3

Coffman's 1927 manual works August 15, 1906 by adding every digit: 8 + 1 + 5 + 1 + 9 + 0 + 6 = 30, and 3 + 0 = 3. Reducing the month, day and year first arrives at the same place, since 8, 6 and 7 make 21 and then 3. He called the result the Soul Path Number, one more older name for this calculation.

Walton in 1914 treats 3 as the number of speech and performance, with oratory, acting, singing and a good deal of mirth. Cheasley in 1916 heads it Personal Expression and says it feels incomplete without 1 and 2 to anchor it, as 3 is their sum. Balliett in 1905 takes a religious line and links it with the Trinity. Westcott's Greek material has other concerns entirely, among them solid dimension and the first odd number.

Modern popular writing merges Walton's performer with Cheasley's love of adornment and speaks of creativity and sociability, with scattered effort as the usual weak point. Ordinary memory is a fair check on that. Which conversations have run on until you lost track of the hour, and which projects stopped once the fun of announcing them had passed?