2

Walton's 1914 book cares how this 2 was reached. A 2 that comes through a total of 20 he counts as not strong and perhaps short on self-confidence, while one that comes through 11 he counts as strong. This calculator keeps 11 as its own number, so a 2 shown here has arrived by some other total, as with Elsa Tate, where 10 and 10 reduce to 1 and 1.

The old sources split widely on this number. Walton and Taylor in 1926 describe kindness, diplomacy and tact, and Cheasley in 1916 calls 2 the peacemaker who handles the smallest detail. Sepharial's 1911 list, which he attributes to a Pythagorean scheme, prints death and destruction beside the same figure, on an alphabet of its own that gives other values to most letters.

Modern popular readings lean on the gentler side and treat an Expression of 2 as skill in bringing other people's efforts together. Balliett in 1905 adds a caution that belongs to her book alone: this temperament, she says, is too fine to stand by itself in hard places.