If your life path number is five, then you are someone who philosophical, adaptable, humorous, progressive, and jovial.

In this lifetime, you have a great desire to explore the world around you in every way. You need to experience the world by engaging in it with all five of your senses. Your lessons and challenges will be experienced through spontaneous acts of bravery. 

Everyone values their freedom, but this is especially true for those born with the life path number five. You resent being tied down. Most likely you are not fond of routines. You need spontaneity and adventure—practically on a daily basis. This makes you adaptable and courageous. You do not shy away from a challenge or risk. If anything, you welcome it! You live in the moment.

Your daring nature and sense of adventure makes you a fun and exciting friend. You are also excellent at motivating others and can be quite convincing. However, your ideas and plans might not always be the wisest or most fruitful course of action. You can be immature, irresponsible, and restless. Sitting still may pose a problem for you. Your patience can run thin and you may look for the next exciting thing when life feels too stable or slow. 

As a freedom seeker and progressive thinker, trying to keep you from doing what you set your mind to is like trying to cage a wild animal. Though, your need for taking risks and pushing boundaries is not just a concern for yourself and your own freedom. You stand up for the well-being of others and humanity as a whole. 

From all your experiences you most likely have gained a lot of skills and knowledge. People with the life path number five always have something up their sleeve and can be successful in a variety of careers—if only they would stay put long enough. Some careers that would fit your need for change and discovery are photography, journalism, entrepreneurship, or sales. Some notable people born with the life path number five are Malcolm X, Abraham Lincoln, and Stephan Spielberg.

Some advice to take away and help you on your journey in this lifetime are: 

• What you believe in dictates your rise and fall. 
• Not everything needs to be a challenge. Enjoy the quiet, simple moments in life too.
• Find balance. 
• Do not take your leadership abilities for granted.
• Use the light within you to brighten this world.
• Desire is its own cage.

Your vibrations in this life are charged with movement, freedom, innovation, leadership, and abstraction. Life path numbers that would be compatible with your energies are 1, 3, 5, 6, 9. Life path numbers that would be challenging are 2, 4, 7, 8. 

Be bold in your journey through this life. You have a wonderful spirit and the ability to climb any mountain that stands in your way. As Abraham Lincoln once said, “I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.”