After you study your profile, it will be hard to resist examining those of family, friends, colleagues, and even celebrities. While no one knows exactly how or why, birthdays do tend to be uncannily accurate predictors of psychological tendencies.

Have you ever wondered what someone's birthday says about them, beyond just horoscope stuff (because duh, you've already looked that up).

Presumably this is in addition to the aforementioned pure psychic intuition, but I don't pretend to know Goldschneider's methods and he doesn't seem inclined to share them.

That is, the basic structure upon which per­sonology is built is that of the year as it is lived, and as far as we know has largely been lived here on earth. In truth, Hepburn was born on May 12, a fact which she ultimately acknowledged at the begin­ning of her autobiography. From these notions, a personality type emerged for each of the twelve zodiac signs and then, naturally, for those born under each zodiac sign. For example, Aries, the first sign of the zodiac, may be likened to the period from birth to seven years of age.Yeats, the Irish poet and mystic believed that life proceeds in a spiral movement in which two gyres (conceived of as two cones joined at their tips by a common point) symbolize the rise and fall of mankind's development. The Secret Language of Relationships shows how astrology can craft a relationship profile between any two individuals born during any two weeks of the year. Maslow insisted, throughout his life, that every human being m Because of this, a surprising number of people around the world not only know their signs but recognize their symbols in their daily lives. And if you stress another time how much you love the book, I will defriend you and never see you again.

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. Gary Goldschneider began his study of human personality with an interest in biographies and psychoanalytic theory.G. Jung was fond of reminding usof the natural rhythms of nature and of the fact that certainplants, animals, even shapes and ideas come forth at specific times of the year. A trip around the zodiac from Aries to Pisces, which is the format of The Secret Language of Birthdays, becomes the cycle of the human life itself, from birth to death. And over the years, I have looked up friends, relatives, romantic partners, my wife and son, as though gleaning some truth about their deepest traits. The data underlying the personality science system presented in The Secret Language of Birthdays are, of course, those with more than seven thousand birthdays.