Birthday number
5
Reduced form: 5
Numbers describe tendencies in a symbolic tradition. They cannot decide health, money, law, marriage or children.
About this number
Balliett's picture of 5 in 1905 is a traveler in high unexplored country with paths running in every direction. Walton in 1914 preferred a man on a fence who leans first one way and then the other. Cheasley's 1916 comment is the oddest: he says Pythagoras himself never quite understood this number, a claim he supports with nothing.
W. Wynn Westcott, collecting older Greek remarks in his book on numbers, notes that 5 restores itself when multiplied, and the sum shows it: 5 times 5 ends in 5 again. Day 5 needs no reduction and heads a small group with the 14th and 23rd. Clement assigns it G major, and Sepharial's list, made for names, offers marriage, pleasure and joy.
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.
- 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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- Dr. Roy Page Walton, Names, Dates, and Numbers: What They Mean to You (1914)
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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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- 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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- Sepharial, The Kabala of Numbers: A Handbook of Interpretation (1911)
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