The Secret Language of Birthdays: Your Complete Personology Guide for Each Day of the Year

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According to Gary Goldschneider, the author of “ The Secret Language of Birthdays,” the day you were born plays a vital role in determining your personality traits, desires, and even your compatibility with others. This belief is also echoed in the writings of Theresa Cheung, who frequently explores the spiritual and emotional significance of our birthdates in her work.

Personology holds that not only are certain types of peo­ple born at various times of the year, as Jung or astrology might have predicted, but even specifically on certain days. Jung pointed out that each of us in the human family, regard­less of where we were born or how we live, carries with us a huge repository of symbols in a kind of collective or archetypalunconscious. The symbols of astrology itself, on the mandala of the zodiac, perhaps spring not only from the configurations suggested by the constellations in the heavens, but also from our own shared human archetypes. Here, during the Cusp of Energy, the qualities of the months of the Nurturer ( Aries in the zodiac system of astrology) and the Diversifier ( Taurus in the zodiac system of astrology) are mingled. We find ourselves filled with energy to initiate new projects. By looking at the characteristics of manypeople born on a given day, and correlating what weknow about them with basic principles of psychology and astrology,personology seeks to explore certainrecurring ideas, actions, concepts and themes which those born on this day--now, in the historical past and in the future--are seemingly fated to encounter.

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This time has traditionally been a most enchanted period, during which spirits of the woodland abound and creatures of the long twilight hours frolic during their so called “midsummer night” revels. Shakespeare’s play “ A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and the music it inspired Mendelssohn to write both convey this magical mood. The principal challenge to all of us during this week is to empathize with others, to truly listen to what they have to say and if possible to sympathize with their problems. On the other hand, we must also strive to keep our aggressive impulses under control, particularly when roused to action by an insulting, insensitive or uncaring remark. In the same way that the medieval alchemists taught "As above--so below," the followers of George Gurgieff (such as Rodney Collin in his book, The Theory of Celestial Influence), held that the cyclical revolutions of the electron around the atom (in the micro world of 1x10-10) relate to the revolutions of the planets around the sun (in the macro world of 1x10+10). At each step of the way, from the world of trillions to billions to millions to thousands to tens, or vice-versa, from the very small to the very large, revolves another world, and near the middle, the zero point, lies our world of everyday life. Newton's laws were mainly formulated for this near-zero-point world, but had to be modified as science examined increasingly larger (stellar) or smaller (microscopic) universes. The principal challenge to all of us during this time is, of course, engaging in meaningful verbal and written dialogues with others, whether in person or over the internet or cell phone.

Those born during this week are people who are drawn by adventures of all sorts. They are constantly on the lookout for new experiences and are restless, striving for what lies beyond ordinary daily experience, which can prove too dull and boring. Personology posits this central analogy: a day is a year is a lifetime is an age. It modifies conventional astrology in two ways--first in the empirical, earth-orientecl emphasis described above, and, second, in thinking about each sign as simply a fur­ther evolution of the one before it. In this way an astrological sign is really nothing absolute in itself but rather a spoke in the great wheel. Dane Rudhyar was the most important astrologer of our time to propose and clarify this idea.In the area of psychology, Erik Erikson modified Freud's more static ideas of developmental stages (oral, anal, phallic) into a more human format which defined a stage dynamically (for example, trust vs. mistrust) in his seminal work Childhood and Society. Yet, until about twenty years ago, most psycholo­gists concentrated principally on childhood as the time of development, neglecting middle and old age. Only the Rosicrucians gave equal emphasis to all the periods of man's life, from the youngest to the oldest. Thus, bringing astrology, history and psychology together in concentric cycles or spirals--stressing evolutionary rather than static models for the individual--is at the heart of personology. The personality types presented under the twelve signs, forty-eight periods and three hundred and sixty-six days (including the leap year extra day) are flexible and fluid, each evolving from one to the next, constantly in motion, constantly changing, rather than fixed in stone." pg. 9

