Numerology Compatibility and Ashtakoot Are Different Counts

Add the digits of a birth date and reduce, keeping 11, 22, or 33 if you follow master-number practice. Do the same for the other person. Compare the results with whatever table that numerology book prefers. The operation never asks for a birth time, so it never produces a lagna, a 7th lord, or a Navamsa. Two people can share a life-path number and have 7th lords in dusthanas. Two people can have clashing digits and a clean D9. The number is a property of the calendar date. The marriage house is a property of the clock and the city.

Varna 1, vashya 2, tara 3, yoni 4, graha maitri 5, gana 6, bhakoot 7, nadi 8. All of it hangs on the Moon's nakshatra and, for bhakoot and graha maitri, on the Moon's sign and its lord. A couple can score well here and still be badly matched in the 7th house, which is why the koota total is a screen, not a wedding. Nadi alone is 8 points. No life-path comparison contains an 8-point nadi. If someone offers you a single compatibility percentage blended from both systems, they have added a digit to a nakshatra and called it one science.

If you like the number, keep it as a symbol the two of you share or do not share. For the marriage question, cast both lagnas, name both 7th lords, open both Navamsas, and only then look at Ashtakoot if a family match requires it. Venus remains the karaka. A numerology table that ranks Venus-ruled numbers as romantic is still not Venus in the chart. The graha is in a sign, in a house, in a dasha. The digit is not.