Jung pointed out that each of us in the human family, regard­less of where we were born or how we live, carries with us a huge repository of symbols in a kind of collective or archetypalunconscious. various encyclopedias and other historical reference works that supply birthdays, and when they are, their birthdays are sometimes omitted. From these notions, a personality type emerged for each of the twelve zodiac signs and then, naturally, for those born under each zodiac sign. Combining astrology, numerology, and pure psychic intuition, The Secret Language of Birthdays is a wholly unique compilation that reveals one's strengths, weaknesses, and major issues while providing practical advice and spiritual guidance. Additionally, astrologers associate each zodiac sign with a planet (planets include each of the eight known planets and also the Sun and Moon) and determine the zodiac sign with the characteristics of that planet.

That is, the basic structure on which per sonology is built is the year it has been alive, and as far as we know it has largely been here on Earth. You will see up to 18 personality traits if you know the complete birth date and up to 12 traits if you only know the month and day of birth. The historical ramifications of the inability of man to exactly measure this length have been appalling.At 832 pages, it has the heft of an encyclopedia, and it’s designed like a reference book, down to the formal serif typeface. But it's like someone took everything my nine-year-old self was desperate to be (ethereal, mysterious, and possibly a fairy) combined it into a single, enigmatic title. During this time he discovered his deep and abiding interest in astrology and its symbolic relationship to personality.

We are fixed to a wheel of life here on earth, whose motion dictates (in the northern hemisphere) that beginning with the winter solstice, around December 21, the shortest day and longest night, the days will get progressively longer and the nights shorter until the vernal or spring equinox is reached around March 21, at which point day and night willbe equal.

After a few false starts, because apparently putting in the correct year is important, the Secret Language finally declared me an Expressed Airborne Dreamer. The symbols of astrology itself, on the mandala of the zodiac, perhaps spring not only from the configurations suggested by the constellations in the heavens, but also from our own shared human archetypes.

Our mission is to foster a universal passion for reading by partnering with authors to help create stories and communicate ideas that inform, entertain, and inspire. Beautifully illustrated and designed, the Secret Language series is sure to delight a new generation of astrology enthusiasts and all people who are interested in better understanding themselves and the people around them. In fact, popular astrology found in magazines and newspapers is far more common, as it is based on “Sun-sign astrology”, in which we are given advice based only on what sign the Sun was in on our date of birth. However, which birthday should be used for a seventeenth century British figure like John Milton--­December 19 (NS) or December 9 (OS)? Goldschneider lived in a Dutch nursing home in increasingly poor health; he died earlier this month at age 80.Thus, bringing astrology, history and psychology together in concentric cycles or spirals--stressing evolutionary rather than static models for the individual--is at the heart of person­ology. Before deciding against a career in medicine, for three years he attended Yale Medical School, where he studied psychiatry. The cyclical unfolding of repetitive "incarnations"--much like Yeats's gyres-suggests a cettain personality type arising at ahigher or lower level of the spiral, but always in the same loca­tion in any given year. Astrology teaches, as does the Hindu theory of the great wheel of the ages, that we proceed from one two-thousand-year age to the next, crawling backwards around the zodiac with the precession of the equinoxes, until we reach the begin­ning once more.

In truth, Hepburn was born on May 12, a fact which she ultimately acknowledged at the begin­ning of her autobiography. Only the Rosicrucians gave equal emphasis to all the periods of man's life, from the youngest to the oldest. Virgos are generally known to be cautious, clever, and fussy about changing their minds, but only on their own terms.The 366 personality profiles in The Secret Language of Birthdays are based on a combination of astrology, numerology, the tarot, and Gary Goldschneider’s many years of observation of more than 14,000 people, including contemporary and historical figures. In this way an astrological sign is really nothing absolute in itself but rather a spoke in the great wheel.