Birthday number
28
Reduced form: 1
Numbers describe tendencies in a symbolic tradition. They cannot decide health, money, law, marriage or children.
About this number
Clement's text walks through this exact date: 2 plus 8 is 10, the cipher counts for nothing, and the Birth Number is 1. In Cheasley's book a person born on August 28, 1891 also comes to 1, but as a Path of Life drawn from the whole date, which is the larger quarrel over whether the day alone deserves the name. The two answers agree here only by chance.
Westcott names 28 as a perfect number, along with 6, since its parts 1, 2, 4, 7 and 14 add up to it exactly. He also mentions an early division of the zodiac into 28 mansions of the moon. Sepharial's name list says gifts, tokens and omens, and Clement's table lowers the C of the 1st by a half step, to C flat 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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- Clifford W. Cheasley, What's in Your Name? (1916)
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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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