Life Path 8 by Laurie Buchanan
LIFE PATH 8
The Path of the Warrior
If you missed the post on how to calculate your Life Path number, simply click HERE.
You’re gifted with natural leadership and the capacity to accumulate great wealth—should you so desire.You attract financial success more than any other Life Path, but effort is required—should you so desire.
You’ve the capacity for management in all areas of life, especially in business and financial matters—should you so desire.
Fame, power, and fortune are the three corners of your crown—should you so desire.
A great connoisseur of the finer things in life, you especially appreciate the arts—visual, performing, language, and culinary. Your home is generally a showplace of your interests, yet it expresses the warmth of your personality and charm.
You understand the material world and intuitively know what makes virtually any enterprise work. Your talent lies with the greater vision, its purpose, and long-range goals. You possess the ability to inspire people to join you in your quest—should you so desire.
Business, finance, real estate, law, science (particularly history, archeology, and physics), publishing, and the management of large institutions are among the vocational fields that suit you best. You’re naturally attracted to positions of influence and leadership—politics, social work, and teaching are among the many other areas where your abilities can shine—should you so desire.
As a leader and a teacher—a person who influences—those in your sphere of influence need your continual guidance, inspiration, and encouragement. You must prod them into action and direct them along the lines of your vision.
With such ability, you’d do well to align yourself with large groups or organizations; the larger the group, the larger your rewards, whether financial or spiritual. A great sense of what is inordinately right helps you to direct your efforts. Your interest in philanthropic organizations can be extremely useful to them because you have the ability to draw to them what many others can’t—accomplishing so much more.
You’re very perceptive and understand human nature. As such, you have profound sympathy for people less fortunate than you. Courage is one of your greatest assets and you display it often in fighting for equal rights for all mankind. The underdog is your pet project. Your lifetime is spent in lending a hand to anyone who needs it, and that which is given is always returned many-fold.
Material things will be yours without much effort—should you so desire—but your happiness will also be spiritual in the knowledge that you’ve accomplished something unique by sheer dint of your ability.
The Life Path 8 suggests that you entered this plane armed to lead, direct, organize, and govern. You’re endowed with tremendous potential for conceiving far-reaching schemes and ideas, and also possess the tenacity and independence to follow them through to completion. In short, you were born to be an executive.
You know how to manage yourself and your environment. Your ability to judge the character and potential of the people around you is an asset. Your inspirational quality goes a long way toward engaging them in your endeavors—a special trait not to be overlooked.
The Life Path 8 produces many powerful, confident, and materially successful people. A large part of their success comes from how hard they work. Take care, this Life Path is the most prone to producing workaholics. You may be very much in love, but watch that you’re not too busy and preoccupied to show it. You must make time for love and nurture it.
The Shadow Side
The negative 8 can be dictatorial and often suppresses the enthusiasm and efforts of fellow member of the environment. The strength of their own personality can exclude close feelings for other people with whom they come in contact.
Material gains and rewards often become issues of utmost importance, even to the neglect of family, home, and peace of mind. Dedication to success can become an obsession.
Emotional feelings are often suppressed by the negative 8, resulting in isolation and loneliness. All Life Path 8 people must avoid discounting the opinions of others.
Famous People with Life Path 8
Giorgio Armani, Neil Armstrong, Warren Beatty, Kate Beckinsale, Halle Berry, Jessica Biel, Cate Blanchett, Sandra Bullock, Naomi Campbell, Deepak Chopra, Cindy Crawford, Penelope Cruz, Matt Damon, Ted Danson, Hilary Duff, Bob Dylan, Jane Fonda, Aretha Franklin, Andy Garcia, Richard Gere, Gene Hackman, Faith Hill, Philip Enrique Iglesias, Tommy Lee Jones, Nathan Lane, Dylan McDermott, Sarah McLachlan, Paul Newman, Natasha Richardson, Diane Sawyer, David Schwimmer, Martin Scorsese, Elisabeth J. Shue, Martha Stewart, Ben Stiller, Oliver Stone, Barbara Streisand, Elizabeth Taylor, Robin Williams, and Yanni.
Life Path 8 Compatibility
The Life Path 8 person has a natural fit the Life Paths 2, 4, and 8. They get along well with Life Path 6. They’re neutral with Life Paths 1 and 5. But they find a challenge (or need to compromise) with Life Paths 3, 7, and 9.
“Whatever you are not changing, you are choosing.”
– Laurie Buchanan
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Comments on: "Life Path 8" (33)
Interesting as always, Laurie.
Leanne – I’m glad you popped in. Thank you
Good one to read but not my numbers. I wonder how all this financial abundance comes to people? Here I can see that it is related to the great effort the people put in.
I have a friend who is an 8 and this just sounds so like her except finances are very difficult for her – there is just enough not an abundance and this produces worry – in both of us!
Thank you
Patricia –
Some people work hard for money.
Some people let their money work hard for them.
I think there’s gotta be a nice balance somewhere in-between.
I like how you kept saying “should you desire”. That is the key! Thank you, Laurie.
Kathy – “Should you desire” is, indeed, key — and especially so for the Life Path 8′s.
Oh boy, now this is amazing Laurie! I am an 8, and so much of it rings true in a big way, I am an organizer, I sometimes attempt to lead, and I have an outgoing personality with many of the attributes expressed here. yet the debits also ring true to a fair extent and are scary!! Whew!
