YOUR NUMEROLOGY FORECAST FOR THE COMING YEAR

How to find your personal year

PART 1

In nu­merology, whenever we encounter a compound num­ber, we reduce it to a single digit by adding the num­bers together. For example, 2012 (2+0+ 1 + 2) equals 5.

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“We hold these truths to be

self-evident:that all men are created equal.”

–Thomas Jefferson (14 soul urge)

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The above lines from the Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson, capture the heart, soul, and spirit of the United States, a nation that was born on July 4, 1776 with a life path of 14, i.e. a destiny to correct misuses of freedom.

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(right) Portrait of Thomas Jefferson by Charles Wilson Peale, 1791

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Credit: Moran, Percy, artist. Burgoyne’s surrender at Saratoga. c1911. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

How fitting that this nation with a 14 destiny would elect as its first President, George Washington, a man with a 14 soul urge, to lead and guide it through its first years. That this American experiment in democracy would succeed was partly due to the fact that many of our other founding fathers also had the number 14 prominent in their numbers. John Jay (12/12/1745) was appointed the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. He was born with a 14 soul urge and a 14 life path. Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of Treasury, had a 14 expression; Edmund Randolph, the first Attorney General, was born with 14 letters in his name; John Adams, the first Vice President, was born with a 14 quiet self; and the first Secretary of State, Thomas Jefferson, (4/13/1743) was born with a 14 soul urge as well as a 14 life path.

———-George Washington————-

Alexander Hamilton———- Edmund Randolph—————–John Adams——————-Thomas Jefferson

Other American patriots with 14 prominent in their names or birth dates include Benjamin Franklin (1/17/1706 = 14 life path), Francis “the swamp fox” Marion, 14 expression; Paul Revere, 14 key; and naval hero, John Paul Jones (7/6/1747 = 14 life path).

—–Benjamin Franklin———-Francis Marion————–John Paul Jones————-Paul Revere

Emma Lazarus and the Statue of Liberty

The United States began as the sole democracy in a world of monarchies. It was not until after the Civil War that democratic government spread throughout Europe and the rest of the world. The American example, in the words of Abraham Lincoln (14 soul urge), of a “government of the people, by the people, and for the people” became a role model for other nations to emulate. In the post-World War II years, the American Revolution became more relevant than ever, as countries throughout the Third World sought independence from European colonial powers. With the collapse of communism in Europe during the late 1980s and 1990s, the American Revolution once more served as a source of inspiration for the peoples of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union who were aspiring to achieve a democratic way of life.

As Abraham Lincoln, with simple eloquence, put it in his Gettysburg Address, ”our forefathers founded a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal”.

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United States

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—————————————————–Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World, 1886 by Edward P. Moran

The poem written on the base of the statue by Emma Lazarus (left), whose first name adds up to 14, concludes with the lines:

“Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

These haunting words remind us that the United States is a nation that was founded and built by immigrants. From Plymouth Rock in the 17th century, to refugees from Indochina in the 20^th century, people born elsewhere came to America.  Many of these immigrants had experienced poverty, religious persecution, political turmoil, imprisonment, a lack of  freedom and civil rights, or other hardships in their native lands.

The 4 in the number 14 is the number of hardships. America’s life path or destiny (14/5) has always been, and will always be, to provide freedom (5) to individuals (1) who have suffered oppression and hard times (4).

(Excerpted with permission from The Little Giant Encyclopedia of Numerology by Daniel Heydon)

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PART 1

How to find your personal year

In nu­merology, whenever we encounter a compound num­ber, we reduce it to a single digit by adding the num­bers together. For example, 2012 (2+0+ 1 + 2) equals 5.

Each person has his or her own Personal Year, Personal Month, and Personal Day numerical vibrations. Let’s say you were born on February 5, 1963, and you want to know the number of your Personal Year in 2012. To find out, you would add the day and the month of your birth to the number of the Universal Year. 2012 is a 5 Uni­versal Year, so you would add 2 + 5 + 5  to find your Personal Year, which would be 12/3.

Because the numbers of the Personal Years have their own sequence from 1 to 9,  it is important for you to tune in to their rhythms.

A 1 Year is a time to go after what you want, to keep moving, and to exercise initiative. 1 years always signify new starts.

A 2 Year is a time to be cooperative, to follow rather than to lead. Things begun in a 1 Year grow slowly during a 2 Year. Don’t expect immediate results. Do small things that will make last year’s new start work. This is a time to be receptive. The accent is on partner­ships and on give and take in close relationships.

A 3 Year means social activity with both old and new friends. You may scatter your energies and un­dertake too many things at once. It is a time to be happy but not frivolous. The accent is on charm and creativ­ity. Buy some new clothes and express the joy of life.

A 4 Year means facing reality. Sometimes it means digging in and doing the hard work. Not a time for 3 loafing or 5 restlessness. A time to be practical, to take care of health, and to be patient. Increased respon­sibilities require attention to duty.

A 5 Year means investigating the new. Expand your horizons. It is a time for travel, excitement, and adventure. Some of you will do a lot of dating. Be ready for surprises, and be open to change and to op­portunity outside of the usual routine.

