Compound number 10: Wheel of Fortune
Chaldean compound · reduces to 1 · Favourable
Cheiro's reading of 10
Cheiro reads 10 as a number of honour, faith and self-belief, with ups and downs and a name that becomes known. He considers it fortunate in that plans tend to come to fruition.
How a name reaches 10
In the Chaldean system every letter of the name is added into one total. When that total is 10, Cheiro reads 10 first and then the single digit it reduces to: 1+0 = 1. Read number 1 for the single-digit meaning.
Cheiro used compound numbers mainly to judge names and dates. These readings describe his tradition's view; they are not predictions.
Is 10 a lucky number?
Cheiro counts 10 among the favourable compound numbers.
Names that add up to 10
Some common first names whose letters add to 10 in the Chaldean system: Amit, Anil, Asha, Isha, Ravi, Vijay, Adam, Yuki. For example, Amit: 1 + 4 + 1 + 4 = 10. A full name adds the first name, any middle names and the surname together.
10 in dates
For dates from 1940 to 2019, adding every digit gives totals from 4 (1 January 2000) to 48 (29 September 1999). Of all dates from 1940 to 2019, 0.8% add up to exactly 10. That whole-date total reduces to the Bhagyank, here 1.
As a day of the month, the 10th gives Mulank 1. Born on the 10th.
Other compounds that reduce to 1
19, 28, 37, 46. Each has its own reading, though they share the single digit 1.
What the single digit 1 adds
Traditionally the number of beginnings. One is linked with drive and the wish to act on your own terms; the shadow side is impatience or going it alone when help is on offer. In Cheiro's method the compound gives the colour and the single digit gives the underlying nature; both are read together.
How one letter changes 10
Adding a letter raises a Chaldean total by that letter's value, from 1 to 8 (no letter is worth 9). This is why a doubled letter or an extra vowel can move a name to a different compound:
| Add | Letters | New total | Cheiro's view |
|---|---|---|---|
| +1 | A I J Q Y | 11 | Warning Clenched Hand / Lion Muzzled |
| +2 | B K R | 12 | Warning The Sacrifice / The Victim |
| +3 | C G L S | 13 | Mixed Skeleton / Death |
| +4 | D M T | 14 | Mixed |
| +5 | E H N X | 15 | Mixed |
| +6 | U V W | 16 | Warning Tower Struck by Lightning / Shattered Citadel |
| +7 | O Z | 17 | Favourable Star of the Magi (Star of Venus) |
| +8 | F P | 18 | Warning Rayed Moon |