Compound number 19: The Sun / Prince of Heaven
Chaldean compound · reduces to 1 · Favourable
Cheiro's reading of 19
Cheiro regards 19 as highly favourable, promising happiness, success, respect and honour, and good prospects for future plans.
How a name reaches 19
In the Chaldean system every letter of the name is added into one total. When that total is 19, Cheiro reads 19 first and then the single digit it reduces to: 1+9 = 10, then 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 19 a lucky number?
Cheiro counts 19 among the favourable compound numbers.
Names that add up to 19
Some common first names whose letters add to 19 in the Chaldean system: Gaurav, Krishna, Lakshmi, Arvind, Fatima, Daniel, Isabella, Olivia. For example, Gaurav: 3 + 1 + 6 + 2 + 1 + 6 = 19. A full name adds the first name, any middle names and the surname together.
19 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, 2.1% add up to exactly 19. That whole-date total reduces to the Bhagyank, here 1.
As a day of the month, the 19th gives Mulank 1. Born on the 19th.
Other compounds that reduce to 1
10, 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 19
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 | 20 | Mixed The Awakening / The Judgment |
| +2 | B K R | 21 | Favourable The Universe / Crown of the Magi |
| +3 | C G L S | 22 | Warning Good Man Blinded by the Folly of Others |
| +4 | D M T | 23 | Favourable Royal Star of the Lion |
| +5 | E H N X | 24 | Favourable |
| +6 | U V W | 25 | Mixed |
| +7 | O Z | 26 | Warning |
| +8 | F P | 27 | Favourable The Sceptre |