A 6 Year is a stabilizing influence. Some will find a steady girl or boy friend; others will spend more time with their families. You may be asked to help around the house or to pitch in on some group project. Those without a steady friend will find themselves going along with the crowd. Be ready to assume responsibil­ity with or for others.

A 7 Year is a time to get it together and to spend some time by yourself. The accent is on self-examina­tion, study, and meditation. If you find yourself dwell­ing on the past, know that tomorrow is going to be a brighter day. Keep the faith, investigate the unknown. Get in touch with inner strengths, with “soul” power.

An 8 Year means recognition for those who have earned it. After last year’s sabbatical, it’s time to face the world again and assume your rightful place in it. Think big and aim for the top. Deal with important peo­ple. It is a time for power in the material world and for attending to financial affairs.

A 9 Year is a time to finish old projects and to get ready for next year’s new start. Tune into current events; realize the common humanity you share with others. You can afford to give now, for next year you are starting something new. It is a period of endings.

An 11 Year accents ideals, dreams, and inspira­tions. It is not a time for practical affairs. Always read the fine print on contracts. Some will be sensitive to music, poetry, and art, while others will express their sensitivity as a 2, which means consideration for others. Avoid escapism, fast cars, and drugs.

A 22 Year favors success for the artist, the musi­cian, and the sculptor. You can succeed at any work that matches your ideals. Think big and don’t be skep­tical about what comes to you via intuition. Most people will respond to this vibration as a 4, unless they are in the position to do something for the progress of hu­manity. Though you are inclined to be nervous during this period, try to remain calm and be careful not to break the law.

PART 2

Your Birth Name and the year 2012

Each letter of the alphabet has a matching number (from 1 to 9). Here is a table show­ing the number value of each letter.

To find out about your strengths and weaknesses, look at all the individual letters that are included in your full name at birth name and note how many duplicate digits you have in your name. For example, the table of the alphabet tells us that the letters A, J, and S have a number value of 1. If you have 3 A’s and 2 J’s in your birth name, then you have 5 letters of the 1 vibration in your name. In simpler terms, you have five 1’s in your name.

The number that appears most often in your name is called the Ruling Passion, and this tells us what you enjoy doing most. If you do not have the letters A-J-S in your name, then you would have no 1’s in your name. Missing numbers are called Karmic Lacks: their absence suggests weak links in the character, which if not strengthened, can cause all sorts of problems.

Every January the number of your Personal Year changes. If the number of the new year matches one of the numbers in your full name at birth, you’ll get the opportunity to showcase the natural abilities that are associated with that number. If it is the same as your ruling pas­sion, then you’ll get the chance to do something you really enjoy. If the number of your Personal year is the same number as one of the missing numbers in your birth name, it may be a difficult year for you.

After you have determined what your personal year in 2012  is, look at the corresponding table below to learn more about what character traits of yours will be to the forefront in the coming year.

1s in your name

Many or few–Able to stand on your own two feet; have a sense of self-worth, courage, and vitality; are independent, decisive, aggressive.

Take care not to be pushy, domineering, and egotistical.

Missing A, J, and S–Self is not of first importance; may lack initiative, drive, and self-confidence; not aggressive. A lack of courage, bad timing, indecision, procrastination are some of the behaviors that could keep you from getting the full benefit of your 1 personal year

1 as your Ruling Passion–You enjoy being your own person and doing your own thing: are self-reliant with leadership abilities.

2s in your name:

Many or few–Are considerate of others; friendly, cooperative, sensitive, diplomatic; work well in partnership; may be timid; have a sense of rhythm, handle details well; have good timing. Take care not to be too eager to please, too accommodating, overly sensitive.

Missing B, K, and T–Feelings easily hurt; may be touchy; can be careless with details; lack of patience, tact, and diplomacy; can make a mountain out of a molehill; partnership difficulties.

2 as your Ruling Passion–Enjoy working with others, collecting things, partnership activities, music, and dancing; has artistic appreciation.

3s in your name:

Many or few–Can sell yourself and your ideas to others; are lighthearted, imaginative, and social; have communication skills and are creative. Take care not to scatter your energies, to be extravagant, to talk too much, to be boastful, impatient, or too happy-go-lucky.

Missing C, L, and U–Lack of showmanship; not good at self-promotion; may have difficulty in expressing yourself; an inferiority complex, inhibited, withdrawn.

3 as your Ruling Passion—You enjoy expressing yourself with the written and spoken word; have a capacity for joy; are inspired, imaginative, enthusiastic, cheerful, creative, and spontaneous.

4s in your name:

Many or few –have the ability to work hard and apply yourself; able to concentrate and to stay focused; are patient, practical, realistic, self-disciplined, and well organized. Take care not to be too strict, unbending, unfeeling, stubborn, narrow-minded, or overly conservative.

Missing D, M, and V–lack of order and system, apt to be impatient, short-sighted, and impulsive; dislike of routine; hates work, may be lazy, does things in a slip-shod way, or doesn’t finish them at all; not thorough.

4 as your Ruling Passion–enjoys work for its own sake; takes pride in doing a good job; have a love of order and system; industrious, dutiful, and conscientious.

