Karmic Lessons in Numerology deal primarily with our areas of weakness that need to be faced and work on in this lifetime. The purpose of exploring them is finding the way to understand and interact with them in a productive manner. There can be several Karmic Lessons which can be found by analyzing our full name at birth and finding out the missing numbers in our name.

Each letter in our names has its own corresponding number. Certain numbers repeat, some appear only once, some do not appear at all. Karmic Lessons are determined by the numbers that are not present in our name.

The following are the alphabet's letters and their corresponding numerical values:

The letters in our name and their corresponding numbers point to the various talents and abilities that each of us possesses.

• Karmic Lessons help to give direction to our life.
• Karmic Lessons point to something "missing", while "adding" to our life.

When there are three or more numbers missing from your Karmic Lesson Chart, you would do well to focus the needs on what you can do, not what you cannot. The cannots will take care of themselves over time. You need to understand also that missing three or more numbers almost always denotes at least one period in your life where you will only find success or fulfillment through adversity. You will have to try harder than average to be happy but, in the end, you will have a greater appreciation for things many other people take for granted.

How to calculate Karmic Lessons Number?

To find the Karmic Lessons, there is no need for mathematical calculations, but only to determine which numbers are missing from your name. Let's analyse the name John Abraham Smith. When you replace the letters of the full name with their numerical values you will get the following string: 1685 1291814 14928.

In the above name's numbers, the number 1 appears five times, the 2 appears twice, the number 3 appears no times at all, the number 4 shows up twice, the 5 comes up once, the 6 appears once, the 7 appears no times at all, the number 8 shows three times and the number 9 comes up twice.

Sixteen letters are present in the above name, and the numbers missing are only 3 and 7, which are the Karmic Lessons number. Following the same steps you can find your own Karmic Lessons Number asscociated with your full name at birth, and then keep looking to find the missing numbers on the generated numerical sequence.