2

Taylor tried the sum on a sitting president. For Calvin Coolidge, born on July 4, the book sets out 7, 4 and 9 for 1926 and writes 11-9, since month and day alone make 11. The plain total, 7 + 4 + 1926 = 1937, runs to 20 and then 2, and that single digit is what this section reports.

Practitioners today link a 2 in this count with waiting, partnership and patience after the push of a 1. Taylor does describe a 2 year, but for the calendar year itself, whose own digits total 2 in 1928, as a time to collect materials and exercise patience and tact. His advice for a 2 day runs along similar lines: be receptive, cooperate, collect materials for later. Older writers fought over what 2 means at all: Walton in 1914 calls it kind and peace-loving, while Sepharial's 1911 list of name totals prints death and destruction beside it. The gentle reading is one strand among several.