What Your Birth Month Can Tell You: Kabbalistic Numerology, Part 2

The birthday is the light we received as a gift from the Creator: the abilities we were born with. The birth month is the activation: the weight that comes with that light and casts doubt on it, until the moment we discover it again, and that happens only through the work and awareness we put in over the course of our lives.

January children start developing a separate inner world of their own back in childhood, with thoughts and interests they build on their own, so it's hard for them to share that world with anyone else. There's their world and there's everyone else's world, even when they're in a relationship with people.

June children learned at home that they're loved and accepted for whatever is pretty and pleasant in other people's eyes, and not for who they really are. Their challenge as adults is to discover what they really love and want, beyond what's expected of them, and to be loved for themselves.

Children born in September grew up without clear boundaries around time, so they developed the habit of doing only what suited them. That difficulty carries on into adulthood: when they had no clear framework themselves in childhood, it's hard for them to keep a framework in their adult lives.

August children grow up in an atmosphere of expectation toward perfection and absolute excellence, and out of that they take heavy emotional responsibility on themselves for everything that happens at home, sometimes alongside coldness toward them, depending on the family circumstances.