How to choose a lucky mobile number by date of birth

How the sum works

Take the ten digits of the number. Leave out the country code and any leading zero. Add them. If the total has more than one digit, add its digits again until one digit is left.

Three invented numbers, for someone born on 14 March 1992. That date gives a mulank of 5 and a bhagyank of 2, which we worked out in our guide to mulank and bhagyank.

Number	Total	vs 5	vs 2	Fit
98765 43000	6	friend	neutral	Good
98765 43210	9	neutral	neutral	OK
98765 41000	4	friend	enemy	Poor

The digit sums are 42, 45 and 40, which reduce to the totals 6, 9 and 4 (4 + 2 = 6, 4 + 5 = 9, 4 + 0 = 4). “vs 5” is the total against the mulank, and “vs 2” is the total against the bhagyank. “OK” is the app’s acceptable level.

Those digits are made up for the example, and are grouped in fives only to make them easier to read. The zeros in the first and third number add nothing to the sums.

What friendly and enemy mean here

Each digit from 1 to 9 belongs to a planet in the Vedic tradition: 1 the Sun, 2 the Moon, 3 Jupiter, 4 Rahu, 5 Mercury, 6 Venus, 7 Ketu, 8 Saturn and 9 Mars. Traditional tables mark each pair of planets as friendly, neutral or opposed. A number’s total is read against your own numbers through that table.

NumeroGyan then scores the result like this.

• Friendly to both your mulank and your bhagyank: excellent.
• Friendly to one, with no enemy: good.
• Neutral to both: acceptable.
• An enemy of one: poor.
• An enemy of both: unsuitable.

Judging against both numbers is the majority practice among the detailed Indian calculators. A minority use only the mulank or only the bhagyank, so a different site can give a different verdict from the same number. That is not an error; it is a different rule.

Totals that suit each birth number

This is the friendship table NumeroGyan uses. Find your mulank or bhagyank in the left column. Read the totals that are friendly to it and the totals that are opposed.

Your number	Friendly totals	Opposed totals
1	1, 2, 3, 9	4, 6, 7, 8
2	1, 2	4, 7
3	1, 3, 9	none
4	4, 5, 6, 8	1, 2
5	4, 5, 6	none
6	4, 5, 6, 7, 8	1
7	6, 7, 8, 9	1, 2
8	4, 6, 7, 8	1
9	1, 3, 7, 9	none

For the example person, with a 5 and a 2, no total is friendly to both. The best any total can reach is “good”, from totals 1, 2, 5 or 6. Totals 3, 8 and 9 are acceptable, and 4 and 7 are poor, because each is an enemy of the 2.

Do the “avoid 4 and 8” lists hold up?

Mostly not, and they cannot all be right. Published lists of numbers to avoid include 4 and 8, 2 and 4 and 8, 4 and 5, 4 and 7 and 8 and 9, and one even says all even numbers. Chinese tradition calls 8 the luckiest number of all.

Run through the table above and you can see why a single list is hard to defend. A total of 4 is friendly to four birth numbers (4, 5, 6 and 8) and opposed to only two (1 and 2). A total of 8 is friendly to four (4, 6, 7 and 8) and opposed to just one, the number 1.

Cheiro, whose Book of Numbers is the classical source, is more careful than the lists that cite him. For most people, his advice is to stay with their own number. His caution about 4 and 8 is aimed at people born under those numbers, who should not add more of them. He softens even that: the 4 is “not so much to be dreaded”, and it is only a continual run of 4s and 8s that those people should try to avoid.

Traditions do not agree on everything, and ours is no exception. NumeroGyan’s table treats a total of 4 as friendly to someone with a mulank of 4, where Cheiro advises such people to be careful with it. This is one more reason to check which rules a calculator follows before you trust its answer.

Zeros, repeats and pairs

The total is the part almost everyone agrees on. After that, rules multiply.

• Zeros. A zero adds nothing to the sum. Many Hindi articles dislike a number that ends in 0, and some dislike several zeros, but there is no settled doctrine. Some sources say one or two scattered zeros are fine, and others want as few as possible.
• Repeats. A common rule of thumb is that no digit should appear more than three times. Most writers treat a repeat as amplifying whatever that digit already means, good or bad, rather than as bad in itself.
• Pairs. Some schools read pairs of neighbouring digits, and they contradict each other. A pair the Indian planetary school calls unlucky, such as 27 or 14, the Chinese school often reads as good.

NumeroGyan’s check goes beyond the total, and also looks at digit pairs and which part of the number a digit falls in. Treat any of those as a note, not a verdict.

A number is a small thing

A phone number is a small, everyday influence, and your birth numbers matter far more than it does. If you already use a number that works for you, careful sources suggest you keep it: the practical cost of changing a number you have used for years is usually larger than the benefit of a better total.

Be wary of anyone who sells numbers. The people with the longest lists of “bad” combinations often sell the “good” ones, and more warnings mean more sales. A premium price for a “lucky” number is a price for a belief, and numerology is not scientifically proven. Nothing on this page predicts money, health or relationships.