Number 1 people are ambitious; they dislike
restraint, they
always rise
in whatever their profession or occupation may be. They desire to
become
the heads of whatever their businesses are, and as departmental
chiefs they
keep their authority and make themselves respected and "looked up
to" by
their subordinates.
A number 1 person must distinguish himself from other
people and
acknowledge his own INDIVIDUATION. The individual has to develop
the
capability of standing on his own and going from dependence to
INDEPENDENCE. Once independent, the person becomes aware of his
potential
for ATTAINMENT as an individual - for creating and pioneering
when working
alone, for leading and managing when working with others.
NUMBER
2 - Relation, Cooperation
Number 2 people are gentle by nature, imaginative,
artistic, and
romantic.
Like the number 1 people, they are also inventive but they are
not as
forceful in carrying out their ideas. Their qualities are more on
the
mental than the physical plane and they are seldom as strong
physically as
those born under the number 1.
Independence is important but has its limitations.
There 'are'
other
people all about, and another lesson involves being a meaningful
part of a
group - a small group like family or friends, a larger group like
a
business or community. The person must learn adaptability,
service,
consideration for others, i.e., the meaning of a RELATION with
others, the
idea of COOPERATION.
NUMBER
3 - Expression, Joy of Living
Number 3 people, like the number 1 individuals, are
decidedly
ambitious;
they are never satisfied by being in subordinate positions; their
aim is to
rise in the world, to have control and authority over others.
They are
excellent in the execution of commands; they love order and
discipline in
all things; they readily obey orders themselves, but they also
insist on
having their orders obeyed.
This person must discover, both as an individual and as a group
member, his
capability of EXPRESSION: (1) artistic expression - writing,
painting,
sculpting, singing or any of the many other means of expressing
inner
thoughts and emotions, and (2) expression of feelings toward
others -
friendship, affection, love. The JOY OF LIVING can be expressed
with - optimism and enthusiasm. There can be a purity, even a naivete
here. (This
is, perhaps, the most enjoyable lesson of all the numbers.)
NUMBER
4 - Limitation, Order, Service
Number 4 people are seldom as successful in worldly or
material
matters as
people born under the other numbers, and as a rule they are more
or less
indifferent as to the accumulation of wealth. If they do acquire
money or
have it given to them they generally surprise people by the way
they employ
it or the use they put it to.
Their chief faults are that they are most highly strung and
sensitive,
very easily wounded in their feelings, inclined to feel lonely
and
isolated, and are likely to become despondent and melancholy
unless they
have achieved success. As a rule they make few real friends, but
to the few
they have, they are most devoted and loyal, but are always
inclined to
take the part of "the under-dog" in any argument or any cause
they
espouse.
Life doesn't always present opportunities for singing
and
laughing. Life
doesn't always appear expansive or yours for the taking. Often,
it feels
just the opposite. The person born under the number 4 must learn
the difficult law of LIMITATION. Everyone has limitations -
limitations
presented by the environment, by the physical body, by the
restrictions
of the individual's viewpoints. Rather than struggle against
these limits,
it is necessary to learn to live with them, to accept them and to
make a
meaningful existence, not in spite of the limitations, but
'because' of
the limitations. It is a difficult lesson. The individual
embarking
on this course must learn system and organization, ORDER on a
practical
level. He must be prepared to be of SERVICE to others.
NUMBER
5 - Constructive Freedom
Number 5 people 'make friends easily' and get on with persons
born under
their own number, such as 5, 14, and 23.
Number 5 people are mentally very highly strung. They live on
their
nerves and appear to crave excitement.
They are quick in thought and decisions, and impulsive
in their
actions.
They detest any plodding kind of work and seem naturally to drift
into all
methods of making money quickly. They have a keen sense of making
money by
inventions and new ideas. They are born speculators, prone to
Stock
Exchange transactions, and generally are willing and ready to run
risks in
all they undertake.
There is a time for expansion, for dealing with
change,
unexpected
happenings, adventure. This lesson usually gives a person an
abundance of
talents in every direction, the capability of accomplishing
almost anything
for which an opportunity is presented - and many opportunities
'are'
presented. With the freedom that this abundance of talent and
opportunity
brings, life can be exciting. But the lesson is more difficult:
the
individual must learn the CONSTRUCTIVE use of FREEDOM. The
person, that is
influenced by this number, must not waste his many talents or
misuse his
on-going opportunities; he must not get lost in solely physical
desires -
food, sex, alcohol, drugs. He must not scatter his potential and
end up
with frustration. He must make a meaningful existence by using
freedom
productively.
NUMBER
6 - Balance, Responsibility, Love
As a rule all number 6 people are extremely magnetic; they
attract others
to them, and they are loved and often worshipped by those under
them.
If rich they are most generous to art and artists,
they love to
entertain
their friends and make everyone happy about them, but the one
thing they
cannot stand is discord and jealousy.
