I wasn’t able to finish this book. Because of this, it is my policy not to review the book on my site or on Goodreads/Amazon. I also didn’t mark it DNF.

I found this quite difficult to get into and the charts etc weren’t always easy to understand for a beginner in this area. There is a lot of detail included which isn't obviously relevant but interesting at times nonetheless.

I do quite a bit of numerology as an enhancement to my magickal disciplines and I am always looking for a fresh perspective to inform and find the bridges of connection between multiple esoteric disciplines. Numerology: Dancing the Spirals of Time does just that in decoding the patterns and vibrations that are present universally.

The author uses a very tactile approach to learning and “feeling” the numbers and the geometric patterns they create. This process engages the reader from the onset and provides Ms. Sentier as a Transpersonal Psychotherapist and British Shaman. I have had the opportunity to read two of her other books, Elen of the Ways and Following the Deer Trods (both from her Shamanic Pathways series) and much of the way in which she approaches numerology, reflects her work in the setting of the natural world, the Fibonacci patterning and the cycles that are vibrational and number based universally.

As Ms. Sentier states in her prologue…“ What I’m offering you here are the results of my sixty-odd years of work and play with numerology, what the numbers have shown me.”… So, from the start you know that the information provided has been tested and tried for some time of longevity and not just a hasty inquiry of minimum duration.

She approaches the systems of numbers as points of correlates within a framework of defining and reshaping the self. The push here is for the reader to recognize the connections that numbers have in telling the story of our role as part and parcel of a system that encompasses the Universal and Cosmic energies of which we are a part. According to Ms. Sentier…”Numbers are amazing, they make wonderful patterns and the work in pairs. Like the DNA double helix, they spiral in and spiral out showing us both evolution and involution… the patterns of life, and of time.”

Each chapter is organized in pairs of numbers, giving the characteristics and correlates for each providing the balance of theory and integration into your own style of learning and understanding the concepts. The author has you scribe the number, using that as a very tactile way of sensing the energy in the creation of that number. Very cool, idea! Ms. Sentier says to….”draw the 1 as a straight line…let the feeling flow into your body through your hand and arm. Don’t try to translate the feeling, just experience it.”

I particularly enjoyed the Working with your Numbers section. Samples and explanations of the numbers that are important in your own patterning are given enabling the reader to do the work of numerological reading for themselves. The grids are a bit complex but clear directions guide the way. In keeping with this highly experiential style, there are several exercises provided to allow you to kinesthetically connect with the numbers.

I thought Numerology: Dancing the Spirals of Time offered an opportunity to work with numbers in a very organic and universal way, but I would not consider this as an introductory book at all. That being said, I don’t believe that was the intention of Ms. Sentier in the least. Despite this, I do believe that this is a wonderful resource and exercise in being able to draw deeper conclusions beyond the superficial information we are usually privy to. Moving through the pages and information of this book requires that you look and feel with all of your being and not simply accept at face value what is being written. And, in this Ms. Sentier scores a home run!
by Robin Fennelly on PaganPages.org
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This is a fascinating comprehensive review of the interpretation of Numerology. After I received signs of the same numbers working in my life I gravitated to learning about Numerology. This is the perfect segway into Numerology for both beginners and those with more knowledge. Everyone seeking Numerology for their own practice will benefit from this body of work. I found that this is a book of high interest to me and therefore I took my time to return to it time and time again to practice.. The author has included basic Numerology and historical aspect as well of what numbers can mean to our lives. and how we should interpret them. The exercises here are very educational. I recommend every reader do the exercises. I will use this on a ongoing basis for my practice of Numerology.

Thank you to the publisher and to Net Galley for the opportunity to enjoy this book. My opinion is my own.

Numerology Dancing the Spirals of Time by Elen Sentier

Book Review by Dawn Thomas

193 Pages

Publisher: John Hunt Publishing Ltd / Moon Books

Date Released: February 22, 2019

Metaphysical, Divination, Religion, Spirituality



I have been interested in numerology for many years. This was interesting in the way the information is presented. The author explains how numbers are paired together like a DNA helix. The pairs all add up to the number nine (8 +1, 2 +7, 3+6, 4+5, 5+4, 6+3, 7+2, 8+1). She uses the multiplication table as an example. She describes the personalities of each number person. She goes into detail about birth numbers and name numbers.

