Hello, the content is from the book “The secret language of birthdays” written by Gary Goldschneider. I think I credited him in my summary post with all the LOB chapters <3 Although I’ve honestly discontinued the series.

Language Of Birthdays: May 28 - Gemini

The Day Of the Inovative Trailblazer

May 28 people are happiest when starting new projects, implementing their often singular ideas and feeling free in general to bring their thoughts to bear on the world around them. Their work is original and elegant in its simplicity. Because of their straightforward, hard-hitting style and highly individual viewpoints, they usually succeed when they find their metier. Until that time they may flounder, moving from one job or social group to another.

Those born on this day are not just idea-oriented individuals but also doers. Individual freedom of action is their lodestone. Unfortunately, they sometimes get carried away and for- get the rules that bind us all in society. Should they overreach themselves, they may suffer a blow which makes it difficult for them to get back on their feet again. If they have determination, they will continue undaunted; if not they may drop by the wayside.

May 28 success stories are of the self-made variety. Rarely will those born on this day reach the heights through advantage or nepotism, but are more likely to come out of nowhere with unusual talents and take the field by storm. Less highly evolved individuals born on May 28 can suffer endless frustration being recognized, finding it particularly difficult to get others to listen to their improbable schemes. They should adjust to whatever system they work in and bide their time until they are called upon to innovate, rather than beating their head against a wall and arousing antagonism.

May 28 people are seldom the best teachers and may have difficulties explaining what steps they followed in concretizing their unusual ideas. Ultimately they are action people who are too busy doing to stop and think about their personal, often unique, thought process. Due to excessive ego drives, they can get out of touch with themselves or those around them. Thus, May 28 people need to give more thought to their motivations and those of others.

Those born on this day will sometimes have trouble finishing projects, perhaps because they start so many and find the opening phase of greatest interest. They not only value inno- vation but in a deep sense need to be constantly rejuvenated by new stimuli. Perhaps they fear that by repeating themselves or staying with one project too long, they will lose their source of inspiration and begin to act in a mechanical fashion: but May 28 people must nonetheless learn to maintain and persevere. In a sense, what they create is what they have to live up to, and thus they present themselves with their greatest challenge.

Strengths:

• Unique
• Individual
• Creative

Weaknesses:

Egotistical
Overreaching
Impatient

Advice

Those born on May 28 may be accident-prone, since they are so often trying something new or developing new talents. Usually their outlook on life is positive, unless they meet with successive obstacles or go unappreciated, in which case they may very well go into an emotional nosedive. If those born on this day can give structure to their lives and direct their energies, they will remain in good psychological health. The love and affection of a few close friends and family is more than enough for May 28 people: with such support they can be a bit less vulnerable to the inevitable hard knocks of life. A widely varied diet, with interesting and exotic highlights, is recommended for May 28 people, since they bore easily. Those born on this day should not get carried away with overly rigorous or competitive sports unless they are serious athletes; moderate exercise is recommended.

• Get your moral priorities straight
• Don’t be so easily discouraged
• Tend to the maintenance of one thing before moving on to another
• Find your area of expertise and keep innovating within it
• Try not to be so secretive about your inner feelings; loosen up a bit

Language Of Birthdays: May 30 - Gemini

The Day Of Nimble Time

The drive for freedom and independence works both positively and negatively for May 30 people, but free they must be. They may have a great deal of difficulty keeping to the same routine year after year -their longing for sudden and extreme change will cause them enormous frustration if suppressed. Often May 30 people wish to be responsible, trustworthy and dependable, but although they may try repeatedly, they have great difficulty carrying commitments through. Those born on this day can best make a contribution and express themselves through freelance work, individual initiative and personal vision.

May 30 people often draw the anger of those whose expectations they disappoint, but it is unfair to blame those born on this day for malice aforethought or cunning since change and impermanence just come naturally to them. Indeed, their moods, if they are men, can shift in a split-second. Women born on this day may be capable of an amazing balancing act of simultaneous activities—for example, running a household or business, leading a secret life and dreaming up new projects all at once.

May 30 people must beware of making commitments they cannot keep. With only the best intentions they blithely promise the moon, figuring always that if trouble arises later they can get out of it. This is the kind of fatal miscalculation that plagues less highly evolved May 30 people unless they get a grip on their reality factor. They must learn that some of the people they meet will take what they say dead seriously and hold them to it later. In the same way, irresponsibility with money must be curbed, or it can bring great hardship to their families. Those with such a propensity for ruin should limit their horizons, take one small step at a time, and build slowly and surely.

Speed is the forte of May 30 people, but it may too often be of the frenetic variety which spends itself in nervous energy. Quickness, however, combined with self-assurance and a naturally youthful and childlike attitude toward life makes many born on this day irresistibly attractive. The snap decisions May 30 people make often take people by surprise. When these surprises are pleasant they are of course welcome, but after a while friends may begin to turn a wary eye on the latest May 30 scheme or endeavor. On the other hand, the ideas of those born on this day are advanced, their approach convincing, and their ambition and drive powerful. Indeed, others may find them intimidating.

