Cast & Chart

Birthday number

16

Reduced form: 7

Numbers describe tendencies in a symbolic tradition. They cannot decide health, money, law, marriage or children.

About this number

Sixteen is four times four, and adding its digits gives 7. Compound and sum seem to come from different moods here. Westcott's line on 16 is brief and cheerful, saying that it means felicity and is a square number, and Sepharial's list for name totals reads luxury and good fortune along with sensuality.

The digit 7 points elsewhere, toward the quiet and obscure qualities that Walton and Cheasley describe. Clement keeps the 16th with the 7th and 25th as one of the Sevens and gives it C major in the table of keys. Whether the unreduced figure should count at all is a live question among these books, since Walton says flatly that everything above 9 has to come down to a single digit.

Where this text comes from

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