Theresa Cheung - The Element Encyclopedia of Birthdays

This birthday encyclopedia is a resource and guide to personality and finding purpose for people born on each of the 366 days of the year. Simply by knowing birth dates you can discover insightful and accurate, luck-making information about yourself—your strengths, weaknesses, health, relationships, destiny, career and life goals—as well as about your loved ones, family, friends, colleagues, and even people you have just met. Be aware that the emphasis for each profile is on learning. From a spiritual perspective the purpose of life is to evolve. So even if you feel directionless or are going through a tough time, as long as you are learning about yourself you are evolving and living a life of meaning.

You can also use this book for guidance and inspiration every single day of the year. Indeed, this reissue aims to become a wider resource than one for simply looking up your own birthday profile and those of people you know. It is a handbook for daily cosmic guidance. Understanding and harnessing the unique energies and themes associated with each day of the year can maximize your chances of success and happiness on that particular day. This yearbook approach is also beneficial for those who, for some reason or another, are not sure what day of the year their birthday is. If this is the case for you, let this book help you seize your own destiny in your hands. As you review each day of the year, find the profile that speaks most to your personality and declare that day your special birthday.

It is important to point out from the onset that the power of your birthday is determined not just by your sun sign but by a number of other invisible influences and patterns in place the day you were born. This book reaches infinitely beyond popular sun-sign astrology, looking at influences and patterns through the lens of both Western and Chinese astrology, as well as incorporating numerology, Tarot, color theory, characteristics of influential people born on a specific day and, last but by no means least, the very real science linking personality and month of birth that is out there.

To help you understand how your birthday profile and the unique insight into your personality that it offers have been compiled, you’ll find the basic principles of these ancient and modern arts, and how they have put their stamp on you, explained in the Introduction. But if you want to dive straight into a specific birth profile, whether yours or one of somebody you know, you can always return here another time. Whichever way you decide to read this birthday encyclopedia, be sure to take a moment first to digest the information below about how you can make the very best use of this book. Also, be sure to remember that every person is born unique and bursting with potential, just as each new day is also unique and bursting with potential.

The Encyclopedia of Birthdays is organized as a yearbook, starting on 1 January and ending on 31 December, but it is also arranged in parts: the Introduction, Heed Your Signs, 366 Birthday Profiles and Reach for Your Stars.

I have updated the Introduction to take into account Chinese astrology, research into personality influenced by month of birth and other influences. It also explains how I compiled each of the 366 birthday personality profiles. You’ll see that they are a unique combination of ancient and modern, spiritual and psychological perspectives. You’ll also discover how putting all these influences together can help you become an expert on yourself and others. You are strongly advised to read the Introduction before reading your individual birthday profile. The information and advice there will inform and enrich what you read in your profile.

Then, after you’ve read the Introduction, the next step is to refer to Heed Your Signs. There, to get you thinking along the right lines about your birthday profile, you will find listed the pages relevant to generic personality traits for your sun sign and its Chinese equivalent. This is helpful information as, whether you feel true to your sun sign or not, the sun is a symbol of your hidden potential and the life lessons you need to learn.

Be sure also to check out Reach for the Stars, the final section of this book, too—preferably before you jump to your individual birthday profile. This will encourage you to see the book not just as a single profile for your birthday or a group of profiles for people you know, but as a daily cosmic planner you can dip into every single day of the year for guidance and inspiration. Indeed, you are strongly advised to use this book in this way because, from a spiritual perspective, every night when we gently fade away to the land of sleep, we “die” and are “reborn” again the next morning, therefore making every new day a special “birthday.”

The 366 Birthday Profilesare, of course, the main body of the book. They have all been updated to speak to modern times. I could write an entire manuscript on each day of the year because of the wealth of information I could potentially include. But due to space restrictions, I have instead focused on the key information and the most important themes. If you want more insight or want to know more about how to interpret and make the most of your birthday potential, you are welcome to contact me.

You can message me via my trusty reader email: angeltalk710@aol.com. But in keeping with this book I have moved with the times and you can now contact me via my Facebook, Instagram and Twitter author pages. You can also message me via: www.theresacheung.com. Do subscribe to my newsletter if you visit my website. It’s a way for me to share the latest research and to update you about birthdays and other New Age topics.

Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions, insights or stories you want to share with me and potentially with a wider audience. I endeavor to reply to everyone who reaches out to me. But please bear in mind that sometimes it can take a while to reply if life is superbusy, or I need to take a little time out to celebrate a birthday or two.

And now, without further ado, welcome to a whole new world of birthdays!

1 1. Read the Introduction.

2 2. Read the pages relevant to you in Heed Your Signs.

3 3. Read the closing sections of the book.

4 4. Read and reflect deeply on your individual birthday profile.

5 5. Read and reflect on the profiles of loved ones and friends, and anyone you care to understand better.

6 6. Use this book every day as a cosmic yearbook, reading and reflecting on a profile a day to guide and inspire you, and align you with the invisible influences and hidden potential that shapes each day of the year.

“There was a star danced, and under that I was born.”

William Shakespeare

What exactly is a birthday profile? In short, it’s the rebirth of ancient arts—astrology, Chinese astrology, numerology, Tarot, and color theory or chromotherapy—threaded together by a modern psychological interpretation. Every profile also takes into account studies into how the month of a person’s birth shapes their personality, along with research into what personality traits highly influential people born on a specific day have in common. This unique combination results in a blend of cosmic and earthly, ancient and modern influences that can significantly affect your personality and destiny, providing you with invaluable insight into yourself as well as the lives, feelings, hopes and fears of loved ones, family, friends, colleagues and everyone else who crosses your path in life.