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The World · day 21

Spheres that use this interpretation:Day arcanum — character

Interpretations are currently available in Russian only — a translation is in progress.

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The twenty-first arcanum gives breadth. Such a person is interested in everything at once, moves easily between fields and knows a little about a great deal.

They are drawn beyond what is familiar — into other countries, languages and ways of living — and it is the right pull: their business is to join worlds together and to carry one into another.

The strength is the ability to explain one culture to another and to be understood in any surroundings. The weakness is superficiality: breadth comes more easily to them than depth, and stopping at any one thing is hard.

It comes into its own best where what is unconnected has to be connected.

Day arcanum — character

Day arcanum = DT

The day of birth is the main part of the date. It is responsible for character and for what childhood was like, and along with that — for the past incarnation and for what a person brings out of it: inclinations, a craft, an attitude to work.

It is read as a general frame — much the way a zodiac sign is read in astrology: it describes a tendency, not the whole person. Character is made up of many numbers, and no one of them cancels out the rest.

The same arcanum can come from different days: for those born on the 1st and on the 23rd it coincides (23 − 22 = 1), but their ruling planets are different, and that shows in the character.

This is the positive part of the calculation — what a person starts from and can lean on, not a list of their limitations.