I heard the sad news this morning that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, one of the greatest basketball players of all time, has cancer.

Abdul-Jabbar received his diagnosis, a rare form of leukemia, last December. Quite a few numbers were activated for him during that time.

His age in December 2008 was 61 – and that number ties in directly to his Day of Birth on the 16th.

In 2008 he was in a Personal Year of 21/3, which activated one of the other important numbers in his Personal Numerology Blueprint – Abdul-Jabbar’s 111/3 Destiny.

By the way, 111 is a very powerful triple digit Master Number. Kareem shares it with the Ayatollah Khomeini and Henry Kissinger. His 111 Destiny is derived from his birth name, ‘Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor’.

Notice how his 111 Destiny Number is forever tied to a record he still holds. His 1,111 defensive rebounds remain the NBA single-season record, even after 34 years.

I’m glad he changed his name to ‘Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.’ It adds up to the Immortality Number, 17/8 indicating he will leave a legacy behind. That’s quite an understatement when it comes to Kareem’s career.

Contrast his current name number to the name ‘Ferdinand Alcindor’ – adding up to the number 16, the same as his Day of Birth on the 16th. Though initially this number helped him rise to the top, it also could have easily resulted in a ‘fall from a high place’ at some point in this career, due to injury or other factors, if he had kept using it.

Speaking of number 16/7, I want Kareem to be extra vigilant in the year 2011. It’s a 16 Personal Year for him. He will need extra rest and timeouts that year.

Kareem Abdul Jabbar’s Psychic Number is also very fitting – it adds up to an 8. Note that his powerful 17/8 current name ‘Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’ is directly connected to his Psychic Number.

An 8 Psychic Number means he receives his intuitive or psychic flashes while leading others and overcoming hurdles. 8 is very connected to high-powered athletes who reach success by surviving and rising above challenges every day of their lives.

So Kareem’s Psychic Number 8 indicates he feels invigorated and intuitively connected when there are challenges he can confront while being in a leadership position.

Once you know your own Psychic Number, you will understand how your intuition is most easily activated. This knowledge is priceless, especially now.

Every person has intuitive gifts. Make sure you tap into your powerful sixth sense.

Tania Gabrielle, Celebrity Numerologist, is the Author of “The Unrevealed Secrets of Political Success: How Names and Dates Shape U.S. History.” Gabrielle has reached millions of people on Hay House Radio, the L.A. Times, US Magazine, The Allan Handelman Show, Your Time With Kim and Essence Magazine. She writes a highly popular free e-newsletter.

As often shown on the television show Numbers, most everything in life can have a mathematical foundation. Individually, we are assigned our own set of numbers based upon the day, month and year we were born. Add in the math behind the letters in our complete name, and an interesting profile can be provided pertaining to our expected personality, life path and destiny. This article outlines some of the information and core areas that a professional numerology reading can provide. An in depth analysis provides much more then can be covered here.

The day we were born gives us great insight into where we might have hidden talents waiting to reveal themselves. Our actual birth day is one of four core numbers in numerology that also include Life Path, Expression and Hearts Desire. Of the four, our birth day is the least significant but ironically, the most finite. The information provided here can include such things as ambition, will-power and traits like laziness.

One of the most important numbers calculated in numerology, is our Life Path number. Itll reveal the reasonable expectations for both the opportunities and the challenges we might expect on our journey through life. A good numerology reading, analysis, and interpretation can provide tremendous detail about your life path. As they say, numbers dont lie. You can expect revealing information that covers everything from success to self-satisfaction.

Another core part of numerology is the Expression number. That number, calculated from our name, gives us insights into our talents, abilities and shortcomings that well very well face for the rest of our lives. From the moment we were born and given an official name, our vibration was written and the music of our soul was put in place. We would be well served to know what that musical score is and the meaning of it.

Hearts Desire is a reveal of what can sometimes be a hidden urge, yearning or desire within our hearts or depths of our soul. In fact, its often referred to as our Soul Urge. Its another one of numerologys core numbers. Knowing and understanding this number will give us insight into what our core intentions might be regarding our drive or lack of it and how influences effect our life. Our personal environment, job, friends, family and lifestyle are often involved.

Numerology looks at our potential Challenges in life. Those usually vary to some degree depending on our age and numerology provides four Challenge numbers that can dictate what strengths and weaknesses we may be dealing with in a given life period. Challenge One: looks at birth to 30-35. Challenge Two: looks at us up to 55-60. Challenge Three: known as our Main Challenge, looks at potential lifelong challenges. Challenge Four: tells us what to expect from age 60-65 until our death.

There are two more life cycle readings known as the Pinnacle Cycles and the Period Cycles. Like our life challenges, in all likelihood, those will change as we age as well. There are actually many more analogies that numerology can provide and may vary from one numerologist to the next. Some others may also include, Personality, Karma, Hidden Passion, Balance, Subconscious Self and one called the Cornerstone, Capstone and First Vowel.

In conclusion, since it is impossible to change the vibratory powers of each year, the only sensible thing to do is to anticipate them and change your attitude and plans to coordinate with them. It also helps to know that you can coordinate your efforts rather than pull in the opposite directions and accomplish nothing. A simple analogy: if you plan a picnic and it rains, you have to change plans. If the weather report predicts that rainstorm in advance, it is obviously intelligent to change those plans accordingly. The same applies to our life’s plan and forecast, which makes everything easier.

Lastly, if things in life are meant to be, they will be. However, throughout life we will often come to the proverbial fork in the road and itll be our choice to go left or right. These decisions are not always predetermined. We are given free will. Its our personalities, influences and tendencies that will often have us choosing which way to turn. If we understand all of those, well be in a much better knowledge position to make the choice that we believe will have the best outcome. An expert reading and interpretation can provide you the kind of life changing information and insight you need to help make the right choices.