5s in your name:

Many or few–have a love of adventure, freedom, sex, change, pleasure, variety, sports, exercise, the outdoors, travel, and socializing; are resourceful, inquisitive, and adaptable. Take care not to be overly impulsive, restless, hasty, promiscuous, impetuous, too intent on pleasure seeking; may be too quick to be off with the old, on to the new.

Missing E, N, and W –does not deal with changes very well; uncomfortable in crowds; lacks inquisitiveness and adaptability; may be sexually inhibited, repressed, or promiscuous; limited life experiences, fear of the new; not a people person.

5 as your Ruling Passion–You enjoy living life to the fullest.

6s in your name:

Many or few–You are domestic, hospitable, nurturing, caring, and responsible. Take care not to be interfering, self-righteous, holier than thou, stubborn, possessive, inflexible, moralistic.

Missing F, O, and X–dislikes responsibilities; may be childish; has much to learn about being a good spouse or parent; starts things, but doesn’t finish them; family problems

6 as your Ruling Passion–You have a love of home and family; enjoy being the shoulder that others lean on; are loving and dependable.

7s in your name:

Many or few–You are analytical with a keen and questioning mind; may be secretive, selective, solitary, research oriented, introspective; can be happy in own company, enjoys privacy and quiet. Take care not to be faultfinding, melancholy, too secretive, cunning, reclusive, dependent on drugs/alcohol.

Missing G, P, and Y–given to worrying, needs to learn how to be alone without being lonely; needs to develop spiritual awareness.

7 as your Ruling Passion–derives satisfaction from intellectual interests, studying, exploring the mysteries of life, counseling, contemplation, and reflection.

8s in your name:

Many or few- You have executive talents; are able to succeed and make money; are efficient, enterprising, resourceful, and well organized; handles emergencies well. Take care not to be overly materialistic.

Missing H, Q, and Z–You lack financial acumen; money comes in and goes out; may be indifferent or overly concerned about money and success; inability to manage affairs, financial problems.

8 as your Ruling Passion–You think big and enjoy large enterprises; have a strong drive for material success; enjoy prominence and the things that money can buy.

9s in your name:

Many or Few–You’re humanitarian, kind, and universal in outlook, compassionate, romantic, warm-hearted, charitable; have artistic talents and an interest in politics, cultural matters, and social issues. Take care not to be too emotional, too impressionable, a law unto yourself, “all over the place”, stormy.

Missing I and R–Interest in self and own circle, with little concern for world affairs or for the joys and sorrows of strangers. May lack an understanding of the emotional feelings and needs of others; lack of compassion and sympathy.

9 as your Ruling Passion–You enjoy doing for others; have artistic, cultural, and political interests.

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(above) Excerpt from Larry KIng Live which aired on December 15, 2010

It is truly remarkable that Barbra Streisand on December 10, 2010 was again nominated for a Grammy in the Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album category for Love Is the Answer, as the winner of the award will be announced on February 13, 2011 — 24 years after she won her last Grammy in 1987.  What is even more incredible is that when Barbra received her Grammy on February 24, 1987, she said “With your support and a little bit of luck, I just might see you again 24 years from tonight”.  You can hear her full acceptance speech on the embedded video clip below.

Barbra Streisand – 1987 – 29th Grammy Awards – cbs 2-24-87

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Dennis  Hopper at his Hollywood Walk of Fame Star ceremony, March 2010 – Photo by Angela George at http://www.flickr.com/photos/sharongraphics/

Dennis Hopper and James Dean

“Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all”. –Helen Keller, author                                                ( 6/27/1880 (6+27/9+1880/8 = 23/5 life path)

Dennis Lee Hopper, born on 5 17 1936 with a 14/5 life path number (5 + 17(8) + 1936/19/10/1 = 14/5. would certainly be in agreement with Helen Keller’s statement above. A rebel, a visionary, an iconoclast, and a party-hard risk taker who often clashed with those in authority, Dennis Hopper exhibited both the positive and negative aspects of his 14/5 life path number.  As a young actor he emulated James Dean. Though they worked together in the films Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and Giant (1956),  once off the set, Jimmy went his own way and did not pal around with the other cast members. They were not drinking buddies. Still, the 18 year old Dennis Hopper looked up to Dean, who was 5 years his senior.  In his words,  “Jimmy was the most talented and original actor I ever saw work. He was also a guerrilla artist who attacked all restrictions on his sensibility. Once he pulled a switchblade and threatened to murder his director. I imitated his style in art and in life. It got me in a lot of trouble.”

The actor (later writer) John Gilmore was a year older than Dennis and a friend of Hopper at this time. In his book Laid Bare: A Memoir of Wrecked Lives and the Hollywood DeathTrip he noted “It was after Jimmy’s death several weeks later that Dennis began to change. His agent and mine at the time, Bob Raison, said, “Dennis has undergone a metamorphosis. He’s lost who he was, and he’s being replaced by this troublesome, unbalanced person.”

Gilmore recalls another incident from this time period  “Dennis was peeing in the long trough in a men’s room on the Warner’s lot one afternoon, telling me how he saw in some way that the duty to carry on Jimmy’s enigmatic rebellion had fallen upon his shoulders. Very much alone in this presumption, he said, ‘Only they don’t know it yet,’ and wagged his penis in the direction of the front office. ‘But they’re going to find out, man . . .’ “

Dennis Hopper had  anointed himself  as Dean’s successor . .. so he did everything he thought a “rebel’ should do…he partied hard, clashed with authority figures, was difficult to work with, was habitually stoned on either drugs or alcohol or both, and was often a loose cannon. In other words, he frequently misused the principle of freeedom that is associated with the number 14.