This person must learn to give the beauty of love and
harmony,
sympathy and
understanding, protection and BALANCE. Along with the balancing,
the lesson
of RESPONSIBILITY can be a meaningful one. The individual may
find himself
responsible for more than what rightly seems his share. Others
are in need
and cannot help themselves. He will probably be the one who holds
the
family together, who harmonizes and adjusts difficult situations.
He may
choose to limit himself to his family, his friends, possibly the
close
community. The friendship and LOVE that this person expresses to
others
will come back to him from those he helps. He can bask in the
glory of a
job well done and the quiet reward of friendship and love
returned.
NUMBER
7 - Analysis, Understanding
People born under the number 7 are very independent,
original,
and have
strongly marked individuality.
At heart they love change and travel, being restless
in their
natures. If
they have the means of gratifying their desires they visit
foreign
countries and become keenly interested in the affairs of far-off
lands.
They devour books on travel and have a wide universal knowledge
of the
world at large.
There will be much time spent alone - the person must
learn to be
alone and
not feel isolated. Often, the individual will appear "different"
to others
- his way of thinking or doing may be very much his own and may
seem
inexplicable to his fellow man. He must accept that he 'is' on a
different
wavelength and find satisfaction in that. In a world where
materialism
rates so highly, the road for the counselor, the professor, the
pure
researcher may be a difficult one.
NUMBER
8 -
Material Satisfaction
These people are invariably much misunderstood in their lives,
and perhaps
for this reason they feel intensely lonely at heart.
If at all religious they go to extremes and are
fanatics in their
zeal. In
any cause they take up, they attempt to carry it through in spite
of all
argument or opposition, and in doing so they generally make
bitter and
relentless enemies.
These number 8 people are either great successes or
great
failures; there
appears to be no happy medium in their case.
This individual must learn to deal with the material
things of
life, the
practical matters. He will find himself at home in the business
world -
with much capability as an efficient administrator or executive.
He will
learn how to handle money - how to accumulate it, how to spend it
wisely.
The individual will work for MATERIAL SATISFACTION. This may mean
emphasis
on money to buy the best in houses, cars, furnishings, trips.
(Perhaps, if
he can reach the highest level of this lesson, he will see that
material
freedom can mean relying very little on money or material
matters, few ever
gain this insight.)
NUMBER
9 - Selflessness, Humanitarianism
Number 9 persons are fighters in all they attempt in life. They
usually
have difficult times in their early years, but generally they
are, in the
end, successful by their grit, strong will, and determination.
When the number 9 is noticed to be more than usually
dominant in
the dates
and events of their lives they will be found to make great
enemies, to
cause strife and opposition wherever they may be, and they are
often
wounded or killed either in warfare or in the battle of life.
They usually experience many quarrels and strife in
their home
life, either
with their own relations or with the family they marry into.
There's a time to learn the satisfaction of giving to
his fellow
man. This
is a difficult lesson. The satisfaction comes from the giving.
There is
little reward - the love and friendship are sometimes returned,
the
obligation often not repaid. The person must place all others
before
himself, must give for the sheer pleasure of giving, because he
has learned
the ultimate satisfaction of SELFLESSNESS and HUMANITARIANISM.
The
individual gives (1) by helping others or (2) by giving of
himself in some
form of creative expression.
NUMBER
11 - Illumination (Master Number)
The master numbers exist on a higher spiritual plane
than the
single digits.
The first master number, the 11, must work to develop intuition,
to tune
into psychic forces not available to those with lower numbers. He
must
inspire by his own example, living in the way revealed to him,
spreading
his ILLUMINATION for others to absorb and benefit. This number is
as
difficult as it is rewarding.
Often, particularly at an early age, the individual is
aware of
his special
powers yet unable to synthesize them for his own use or for the
good of his
fellow man. He is often a relatively impractical idealist, far
more a
dreamer than a doer. There is an undercurrent of nervous tension
always
present from the high power sources to which the individual is
attuned. He
has to learn to live with his special powers, to set himself
aside from the
world of material accumulation in order to better understand the
powerful
forces which can reveal a higher guidance.
NUMBER
22 - Master Builder
The second master number, the 22, is potentially
capable of
combining the
idealism of the first master number, the 11, with the ability to
put these
ideals into a concrete form. Enormous power is available to him
to produce
on a significant scale, for the benefit of humanity. When this
potential
can be realized, the individual becomes a MASTER BUILDER, capable
of feats
well beyond all others.
Few with this number can marshal their forces to reach
anywhere
near the
ultimate potential. The individual is aware of the forces within
him, aware
also of the nervous tension that accompanies these forces. He
spends his
time grappling with powers that are difficult to comprehend or
use. Often,
he is seen by his fellow men as a person with enormous potential
who has
not, for some unexplained reason, been able to fully use his
capabilities.
The highest potential is also the most difficult to reach.