CHAPTER XCV

Persons born on October 4ᵗʰ, 13ᵗʰ, 22th.

Number 4 people in this month.

If you were born on any of the above dates in October, following the rules of Zodiacal Astrology and my system based on Chaldean Numerology, you come under the vibration of Uranus, the Sun, Venus and Saturn in the Zodiacal Sign of Libra, Second House of the Triplicity of Air.                                            

The basic foundation of your character and disposition is described in preceding pages for persons born in October.

In your individual case, if born on the 4ᵗʰ, 13ᵗʰ or 22ⁿᵈ of October, the conjoined influence of Uranus and Saturn is likely to make your life an unusual one, bringing many changes and strange experiences which will not seem under your control. Venus being in its negative House at this period of the year you will have out-of-the-way experiences in connection with love and marriage. You will be attracted to odd and more or less eccentric people who will not be too fortunate for you from a worldly point of view.

If you like anyone very deeply no criticism of their actions will turn you against them.    

You will be rather headstrong in relation to all such matters and will be likely to meet opposition and estrangements from members of your family on this account.

You will be liable to be drawn into tragic or sensational experiences by reason of the people you will associate with and will pass under calumny and scandal even if you are yourself innocent of wrong doing.

You will have unconventional views, rather on the eccentric order, with considerable gifts towards expression in literary and artistic work which you could make good use of.

Partnerships, unions or marriages are not likely to turn out well except under unusual circumstances entailing much self-sacrifice on your side.

If you were if you on October 31ˢᵗ you will be at the commencement of the Sign of Scorpio which would be more favourable for you as far as your personal advancement and material success is concerned.

All these dates in October, such as the 4ᵗʰ, 13ᵗʰ, 22ⁿᵈ and 31ˢᵗ, dispose persons to occult studies of a rather unusual nature, ability toward hypnotism, mesmeric or telepathic powers.

Persons if you on these dates as a general rule run a danger of injuries by accidents, such as by firearms, explosives, danger from the air, such as tempests, cyclones, lightning, also travel by air.      

FINANCE

Persons born on the 4ᵗʰ, 13ᵗʰ, 22ⁿᵈ or 31ˢᵗ of October have generally a hard, difficult road to climb, as far as financial matters are concerned, in their early years. They are either left without much money by their parents, or they choose some profession which at first does not give them much scope to show their abilities. As a rule, however, they succeed, especially those born on the 22ⁿᵈ or 31ˢᵗ of October. Their greatest danger is that no matter what money they gain they will make no provision for the advanced years, and often die in restricted circumstances. An example of this is the case of the famous Sarah Bernhardt, who started in poverty, won early success and riches as an actress and lost everything during the last years of her life.

HEALTH

Persons born on the 4ᵗʰ or 13ᵗʰ of October may expect sudden illnesses of a more or less unusual kind; they are also liable to have operations on the throat, nose, face and internal organs.            

Those born on the 22ⁿᵈ or 31ˢᵗ of October are generally delicate in childhood, but from their thirty-first year they usually develop great resistance to disease.                                            

The most important numbers and dates for persons if you on the 4ᵗʰ, 13ᵗʰ, 22ⁿᵈ or 31ˢᵗ of October are the series of “fours” and eights.” The important days in any month of the year are the 4ᵗʰ, 8ᵗʰ, 13ᵗʰ, 17ᵗʰ, 22ⁿᵈ, 26ᵗʰ, 31ˢᵗ, all of which, by natural addition, make the number of “four” and “eight.”                 

As I have fully explained in my “Book of Numbers,” I do not advise persons born on the above dates to use the numbers of four or eight or any of their series for any work coming from themselves.            

If born on the 4ᵗʰ, 8ᵗʰ, 13ᵗʰ, 17, 22ⁿᵈ or 31ˢᵗ of October, I would advise you to employ such dates as are produced by the numbers of one or six or any of their series, such as the 1ˢᵗ, 6ᵗʰ, 10ᵗʰ, 15ᵗʰ, 19ᵗʰ, 24ᵗʰ or 28ᵗʰ. You would find yourself more fortunate by following this rule.

In the same way in regard to “lucky” colours and jewels, I would advise you to employ in some part of your clothing the following:

All shades of gold, yellow, orange to golden brown. All shades of blue, from the lightest to the darkest. And for “lucky” jewels use topaz, amber, diamonds and turquoise.               

The most important or climacteric years of your life( and this will be more or less outside of your control) are the 4ᵗʰ, 8ᵗʰ, 13ᵗʰ, 17ᵗʰ, 22ⁿᵈ, 26ᵗʰ, 31ˢᵗ,35ᵗʰ, 40ᵗʰ, 44ᵗʰ, 49ᵗʰ, 53ʳᵈ, 58ᵗʰ, 62ⁿᵈ, 67ᵗʰ, 71ˢᵗ, 76ᵗʰ and 80ᵗʰ.          

You will be much attracted to persons born in the series of the “four” and “eight,” such as those born on the 4ᵗʰ, 8ᵗʰ, 13ᵗʰ, 17ᵗʰ, 22ⁿᵈ, 26ᵗʰ, 31ˢᵗ in any month of the year.

