You are a natural leader, independent, and individualistic. You are extremely ambitious, original, and courageous. You employ new and unproven methods. You are an explorer and an innovator. Openness to too many peripheral influences limits and frustrates you. You are self-reliant, confident, and energetic. You possess executive abilities, and are most successful at owning or independently managing a business.

You need the freedom to make your own decisions based on your own ideas. You can be an astute politician. You also possess the ability to influence the opinions of your milieu. The number 1 symbolizes the front-runner, pioneer, warrior, risk-taker, and daredevil. Generals, top politicians, successful business people, self-made millionaires, religious leaders, inventors, activists, and avant-garde artists are often born with a 1 Expression.

Strength and perseverance are central to your success. You must be willing to travel the frontiers of life, away from the beaten path. You possess a great reserve of willpower that must be directed at your goals. You do not give up, but relentlessly pursue your aims. You are quite opinionated. People tend to be inspired or repelled by your strong personality. You have great power of concentration and the ability to visualize your goals, thus making them more attainable. You stand up for your convictions, and hold your ground. All of these abilities, enhance your chances of success in life. There is a tendency to be self-centered.

You can be domineering and, in the extreme, a bully. You can be highly critical of others, complaining that people lack the industry or determination you possess. But this lack of understanding can alienate friends and family members from you. You must learn to control this tendency if you are to maintain harmony in relationships. Once you are convinced of the inherent correctness of your ideas, you stubbornly, and sometimes rigidly, defend and propogate them. Avoid obstinacy and antagonism. You must cultivate balance, compassion, and perseverance.

You easily assume the role of protector. You spring into action when leadership is needed. Pride can be your downfall. You so powerfully identify with your goals and ambitions that you sometimes refuse to see a potential flaw or weakness in your well-laid plans. You possess strength and determination, which, when applied to any endeavor you are committed to, will lead you to great success in life.

You have a great talent for working with others; you possess tact and refinement. You have a highly veloped intuition, which provides you with insight into personalities and situations. Therefore, you act with tact and subtle persuasion. You possess a kind of radar, avoiding the landmines within another's personality, yet bringing out goodwill. These abilities make you the perfect diplomat. Your abilities are better expressed while working with others than by working alone. In the same way, you perform better in partnership than in a leadership role.

People with the 2 Expression are often found in politics, medicine, learning institutions, laboratories, secretarial services, multilevel marketing, and entertainment (although rarely seeking the limelight). You seek balance and peace in all relationships and situations. The key to your personality is sensitivity, but there are two sides to the coin: You have the ability to perceive the thoughts and emotions of others, and can work gently with others for a mutually shared goal. This makes you a great asset in any group endeavor. However, your sensitivity makes you vulnerable. You can be thrown off balance by an unkind word, a conflict, or by hostile conditions at work. You are far more upset by these conditions than people without your sensitivity. While others appear to be enduring troubled times with a modicum of turmoil, you suffer the turbulence of life as if your very survival were at stake. In difficulties, you tend to persevere and steadily erode the resistance. You are like a gentle wind that shapes a rock.

You are friendly and open-minded. You are a great support person, pulling the best out of those around you. You are the power behind the throne. You are indispensable to the leadership of another, providing insight and advice that are essential. Yet, despite the invaluable service you provide, you often do not get the credit and recognition you deserve, which can be frustrating. Your natural modesty, and the enjoyment you get from being an important asset, are usually satisfaction enough for you. Close relationships are essential to your happiness. When single, you dream of finding your soul mate. When married, you are concerned with your spouse's needs, emotions, and thoughts. You are an outstanding marriage partner, giving, thoughtful, and conscious of meeting the needs of your loved one. You provide great support for your spouse's career. You are a passionate lover. Parenthood is not an easy role for you, probably because you lack the will to enforce discipline, and need a tranquil, delicate, and harmonious environment. You are blessed with a high degree of musical talent. You have a good sense of rhythm and harmony. You are also a good counselor with an inborn talent for psychology and finely tuned intuition.

To overcome this problem, you must make a choice. You have to limit your field of vision and the number of activities you engage in, and bundle your energies into a single thrust. Focus your life; choose the area that you love the most, and commit. There, you will find success, and a great deal of happiness. Love, romance, and money are within your reach. You are aided by your friends and admirers. Often people appear out of nowhere to help you in key situations. You have to learn to accept the involvement of others in your life.

You are not a loner, nor are you particularly independent.

