Expression number
5
Numbers describe tendencies in a symbolic tradition. They cannot decide health, money, law, marriage or children.
About this number
Cheasley's 1916 entry opens with an odd admission: he says Pythagoras himself did not really understand this vibration and that modern interpreters have little to say on it. He then lists variety, research, versatility and a dislike of control. The entry cites nothing for the claim about Pythagoras, so it tells us more about Cheasley's book than about Greece.
Expression counts all the letters, and the vowel E and the consonants N and W each carry this value directly. Uma Grant lands here: Uma adds to 8, Grant adds to 24 and reduces to 6, and 8 plus 6 makes 14, then 5.
Walton in 1914 pictures someone perched on a fence and tipping from side to side, and Balliett in 1905 imagines a high, unexplored country with paths in every direction. Taylor in 1926 calls the letters of this digit versatile and active. Modern books often turn these pictures into a talent for change and for dealing with many kinds of people.
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.
- Clifford W. Cheasley, What's in Your Name? (1916)
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- Ariel Yvon Taylor, Numerology Made Plain: The Science of Names and Numbers and the Law of Vibration (1926)
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- Dr. Roy Page Walton, Names, Dates, and Numbers: What They Mean to You (1914)
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- 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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