Birthday number
10
Reduced form: 1
Numbers describe tendencies in a symbolic tradition. They cannot decide health, money, law, marriage or children.
About this number
The zero drops out and the day becomes 1, since 1 plus 0 is 1. Clement says flatly that the cipher counts for nothing in this sum, and Balliett in 1905 says of No. 10 that it is the same as No. 1. She adds a harsher note of her own and calls it the number of self-crucifixion as well as creation.
Westcott preserves a much grander view of ten, as the summit of counting, reached by adding 4, 3, 2 and 1, after which one has to go back to the start. Sepharial's list gives reason, success and aspiration to the unreduced figure. Clement's musical table lifts the C major of the opening day to C sharp major.
Where this text comes from
Statements credited to an older writer follow the scanned text named here and are paraphrased unless quoted. The modern readings are labeled as modern and come from none of these works.
- Luo Clement, The Ancient Science of Numbers: The Practical Application of Its Principles in the Attainment of Health, Success, and Happiness (1908)
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- Mrs. L. Dow Balliett, How to Attain Success Through the Strength of Vibration: A System of Numbers as Taught by Pythagoras (1905)
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- W. Wynn Westcott, Numbers: Their Occult Power and Mystic Virtues (3rd ed., 1911; first published 1890)
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- Sepharial, The Kabala of Numbers: A Handbook of Interpretation (1911)
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