Oliver Stone
American film director, screenwriter, and producer (born 1946)
The numbers
3 + 5 = 8
Lo Shu grid
Missing: 2, 7. Present digits repeat to show how many times they occur.
Life path 8 — The Executive
Eight is the number of material consequence — authority, money, scale, the machinery that makes things actually happen. Tradition reads it as unusually comfortable with leverage and unusually clear-eyed about what things cost. It carries the sharpest warning of the nine: 8 is described as the number most able to build something large and most able to be consumed by it, with the reading turning on whether the power is aimed at anything beyond itself.
Complete lines
Line of Action
The 8-1-6 row complete. Read as follow-through — the traditional marker of someone whose plans reliably become events.
Line of Stability
A complete line in the grid.
Line of Resolve
The 1-5-9 diagonal complete. Read as determination that survives the middle of a project, when the initial energy has gone and the result is not yet visible.
Responsibility
A complete line in the grid.
Organisation
A complete line in the grid.
What is missing
Missing 2
Read as bluntness: reaching the conclusion without the intermediate handling. The tradition frames this as a timing gap rather than a lack of feeling.
Missing 7
Read as reluctance to sit with an unresolved question. Associated with wanting the working answer rather than the true one.
Vedic — Ank Jyotish
Moolank 6 comes from the day of the month alone; Bhagyank 8 from the whole date. They differ, which is the ordinary case — the two numbers answer different questions.
Shukra
Venus. Art, pleasure, relationship. Read as attraction and aesthetic sense.
Bhagyank uses the same arithmetic as the Western life path, so the two will always agree. That is not two traditions confirming each other — it is one calculation under two names.
In their words
There was a civil war in this country... Kennedy provoked such hostility and hatred. His death was cheered in the South because of his support for Martin Luther King. He was moving to change things on all fronts. He was starting to end the Cold War. He made a deal with Khruschev and Russia in 1962 to end the missile crisis, and he furthered the... Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in 1963. He... described the Soviets for the first time in American history as mortals, like us, who care about their children. He seemed to have an expanding vision of the world, much like Gorbachev did in Russia in the '80s.
Since that day, the media has chanted the mantra that Oswald did it alone. But the American public... has never accepted it. They smell a rat.
My father was a Republican and he hated Roosevelt. And that's sort of been the battle of my life, I think. You have to understand I grew up a Republican conservative. I hated Castro. And I put my money where my mouth was because I went to war, but I understood pretty quickly that this was another place, another culture and we would never fit in there.
We have an obligation to those who died ... to remember
A sad occasion in that Julian could not follow me out the door. He lives in a tiny room with great modesty and discipline.
Strong mind, no sun, friends who visit, work to be done, one documentary coming out from Alex Gibney that is not expected to be kind.
Sourced from Wikiquote, restricted to the subject’s own sourced sections.