Personality number
3
Numbers describe tendencies in a symbolic tradition. They cannot decide health, money, law, marriage or children.
About this number
Cheasley's 1916 list for 3 reads almost like a wardrobe: adornment, fashion, social expression, entertainment. That suits a sum about how someone looks from outside, and it gives a Personality of 3 more detail than the other measures get.
Walton in 1914 adds merriment and good cheer, and Taylor in 1926 credits C and L, with the vowel U, with joyous expression in art. Only the first two are consonants, so U sits outside this particular count.
Anna Rossi gets here because N and N make 10 and reduce to 1, R, S and S make 11, and 1 plus 11 comes to 12, then 3. Modern popular books read a Personality of 3 as a lively, talkative first impression, a version of the older lists with Cheasley's criticism and observation left out.
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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- Dr. Roy Page Walton, Names, Dates, and Numbers: What They Mean to You (1914)
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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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Our own plain wording. It is not a translation of any single source.