Personality number
4
Numbers describe tendencies in a symbolic tradition. They cannot decide health, money, law, marriage or children.
About this number
D, M and V are Taylor's 1926 letters for 4, and their value goes straight into this sum. Lena Ives has L and N making 8, V and S making 5, and 8 plus 5 makes 13, then 4.
Balliett in 1905 saw 4 as defenders of home and country and the rank and file of the world. Walton in 1914 calls it heavy and physical. Cheasley in 1916 says it dislikes social trivialities, a trait that would show quickly in company.
Sepharial's 1911 list, solidity and strength, comes closest to what modern popular books now say about a Personality of 4: a steady, reliable first impression. Taylor's own note adds a conscientious sense of duty, a quality that reads easily from the outside.
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.
- Ariel Yvon Taylor, Numerology Made Plain: The Science of Names and Numbers and the Law of Vibration (1926)
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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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- Dr. Roy Page Walton, Names, Dates, and Numbers: What They Mean to You (1914)
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- Clifford W. Cheasley, What's in Your Name? (1916)
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- Sepharial, The Kabala of Numbers: A Handbook of Interpretation (1911)
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