Do Your Own Numerology Reading

Your Second Period Cycle is 2:

You were born on the 2nd or 20th day of the month.
This is a period of slow and patient development.  You are acutely sensitive to your surroundings and highly intuitive.  You possess a gift as a peacemaker and have tremendous power through gentle persuasion.  Cultivate the talents of tact and diplomacy.  Cooperate with others.  Musical and other artistic talents come to fruition.  Partnerships are important, requiring understanding and compromise.  You need patience and flexibility, but you are under a gentle and benevolent influence in which others are happy to support you.  Seek out beauty and harmonious environments, spend time in nature, and enjoy the peace of close companionship.  This is a period of slow but steady progress.

Go on to read your Third and Final Period Cycle.

What numerology can tell us about ancestral influences

De omnibus rebus et quibusdam aliis.
(Concerning all things and several others.)

For most people, the family name has been carried on through many generations, usually on the father's side.  Your last name represents a strong connection you have with your ancestors, as well as a similar spiritual path.  As shown in our section on Calculation Methods in Numerology, your Spiritual Transit is taken from your last name.  In other words, when you have your last name in common with others, your spiritual path also develops along similar lines.
However, the level and intensity of spiritual experiences is very personal, and it cannot possibly be compared with that of someone else.

For example, our friend Thomas John Hancock (a name/example we have used in other sections on this site), and his father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and so on, are all identified by the name Hancock.  Each of them had an "O" Spiritual Transit from age seventeen through twenty-two, forty-five through fifty, and seventy-three through seventy-eight.  During those times in their lives, they experienced their spiritual evolvement in an emotional way; they were connected to the recognition of beauty, and to the responsibility towards family and community; they had a desire to paint or to otherwise express their feelings; and they had warm, nurturing human relationships.  There is a confidence, yet also melancholy and emotional prayer during the "O" Spiritual Transit.

How strong and intensely each of them experienced this probably varied widely, and, even to the close observer, might have made the similarities totally unrecognizable.

Your last name reveals many other generic aspects.  Contemplate and study your name closely.  Does the name have a certain letter or number represented more than once?  How does the name read if you look at each number?  (See Calculation Methods to learn how to translate your name into numbers.)

The name Hancock reads as follows: An 8, 1, 5, 3, 6, 3, and 2, which total to 28, reduce to 10, and further reduce to 1.
The family line on the father's side will likely show a number of financially capable (8 Cornerstone) people, many of whom own their own businesses (1 and 8, as well as two 3's), probably promoting or selling something, and relying heavily on their verbal abilities and sense of humor (3 and 5).  Family and responsibility (6 as second vowel) were also a priority.  They were often quite aware of the needs and emotional status of others (2, actually an 11, since the K is the eleventh letter of the alphabet).
Among his ancestors, Tom Hancock may discover some pirates, or otherwise social outcasts, as well, because the name reveals a considerable amount of adventurism (1 and 5), and a lack of conventionality (1, 5, and 3).
One thing almost all of them had in common was the desire to do their own thing (the sum of 1, and the letters with values of 8, 3, 5, and 1).

Once you have a good understanding of the numbers, you will enjoy meditating on the name(s) that identified, in different times through history, your ancestors.

For women, it is particularly interesting to note the custom of taking on the husband's last name, and the influence such a sacrifice has on a woman's personal experiences.  She — quite literally — surrenders a part of her own identity and her own Spiritual path to that of the husband.  Often, this has a good effect on the relationship.  However, when a woman divorces her husband, she should consider returning to her maiden name in order to recoup that part of her personal identity she sacrificed for the marriage.

Excerpt from Numerology; Key To Your Inner Self