Cast & Chart

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

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