CHAPTER LXXXVI

Persons born on September 5ᵗʰ, 14ᵗʰ, 23ʳᵈ.

Number 5 people in this month.

If you were born on any of the above dates in the month of September you come under the beading of a “Number Five” person which the above numbers by addition represent and which has more than ordinary importance in this period of the year, for the reason that from August 21ˢᵗ to September 20-27 the Zodiacal Sign of Virgo is called the House of Mercury (Negative) and the planetary number given to Mercury is the “five” in all its series.

Therefore, if born on one of the above dates such as the 5ᵗʰ, 14ᵗʰ or 23ʳᵈof September, following the rules of Zodiacal Astrology and my system based on Chaldean Numerology you come under the vibrations of Mercury in the House of Mercury and will be more influenced by the “number five” and its series than any other.             

This number has, however, the very peculiar qualities of adapting itself, in a sense, to every other number, just as the persons it represents are apparently able to adapt themselves to the widely different type of persons they come into contact with.                                                                                         

“Number Five persons,” and more especially those born on a date making a “five” between the 21ˢᵗ of August to September 23ʳᵈ, are less fatalistically influenced by numbers than any other class. They have more freedom of action, as it were, and perhaps for this very reason they are not so restricted to any special walk in life but may be found in all.         

If you are a “Number Five” person, especially if born in the Mercury period of the year I have previously mentioned, you will be able to fit yourself into almost any profession or career and make a success of anything that requires brains and mental ability.

Your greatest fault is, however, that you may be too versatile, have too many “irons in the fire” and make too many changes in the course of your life.                                               

You will detest any monotonous kind of work and will appear to most advantage in any class of occupation by which you can make money quickly without drudgery or plodding.

For this reason perhaps “Number Five” persons are often very successful in following their “hunches” provided they do not let themselves be influenced by others.                                  

That they can be easily influenced by others, especially if born in September, is however more or less a certainty. Being born in the Mercury-negative period they are not as self-willed as “Number Five persons” born between the21ˢᵗ of May and June 20-27ᵗʰ, the Zodiacal Sign of Gemini and House of Mercury (Positive).

In fact if anything “Number Five persons” born in the Mercury-negative period are not positive enough. They often lose their best opportunities by being swayed by the advice or opinions of others, or switch off from one career to another by some whim or fancy of the moment.                                         

If, therefore, you are born on any of these dates in the period indicated you should endeavour to make yourself more firm and positive in all your actions and develop continuity of effort in whatever you may do.

With your adaptable nature you will make friends almost too easily wherever you go, you will just as readily suit yourself to conditions in countries foreign to your own, you will love to pick up languages rather than to study them, you will be ready to move at any moment, you will have many homes, but be rather inclined to build houses for others but not live in them yourself, at least not for any length of time.                           

You will have much tact and diplomacy in handling people; you will be a genial companion, a clever entertaining host and a social favourite wherever you may go.                                      

But now for the other side of the picture—these very qualities of your character if you are not careful can become your own undoing. That genial nature can easily be imposed upon. That clever brain with its versatility and desire to make money quickly, can fall victim to financial sharks with their “gold mines” and Eldorados of the imagination. Lastly, those other qualities estimable as they are, in your making friends easily and your adaptability to others, may lead you into all kinds of dangers some of which are likely to be an inordinate craving for change and excitement.            

None of these things need happen to you if you keep yourself well underthe reins of self-control end develop ambition and continuity of purpose.

As you have very considerable inventive talent, mental ability and individuality, you would do well in a literary or journalistic career, the only drawback against this being your lack of continuity of effort and dislike to any form of restraint or monotonous work.                                                                            

Marriage is indicated as not being very fortunate and there is a decided likelihood that there will be more than one.

FINANCE

Persons born on the 5ᵗʰ, 14ᵗʰ or 23ʳᵈ of September are so versatile that it would be almost impossible to pick out any one career in which they would be best in making money. They can fit themselves in any position and make money in almost anything.                                                                                                

They are bound at times to have “strokes of good luck” but as a rule they cannot put money aside for their advanced years. I would advise that when they have a run of good fortune to buy an annuity so as to protect themselves against their own lack of provision for the future.                                                    

HEALTH

As a rule persons born on the 5ᵗʰ, 14ᵗʰ or 23ʳᵈ of September belong to a very wiry class of humanity, but one that “lives too much on its nerves.” They are generally at high tension all the time and in consequence are subject to nervous “break-downs.”                                                                                                  

They often have a twitching in some part of the face, a slight stammering in speech, trouble with the nerves of the tongue and a tendency in advanced years towards paralysis or cramps of the lower limbs. As a rule they will be “light sleepers” or suffer from insomnia and not get enough of rest and sleep.       

If you were born on any of the above dates you should endeavour to carry out your plans or make your engagements on dates making your own number of “five,” such as the 5ᵗʰ, 14ᵗʰ or 23ʳᵈ of any month. Numbers and dates will, however, not be of such governing importance to you as they are for others.

You will not be restricted to any one set of colours, but as a general rule all light shades will be better for you than others.

Your “lucky” jewels are especially diamonds and next to them all glittering. The most important or climacteric years in your life are the 5ᵗʰ, 14ᵗʰ, 23ʳᵈ, 32ⁿᵈ, 41ˢᵗ, 50ᵗʰ, 68ᵗʰ and 77ᵗʰ.        

You are likely to be attracted to persons born on the series of the “five” in any month of the year, especially those born in your own month, also in June and February.