The author explains how growing up in a progressive household aided her in her learning and love of researching numbers. This is a different perspective of numerology. I love how she explains how to spot patterns and know what they mean. I enjoyed reading the book and learning a new way of looking at numbers. At the end of the book, there are several different types of exercises. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in numerology especially if you want a different perspective.

To me, it went through the numbers pretty quick. There is an introduction to a lot of terms. Some figures/tables. Informal writing does have some good information. there is a few exercises.

Numerology is not one of my primary areas of study or expertise, but it is an area I am often asked about by both students and people who know the work I do. So I decided to give Elen Sentier's book some time.

Overall I found this book to be very insightful, easy to read, covering the topic with deep attention to detail while not losing me along the way. The writing is warm, confident and readily digestible which made it a pleasure to read.

Thanks to this work I have a better understanding of numerology and greater curiosity to learn more. I would strongly recommend this as a great primer.

The author wants this book to act as a guide and not an instruction manual and for the reader to find their own interpretations of numerology. I found this book to be a slow read and difficult at times to follow. There is a lot of background information given at the beginning that bogs down the flow before we ever get to the numerology. I have no experience with numerology so that is a factor in my difficult interpretation of the book.

I received an arc of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

An interesting read and different take on numerology. I voluntarily read this book via NetGalley in exchange for my honest opinion.

This was very different from what I expected. Rather than being specifically about numerology, the book is effectively a guidebook for a certain set of new age and Pagan beliefs that might or might not be associated with numerology. People interested in the title subject will have to wade through reincarnation, dowsing to establish your time of conception and some 'out there' concepts to find relevant information.

The graphs and charts make no sense to me at all. The author suggests meditating over them until it sinks in, but I'd rather have had the system explained in some manner than just thrown out there to absorb. Eventually she does write about number meanings and later gets into how to establish birth and name numbers in the same ways that other numerology books do, but there is only references to [number] people like 5 people, eight people, etc and no extrapolation of the relevance of birth number as opposed to name number apart from one is flexible and the other not, and nothing whatsoever about combining the two.

Overall I found the writing disjointed and digressive with very little clear information offered. I get the impression that the author does have some deep understandings, but just hasn't worked out how to express them. I had hoped for more, I admit. More commercial books on the subject seem cold and limited, but they actually offer more information than I found here. Very disappointing.

I really hate to give a bad review, and if it wasn’t for the fact that by signing up for Netgalley I’d undertaken to produce a review, I wouldn’t have left one.

It isn’t just that the book wasn’t what I was expecting, because I think very carefully before I choose a book and I also make allowances if I’ve chosen badly. This was more fundamental. I came to numerology with an open mind: it’s a subject I know little about and I’m interested to learn. But I’m afraid I found the tone varying between the twee and the patronising, which meant that I really didn’t feel the author was in any way authoritative.

Some of the writing just made no sense, and concepts which I thought I understood were expressed in such a way as to fry my brain. (“Without forms, the ideas and visions would waft about like lost ghosts, and many do just that because there is no 3-ness function to give them a skeleton on which their form can be woven by the knowing, kenning of 6-ness.”)

The author is also prone to rather sweeping statements — not least, the assertion that farming “led to our modern diseases of arthritis, diabetes, cancers, heart and cholesterol problems” which seems at best an over-implication of a complex issue, or the contentious (and unsupported) statement that “We are the youngest species on Planet Earth”.

I’m afraid the style and the casual approach undermined my faith in the author as a guide to numerology and left me feeling baffled and not remotely enlightened. I did try — but I gave up just over a third of the way through.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an ARC of this book.

I found this book to be very informative but slow at times. The author gives a lot of background information with out getting to the actual numerology. At times I found it very slow but I stuck with it.

Great insight into numerology. Have always had an interest but wanted to know a little more. A good read if you want to know a little bit more about this topic. Good interesting read!

It was quite an interesting read and I learnt more about numerology even if it's not one of my favourite topic.
I think it's a book that can be interesting for both novices and experts.
I didn't agree with some of the ideas but it helped in any case.
Recommended!
Many thanks to John Hunt Publishing Ltd and Netgalley for this ARC

Unfortunately this book just wasn't for me. I thought it looked interesting from the review but after about 1/3 of the way through I stopped reading, just not my topic and style I like to read.