circumstances or what lies ahead.