Real sky + Real numbers = Your Real Love Story

The sky

Planets, Sun and Moon

Our planet, Sun and Moon positions, Moon phases and retrograde dates use the published methods of astronomer Jean Meeus, whose book Astronomical Algorithms (1991) became a standard reference for these calculations, together with NASA JPL’s published orbital elements for the planets. That is why our retrograde dates match astronomy calendars, typically to the day: for example, Mercury turned retrograde on October 24, 2026 and turns direct on November 13, 2026.

• NASA JPL: Approximate Positions of the Planets (E.M. Standish and J.G. Williams)
• Jean Meeus: Belgian astronomer, born 1928; asteroid 2213 Meeus is named in his honor

Meeus calculated where the planets are. The meaning we give them is our own, drawn from astrology traditions.

Names

Name numbers and the Name Mirror

We add up every letter of your full birth name with the standard Pythagorean chart, keeping the full total before reducing it (for example 82 → 10 → 1).

Name Mirror odds. About 1 in 58 couples share an exact full-name total, compared with about 1 in 9 who share a reduced name number. We worked this out from about 204 million U.S. births, 1950 to 2005, using the Social Security Administration’s first-name records and the U.S. Census surname frequencies, assuming one middle name.

• Social Security Administration: baby name data
• U.S. Census Bureau: frequently occurring surnames (1990 Census)

Birthdays

Master number birthday facts

Facts like “only 65 of the 36,525 birthdays in the last 100 years add up to a Master 44” are counted directly, by adding the digits of every calendar date. Nothing is estimated, so anyone can recount them. The site recalculates them from today’s date every time you visit.

Other traditions

Chinese zodiac, Maya calendar and tarot

• Chinese zodiac: your animal and element follow the Chinese New Year, which we date with Meeus’s new-moon formula (the new moon in China between January 21 and February 20). This matches the traditional calendar in almost every year.
• Maya calendar: your day sign and tone use the GMT correlation (584,283), the conversion accepted by most Maya researchers. Read about it.
• Tarot birth card: the month, day and year of your birth added together and reduced to a number from 1 to 22, matched to the Major Arcana.

Your score

How we calculate your connection score

One score, everywhere. Your score comes only from the two full birth names, the two birth dates and, if you add them, both mothers’ first names. It has seven layers: numerology, the math between your birthdays, astrology (signs and aspects), Chinese zodiac, Maya calendar, tarot birth cards and your mothers’ names. Every couple is scored by the same rules. Things only you know, like the day you met or the signs you’ve noticed, can shape your connection type (Twin Flame, Soulmate or Karmic), but they never change the number. A birth time, if you add one, only shows your Moon and Rising signs and never changes the number either.

A ranking, not a grade. We built 500,000 couple combinations from real U.S. names and random birth dates: first and middle names drawn from Social Security Administration records of births from 1950 to 2005, weighted by how common each name was, surnames from the 1990 U.S. Census, and birth dates picked at random from every day between 1950 and 2005. We scored every one. Your score is the percentage of those combinations that scored lower than you, up to 99. So a score of 96 means you scored higher than 96% of them. If you add both mothers’ first names, you are ranked against the same 500,000 combinations, each given two mothers’ first names drawn from Social Security records of girls born 1920 to 1960. Mothers with the same first name earn 12 of 12 points, and names that reduce to the same number earn 4. A typical couple scores about 43, not 50, because many combinations tie on the middle scores.

How rare is each thing you share? Your reading lists the odds for each match, labeled one of two ways:

• Exact: calendar math anyone can check. For example, two dates fall on the same weekday 1 time in 7, and of the 66,430 possible pairs of different birthdays, 411 have a fixed gap that mirrors one of the birthdays (about 1 in 162).
• Measured: counted across the 500,000 combinations, or from the name records themselves. For example, about 1 in 58 couples share an exact full-name total, about 1 in 12 have opposite Sun signs, and about 1 in 144 have mothers with the same first name (from SSA records of girls born 1920 to 1960).

We never multiply the odds together. Many of these things are connected (the same birth date drives your Life Path, your Sun sign and your Chinese animal), so multiplying them would make a couple look far rarer than they are. Each figure stands on its own.

Each combination pairs real names with a birth date picked at random from 1950 to 2005. Together they show how often a pattern happens by chance, which is what makes a rare match meaningful.

Check it yourself

Two calculations you can do with a pencil

Words we use

A quick glossary

Life Path

Your birth date's digits added together and reduced to one number (or a Master number). The main number of your chart.

Master numbers

11, 22, 33 and 44. When a total lands on one of these, it is kept, not reduced.

Expression

Every letter of your full birth name added up with the Pythagorean chart. Read as your natural gifts.

Soul Urge

The vowels of your full birth name. Read as what your heart wants most.

Personality

The consonants of your full birth name. Read as how others first see you.

Name Mirror

Two people whose full birth names add up to exactly the same total before reducing.

Family of numbers

Three groups that numerologists see as natural fits: 1, 5, 7 (thinkers and explorers); 2, 4, 8, 11, 22, 44 (builders and keepers); 3, 6, 9, 33 (hearts and creatives).

Karmic lessons

Numbers from 1 to 9 missing from your full name, read as the lessons your soul came to learn.

Karmic debt

The numbers 13, 14, 16 and 19 when they appear on the way to a total, read as lessons carried from before.

Womb Gate

Our name for two mothers who share a first name, or whose first names reduce to the same number. Mothers with the same first name happen for about 1 in 144 couples.

Connection score

How your couple ranks against 500,000 couple combinations built from real US names and random birth dates, up to 99. It is the same on every page.

Connection type

Twin Flame, Soulmate or Karmic: which kind of love your signs lean toward. It labels your score but never changes it.

Aspects

The angles between planets in two charts (together, 60°, 90°, 120° or 180° apart), read in astrology as harmony or tension.

North Node

A point in the Moon's orbit, read in astrology as the direction your soul is growing toward.

Personal Year, Month and Day

Your birthday's numbers added to today's date: the theme numerology gives to this year, month and day for you.

Galactic tone and day sign

Your place in the 260-day Maya calendar: one of 13 tones and one of 20 day signs.

See it for yourself

Every number in your reading can be checked with a calendar and a calculator.