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With this book you take the birthday, May 27, 1970, and add the individual numbers together.
5 + 2 + 7 + 1 + 9 + 7 + 0 = 31
Adding those final digits together gives a number of 31/4.
Here’s Joe’s reading: (the author grouped 31/4 and 13/4 together):
31/4 & 13/4
4: Stability and Process
1: Creativity and Confidence
3: statement and Sensitivity
Understanding Life Purpose
Those on the 31/4 or 13/4 life path are here to work through issues of stability, creativity, and emotional statement, learning to channel their energy in constructive ways and to master a step-by-step process to their goals. Since our life purpose doesn’t come easily, 31/4s have to overcome self-doubt and insecurity to develop the confidence necessary to follow a long, sometimes arduous process to reach their goals. Until then, they operate on hopes, wishes, or enthusiastic illusions. Since both 31/4s and 13/4s are here to ground their energy and develop secure foundations, they often confront tendencies toward instability and lack of commitment, which run counter to their life purpose.
To overcompensate for insecurity, many 31/4s develop highly ambitious, even egotistical personas--“big egos” that work to prove their worth as they strive to stay in a superior position due to fears of inferiority beneath the surface.
The combination of strong foundation energy, creative energy, and expressive energy gives 31/4s and 13/4s a well-balanced, synergistic blend of strength, sensitivity, and creativity. This blend of energies, combined with a drive for security and strong ambitions, creates a multifaceted potential for success. When these qualities and drives are working in harmony, 31/4s and 13/4s can accomplish their highest aspirations. But if these same qualities and drives work against one another or manifest in negative ways, then frustration and failures cloud their life.
The willingness to pursue and persist in a gradual process is essential to bringing the highest creativity and statement of 31/4s and 13/4s into the world. Whether their foundation rests on family, home, land, education, or work, this foundation forms the stable base for expanding out into life. A secure “home base” and a safe, settled, orderly environment amplify these individuals’ impact many times over. Bursts of inspiration or spurts of energy do not substitute for diligent work over time. The life they build depends upon the preparations they make and the process they follow.
The order and relative influence of 1 and 3 result in the only significant difference between 31/4s and 13/4s: With 31/4s, creative energy has a stronger influence than expressive energy; with 13/4s, expressive issues predominate. For 31/4s, strong creative drives, a confident, out-going persona, and a constant striving for success veil an underlying insecurity. They can be highly competitive because they feel they need to prove themselves to overcome their fear of not measuring up, of inferiority. Most 13/4s, on the other hand, feel more acute self-doubt, which manifests as a fear of insufficient capacity and appears, from time to time, like storm clouds in an otherwise clear sky.
Other than these slight differences in emphasis, 31/4s and 13/4s have nearly identical drives and issues: They both show strong drives for creative statement. They share strength, ambition, and a desire for status. The twin shadows of self-doubt and insecurity confront both 31/4s and 13/4s with worthy challenges on the way to manifesting their strength and achieving success. A key concept for 31/4s and 13/4s is that success in terms of their life purpose lies not so much in achieving the end product as in their ability to go through the necessary process.
Many 31/4s and 13/4s have experienced difficult family histories, sometimes entailing physical abuse by at least one parent or perhaps a military childhood that meant they had to move around and never had a stable home life. Because our life purpose doesn’t come easily, they have had hurdles to overcome in the area of establishing strong foundations. Even if they come from relatively stable households, 31/4s and 13/4s benefit from working through issues of animosity, resentment, misunderstanding, or other turmoil to rebuild a sense of stable foundation. They need to express all of their emotions, including anger and resentment, before they can express their love. They don’t have to agree with their parents, but they need to bring any issues into the open and express their feelings, even if their parents are deceased. Both 31/4s and 13/4s can also learn many lessons from their own children or other children.
Because 31/4s and 13/4s tend to experience a division rather than an integration between mind and emotions, they especially need to blend emotional intuition with mental clarity. When making a decision, they can ask, “ What would my calmest, clearest, most aware self do right now?” By trusting their gut feelings, they can avoid confusion; otherwise they tend to analyze everything to death. Once they feel clarity, they can teach it to others.
As for other 4s, the primary challenge and hurdle for 31/4s and 13/4s involves following a step-by-step process -- remembering that even the most overwhelming goal is easier when broken down into small steps. Since the life purpose of 31/4s and 13/4s, which involves process, does not come easily, a part of them hates things that take a long time and a slow, careful process to achieve. Combining the inherent impatience of 4 with the creative inspiration of 1, many 31/4s and 13/4s like things to happen quickly, even magically. On the other hand, the self-doubt of 3 may slow them down and lead to overpreparation or obsession with one step.
Those 31/4s and 13/4s who have previously moved through a structured process, such as athletes, musicians, or anyone who has stuck with a process of skill training, are way ahead of the game, because they have a template or model they can apply to anything else they do.
Once 31/4s and 13/4s create a stable environment, see past insecurity and self-doubt, and find the patience to follow a step-by-step process to their goals, it’s only a matter of time before they reach them.