You are social; you need an audience and the support of others to fully realize your abilities. On the down side, you can be superficial, moody, and intolerant. You are emotional and sensitive, sometimes presuming criticism where none was intended. You can also be jealous and gossipy. Beware of becoming cynical and sarcastic. These traits can suppress your natural creativity. Be goal-oriented. This is a practical, step-by-step approach to your larger ambitions. You possess the natural abilities to attain a high degree of excellence.

You are the bedrock of society, the foundation of any enterprise. You are an organizer and manager. Your approach to life and problems is methodical and systematic. You are a builder and a doer. You turn dreams into reality. You possess a highly developed sense of structure. You enjoy management systems, and can carry out your well-laid plans.

You are not the type to embark on any trip without a map. You take your obligations and those of your family quite seriously. As a result, you are reliable and responsible. You enjoy seeing a project through from start to finish, but can become too narrowly focused. You put your nose to the grindstone, and have a tendency to become a workaholic. You are driven by a contempt for all that is unstable, insecure, and unpredictable. You distrust the unconventional, preferring instead the tried-and-true. But this can make your endeavors move slowly and cause you much frustration, especially with the apparent limitations of your resources. At the same time, concern for these limitations causes you to be careful and cautious, shutting you out from possible shortcuts and creative solutions provided by more daring people around you. It is important that you recognize restrictions for what they are: guiding forces that are testing you and directing you toward your goals. Your challenge is to be more imaginative, and to attract more creative people into your life who can advise and inspire you. In relationships, you need to be somewhat moralistic.

You are extremely honest and sincere. You have integrity and are trustworthy, but you can also be rigid and stubborn. Don't let your strong likes and dislikes overrule your common sense and compassion. Be more understanding of others' shortcomings. Because you tend to focus on details you can fall into a rut and become a little dull and overly serious. Often, people born with the 4 Expression need to lighten up and have more fun. In your conservative and careful way, you are good with money. You are very conscious of the balance between income and expenditures. You can limit your expenditures; saving money is important to you. You are a surprisingly good parent, and love to be involved with children. Somehow, you relate a little more than others to the innocence of children, perhaps seeing a good deal of yourself in them. You, too, are idealistic and respect the simplicity of children. Many accountants, bookkeepers, government officials, managers, and lawyers are born under the 4 Expression. You can be attracted to the arts and music, but will likely bring your love of structure and order to any artistic field. Classical music and opera are particularly appealing and inspiring for you. You have a keen eye for detail. You have great stamina, and can work conscientiously and persistently toward your goals. This eventually brings you success and standing in your community.

You are a free spirit. You love change, adventure, and excitement. You love your freedom. Like a bird that needs its wings to live, you cannot exist without it.You need it for your very survival. By using freedom properly, you are able to explore and develop all of your varied talents. You will meet many types of people, and you will travel great distances. Freedom is the atmosphere necessary for you to bring forth your many talents. You are capable of doing almost anything, and probably of doing it quite well. Only by avoiding the imprisonment of illusory security are you able to bring forth your abilities. You are unusually adaptable. In fact, change is a blessing for you. In the same way, you need challenge and variety. You hate the routine of life; being stuck is a catastrophe for you. You become miserable when you are held back or held down. The taste, texture, and color of life have an overpowering allure for you. From childhood, you dream of seeing foreign lands, experiencing the sensual and the exotic. You want to try everything at least once in life. All of life is a playground for your senses. But this can get you into trouble. You may fail to respect your natural limits, either biologically or socially. Any sort of boundary is an anatherma to you, which can blind you to your natural limits, and may cause you to overindulge your desire for food, sweets, alcohol, sex, and drugs.

You are gifted in your ability to communicate. Your facility with words is almost limitless. You can be a salesperson, politician, lawyer, public relations person, or minister. You also possess the talent to share and advance new ideas. You are talented with your hands. You love the new and untried. Your field is the frontier. You are a bit of a gambler, and often play for very big stakes. All of this combines to give you a youthful enthusiasm, which others find infectious and attractive. You like to work with others, but need to perform your task unencumbered by the restraints of others.