In the same way that the medieval alchemists taught 'As above--so below,' the followers of George Gurdjieff (such as Rodney Collin in his book, The Theory of Celestial Influence), held that the cyclical revolutions of the electron around the atom (in the micro world of 1x10 -10) relate to the revolutions of the planets around the sun (in the macro world of 1x10 +10). At each step of the way, from the world of trillions to billions to millions to thousands to tens, or vice-serda, from the very small to the very large, revolves another world, and near the middle, the zero point, lies our world of everyday life. Newton's laws were mainly formulated for this near-zero-point world, but had to be modified as science examined increasingly larger (stellar) or smaller (microscopic) universes." pg. 9 If one considers astrology to be heaven-oriented, personologyis earth-oriented. That is, the basic structure upon which per­sonology is built is that of the year as it is lived, and as far as we know has largely been lived here on earth. The rhythms of the year are mostly determined by the changes of the seasons themselves, along with the lengthening and shortening of the days and nights. Each year these solar changes are roughly the same. We are fixed to a wheel of life here on earth, whose motion dictates (in the northern hemisphere) that beginning with the winter solstice, around December 21, the shortest day and longest night, the days will get progressively longer and the nights shorter until the vernal or spring equinox is reached around March 21, at which point day and night willbe equal. We call this season betweensolstice and equinox winter, expecting that only certain plants willgrow, that some animals willsleep or hibernate while others grow a full coat to warm them against the biting winds. As the days grow longer in spring,highly varied forms of lifebegin to emerge culminatingfinally in the heat of the summer,beginning on the longest day of the year,the summer solstice, around June 21. With harvestcomes the fall and again a period of equal day and night (fall equinox, around September 23). Finally the days grow shorter, the sun no longer rises high in the sky, and the world moves inside to prepare for winter once more. So oriented are January 9 people toward struggles and challenge that they rarely wish to rest on their achievements or retire to a life of happiness and contentment. They tend to be workaholics who commit themselves to their tasks one hundred percent and therefore can find it difficult to relax at the end of the day. Having a partner, friend or family member who can help them in this direction is of the utmost importance, as those born on this day are in great need of laughter and good times too.

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Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2010-05-18 16:37:32 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA116510 Boxid_2 CH108101 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York, NY Curatenote shipped Donor Wintertime people are less concerned with the state of the world as it is now and more with how it could and should be. A real reforming spirit can show itself in this personality, and an interest in matters concerning political and economic justice is very common." pg. 19 For the sake of clarity, the following rules have been adopted in The Secret Language of Birthdays birthday lists. OS birthdays are used in antiquity, and for those Europeans who died before the changeover took place to NS. Although astrologers disagree with this approach, arguing that April 3, 1421, was really April 12, 1421, it is this book's contention thatthe date of birth should be the one both accepted by govern­ment decree and celebrated by that individual at that time. In the special case of a small number of universal figures and astrologers, such as Nostradamus, who were aware of the dif­ference or seem to have transcended their time, birthdays are given NS. Thus all historical birthdays are for the most part pre­sented as OS until the change from OS to NS took place in that countty. British seventeenth century birthdays are thus OS even though other countries were ten days ahead.

Ultimately, the wisdom of Theresa Cheung and Gary Goldschneider serves to remind us that while the mystical world of birthday compatibility can provide insights and guidance, it is up to us to nurture and cherish the love we share with our partners. By embracing the unique qualities that each of us brings to a relationship, we can forge deep and lasting connections that transcend the boundaries of time and space. Numerology, another mystical discipline explored by both Cheung and Goldschneider, offers further insights into birthday compatibility. In this practice, our birthdate is reduced to a single-digit number known as the Life Path number, which is believed to reveal our deepest desires, life purpose, and even our compatibility with others.

While exploring the intricate connections between our birthdates, zodiac signs, and Life Path numbers can be an enlightening and enjoyable journey, it is important to remember that compatibility is a complex and multifaceted concept. Factors such as shared values, open communication, and mutual respect play a vital role in determining the success of a relationship. In the case of those British or American subjects, like Washington, born such that the 1752 date fell in the first thirty or so years of their lives, the NS birthday is generally used, since most of them changed their birthdays and observed the new date at the time of the calendar change. Romantic figures born during this cusp include Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Kris Kristofferson, Josephine Beauharnais (Napoleon’s wife ), Aung San Suu Kyi, Benazir Bhutto and Errol Flynn.