Meaning
The middle column joins health, logic and labour. Most Russian sites call it money and everyday life (быт, деньги); numeroscop calls it work capacity (работоспособность), and our chart shows both names. The school reads up to two digits as little pull toward the practical running of life; three as inconsistent but capable; four or five as a capable hand with work and the running of a household; and six or more as provision turned into an obsession.
In our own words, the column describes an attitude to practical work and the running of a household. Cell 4, the cell named Health, is in this column only as a count of digits.
Every band, in our words
The line is read by the number of digits in its three cells, on thresholds of its own. Our reading of each band follows, with the share of dates that fall in it over every day of the twentieth century and of the twenty-first.
- 0–2, weak. Little pull toward the practical running of life. Dates: 53.5 percent of 1900 to 1999, 54.4 percent of 2000 to 2099.
- 3, uneven. Inconsistent but capable. Dates: 28.3 percent of 1900 to 1999, 26.5 percent of 2000 to 2099.
- 4–5, strong. A capable hand with work and the running of a household. Dates: 17.4 percent of 1900 to 1999, 17.7 percent of 2000 to 2099.
- 6+, overload. Provision turned into an obsession. Dates: 0.8 percent of 1900 to 1999, 1.5 percent of 2000 to 2099.
What fills the line
Its three cells are the scarcest in the square, each empty in about four dates in ten, so the column is the emptiest line: its total averages 2.45 for the 1900s and 2.41 since 2000, and about 54 percent of dates in both centuries fall in the lowest band. The year 2000 hardly touches it, because neither 19 nor 20 brings a 4, 5 or 6.
What this page leaves out
The school compares two people's lines for compatibility and teaches transitions between cells; we compute neither. Births from 2000 are read on the classic formula, with the "+19" variant as a labelled option.
Health (cell 4), Luck (cell 7) and Money and everyday life (the column 4-5-6) are the tradition's names, kept as names: nothing in the square is a medical or financial statement or forecast, and nothing on this page is medical or financial advice.
Correspondences
Each item with how it stands: “sourced” is in the work cited, “our construction” is EsoTerrier’s own, and “disputed” means the sources disagree.
- Line name (Alexandrov school)
- Money and everyday life (быт, деньги; also работоспособность (work capacity)); the English name is ours; kept as the tradition's name, not a reading of money sourced
- Thresholds
- 0–2 weak; 3 uneven; 4–5 strong; 6+ overload: the common Russian scheme; whether they match Alexandrov's own in every band is open disputed
- Readings of each band (EsoTerrier)
- Written fresh in our own words; the Russian sites' readings repeat Alexandrov's books and are not translated our construction
- Arrow in the Western birth chart (Phillips, as summarised)
- "Will": the same three cells in a grid flipped top to bottom, date digits only sourced
How the schools read it
- Alexandrov's school and the Russian tools
- Add the digits in cells 4, 5, 6 and read the total on the line's own thresholds; the line is Money and everyday life.
- Afisha and a few others
- The same cells, drawn with 1 2 3 across the top, so that this column is drawn as a row.
- Practitioners of "+19"
- For births from 2000 the digits counted change, and with them the total. A convention, offered by us only as a labelled option.
- Templeton and Phillips
- The "arrow of Will": a strength when all three cells hold date digits, a weakness when all three are empty; no bands.
- EsoTerrier
- The column describes an attitude to practical work and the running of a household. Cell 4, the cell named Health, is in this column only as a count of digits.
Claims about it
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The money and everyday life line is Pythagorean.
falseWhat the record shows: Pythagoras wrote nothing and no early source has a digit square. The eight lines are the Alexandrov school's addition to the Russian square, in print from 1999.
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The square's lines add up like those of a magic square.
falseWhat the record shows: In a magic square, such as the Lo Shu or Dürer's of 1514, every line makes the same sum. Here a line is the number of digits in three cells, and its total varies from date to date.
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Phillips's "arrow of Will" for these cells is an arrow of Pythagoras.
falseWhat the record shows: The grid of date digits with its arrows comes from Hettie Templeton in Sydney, 1940, carried on by David Phillips. Pythagoras is the brand, not the source.
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The middle column shows how a person will fare with money.
unverifiedWhat the record shows: "Money and everyday life" is the tradition's name, kept as a name. Nothing in the square predicts income, wealth or debt.
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A difference of 0 or 1 between two people's totals on this line means good compatibility.
unverifiedWhat the record shows: A practitioners' rule of thumb across Russian compatibility sites, not traced to Alexandrov's text and never tested. We compare no squares.
