CHAPTER LXIX

Persons born on July 8ᵗʰ, 17ᵗʰ, 26ᵗʰ.

Number 8 people in this month.

If you were born on July 8ᵗʰ or 17ᵗʰ, following the rules of Zodiacal Astrology and my system based on Chaldean Numerology, you come under the vibrations of Saturn, Neptune and the Moon, in the Sign of Cancer, First House of the Triplicity of Water. The 26ᵗʰ of July is, however, distinct in itself, as the Sun, the Giver of Life, has at this date in July, left the Sign of Cancer, and entered the Sign of Leo, otherwise called the House of the Sun.

I will therefore explain July 26ᵗʰ separately later on.

The basic foundation of your character and disposition will be that described in preceding pages for persons born in July.

In your special case, if born on July 8ᵗʰ or 17ᵗʰ, it will cause you individually to be of a very serious turn of mind, with strong will and very decided in your opinions.                                      

Up to, on or about middle life, you are likely to have restrictions and responsibilities for others hamper and prevent your going ahead. You will be like a prisoner in a cage that can look through the bars at the world beyond and yet be unable to change your conditions.                                                                   

You will be more or less a “Child of Fate” subject to circumstances made by other persons.

You will be extremely serious and earnest in your emotions, but not demonstrative or able to express what is in your nature.

You will be greatly sacrificed for others and get very little satisfaction or credit for what you do in your early years, and in matters of love or affection you will meet some very hard trials and heavy responsibilities.

Up to about middle life you will be likely to encounter many restrictions in carrying out whatever your ambitions may be, but in the end there is every reason to expect that success will reward your determination and persistency.

If born on the 8ᵗʰ or 17ᵗʰ of July, either of two things are likely to happen.

You may be one of those persons forced by surroundings or family obligations into some routine career where you may remain for the greater part of your life, working for others; or you may belong to the more fortunate class born on the same dates who get the opportunity more early, to steadily accumulate money and become a kind of fatalistic power in the world of men.                                                                               

John D. Rockefeller, born on the 8ᵗʰ of July, 1839, is a good example of the latter case. At 17 years of age he was working as a clerk in a commission house. He saved up enough money in four years to become a partner, in another four years he joined an oil refiner, Samuel Andrews. In his 26ᵗʰ year the Standard Oil Refinery was born in Cleveland, which was the foundation of his fortune—one of the greatest in the world.

It is estimated that this remarkable man’s gifts to religious, philanthropic and charitable purposes, today exceed the sum of Five Hundred Million Dollars.

As a general rule, however, persons born on the 8ᵗʰ or 17ᵗʰ of July have a very difficult time in their early years. There is an axiom in Astrology laid down by ancient students of this science, that what is called a “Cycle of Saturn” lasts about thirty-three to thirty-five years; if a person born on one of the above dates finds this first period of their life hard, if they hold out to the end of it they enter another, but more favourable cycle, for the next thirty-three to thirty-five years.      

Another curious thing about persons born on the number eight in July, such as the 8ᵗʰ, 17ᵗʰ or 26ᵗʰ, is, that they either have a deeply religious nature or the very reverse.                        

People born on any one of these dates in this period of the Zodiac do best to engage in what may be termed “solid business” such as the opening up of land, mining, or dealing in oil or liquids extracted from the earth.

The 26ᵗʰ of July, being on the “cusp” of Leo, the House of the Sun, is very favourable for those who lead a public life in municipal or government affairs, or as preachers, ministers, authors, all those in fact whose work appeals to the public in general.

FINANCE

In previous pages dealing with the dates of the 8ᵗʰ, 17ᵗʰ and 26ᵗʰ of July, I have said enough to show the general drift of the tendencies of persons born on these dates. I have gone very deeply into all questions relating to those born under the number “eight” in my “Book of Numbers.” I would not have sufficient space at my disposal to enlarge more fully on the curious fatalistic meaning of this number in the pages of this present work.

Born on any one of these dates your dogged persistency and determination will enable you to amass wealth and to hold it, provided you do not allow yourself at any time to get involved in speculative concerns.

If you were born on the 8ᵗʰ, 17ᵗʰ or 26ᵗʰ of July, you will find the numbers of “four” and “eight,” and all their series, very much drawn into your life, such numbers and dates and persons born in connection with them, playing a large role in your affairs.

HEALTH

If you were born on the 8ᵗʰ, 17ᵗʰ or 26ᵗʰ of July, you will be subject to illnesses that affect the digestive organs, the kidneys, liver and large colon.

You will be inclined to accumulate a great deal of acidity in the system and suffer from arthritis and rheumatism, especially in the knees, ankles and feet.

Your most important numbers are the “fours” and “eights” and all their series. I would advise you to look out for and avoid the number nine (Mars) as much as possible, such as the 9, 18 and 27, or dates making these numbers.

As you will have a more or less fatalistic kind of life, it may be as well for you to make use of your own numbers and dates as much as possible, such as the 4ᵗʰ, 8ᵗʰ, 13ᵗʰ, 17ᵗʰ, 22ⁿᵈ, 26ᵗʰ and 31ˢᵗ.      

If born on July 26ᵗʰ, the Sun coming into its own House will cause more importance to the numbers of “one” and “four,” such as the 1ˢᵗ, 4ᵗʰ, 10ᵗʰ, 13ᵗʰ, 19ᵗʰ, 22ⁿᵈ, 28ᵗʰ and 31ˢᵗ. But the “number eight,” the number of Saturn, will remain fully equal in its importance.

For “lucky” jewels you should wear black pearls, black diamonds, dark coloured emeralds or green stones, especially if set in silver or platinum.                                                                           

The most important or climatic years of your life are the 4ᵗʰ, 8ᵗʰ, 13ᵗʰ, 17ᵗʰ, 22ⁿᵈ, 26ᵗʰ, 31ˢᵗ, 35ᵗʰ, 40ᵗʰ, 44ᵗʰ, 49ᵗʰ, 53ʳᵈ, 58ᵗʰ, 62ⁿᵈ, 67ᵗʰ, 71ˢᵗ, 80ᵗʰ, 94ᵗʰ and 90ᵗʰ.

The Right Honourable Joseph Chamberlain asked me to come and see him in his private room in the House of Commons, also to meet his son, Austen, later on after the Locarno Peace Conference, Sir Austen Chamberlain. I took impressions of both their hands.

The great statesman was particularly struck by the fact that the lines on the right hands of father and son were so similar. This I explained was caused by the laws of heredity and meant that his son, Austen, was destined to repeat in his life the career of his father. As the years went by, this was exactly what happened. The younger Chamberlain followed step by step a similar parliamentary career, entering political life at about the same age his father entered his, becoming in turn Secretary to the Foreign Office, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Prime Minister, even suffering similar illnesses at ages where they had occurred in the life of his father.

The impressions of the hands of these important statesmen were signed and dated by them, and may be seen in my large work "Cheiro's Language of the Hand."