A Magician period puts initiative front and center: launching, proposing, trying, and finding the words that make others want to join in.
The impulse to start is within reach. Ideas circulate, speech comes more easily, and it becomes simpler to present a project, convince someone, or try an unfamiliar field. This ability to start without waiting to have planned everything is the best asset of these years.
Many beginnings, few follow-throughs: the danger would be multiplying starts without taking a single one all the way. Ease with words can also give the illusion that everything is already done. Choosing one or two priority projects and sticking to them turns the bustle into lasting achievements.
By Thomas Guilhot · updated
A period marked by the 1 can open a new cycle.
Ideas sometimes flow in, the urge to start something may return, and opportunities can arise for those who know how to seize them: a job offer, a proposal to collaborate, open ground for a personal project. For the method, this time rewards action more than prolonged reflection; what you launch now can serve as a foundation for the following years. It is also a time when speech can carry weight. An interview, a presentation, a negotiation, or a public talk can change the picture, and you may discover an unsuspected ease in yourself. Travel, short training courses, and new professional meetings could feed this momentum. Your role during these years: take the initiative and own your choices. You may be asked to lead a project, to represent a team, to train a new recruit. The more frankly you act, the more likely doors are to open. Some people discover a late vocation here, others take up a project set aside since adolescence and finally give it concrete form. Areas that may be involved: your professional life, independent projects, training, public image, travel, self-confidence, your relationship to authority. Practical advice: choose two or three projects at most and see them through; write down your goals with a date; check financial commitments before signing in a burst of enthusiasm; listen to useful criticism without bristling, and keep time for the people who support you.
On a Monday morning, an idea has been lingering for months in a corner of your mind: a small workshop to lead, a blog to open, an activity to offer the neighborhood.
During a Magician period, taking action becomes easier. You talk about it around you, book a room, publish a first text. The feedback encourages you, and contacts multiply. What remains is to note what worked so you do not start from zero again, then to decide which idea deserves to be pursued.
Starting an activity or making a personal project real
Several projects started at the same time and then left unfinished
Possibilities, not a prediction: no period announces a certain event.
The peaks of the ring reuse points you already know: age 0 the portrait, age 10 the paternal corner, age 20 the talent, age 30 the maternal corner, and so on up to age 70.
Between two peaks, you add to find the midpoint, then repeat for the quarters. On the fictional example of March 14, 1987, you find 14 at birth and 17 at ten. The midpoint, around age 5, is 14 and 17, making 31, reduced to 4. Around age two and a half, 14 and 4 give 18; around age seven and a half, 4 and 17 give 21.
No. Initiative slips in everywhere: proposing an idea to your team, learning an instrument, signing up for a class, speaking up in a meeting. The period mainly highlights a need to begin and to dare. Each person chooses where to apply it; nothing requires upending your life to benefit from it. The most important thing is to start small.
Look at what held them back: lack of time, support, or clarity? It is better to keep a single idea and give it a precise first appointment in your calendar than to hold ten in reserve. The others can wait in a notebook. A period of beginnings does not ask you to carry everything through, only to move forward on what is essential.
Periods follow one another from childhood, and this climate can color the first years. The child then likes to try, imitate, and present their discoveries. Giving them things to experiment with, listening to them tell their ideas, and welcoming their attempts, even clumsy ones, nourishes their confidence without pushing them to succeed on the first try. This encouragement matters more than any immediate result.
Illustrations: Nicolas Conver’s Tarot de Marseille, dated 1760, restored by Tarot World Project, CC BY-SA 4.0 license, via Wikimedia Commons — images resized and compressed by Versana.