Shortly after Dean’s death, Dennis got into a confrontation with veteran director Henry Hathaway on the film From Hell To Texas. , Hopper forced the director to shoot more than 80 takes of a scene before he acquiesced to Hathaway’s demands. After the shoot, Hathaway reportedly told the young actor that his career in Hollywood was over. In any case,  it did not take long for Warner Bros. to tire of Dennis’ bad boy antics and insolent behavior: in 1957 they did not renew his contract but dropped him  “Dennis the Menace” (Hopper’s nickname at the time) had become Dennis, a rebel without a job.  Soon afterwards he went back to New York and studied with Lee Strasberg for five years.  An outcast, with a reputation as someone whom you would not want to work with, he could not find work in Hollywood for seven years, and did not have a major film role until The Sons of Katie Elder (1965).

After Easy Rider (1969) and before rehab in 1983

Dennis was back on top with the success of Easy Rider (1969), but his stay there was short-lived.  Given the success of that film, he was given carte-blanche — total freedom to do what he wanted to in his next directorial effort The Last Movie (1971) –  and he blew it. ” One day Ned Tanen, a Universal Studios’ executive connected with the film, visited Hopper in Taos, where he was editing. “I walked in and this enormous orgy was going on — I mean, full-blown. My god, buttocks and boobs going in all directions. I went to Dennis and said, ‘Can I talk to you?’ Dennis was out of his bird, totally gone. I was thinking, ‘What can I do to get out of this business?’ ”

The Last Movie won the Critics’ Prize at the Venice Film Festival, but when it opened on September 29, 1971, it was universally panned. One reviewer called the film “an existential mess”,  but bad reviews were not the sole reason for Dennis Hopper’s subsequent banishment from Hollywood. Lew Wasserman, head of Universal Studios, wanted Dennis to re-edit The Last Movie after the Venice Film Festival, but since Dennis had the final cut, he refused in no uncertain terms. His exact words to Wasserman, the powerful head of Universal Studios,  were “get f*****.”  Wasserman’s  reply: ” Then the film will never be distributed.”  Without distribution, The Last Movie was dead in the water and Dennis Hopper was once again an outcast, a persona non grata, who would not work in Hollywood for the next eight years.

Many 14s have difficulty learning from experience. They repeat the same mistakes over and over again.  This was true of Dennis Hopper, who defied director Henry Hathaway in 1957 and was subsequently exiled from Hollywood for seven plus years , only to repeat this kind of behavior in 1971 when he defied Lew Wasserman and once again was blackballed by the industry.  To make matters worse, while spending the better part of a year editing “The Last Movie” , Hopper made a documentary about his experiences then, entitlted “American Dreamer” (1971), that showed Dennis doing drugs, engaging in group sex and walking the streets of Taos, New Mexico naked.

It is not surprising that offers for acting jobs were few and far between and that he would fade into obscurity for much of the 1970s. He would take work where he could find it, making occasional films in Europe and Australia.  Fueled by copious quantities of drugs and alcohol, he gave a bravura performance as a strung-out photojournalist in Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now in 1979. After managing to complete roles in “Rumble Fish” (1983) and “The Osterman Weekend” (1983), Hopper finally hit rock bottom. Later in 1983, during the shooting of a small film called Jungle Fever,  a naked strung-out Hopper was found hallucinating and babbling, hiding in a Mexican jungle. He was sent back to Los Angeles and put in a hospital. After a few visits to psychiatric wards and rehabilitation centers, Hopper finally began to sober up.

Misuse of drugs and alcohol can relate to both the numbers 14 and 16. If we think of having too much too drink as partying and self-indulgence, it relates to the number 14, but if drinking problems are addictive and  relate to insecurities, then it’s probably number 16 we’re talking about. In Hopper’s case, both numbers are involved. By adding the day and month of Dennis’ birth 5 17/8 to 1983/3, we learn that 1983 was a 16/7 personal year for him.. What makes this more significant is the fact that the soul urge of his known name “Dennis Hopper” also adds up to 16/7, indicating that 1983 was a year in which his philosophy of life would be tested.

The Rebirth of Dennis Hopper and the Renaissance of his Career

In 1983 Dennis Hopper was determined to reclaim his career. He survived detoxes and shakes that lasted many months and unlike many of today’s celebrities, he wasn’t in and out  of rehab four or five times.  He made a clean break with alcohol and drugs and that was it – no relapses. Rather he attained a sobriety that was to last the rest of his life. He was only out of rehab for two months in 1986 when he appeared on the set of  David Lynch’s Blue Velvet and he wasn’t sure that he could do a good job without the crutches of alcohol and drugs. — but he did.  As the villain Frank Booth, Hopper finally seemed to come into his own as an actor.