May 30 people usually head for the top and will get there unless their own ability to produce chaos sabotages them. Moderation, the most difficult thing for these hard-driving people to grasp, is essential for their success in career, love and family life. May 30 people are very precise workers and good with their hands. When they excel technically at what they love to do, it provides them with the necessary grounding they so desperately need.

Strengths:

• Quick
• Expansive
• Skillful

Weaknesses:

• Oversensitive
• Nervous
• Unstable

Advice

The greatest health challenge for many May 30 people is keeping an overactive nervous system under control; tranquilizers may be attractive at one time or another, but should be avoided because of addictive effects. At some point in their lives, preferably early on, May 30 people should submit to some form of mental training, either spiritual or psychological. By their fifties, if not sooner, those born on this day must learn to heed warnings from their bodies and health suggestions from others. Often May 30 people begin life strong and possessed of good health, but wear themselves down—use of tobacco and alcohol can accelerate such a decline. As far as food is concerned, the tastes of May 30 people lean toward the basic, sim- ple and pure. Learning how to cook is strongly recommended for these speedy Geminis. as well as highly varied and occasionally exotic dishes to keep them from getting bored.

• Keep your nose to the grindstone, and avoid distractions
• Beware of idle si hemes and frivolity

Language Of Birthdays: June 24 - Cancer

The Day Of the Blissful Wizard

Those born on June 24 are often completely taken up with their vocation, art or business concerns. The more highly evolved individuals born on this day devote themselves to creative, positive projects; the less highly evolved contribute their energies to undertakings with a decidedly negative or destructive cast. Both are equally involved, particularly in a technical sense, since June 24 people develop their own particular approach to their activities down to the last detail. Technique for these individuals is not so much an objective study which can be learned by everyone, but rather a highly personal set of tools which allows them to express themselves unhindered and master what they do.

Usually the more highly evolved individuals born on this day are attracted to spiritual pursuits which they see as manifesting Divine Love. Those on their path to this ultimate goal cultivate kindness, awareness, sensitivity, psychic abilities, religious fervor and respect for all living things. Poorly evolved individuals are, of course, headed in the opposite direction, preferring conflict, hurt, pain, struggle and domination. It is unlikely but not impossible that the less evolved can turn their values around in a single lifetime, but since many of us are now granted a lifespan in excess of eighty-four years (one Uranus cycle), in a sense, more than one lifetime can be lived, offering opportunity for tremendous change. This change can come about through study, increased self-awareness, raised consciousness, influential experiences and above all, the basic desire to improve oneself.

June 24 people have what could be described as religious fervor for their principal activity. They strive for self-discipline and are capable of tremendous feats of concentration. They value a flowing, natural, spontaneous, somewhat improvised work method, but one backed by iron-clad technical skills. Even amoral June 24 people come to be aware that their work holds great potential for both good and bad ends. Those born on this day often encounter a severe mid-life crisis in their early forties concerning their ethics.

Above all. June 24 people want to be left alone to do what they love most, and therefore their family and friends must be highly understanding of the strict privacy they need for their work. Occasionally those born on this day venture out to perform on a high level in the world, but usually do their most important work in the confines of their safe, and often secret, home base. Those June 24 people who work in offices or primarily out in society usually value their home life more than their work, and reserve the larger part of their energies for personal interests.

Strengths:

• Skillful
• Magical
• Imaginative

Weaknesses:

• Troubled
• Destructive
• Oblivious

Advice

Because of the mentioned tendency of June 24 people to enter a state of blissful fervor, they tend to lose touch with practical realities, which can have disastrous health consequences. June 24 people often face cardiovascular, respiratory and gastric difficulties. The practice of meditation, which promotes and allows for an emptying of thoughts and emotions, can be helpful in heading off these physical problems. June 24 people respond well to a strict and basic diet, with regular mealtimes. Such a diet not only serves to ground them, but also reduces excess aggression, as does a more limited consumption of meat and sugar. Nicotine and alcohol use should be limited, if not eliminated altogether.

• Examine the effects of your work objectively and consider them from an ethical point of view
• Keep in touch with society’s values, it only to know what they are
• Beware of becoming too withdrawn or isolated

Language Of Birthdays: June 29 - Cancer

The Day Of Airborne Dreamers

June 29 people are filled with visions and their life’s purpose may well be making dreams come true. Thus they have an uncanny ability to find practical applications for their fantasies and in so doing share them with other people. Those born on this day are also highly sensitive to the desires of others and, like Santa Claus, may be expected to deliver. In this respect they are at once responsible providers and dreamers with their heads in the clouds.

Fortunately, an ability to come up with the funds they need to realize the success of their projects is characteristic of those born on this day. June 29 people most often display a thorough knowledge of technical matters in their given field, but they are not overly verbal people and, although eager to share, may find it difficult to communicate their methods to others. The quality of the products they produce, however, is plain for all to see and the ease with which they accomplish tasks may earn them a reputation as “magicians” with their superiors, colleagues or employees.

