5

Westcott passes along a small piece of arithmetic from the Nicomachean Extracts: 5 restores itself in every multiplication, which holds when the multiplier is odd. Balliett in 1905 uses the number differently, as the first step of a new cycle, and pictures someone in high unexplored country with paths running every way.

Walton in 1914 is less charmed. He calls 5 excitable and double-sided and compares its people to a man on a fence who leans one way and then the other. Cheasley in 1916 writes of variety and a dislike of control, and remarks that Pythagoras himself never really understood this vibration, a claim he supports with nothing. Taylor in 1926 sums up its letters as go-getters for experience.

Freedom, change and an appetite for variety are the modern headlines for Life Path 5, and they closely resemble those pages. Sepharial's 1911 name-total entry of marriage, pleasure and joy shows how loose the assignments once were. Because this figure comes from the birth date alone, it has no bearing on the letters of a name, where Expression, Soul Urge and Personality each get a separate sum.