As Ann Hornaday noted in her assessment of Dennis Hooper’s legacy in an article for the Washington Post shortly after his death “As the sexually compulsive, pathologically troubled villain Frank Booth, Hopper — three years clean and sober — found a way to combine the knife-edge madness he had always possessed with newfound powers of control and discipline.”

She goes on to say It’s an irony  Hopper himself surely appreciated that the man who embodied antiauthoritarianism at its most anarchic finally realized his best artistic self when he embraced self-control.”

The peerless psychiatrist , Carl Gustav Jung, who was born with 14 letters in his name, once said  ”There can be no freedom {5]without self [1]-discipline [4]” and this is a statement that holds true for Dennis Hopper and all others who have the number 14 prominent in their numerology.  Above, I gave you Ann Hornaday’s assessment of Hopper’s legacy for a specific reason. I wanted to present you with a critique of Hopper’s life  from the perspective of a person who is not a numerologist. As you can readily see, her words back up my own.

After Blue Velvet, Dennis Hopper never stopped working. 1986 was an especially good year for Dennis; his success in Blue Velvet, was soon followed by Hoosiers, for which he received an Academy Award nomination, and River’s Edge in which he again mesmerized audiences with his portrait of the drug dealer Feck.  Dennis the Menace of counter culture fame  transformed himself from drug-addled rebel to a respected character actor, who was known to be one of the hardest workers in Hollywood and an actor who could be counted upon to give a top notch performance. As if making up for lost time after a hallucinogenic meltdown in 1983 led to sobriety, Hopper rarely turned down work. He has almost 200 film and TV credits, plus an equal number of appearances on talk shows and awards ceremonies, narrating jobs and more.

Numerology, Karma, and Dennis Hopper

People born with a 14 life path number have the karma to correct abuses of freedom that stem from a former lifetime.  During the 1980s and 1990s, Dennis Hopper was noted for his psychopathic roles, but if we take a closer look at some of the characters he portrayed, we’ll find that he often gave us portraits of people who misused the principle of freedom in some way. I could cite many instances in Dennis’ own life time where he abused freedom and all that it represents, but he sort of makes up for creating this bad karma, by acting in roles which give us a better understanding of freedom and what the number 14 truly means. In short, by playing bad guys, he gives us insights into the principles that these bad guys are violating and thereby he gives us a better understanding of what freedom is all about.

For example, let’s take a look at the movie Speed (1994) in which Hopper plays the demented Howard Payne who rigs buses to explode once they reach 50 miles per hour. In this instance, perhaps, Dennis was called upon to play this role because of a related experience from his own life time.  As John Gilmore  in his book Laid Bare: A Memoir of Wrecked Lives and the Hollywood DeathTrip recalls:

” Driving with Dennis in his little red Austin Healy sports car could be scary. Always giving it gas when the light was turning yellow, he never looked both ways before racing ahead. At a bus zone he’d block traffic to tell the waiting commuters he’d seen the bus several blocks back and it was on the way. They would thank him and he’d pull away laughing. I never understood the prank-one of many he’d claim he was pulling to “put people on.”

Misuse of freedom and the number 14 can also relate to sexual matters.  Certainly, Hopper’s chilling portrait of psychopathic Frank Booth in Blue Velvet is an example of sexual depravity at its worst and misuse of freedom as it applies to terrorism and political freedoms was dealt with in the first season of TV’s 24 in which Dennis Hopper played the role of Serbian warlord and mercenary Victor Drazen. But it was Easy Rider (1969) that displays Dennis Hopper’s most notable contribution to an understanding of what freedom and the  number 14 are all about.  Significantly, this film about the  freedoms which the number 14 symbolizes premiered on July 14 in 1969.

To get a clearer understanding of how this film relates to 14 and freedom. read  my review of Easy Rider, which was written shortly aften the film came out, and is posted  below.

reviewed by Daniel Heydon (photo left)

first published in the NYC entertainment review magazine ABEL, September 1969

“the highway is for gamblers, better use your sense take what you have gathered from coin­cidence. . .” — Bob Dylan

Escaping to the road on an easy run through the primeval beauty of the South­west, cyclist Wyatt (Peter Fonda) and side­kick Billy (Dennis Hopper) find that vio­lence as well as innocence is elemental in Eden. This is a film about primitivism: of freedom unfettered by identity crises, rebel­lion or generation gaps — of wanderers made outcast by their own blank interiors.

Whether you are pro or anti-dropout, Wyatt and Billy have little to recommend them as examples of anything but the life force itself. They neither elate nor depress you. The overgrown child Billy can’t see much further than his stomach — his range of vision limited by the immediacy of his appetites. Wyatt, introverted and inartic­ulate, a diffuse vision depriving his instincts of insight, remains troubled and ill-at-ease in both friendly and hostile locales.

Wyatt is passionless spirit and Billy is uncomprehending body (neither one is whole in himself and together they remain inconclusive) yet “Easy Rider” gains its strength partly because of the inaccessibility of its heroes. A Rosencrantz and Guildenstern of the New West, they remain spectat­ors to the life that goes on all around them, until the violent ending with devastating clarity catapults their right to be free into meaning.

