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December 27, 2023THE PINNACLE CYCLE
What are the Pinnacles in numerology?
The Pinnacles are four distinct periods of time that each of us experience—with the longest cycles being at the beginning and at the end of our lives, with two nine-year cycles in the middle.
Each Pinnacle is a time of personal development.
The Pinnacles can be seen as the degree programs you signed up for during your life—and you get to study that particular subject matter for an extended period of time. Consider them to be like a master plan compartmentalized into stages of development.
They are the building blocks of your life—and you take the experiences and skills learned throughout each cycle and bridge them to inform the next.
Each Pinnacle number represents the energy and lessons that are emphasized during a period of several years. Understanding the elements presented to you during your Pinnacle Cycles offers invaluable information about the focus and lessons to be learned during certain chunks of time, and also provides a great format for understanding why certain things happen during these periods of time.
This is the environment in which you find yourself, offering you a particular trajectory through life.
In numerology, Pinnacles are sometimes called The Four Pyramids.
Calculating your four Pinnacle Cycle numbers is not so much a predictive tool—although it can be used to map out a clearer vision of your past, present, and future—as a tool that offers support and guidance for your life decisions and actions.
Everyone goes through four Pinnacle Cycles in their lives. Yet we go through them at different times, depending on our Life Path number.
When I interpret a numerology profile, I always look to see if any of the core numbers in a profile show up in a person’s Pinnacle Cycles. If so, to me it indicates a period of time where that particular aspect or element of their personality (as defined by the core numbers) is being highlighted for growth.
Alternately, if someone experiences one or more Pinnacle Cycles that don’t match with any of their core numbers, it’s as though they were visiting a foreign country for that period of time, where they had to learn a new language and get used to different customs. This is often a time where a person felt out of place and out of sync with their environment.
Calculating Pinnacles
Of course there’s more than one way numerologists calculate the Pinnacle numbers. I’m sharing the way I feel the Pinnacles are calculated (below) and yet I’ll illustrate another way so you can make the determination yourself.
This is the basic formula for finding your four Pinnacles.
Just like the way of calculating your Life Path number separately adding the month/day/year, you work with the Pinnacles the same way.
1st Pinnacle = Month of Birth + Day of Birth
2nd Pinnacle = Day of Birth + Year of Birth
3rd Pinnacle = First Pinnacle + Second Pinnacle
4th Pinnacle = Month of Birth + Year of Birth
Let’s see how you could do it both ways, and how the results aren’t necessarily the same.
November 22, 1985
With the first way of calculation, you would do the math using:
- November = 11 and 1 + 1 = 2
- Day = 22 and 2 + 2 = 4
- 1985 = 1 + 9 + 8 + 5 = 23
2 + 3 = 5
Then you calculate this way:
1st Pinnacle: (month) 2 + (day) 4 = 6
2nd Pinnacle: (day) 4 + (year) 5 = 9
3rd Pinnacle: (1st Pinnacle) 6 + (2nd Pinnacle) 9 = 15 and 1 + 5 = 6
4th Pinnacle: (month) 2 + (year) 5 = 7
Now let’s see the other option. In this way of thinking, you use the full number without reducing it first. When you have a Master number, the Master number is not reduced.
November 22, 1985
November: 11
Day: 22
Year: 1985
1st Pinnacle = (month) 11 + (day) 22 = 33
Since 33 is a Master number it is not reduced. This is the final number for the 1st Pinnacle.
2nd Pinnacle = (day) 22 + (year) 1985 = 2,007 and 2 + 0 + 0 + 7 = 9
3rd Pinnacle = (1st Pinnacle) 33 + (2nd Pinnacle) 9 = 42 and 4 + 2 = 6
4th Pinnacle = (month) 11 + (year) 1985 = 1,996 and 1 + 9 + 9 + 6 = 25; 2 + 5 = 7
With the first way of calculating, the Pinnacles show as:
1st Pinnacle: 6
2nd Pinnacle: 9
3rd Pinnacle: 6
4th Pinnacle: 7
With the second way of calculating, the Pinnacles show as:
1st Pinnacle: 33/6
2nd Pinnacle: 9
3rd Pinnacle: 6
4th Pinnacle: 7
The biggest change with doing the calculation the first way or the second way is minimal when calculating Pinnacle Cycles and the difference often reveals a Master number.
