A 3 today, and it would like to be enjoyed

Dear Reader,

Second Friday of the new term, and the week has run long for most people I’ve heard from. There is usually one conversation left in a week like this that turns out to be the good one.

Three is expression, colour, and the particular pleasure of being heard. It’s the most sociable number in the set.

Conversations go further than expected today. Ideas turn up mid-sentence, which is a 3’s favourite trick. You find out what you think by saying it.

Something creative may want your attention, and it will not present itself as important. It’ll look like a distraction.

Three scatters, too. Six things start and none finish. On a 3 day that is not a failure, it’s the number doing what it does.

Let yourself be light. Light is not the same as shallow.

A 3 on pairing day, so the obvious partner is the one that wants the room empty.

Three works things out by talking. Seven works things out by going quiet. Put them in one chart and you get the person who is the life of a Thursday and completely unreachable by Sunday afternoon.

People read that as moody. It usually isn’t. It’s two different processing speeds in the same body, and the quiet stretch is where the talking gets sorted into something worth keeping.

The teachers, writers and therapists I know tend to carry both. You need the 7 to notice the thing and the 3 to say it in a way anybody else can use.

If both run in your chart, the withdrawal after a sociable week is not a failure of warmth. It’s the other half of the same instrument, and you don’t owe anybody an apology for it.

You are allowed to be talkative today and unreachable by the weekend, without either one being the real you.

A big hug,

Lucky Number