A Challenge is one of the few calculations in a numerology chart that can produce a zero. Of the nine possible challenges, the zero challenge is perhaps the most important because it directly affects the well-being of humanity on a global scale. As if to emphasize this, it is also the most commonly found lesson and very likely to occur more than once during your lifetime (an average of three to six times).

Compassion, empathy, brotherhood/sisterhood, and unity lie at the foundation of your 0 Challenge.  However, this challenge has less to do with emotionality than with an intellectual and basic recognition that every human being deserves your respect, your love, and perhaps at some point, your personal sacrifice. The potential growth and fundamental improvement inherent in this challenge has the potential to affect not only you, but also the global community.

You will likely experience more than your share of confrontation and turmoil. Events and circumstances require you to choose between opposing energies, such as love or hate, empathy or cruelty, sacrifice or apathy. You witness incidents of injustice and are challenged to choose between getting involved or walking away. 

The zero challenge is about taking a stand and responding with courage, more than it is about good and evil. The choices you make during this period define you in countless ways. 

The 0 challenge in a Diamond reflects the most primal struggle any man or woman can face. It makes this both difficult and easy; difficult because the easy way out can be tempting; easy because there is nothing subtle about the choices facing you.