Linda Goodman (1925-1995) was an astrologer, numerologist, radio talk show host, poet, writer and palm reader. She established herself as one of America’s best-known astrologers and as one of the pioneers of modern Chaldean numerology. In her private life, she was marked by the disappearance of her daughter Sally Snyder and was convinced that the body discovered in the police investigation did not belong to her daughter. She searched for her daughter until her death. Another of her daughters had died as a young child.

Mary Alice Kemery (born April 9, 1925)

She was born Mary Alice Kemery. The relationship between total name number (TNN) 4 and birth number 9 indicates a strong and impulsive personality who is very likely to like to be original, but for whom events in life may suddenly take an unfavorable turn. Her birthday is on the 9th of the month. This number bears the tarot name “Hermit“, bringing an interest in the occult and spiritual. The tendency towards the occult is intensified by the number 4. The relationship between 4, 6 and 7 in the names Mary and Alice may bring an interest in palmistry. Another peculiarity of her numbers is the strong predominance of the masculine numbers 1, 3 and 9, which is not very appropriate for women. These numbers have given her even more fight and determination. She also has several combinations of numbers in her first and last name, which indicate an interest in the business side of things. Other combinations indicate warmth and friendship.

When she hosted a radio show during World War II, she took the nickname Linda and, after her partner, she took his last name Goodman. She went on to publish several books under pen name Linda Goodman and to appear on radio and television.

Interestingly, this new name again features the very strong number 4, but her TNN is 9, which is consistent with both her birthday and her life path. Also, in this “pen name” we find the overpowering numbers 1, 3 and 9 again. We also find similar numbers in occultism and a combination of the numbers 4, 6 and 7 (palmistry). The relationship between 5 and 9 has probably also increased her interest in numerology. Her interest in the business side of life is also preserved. The specialty of the name Linda Goodman is that it brings more warmth, more of the spiritual and a gift for media appearances.

For people who have base number 9 in their birthday, the base number 4 may represent artistic talents. For women with base number 9, base number 4 also represents a daughter. Linda Goodman had a strong number 4, which unfortunately did not correspond with her birthday and life path numbers. As a result, her relationship with her daughters was karmically loaded. One of her daughters died as a child and the other disappeared. Linda Goodman’s base number 4 numbers represent sudden and usually unfavourable twists of fate. It is interesting that, despite her numerological knowledge, Linda Goodman has persevered with numbers that have brought her public recognition and a certain success, but also much suffering.

Linda Goodman’s numerological approach, described in her book Star Signs, did not use vowel and consonant analysis, but she described the individual numbers in more depth than her role model Cheiro did, and she did it very well. She also departed from Cheiro in the way she determined compound number in TNN (Goodman, Linda (1987). Star Signs.  Pan Books. Pages 152, 157, 160, 162, 170-171). Her approach was to first add all the numbers in a person’s first or last name to the base number, and then add these numbers to the TNN. The exception is if the numbers 11 or 22 appear in the first or last name – then these two numbers are not added to the base number but are taken into account when adding them in the TNN. For example, the first name 11 and the last name 14 are added as 11+ 5= 16. The first name 15 and the last name 16 are added as 6+ 7= 13. In case the addition of the base numbers does not give a result greater than 9, the unreduced numbers are added. For example, if we have first name 12 and last name 13, then 3+4 gives 7 and this number has no power. Instead, we add 12+13=25. Personally, I do not use Linda Goodman’s approach. But I very much appreciate her descriptions of the numbers.