How to Read Your Destiny Matrix Chart, Step by Step

A Destiny Matrix chart can look like a tangle of numbers at first. The trick is to read it in order, from the few main points outward, and to ask what each number is saying about its own position. This guide takes you through the steps. If you do not have a chart yet, make one first with the Destiny Matrix calculator.

Step 1: find the five main points

Start with the five points that give the frame of your chart: your personality (the day of birth), your talent (the month), your material task (the year), your karmic task (the bottom of the chart) and your core (the center). Write them down with their names, for example "Personality 14, Temperance" or "Core 10, the Wheel of Fortune".

Step 2: read each number in its position

The same energy means different things in different places. The Magician as your personality shows how others see you. The Magician as your karmic task is a lesson about using skill honestly. For each of the five points, read the page about that energy, and focus on the part that matches the position. Every energy page has a section for each position.

Step 3: look at your core

The core is the center of the chart and the best single summary of it. It tells you where you feel at home and what state you are happiest in. Notice how your core relates to your personality: if the two are very different, you may be showing the world something other than what you feel inside.

Step 4: read your karmic task and your karmic tail

The number at the bottom of the chart is your karmic task, the lesson you came to work through. The three numbers of the karmic tail describe the pattern that goes with it. Read them together. The guide to the karmic tail explains how to do it.

Step 5: read the love line and the money channel

The love line shows how you love and what you need in a partner. The money channel shows how money reaches you and what can block it. Each is a single number, read as an energy in that role. You can read how each energy works in love in the guide to the love line and in money in the guide to the money channel.

Step 6: read your purpose by age

Three numbers describe your purpose at three stages: from about 20 to 40, from 40 to 60 and after 60. Read them as a path, and notice where you are now. The guide to purpose by age goes through the stages.

Step 7: look for patterns

Once you have read each point, look at the chart as a whole. Do certain energies appear more than once? Are there pairs of opposite character? Repeated numbers are worth a closer look: an energy that appears in several places is a strong theme in your life, for better and for worse.

A worked example

Take the date July 14, 1991. The five main points are personality 14, Temperance; talent 7, the Chariot; material task 20, Judgement; karmic task 5, the Hierophant; and core 10, the Wheel of Fortune.

A first reading could go like this. Temperance as the personality suggests someone who comes across as calm, measured and good at finding the middle way. The Chariot as the talent points to drive and the knack of steering toward a goal. Judgement as the material task ties work and money to a sense of calling, so the question is not only what pays but what feels like yours to do. The Hierophant as the karmic task asks about values and about learning from your own experience, and the Wheel of Fortune at the core says this person feels at home when life is moving.

Then come the lines. The love line is 6, the Lovers, so honest choice and partnership matter. The money channel is 21, the World, so income tends to open up when work is finished, shared or reaches far. The karmic tail is 5, 20, 15, and the purposes by age are 19, the Sun, from 20 to 40, then 20, Judgement, from 40 to 60, and 12, the Hanged Man, after 60.

Notice what a careful reader does with this. Judgement appears three times, as the material task, as the middle number of the tail and as the social purpose, so a calling is a strong theme. Nothing is read as a verdict, and every sentence turns into a question to explore: what do I feel called to, what am I attached to, and what do I want to hand on?

Common mistakes

• Reading only the core and ignoring the rest of the chart
• Taking a difficult-sounding number such as 13, 15 or 16 as a bad sign, when they describe change, desire and breakthrough
• Looking for a prediction instead of a pattern
• Comparing your chart with someone else's and deciding which is better
• Reading a chart once and never coming back to it

A short practice

Take twenty minutes with your chart and a notebook. For each of the five main points, write one sentence that describes how that energy shows up in your life now, and one sentence about how you would like it to show up. The gap between the two is where the useful work is.

If you would like each position written out for you in depth, a personal reading goes through the whole chart. And if you are new to the system, start with the beginner's guide. If a question is still open, the Destiny Matrix FAQ answers the most common ones.