Above all else, June 29 people are seekers of the truth, and as such deflate phoniness of any sort, defy false authority and expose spurious endeavors. June 29 people hope that the ends they serve, once established and made real, will reveal the true nature of things, or at least manifest a high degree of integrity. Those born on this day are rarely doctrinarily religious people, for they accept little at face value without investigating it for themselves.

Air, breath, flying, singing and dancing are recurrent themes in the lives of June 29 people. Many born on this day have extremely lively, fun-loving and bubbly personalities. Sometimes falsely accused of superficiality, they don’t advertise their own underlying moral code. When a less highly evolved June 29 person inhibits the freedom or mobility of others, it is a particularly selfish act; such a double standard means that the June 29 person is free to fly, but that others are not.

Those born on this day often present a childlike demeanor to the world. In touch with the values of youth, they embody a certain innocence, charm and openness. Despite such an exterior, those born on this day are usually adept at making money (also at spending it) and establishing themselves in a competitive marketplace. Should they go far in this direction they must beware of becoming jaded or cynical. Though competitive, June 29 people make good partners and companions, preferring to share their lives with others rather than always putting their personal success first. Those born on this day are very generous in that they are truly happy when they are sharing their good fortune with others.

Strengths:

• Lively
• Childlike
• Fun-loving

Weaknesses:

• Passive
• Procrastinating

Advice

June 29 people are attracted to a wide variety of life experiences and therefore generally lead balanced lives. However, their imagination and empathic abilities are so highly developed, that they may take on not only the psychological difficulties of others but perhaps manifest physical symptoms as well. Such a tendency is most pronounced when those born on this day are invoked in co-dependent or destructive relationships and in such cases counselling is invaluable. Otherwise, the health of those born on this day is fundamentally sound (as long as they show no obsessive cravings for rich food, drink or drugs). All areas involving breath control (singing, yoga, swimming, dancing, jogging) are recommended as physical exercise.

• Don’t get so hung up on the expectations of others
• Step out a bit more and trust in your ability to act autonomously
• Develop more precise verbal skills
• Hyper serious people are bound to get uptight around you, so try to be considerate of their difficulties

Language Of Birthdays: April 30 - Taurus

The Day Of Dutiful Overload

April 30 people are dominating personalities, but often have a desire to give up positions of responsibility and retire to a life of gracious ease. In discharging their professional responsibilities, they live by the book, not easily granting exceptions or specializing in shows of human understanding, unless it lies in the general interest to do so. Though they make exacting bosses and managers, they are good enough to hold themselves to the same standards.

Because, for many born on this day, duty is a god, they can be too reluctant to question their own basic assumptions or those of their superiors and thus run the risk of doing a “good job” while heading off in a wrong direction morally. Those that become aware of this tendency stand a greater chance of success over the long haul, though they may at first be uncomfortable with the uncertainty they will experience.

Probably the greatest need of April 30 people in an authoritative position is to be loved and respected by those working under them. As colleagues, they both enjoy and thrive on the warmth of comradeship. In return, they tend to be highly protective towards their staff or fellow workers, who remain in their favour as long as there is agreement on certain basic issues. For those they dislike or consider beneath their dignity, those born on this day generally exhibit scorn or contempt.

The need of April 30 people for affection from family and friends is also great. What they prize in relationships is freedom from irritations and strife, wishing both to be cared for and left alone. Children learn soon enough how to get what they want from an April 30 parent, who may seem intractable but in reality is putty in the hands of a cleverly manipulative son or daughter. Those born on this day are particularly vulnerable to the charms of a child of the opposite sex.

The way to persuade an April 30 person is most certainly not head on. Like a true Taurus bull, he/she will prove stubborn and immovable against what is perceived as aggression. On the other hand, those born on this day admire grace and cleverness, even when they see that a subtle argument is being used to turn them around. They must beware of their tendency to bully others psychologically, intimidating through silence or implied threats.

April 30 people sometimes reject their own power, particularly women who may relinquish authority to their father, brother or mate. They should consider such a choice carefully, for it may eventually cause them unhappiness and frustration. Often mothers born on this day sublimate ambitious desires in their offspring. The nurturing qualities of this day tend to be very great, but April 30 parents must avoid smothering their children with too much (well meant) attention.

Strengths:

• Protective
• Professional
• Resolute

Weaknesses:

• Demanding
• Immoderate
• Self-indulgent

Advice

Overindulgence of the senses, whether by eating, drinking, use of drugs or sex can pose dangers for April 30 people; perhaps sensuality can be channeled into less problematical pursuits. In the case of April 30 people who subordinate themselves to another, the danger of internalized anger leading to depression, ulcers or even cancer is real and best dealt with preventively through psychological treatment. Regular exercise outdoors is recommended for April 30 people, the only danger being that this activity may become a passion that interferes with the business of life. Fresh fruits, vegetables and salads are recommended as an alternative to heavy meat and starch consumption.

• Try to listen as much as possible to your inner voice; ask for higher guidance before making decisions
• Consider the advice of your colleagues and friends
• Cultivate tolerance
• Keep a handle on your desires and be more self-aware