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T. S. Eliot
US-British poet (1888–1965)
The numbers
4 + 2 = 6
Lo Shu grid
Missing: 3, 5, 7. Present digits repeat to show how many times they occur.
Life path 6 — The Caretaker
Six is read as the number of responsibility — family, service, the assumption that if something needs doing for someone else you are the one who does it. The tradition treats it warmly and then names the trap plainly: care given without limit becomes control, and the person who is always needed rarely learns to ask. Six is described as the number most likely to be exhausted and least likely to say so.
Complete lines
Cooperation
A complete line in the grid.
Responsibility
A complete line in the grid.
Organisation
A complete line in the grid.
Care
A complete line in the grid.
Repeated numbers
8 appears 3 times
Concentrated drive. Read as ambition with unusual staying power — the reading watches what it is aimed at.
What is missing
Missing 3
Read as difficulty getting the inner picture out — the thought is complete, the expression lags. Often described in people whose written voice is far stronger than their spoken one.
Missing 5
The centre of the grid, so its absence is weighted heavily. Read as difficulty adapting mid-course — a preference for the plan already chosen over the plan now indicated.
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 8 comes from the day of the month alone; Bhagyank 6 from the whole date. They differ, which is the ordinary case — the two numbers answer different questions.
Shani
Saturn. Labour, delay, consequence. Feared in popular practice more than any other, and read as the graha that makes people earn things.
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
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.
Atheism should always be encouraged (i.e. rationalistic not emotional atheism) for the sake of the Faith.
Mr. Aldous Huxley, who is perhaps one of those people who have to perpetrate thirty bad novels before producing a good one, has a certain natural — but little developed — aptitude for seriousness.
A dangerous person to disagree with.
'A cold coming we had of it,Just the worst time of the yearFor a journey, and such a long journey:The ways deep and the weather sharp,The very dead of winter.
There were times we regrettedThe summer palaces on slopes, the terraces,And the silken girls bringing sherbet.
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