New Dawn reviews Yearly Diamonds -Your Soul’s Yearly Maps to Life

By Louise Storey
Published by Storey Publishing
194 pages

Can the numbers in your birthday calculate more than just mundane matters such as your age or if it is legal for you to vote, join the armed forces or drink alcohol?

Louise Storey believes so, and has published an extensive range of books all based on the power of numerology, or the wisdom in numbers. Her latest offering is Yearly Diamonds, a book to help you calculate the numerical values of the upcoming twelve months.

Louise Storey is a pioneer in the field of numerology. She states that numerology was bequeathed to humankind as a self-help tool to be used as a means to grow in self-awareness. When applied in this way, it enables a dedicated “sleuth” of numerology to derive their true potential from the numbers in their birthdate and names. Once the meanings are revealed and brought to light, they can then be used to help people “Know Thyself,” as per the Pythagorean adage.

From knowledge gained this way, self-empowerment takes root as we learn more about using numbers and Tarot cards as keys to unlock the hidden agenda secreted in our own numbers, writes the author.

Yearly Diamonds provides a comprehensive system, along with many references, to creating your own map to the challenges and bonuses that each year offers.

All the numbers correspond to the Tarot, which as most readers know, is based on archetypes or symbols that encapsulate areas or expressions in our lives. This cross-referencing allows the student to study the image on the traditional Tarot card and gain a deeper insight into the upcoming challenge or bonus.

The author offers very detailed, step-by-step instructions allowing the reader to formulate their own diamond. Each section is colour coded allowing easy access – another thoughtful bonus.

Readers should be aware that Louise Storey has created a unique, and quite different system than the traditional methods.

Students of numerology will recall that generally a “personal year” number is calculated from the birthday, birth-month added together with the current year, and then reduced down to a single digit.

Louise Storey’s system combines the person’s current age with the life path number to produce the personal year number, something quite novel, and yet clearly adding great depth. Obviously a young person in their 20s experiencing a “9” year would have very different experiences from a person in their 60s, for example. Louise Storey takes everything much deeper as she also shows the reader how to calculate their challenges and goals for that particular year.

It took many years to develop this new system of numerology, writes the author in the Preface. Many of those years were spent working with single digits until she had an “accidental” breakthrough that led to the transformation into yearly diamonds and life diamonds. Students of numerology will be familiar with the terms “pinnacles and challenges” which is the traditional name, but this system failed to inspire the author as she found it too rigid and also lacking in depth.

Yearly Diamonds uses the Tarot to interpret the meaning of the numbers, and a comprehensive study of the Tarot’s numbers is included for the student.

It would be easy to get overwhelmed by the calculations required to formulate a yearly diamond, but Louise Storey offers several studies into various celebrities to help the reader grasp the intricacies of this system.

She includes a fascinating section for babies and infants, and includes the tragic story of Azaria Chamberlain whose death, it is believed, was caused by a dingo in Uluru National Park in the heart of Australia. Azaria has several “8s”, “0s” and a 43, which indicates fun-filled activities that could quickly turn into something sinister. The culminating number is 22, corresponding with The Fool, which could depict the soul’s withdrawal from earth-plane existence.

The author also offers fascinating studies on Princess Diana, and her lover Dodi Fayed, Tiger Woods and Susan Boyle, and actor Christopher Reeves for the year he fell from his horse and became a paraplegic, all utterly fascinating.

It is clear that our birthdates and names provide major links to our hidden agendas. Numerology enables us to tap them to reveal secret signs and clues that guide us throughout each incarnation. Louise Storey’s comprehensive look at our yearly challenges gives us much food for thought.

The system outlined is quite simple, however, many readers who are unfamiliar with the Tarot or the basics of numerology may find the information a little overwhelming.

As with many systems, interpretation is key, as most numbers and even Tarot cards offer us many nuances and readings. We can all fall into the trap of seeing what we want to see or feeling lost or overwhelmed by apparent “bad” cards or “bad” numbers.

I heartily recommend this book for those wanting to seriously study this kind of information and willing to practice the methods over a long period of time. It is amazing and totally illogical these numbers mean anything at all, but they do, and Louise Storey proves it.

Reviewed by Lesley Crossingham in New Dawn 125 (March-April 2011), available from all good newsagents in Australia. www.newdawnmagazine.com