“Easy Rider” achieves its impact through the poetry of its realism: the glit­tering metal of the bikes against the expansiveness of open space, the authenticity of the regional hate mongerers, the Last Supper portraiture of the hippie commune, the

cryptic language of the grass smoker. Actu­ally, we don’t need Billy and Wyatt to comment on the action. The camera says all and their private sentiments are better reflec­ted in song by the likes of Dylan and Steppenwolf than the vague platitudes of Wyatt.

Still the importance of their passive involvement is underscored, when Wyatt and Billy are joined by George Hanson (Jack Nicholson) articulate and enthusiastic, a would-be dropout of another day. Whereas Mardi Gras is a point on the map to the cyclists, it is a place to get laid to fun-loving George, whose humour and joie de drunken vivre have a passion lacking in the detached put-downs of Billy. Nicholson’s George Han­son has a personality that grabs you, and yet a drunkard, his life on the ledger of what’s important is probably no more meaningful than the others. It’s just his style is different, and in what is important to this film, he is a blood brother to the cause of being free.

It is he who defines for the others the threat their freedom represents. Yet despite an excellent delivery, his words seem preten­tious, until his own violent death shortly after makes them apt and the critic sorry that he ever used words like “pretentious”. For his death matters, is horrifying because you care for him, because he has gotten you involved in a way the others haven’t, yet the tragedy that befells his two comrades on the highway transcends death on the personal level, obscures it, sharply refocusing our attention to an elemental scrutiny of life and death per se. Our psyches are shaken by what Bob Dylan calls “the pettiness that plays so rough”: our own instinct for life cries out in truly righteous defense live and let live. That suddenly we care about Wyatt and Billy — really care — about two people we don’t know or perhaps don’t even like is why “Easy Rider” makes sense. The truth that these wanderers represent but are un­able to verbalize or fully enjoy is clear — that breath in the lungs entitles one to life or at least its free flow should not be wantonly, senselessly aborted.

Though “Easy Rider” has its hippies and drugs, and an occasional platitude and symbol that almost work against the film’s meaning, it should not be passed off as another do your thing sermonette. To think of Wyatt and Billy as longhairs, hippies, youth today is to indulge in the same type of hasty labeling that brought about their deaths. “Easy Rider” is an ode to primitivism, an exploration of its violent and non-violent aspects, both of which if mis­used threaten the freedom that the film espouses.

P.S. For those who prefer to think synchronistically, the Dylan song on the sound­track should lead you back to the album “Bringing It All Back Home.” Listen to all of Side 2, think of Billy, Wyatt and George, let the images of the film and record merge, and you’ll know what “Easy Rider” is all about – (or better yet, view the embedded clip from Easy Rider below)

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Misuse of Power

Like 13, 14, and 16, the other numbers of karma, 19  relates to original sin and the fall of man  The legendary numerologist, Florence Campbell, in 1930 associated the number 19 with  misuse of power in a former lifetime. However, to tell a person with 19 prominent in their name or birth date that they have a karma of misuse of power in a past life time is liable to evoke feelings of hurt, surprise, and possibly anger, for most 19s are reform-minded and are anxious to make the world a better place to live in. In my own research I have discovered that most 19s do their part to correct misuses of power in their lifetimes. For example, Karen Silkwood, who was born on February 19, was the whisteblower who exposed her company’s dangerous use of plutonium.  Ralph Nader, who was born with a 19 life path number, has been an outspoken critic of corporate abuses of consumers and the environment. In the paragraphs below, I discuss how Eliot Ness and Robert Francis Kennedy with their 19s fought against abuses of power by members of organized crime and did their part to live up to the best qualities associated with the number 19.

The Fight Against Organized Crime

Eliot Ness

Credentials of Eliot Ness

Eliot Ness was born on April 19, 1903. He was 26 years old when, in 1929, he was hired as a special agent of the U.S. Department of Justice to head the Prohibition bureau in Chicago, with the express purpose of investigating and harassing gangster Al Capone. Ness and his Untouchables raided breweries, speakeasies, and other places of outlawry. Their crime fighting made newspaper headlines and turned Eliot Ness and his Untouchables into heroes. The Untouchables’ infiltration of the underworld secured evidence that helped send Capone to prison for income-tax evasion.  Shortly after his crime-fighting days in Chicago ended, Eliot Ness become Cleveland’s Safety Director in 1935. There he rooted out corruption and inefficiency in the police department, smashed gambling and extortion rings, tamed violent youth gangs, upgraded fire protection and traffic safety, and instituted other reforms. Eliot Ness was a true 19.

Robert Francis Kennedy

Robert Kennedy –2/ 4/ 1966  -  Photo by Dick De Marsico -  Courtesy Library of Congress

Robert Francis Kennedy (19 expression) was the first Attorney General of the United States to make a serious attack on organized crime. During his brief tenure as attorney general “prosecutions” of organized crime figures reached levels never before attained. Kennedy expanded the Justice Department’s Crime and Rackets Section from seventeen to sixty people, cre­ated investigative bureaus in six cities to collect data on over 1,100 racketeers, and autho­rized seven anticrime laws that were approved by Congress. A month before his brother’s assassination, in October 1963 Kennedy persuaded mobster Joseph Valachi to testify under government protection. He was the first ever mafia informant.  His testimony revealed for the first time the intricate, secret working of the so-called Cosa Nostra crime syndicate and described how the continued operation of the Mafia depended on payoffs to local police, politicians, and city council members.