Here, for example:
“The negative 8 can be dictatorial and often suppresses the enthusiasm and efforts of fellow member of the environment. The strength of their own personality can exclude close feelings for other people with whom they come in contact.
Material gains and rewards often become issues of utmost importance, even to the neglect of family, home, and peace of mind. Dedication to success can become an obsession.”
I am not one who looks for montary rewards, but perhaps with some other aspects broached here.
God is this scary, but it’s a wake-up call of sorts too!
Sam – I was hoping the Life Path 8 information would resonate with you, and I’m glad that it did – even eerily so
The monetary aspect falls in the “should you so choose” category. For some 8′s that’s very strong, for others, not in the least. Thank you for your visit.
My daughter, Bethany, is an 8, Laurie. This is so much like how she can be, if she chooses. When she is being herself, she and I get along wonderfully. I am going to print this out and mail it to her. She will love it.
Barbara – Ohhhhhh, I’ll be interested to know Bethany’s response once she receives it
Laurie, I was looking for Donald Trump’s name and found Martha Stewart’s. Maybe it means 6 of one or half a dozen of another. This sure sounds like people I have known but would never have the gall to ask for their number.
Sandi – Just like almost everything, there’s a sunny side and a shadow side — with Life Path numbers the choice is ours. Interestingly, Donald Trump – born June 14, 1946 — is a Master Number 22. We’ll be getting to Master Numbers 11, 22, and 33 very shortly. Stay tuned…
Ms. Laurie, I wanted to let you know that I nominated you for the “most stylish blogger award!” See my latest post for your shout out and pay it forward! I hope you aren’t still snowed in!
Ms. Catie
Hey there Ms. Catie - I’ll swing over to your post shortly. Thank you so much for the vote of confidence
I read this one with great interest, too, as my older son and daughter are both 8s. Both fit the description well, and are far more ambitious and motivated than their father or me. Our daughter is a social worker who is also very good at prodding people into action, even us, her parents. And our son is good at conceiving far-reaching schemes and ideas, much to our amazement at times. It’s been rewarding and interesting watching them create remarkable lives for themselves, so different from ours.
Barbara – Like you, I find it interesting (sometimes mind boggling) how different our children can be from us (and how different we can be from our parents).
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My two sons are both 11! I’m an 8 and my husband is a 7.
Julie – That makes for a lively combination
Welcome to Speaking from the Heart.
Hello! First time reading your blog (sent over from Lake Superior Spirit). I’m an 8 and have to admit, the negatives don’t really ring true with me. Don’t get me wrong…I love the idea that I’m supposed to actually have money some day! But my weaknesses (and many strengths) are more like those of a 2. How the heck do I make sense of myself?
Celeste – Welcome to Speaking from the Heart. Any friend of Kathy’s is a friend of mine
Please know that sometimes the personality traits of Life Path numbers and/or Zodiac signs just don’t seem to mesh. I hope that you’ll come back and visit – we touch on a wide brushstroke of topics.
I’m wondering if I like this post most because this is my number? Grin. Thanks for the insight – kind of strange how closely it represents me. TTFN
Stacey – I’m glad you popped in for a look around. Glad, too, that this post resonated with you
My daughter and her dad are both 8. I’m a 3. It was interesting reading them. They were dead on.
What I was wondering was it says that 8s find a challenge with 3s. How does this affect the relationship between mother and daughter growing up and what are something I should be aware of.
Kadie – There will be the normal challenges that crop up between children (emerging adult) and parents, but knowing in advance that it might be slightly magnified, you can prepare yourself in advance with extra doses of patiences, understanding, and flexibility. In our home we practice intentional kindness (being kind on purpose). That simple concept went a long way toward keeping things smooth during our son’s growing up years.
This is extremely interesting. My numbers add up to an 8. But that just doesn’t fit… although, of course, bits and pieces and chunks of all the numbers do fit me in some way (although I am definitely not a 9 either). However, when I read #1 and #7 I wrote a big YES on my notepad next to both of them. And, of course, 7 + 1 = 8. I guess the 8 is me after all!
RMW – I found myself grinning wildly at the end of your comment
This is quite interesting Laurie. I see some truth in this.
Siegrid – I’m glad you found it interesting, thank you for letting me know
Hi Laurie – thanks so much for this post, it’s very enlightening. I read something similar a while back, so it’s a great refresher and an eye-opener. Many traits described here are right on for me.
My hubby turned out to be a 3, which explains certain tensions we have sometimes – mostly about money and his direction in life… how typical for 3. I was smiling with a tender smile when I read the #3 description though. He’s not artsy or overtly entertaining (it’s more my job), but he is a totally positive sweetheart and everyone loves him and wants him around for his friendly disposition and loving nature. And there’s that “who cares” attitude too, unfortunately.
I guess I need to practice more of your “intentional kindness” around him and count my blessings.
Sorry for the long comment, but this was really great!
Hugs,
Lada
Lada – My husband is a 1, I’m a 5, and our adult son is a 3. Please know that I oh-so-understand your shared thoughts on the 3 Life Path
We grow through challenges… now repeat this a hundred times a day (that’s a mantra for me)
Thanks, Laurie