Working 31/4 or 13/4 in the Positive
These individuals have developed a sound financial base as well as a personal base of family, friends, and associates. They make decisions by blending head (analysis) and heart (intuition), and they have learned to trust the process of their life. Well-rounded achievers, they have followed goals to completion as they have learned skills, and they use that understanding to reach any goal. Dependable and stable, they have the blend of strength, flexibility, sensitivity, and creative sparkle that serves as a practical support and encouragement to others.
Working 31/4 or 13/4 in the Negative
Even if they have a place to live, these individuals lack an inner sense of stability; it’s as if they were living out of a suitcase. Uncommitted and lacking follow-through, they never feel sure how long they’ll stay in one place, in one job, or with one person. Ambitious but impatient, they touch down many places, but they don’t put down roots. Confusion underlies their lack of commitment; they don’t feel sure of what they’re “supposed” to be doing. They think one thing and feel another, so they don’t know what they want. This split between mind and emotions leads to impulsive decisions and then obsessive regrets. They experience more starts and stops than completions. With their unrealistic expectations, they want to be a success without going through the process to get there. Their outward bravado or superior air covers up feelings of self-doubt and insecurity.
LIFE PATH ISSUES
Health
The strength of 31/4s and 13/4s, amplified by creative energy, gives them robust appeal, ruggedness, and resistance to everyday illness. Their body type tends to be either wide bodied and bottom heavy or solidly athletic, depending largely upon genetics and lifestyle; either way, they are basically strong. However, they are vulnerable at “foundation points”, such as ankles, knees, thighs, and hips.
Mental stress or resistance can create physical as well as energetic constipation and can compromise the immune system. Forms of meditation, relaxation, suppleness training, and free movement, such as the martial arts of aikido or t’ai chi, are all useful -- as is anything that teaches them to blend, flow, and accept rather than resist. Forms of physical skill training, such as dance or martial arts, offer special benefits because they help turn rigid strength into supple, dynamic power and give 31/4s and 13/4s direct experience of following a process and experiencing improvement over time. These individuals thrive on exercise and particularly enjoy social sports.
Given the varied 3, 1, and 4 energies, 31/4s and 13/4s have no predictable dietary tendencies, but a balanced, low-fat diet serves as a good foundation. If 31/4s and 13/4s are overweight, their success in losing their excess weight depends upon their willingness to follow a gradual process toward a lifestyle of less fat and more exercise; fitful, heroic efforts directed toward quick results at best bring only temporary results. The success of 31/4s and 13/4s in this or any enterprise depends upon a patient, persistent approach.
Relationships
The easy sociability of 31/4s and 13/4s attracts many friends and admirers. They tend to be gregarious, family oriented, and generally relaxed with people. But their air of confidence often hides an insecurity they are wise to acknowledge to themselves and others in order to achieve a new level of authenticity. In their vulnerability, they can find new strength. Since 4 issues lead them toward self-deception or denial, both 31/4s and 13/4s may discover that confession is, indeed, good for the soul. By confessing their sensitive or insecure qualities, 31/4s and 13/4s find they have less to defend, less to prove, and fewer people they have to impress; this leads to a greater sense of inner solidity.
Most 31/4s and 13/4s are “salt of the earth,” stable, loyal, constant partners, or they have difficulty staying put or making real emotional commitments. Even when they say, “I do,” they may leave the back door open. Part of them desires stability and security more than anything, but part of them resists that very goal because our life purpose doesn’t necessarily come easily. When they see relationship as a process of ups and downs, entailing learning, maturation, and mutual support, 31/4s and 13/4s come to appreciate relationship as a challenging form of spiritual training rather than “the same old thing”.
In the sexual arena, 31/4s and 13/4s need to work through the “non-sexual” issues of self-doubt, insecurity, and lack of commitment. Their past experiences of abuse or their subconscious resistance and physical tension may get in the way of satisfying sexual statement. However, on the positive side, they tend to be strong, vital, earthy, and creative lovers.
Talents, Work, and Finances
Due to their array of creative and expressive energies and their sound analytical abilities, both 31/4s and 13/4s find success in a variety of careers, often, but not necessarily, centered in some form of business, advising, or counseling in real estate or investments. However, they also do well in fields as divergent as coaching, service to family, architecture, engineering, or any form of creative communication that supports people. In the positive, their practical creativity, developed over time, leads to the security they desire.. If they’re patient and thorough, one step leads to the next. But they need to remember that “overnight successes” can take years -- and many small steps -- to achieve.
Some Well-Known 31/4s and 13/4s
31/4s
Nat King Cole
Marie Curie
Sigmund Freud
Robert Frost
Hugh Hefner
Henri Matisse
Paul McCartney
Grandma Moses
Dolly Parton
Will Rogers
Babe Ruth
Carl Sandburg
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Oprah Winfrey
13/4s
No well-know 13/4s exist in our records because a relatively few exist in the population. In our century, for example, only those people born on January 1, 1901, or January 1, 1910 have this birth number
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