Cast & Chart

Birthday number

30

Reduced form: 3

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

About this number

The zero falls away and 3 remains, the same move that turned 10 into 1 and 20 into 2. Clement's comment on 3 through 30 concerns a first name, Charles, and describes a universal number that needs many interests at once. The table of keys treats the date itself and gives E flat major, a half step under the E of the 3rd.

Westcott's thirties are mostly ages and counts: Joseph before Pharaoh, David at the start of his reign, thirty pieces of silver. He also supplies a geometrical thirty, the degrees in each zodiac sign. Sepharial's list, for name totals, reads marriage, celebrity and celebration.

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.

Our own plain wording. It is not a translation of any single source.