*  Sir Horace Plunkett, founder of the Irish Agricultural Society, the man who did more to promote industries in the South of Ireland than any other patriot in recent years, lived to see his beautiful home near Dublin with all his art treasures and valuable books, burned down by rebels, after the Irish Free Stale was established. Broken-hearted, he returned to England and died there a few years later. I had known Sir Horace from 1905, when, in a letter dated February 2ⁿᵈ of that year, he had asked me to come over from Paris to see him.      

As his Birth Number was a "four” in October—a date that threatens danger from fires, explosions and destruction of property, I had advised him to carry heavy insurance on his beautiful home filled from cellar to roof with treasures of art. I repeated the warning when lunching with him one Sunday in the Spring of 1918. It was then, however, too late for him to act, as no insurance company would entertain a risk on property in Ireland in those troublesome days.

For some unaccountable reason, shortly after the Free State was established and English troops withdrawn, some implacable adherents to the idea of an independent Irish Republic, surrounded Sir Horace's house, destroyed it by fire, its owner barely escaping with his life.                       

** I reproduced in my book "You and Your Hand" impressions of the hands of Irene Rich, the well-known motion picture star, which she gave me during my visit in Hollywood.

*** Lillie Langtry, the famous actress and English beauty, wrote in my Visitors’ Book, as far back as 1899:

“‘Cheiro's predictions of my future will influence me in all my dealings - because I am so impressed by the extraordinary precision with which he read my past.

                                                  _(Signed ) Lillie Langtry, November 11ᵗʰ, 1899."

Later still in a letter dated April 15ᵗʰ, 1911, the wrote:

“My dear ‘Cheiro’:

“I have heard that you have returned to London, and I think it is only fair to tell you how very accurate four predictions were in my case, and the strange fulfilment of what you said would happen during the past ten years ........

But perhaps the most curious incident was the following. You told me that in the next July after I had seen you, I would have an accident with one of my horses, which would cause a shock to my nervous system which would take me some time to get over. This happened when my favourite racing mare, Maluma, ridden by Tod Sloan, broke her shoulder in the race for the Liverpool Cup and had to be killed. I must confess, whether people believe it or not. that this affected me so much that it was a long time before I could again get up my enthusiasm for racing. Other things you told me came about, but even in minor details you were equally true in all you said.

_ Very sincerely yours.

                      Lillie Langtry

**** Lord Alfred Douglas, a remarkably brilliant man and friend of Oscar Wilde, was introduced to me by Wilde himself, in those halcyon days before the sensational trial which sent the famous playwright to prison.

***** Mrs. Emily Bossom, American oil heiress and wife of Alfred Bossom, the architect who designed the first “skyscrapers" in the States, was keenly interested in my study of hands and numbers. After I left for California she wrote me:

“In spite of your warning of danger from airplanes, being a “Child of Libra," Second House of Air, I have taken up flying again. I cannot resist it, so if anything happens to me, you at least will know it was Fate and had to be."

She met her death in the airplane disaster of July 27ᵗʰ, 1952, when enroute to France the plane piloted by her own son exploded in the air over Farnham, England. Her body was blown to pieces, only small portions of it being recovered.

****** I had the pleasure of meeting Frances Drake the now well known motion picture star when she first came to Hollywood. I was able to predict for her the rapid strides that in a few years she was fated to make in the Film World.

“In a book of this nature I have not space at my disposal to give more than brief sketches of the interesting people I have met in the course of my professional career, especially as they are very fully described in my recently published Memoirs.

I can, for this reason, only give a short outline of my first meeting with Sarah Bernhardt.

One evening in June, 1892, the correspondent of the “Figaro" of Paris, called, saying he wished to take me to meet a lady who wanted an interview. It was close on midnight when our carriage stopped before a house on the out-skirts of London—a large house surrounded by a high walled garden.

After waiting some time, the door of the library opened and a lady, whose face was completely concealed by a heavy black lace veil, entered. Without saying a word she placed her hands on a table before me and I commenced my work. I must have been successful in what I described, as from time to time the lady interrupted by saying in French: "Mon Dieu, how true it all is—how terribly true."Suddenly she threw back her veil and I found myself looking into those wonderful eyes of the famous Sarah Bernhardt.

Before I left she wrote in my autograph book, in French, the following, which is a translation for the benefit of my English and American readers:

"Since God has placed in our hands, lines and signs that tell our past and future, I only regret that one cannot read from them the destiny of those near and dear to us, that we might be able to warn them of the future. But God doeth all things well—so be-it-then—Amen.

                                                                                                                             _(Signed) Sarah Bernhardt.

From that date out we remained good friends to the time of her death in Paris on March 26ᵗʰ, 1923, in her 78ᵗʰ year. For fuller details, together with a signed impression of her remarkable right hand, I must refer my readers to my Memoirs.*

* Published in U. S. A. by Harper Brothers, New York, under the title of "Fate in the Making." In England, Jarrold, Ltd. “Confessions: Memoirs of a Modern Seer."