You are a clever and quick thinker, but your thought processes, like your life in general, can be unorganized and scattered. You must stay grounded and focused if you want to be successful. You fall in and out of love frequently, especially early in life. You are naturally sensual and commonly have a strong sex drive. These characteristics usually make for a lively and exciting love life, but you must guard against shallow feelings in relationships. Your challenge is to develop mature and lasting relationships. Self-discipline and setting healthy limits is the key to your success in virtually every area of your life. Ironically, you will find that as you learn to set appropriate limits for yourself, you will develop more self-mastery, and you will realize even greater freedom. This is especially true when it comes to finishing what you start. Your tendency is to give up once you have a project or ob under control; you grow bored quickly. You start to fantasize about a new challenge, or the rewards of your great accomplishment, long before the work is finished. The 5 Expression desires the whole world. You are aware that you have many talents that can bring much success. But that success depends on your willingness to choose certain areas to concentrate on, and to bring them to perfection.

You are a loving and caring individual with a tendency to put the needs of others before those of yourself. You are responsible and trustworthy, with a high regard for justice and honesty. Duty will follow you all your life, and sometimes it will feel a little too much of a burden. You are artistic. Harmony and beauty are high on your list of priorities. YOu have a musical talent, but the creative talents of 6 are sometimes left undeveloped or suppressed as a result of your tendency to sacrifice your time and pleasure to the service of others. You are highly creative in all areas of life, particularly in the visual. You are also a talented business person, and can work methodically toward the realization of your goals. You have a natural gift with flowers, gardens, and animals. Your love of children has caused numerologists to dub you the cosmic mother or cosmic father. The very shape of a 6 resembles and symbolizes pregnant with love. You are a natural counselor and healer, but you must be careful not to interfere with the freedom of others.

You are recognized as an idealist, mainly regarding marriage, friendship, and humanity. The is the most balanced of all numbers, but also contains within itself the greatest paradoxes. It is as if opposite tendencies were tenuously poised. Because of its gift for harmonizing these opposites, you are uniquely qualified to handle and to integrate contradictions within yourself. It is for this reason that 6s so frequently find themselves in the role of healers or counselors, creating a peace between opposing points of view, or internal conflicts within the self. While you can be very idealistic, there may also be a temptation to acquire beautiful objects by improper means. You must also guard against other meddlesome behavior and domestic tyranny, or always having to have your own way in a family dispute. Conversely, you have it within yourself to understand another person's dilemma, and to come up with a creative solution. Your natural ability to give comfort and warmth can sooth over hurt feelings like a healing balm.

You attract love and appreciation, and rightly so, because you give the same in return. You make an outstanding teacher (especially with young children or special education students), healer, counselor, social worker, psychologist, artist, designer, gardener, florist, and farmer. You can be successful in business, particularly one that involves dealing with people.

You are gifted with an analytical mind and an enormous appetite for the answers to life's hidden questions. You have a strong interest in exploring scientific matters, philosophy, and even mysticism. You possess clarity and persistence in your search for truth. You can be a great researcher, educator, and philosopher. You are driven by a desire for knowledge and truth. You must learn to discriminate between illusion and reality, but you are well-equipped for this task. Your fine mind offers you insight into the veiled mysteries of life. You also possess a considerable amount of perspective. Somewhere inside you, you are aware of a peaceful place that you call upon during difficult times.

You need time to be by yourself. Too much social interaction causes you stress. You need your privacy and a place that can be shut off from the hustle and bustle of life. You tend to keep your thoughts to yourself, and be secretive. Unless your 7 Expression is balanced by extrovert characteristics (usually revealed by the numbers 1, 3, 5, and 8), your introversion may pull you deeply within yourself, and even cut you off from others. You have a strong dislike of the superficial and mundane. You are often surprised by the lack of understanding or depth of knowledge of others, many of whom do not take the search for knowledge as seriously as you do. This can cause you to be critical of others, and even cynical about life in general. The more cut off from others you become, the more hidden are your motives. Once you develop understanding of people and life, your advice and counsel will be sought by those around you who need your wisdom. You love to specialize your knowledge and to develop great depth within your field. You are a perfectionist.

You should contemplate your studies early in life, and not be driven too hard by a desire to be successful. Let things come at their own pace and be open to opportunity, but remember that your rewards, satisfaction, and contentment come from a higher source. A 7 can be distant and aloof. When dominated by their darker characteristics, you can be unfaithful, dishonest, and cruel. Contemplation, meditation, and the softer, finer vibrations of life, can restore your sense of harmony, and keep you on the path to peace and balance. You have a logical mind. Your analytical skills cause you to approach a problem in a detached, surgical kind of way. Researchers, analysts, investigators, inventors, technicians, scholars, lawyers, bankers, watchmakers, priests, philosophers, theologians and administrators in some scientific or technical fields are among the vocations 7s are drawn to.