Bobby Kennedy first emerged as national figure years earlier in 1957, when as head of the team investigating the Trade Union movement, his investigation of James (Riddle) Hoffa (19 expression) was televised.  Kennedy claimed that Hoffa had misappropriated $9.5 million in union funds and had corruptly done deals with employers. However, the jury found Hoffa not guilty. After Bobby Kennedy became Attorney General, he resumed his obsessive investigations into Hoffa’s activities. This time Kennedy was successful. In 1964, Hoffa was found guilty of taking money from the Teamsters’ Union pension fund and was sentenced to eight years in prison (later, to be pardoned by Richard Nixon in 1971).

Bobby finally got his man, or did he? While Bobby Kennedy was still alive and Hoffa was still in jail, the FBI questioned Jimmy Hoffa for alleged comments he had made to a fellow inmate on May 30, 1967. According to the informant, Hoffa told him, “I have a contract out on Kennedy. And if he ever gets in the primary or gets elected, the contract will be fulfilled within six months.” Of course, when agents asked about this, Hoffa denied ever having said that. On June 4, 1968, Robert Francis Kennedy with his 19 expression was assassinated by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan who was born on March 19, 1944 with 19 letters in his birth name.

President George W. Bush speaks at the Justice Department on November 20, 2001 as he dedicates the building as the Robert F. Kennedy Justice Department Building. Sitting beside a portrait of RFK is his widow, Ethel. Photo courtesy White House

(Excerpted with permission from The Little Giant Encyclopedia of Numerology by Daniel Heydon)

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Stephenie Meyer on April 5, 2009 Photo by Tara Kerwin aka tararebeka on Flickr

Stephenie Meyer’s dream and the numbers 13 and 2

In 1831 the author Mary Shelley recalled that the idea for the novel Frankenstein came to her in a waking dream in the summer of 1816. One night in late September or early October 1885 Robert Louis Stevenson awoke from a dream that contained two or three scenes from what soon would become his novella Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. On June 2,2003 the idea for  the book Twilight came to Stephenie Meyer in a dream about a girl and a sparkling vampire sitting in a meadow.

What is fascinating to the student of numerology is that Stephenie had her dream of  Bella Swan and her vampire lover Edward Cullen on the 2nd, as 2 is a number that relates to couples and 2 is also the number of her life path. (Stephenie’s birthdate 12 (3) + 24 (6) + 1973 (2) – 11/2 life path).  What’s more 6+ 2 + 2003 (5) adds up to 13, the karmic number associated with the Death Card in the Tarot and vampires.  A  look at the numbers of Stephenie’s name at birth.

5      5   95   = 24/6     +       6    1 = 7     =  13/4   Soul  Urge

Stephenie                           Morgan

reveals that she was born with a 13 soul urge (the sum of the vowels in her name) and that her dream occurred on a 13 universal day. I. as a numerologist,  tell people with an 11/2 life path number that they have a mission in life — that if they will heed their intution they will be shown the way to meet their  destiny. People with an 11/2 life path are messengers of the gods — they receive revelations from above — messages to transmit to humanity. I believe that destiny was calling when Stephenie had her dream. Without prior writing experience, within a three month span she completes Twilight and doesn’t stop there but goes on to write  additional novels about Bella and Edward.

Souls with a 13 soul urge come to earth with a desire to teach us something about death as it relates to the meaning of life and individuals with a 2 life path have something to tell us about love and relationships.  A 13 soul urge combined with a 2 life path in Stephenie’s case equals Twilight, a gothic (13) romance (2).   The book(s) have vampires, ie. 13, and above all else, the Twilight saga is a love story (2).

Twilight and number 13

On the same day she had her dream, Stephenie began writing Twilight. She started with the contents of the dream itself and wrote a transcript of every detail she could remember. It probably is a coincidence that  this initial transcript would later become Chapter 13 of the book. But is it a coincidence that there are 544 pages in the hardcover of the book (544 = the number 13) and that the book was first published on 10/5/2005, a day that also adds up to 13. And is it a coincidence that Robert Pattinson who plays Edward in the Twilight saga was born on the 13th day of May — and that Kristen Stewart who plays the heroine Bella in the Twilight films was born on 4/9 with a 13 Success Number (4+9 =13)?

Twilight Poster from twilight.guide.com

We get further corroboration that the number 13 is integral to the story of   Twilight from the promotional material released to the public before the film adaptation of the novel premiered on 11/21/1908.

Note the date on the lower left corner of the poster. It is not 11/21/2008. rather it is 11 21 08 ..a date that adds up to 13 (ie; 11/2 + 21/3 +8 = 13).  Though the number 13 does not actually appear on this poster, the fact that 11 21 08 does equal 13, we have a sublimal message here saying this is a film about meanings associated with 13. I call this abbreviated form of numerology (for want of a better name) “Twilight numerology”.

The Twilight Saga: New Moon and 13

Can history repeat itself twice ?– apparantly so, when it comes to films related to the Twilight series. The Twilight Saga: New Moon premiered on 11/20/2009, a date that adds up to 6. However, promotional material for New Moon listed the date as 11 20 09 (11/2+2 + 9 = 13), another instance of 13 by use of “Twilight numerology.”

