Born on 23 November

The 23rd carries the 5 under the Royal Star of the Lion, the most protected number in the Chaldean books: help arrives, doors open, falls land soft. The danger of a charmed number is coasting on it; the day rewards those who spend its luck on real attempts.

Five is usually sold as the wild free spirit. The older tradition is more interesting: 5 is mind above the elements, the human number, the one that stays clear-headed while everything moves. Its appetite for experience is real, but the point of the appetite is understanding, not consumption.