You are dynamic, and have a talent for efficiency. You understand the larger picture, see the broader challenges, and know how to marshal your collective resources to address problems. You delegate responsibility well; it is best for you to leave many of the details to others. You are a great leader of people and an outstanding judge of character. You are demanding of those who work for you, often putting things in no uncertain terms: Do it my way or don't do it at all! At the same time, you don't hesitate to reward the faithful and hardworking employee. You are not a particularly tolerant leader; too much tolerance violates your sense of efficiency. You go directly after your goal with courage and tenacity.

You have a natural understanding of money, authority, and power. You are able to struggle consistently after your goals. Eventually power falls to you. Within you lies an innate balance between the higher and the lower characteristics of man. Your challenge in life is to balance your higher ideals, and your understanding of the hard realities of the earth. Much effort will have to be put out, and many ups and downs experienced, before you reach the level of success you desire. Life will probably test you many times with obstacles that seem insurmountable. But, in reality, these are merely opportunities for you to learn how to use power and authority in the face of difficulties, and to find out just how much power lies within you. It is crucial for your success that you balance the material and the spiritual. You have chosen a path that requires balance between giving and taking, reward and punishment, action and reaction. Despite the obstacles on your path, you are a true survivor. When focused exclusively on your desire for results and success, you can become stubborn and intolerant; you can be driven and overambitious, causing you to be exacting and without perspective.

Be careful of your alcohol consumption, a danger-zone for you. You can be a social drinker, mixing business with pleasure ~a hazardous cocktail. As an excellent manager, organizer, and administrator, you have talents in many careers, including entrepreneur, executive, banker, broker, negotiator, gambler, coach, collector, head of an institution, builder, art dealer, manufacturer, promoter, military officer, police detective, smuggler, engineer, pilot, or sea captain. You have been entrusted with special gifts, the use or abuse of which has an immediate and often physical effect upon you and those around you. Use these gifts for the good of mankind, and accept your own good fortune with gratitude. This is your rewarding stage in your evolution. Yours is a lifetime of harvest.

You are willing to sacrifice in order to advance your cause. Indeed, this seems to be a theme in your life. From time to time, you find yourself involved in a project whose very life depends upon your willingness to sacrifice something that relates directly to your ego. You are highly idealistic. You are also a visionary with the ability to influence and direct the masses. Deep inside, you long for the love and approval of the many, and you seek fame. Part of your hunger for fame has to do with your need for validation; you are your own harshest critic. You realize your greatest satisfaction when you are involved in some activity that directly benefits the public good. Politics, law, protection of the environment, teaching, and healing are areas in which you would succeed.

You have a broad view of humanity, and you are not shackled with prejudice. You should have friends and associates from all walks of life, all colors, and all religious backgrounds. People fascinate and enrich you. A wide diversity of people and experiences stimulate and bring forth qualities within you that would otherwise lay dormant.

You have an abundance of artistic talent. Many with your Expression number find themselves in the arts, especially in literature, painting, and visual and performing arts.

The number 9 indicates the completion of a cycle or a block of learning. The 9 Expression suggests that you have reached the point at which a breakthrough can occur; during this lifetime you can apply all that you have learned along your evolutionary path and complete a major stage in your development. This is why many geniuses have the 9 Expression. You have the ability to synthesize many diverse bits of knowledge into a unified whole.

Your appearance is important. You are keenly aware of how others perceive you. As a result, they see you as a person with a great deal of control. Conversely, you are charismatic. Despite the cool and distant personality you project, people are attracted to you. You tend to express love somewhat impersonally. You also tend to be preoccupied with your vision or cause, and sometimes overlook the needs of those closest to you. You need to be reminded to give your love more personally and more openly. Ironically, you are a very loving and sincere person, but you often neglect to express what you truly feel.

In the same way, you can overlook your own needs. You can avoid sharing your deeper feelings, creating a reservoir of emotion. You tend to postpone your personal satisfaction in favor of some larger work. Try to be more spontaneous and courageous about showing your real self, including your vulnerability. Your basic belief in the goodness of humanity is unshakeable. This causes you to encourage the best in people, but occasionally makes you vulnerable to being taken advantage of. You are not a very good judge of character. The surest way to personal satisfaction is for you to become part of some larger social cause. Your nature is to serve. You are happiest when you feel you are helping to advance the human race.