New Moon Poster from twilightguide.com

Eclipse and Breaking Dawn

The third installment of the Twilight Saga film series, Eclipse, was released on June 30, 2010 – by “Twilight numerology”  6 30 10 (6 + 3 +1 = 10). – a day that does not add up to 13.  However, there was an advanced preview of Eclipse at the Los Angles Angeles Film Festival on June 24, 2010. a calendar date that adds up to 6: however, by Twilight Numerology ( 6 + 24/6 + 10/1 does equal. 13)  Will this string be broken with the film adaptation of the fourth and final book, Breaking Dawn?  Apparently not. Summit Entertainment  announced the film is to be split into two parts, the first of which is scheduled for release on November 18, 2011, a day that  by Twilight Numerology  11/2 + 18/9 + 11/2 again = 13. Will part 2 be scheduled on a date adds up to 13 by Twilight Numerology”? Time will tell. Whatever the case, Stephenie Meyer (nee Morgan) and the numbers 13 and 2 will be forever linked for reasons other than the ones already stated in this blog — for reasons that are stated below.

The Numerology of Bella Swan’s birth name

The question has been raised is the character Bella Swan in any way similar to her creator. In other words, is Twlight autobiographical? The author dismisses that idea by saying that Bella is much more mature than Stephenie was at her age. I as a numerologist would both agree and disagree with Stephenie’s comments.

Stephenie tells us Bella Swan’s birth name is Isabella Marie Swan, a name that adds up to 2, whereas the name Stephenie  Morgan adds up to the introspective 7, a number that savors its privacy.   As already stated, Stephenie’s soul urge is 13/4, a number that is much more conservative than Isabella Maria Swan’s adventurous (and somewhat accident prone) 14/5 soul urge.

The Numerology of Bella Swan’s birth date

However, Stephenie has also provided us with Bella’s birthdate. She was born 9/13/1987 and shares with Stephenie the number 2 as a life path. This would indicate that both of them have something to teach us about love and relationships. In Bella’s case, one could say that being born on the 13th,  she had to become a vampire (a 13)  in order to achieve her 2 life path goal of a romantic partnership. Assuming that Stephenie Meyer may be ignorant of numerology, it is absolutely uncanny that she would bestow her creation Bella with the core numbers of 13 and 2, the same numbers that were predominant on June 2,2003  (6+2 +5 = 13), the day the concept of Bella and Twilight came to her in a dream. Since Bella and Stephenie both have the numbers 2 and 13 prominent in their personal numerology, they do in fact share some similar characteristics and will meet with similar (not identical) challenges and successes in life.

Stephenie Meyer Day

It also should be noted that the town of Forks, Washington, where the Twilight Saga takes place, annually celebrates Bella’s birthday 9/13 as Stephenie Meyer day.

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(Note: This is a revision of a blog I did in January on Twilight and Stephenie Meyer. This latest blog includes new information about Eclipse, Breaking Dawn, numerology and the number13).

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You are versatile with a variety of interests.

You are quite a talker and good raconteur

You love to mix and mingle; to gad about

You are cheerful, optimistic, and spontaneous

You are talented, sociable, and imaginative

You have vitality and bounce back quickly from illness

You are easily satisfied and make the best of conditions

You are at your best before an audience.

You need hobbies to offset a tendency to be restless

3 is carefree, relaxed, easy-going, and laid back. Do not the aforementioned words aptly describe the singing style of crooners BING CROSBY, ANDY WILLIAMS, and TONY BENNETT – all of whom were born on the 3^rd. The job of 3 is to entertain, to help us see the silver lining, as Bing Crosby (5/3/1903) has successfully done with his rendition of White Christmas; Andy Williams (12/3/1928) with his Moon River; and Tony Bennett (8/3/1926) with his always heart rendering I Left My Heart in San Francisco.

Bing Crosby and Marjorie Reynolds in the film HOLIDAY INN (PARAMOUNT PICTURES, 1942) sing the famous Christmas song “White Christmas” from the composer Irving Berlin. Marjorie Reynolds was dubbed by Martha Mears

The Legend Crooner Andy Williams singing Moon River on his show in 1961

Tony Bennett – MTV Unplugged 1995

On the distaff side, cabaret singer MABEL MERCER (2/3/1900) was known for the intimacy of her phrasings. Just before her death in 1984, Frank Sinatra said, “she taught me everything I know.”

(Excerpted with permission from The Little Giant Encyclopedia of Numerology by Daniel Heydon)

Mabel Mercer  live at Cleo’s in NYC in her last recorded performance (1981?)

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“Death’s but a path that must be trod/If man would ever pass to God” (from “A Night Piece on Death”, written in 1714, which is often regarded as the first work of the Graveyard school of poetry.) The Irish poet Thomas Parnell (right) who was born with a 13 soul urge and 13 letters in his name wrote it.

The most celebrated of the Graveyard Poets was Thomas Gray (13 quiet self), whose “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” is one of the best-known poems in the English language.

Thomas Gray by John Giles Eccardt, 1747-1748)

The “Country Churchyard”, the subject of Gray’s poem (Press on the link below to hear a recitation of the full poem)

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