For those born on the 8th, 17th, 26th of any month - Birth Number Eight is your number. Information concerning this number contains some of the following: Personality Traits: Self-contained, disciplined, conventional, conservative, ambitious. Best Day: Saturday is the day when you will be more in touch with your inner reality. Your Lucky Colours: Black, navy, brown, purple.

Personality Profile: There are many people you will attract into your life whom you have met before and when these people are born in the sign of Capricorn you can be assured that some part of your destiny is unfolding. Also, people born on the 4th, 13th, 22nd, 31st of any month are likely to affect your life. Sometimes this affinity is rewarding and at other times it is demanding. You could say that fate has brought you together again for another lesson of the soul!

During the early part of your life you will carry a lot of responsibilities on your shoulders and this has the effect of making you grow up faster than your peers. Being self-contained and disciplined in your approach to life, you often wish for things to be easier - you'll often feel lonely at heart, as if you are being tested in some way! Conventional and conservative in your views, you take most things in your stride, believing in the laws of justice. The early years are often lonely, with the latter years filled to capacity - look forward. You desire success and should have enough ambition to rise to the top of whatever you choose to be in life - be patient.

The easiest way of explaining past lives - current associations is to create a dinner party conversation where you instigate an interest in reincarnation or memories of another life - another time. Let's assume you are a female born on the 8th of January (the year is not important) and one of your dinner guests is born on the 4th of February (again, the year is not important) well, sparks are likely to fly or deep and meaningful conversations ensue for Birth Number 8 and Birth Number 4 'attract' one another like a magnet attracts iron. You'll say this is too easy so allow me to continue with another date: Assuming you are a female born on 8th of October and one of your dinner party guests (male) has the birthdate 6th of January.

Without getting into the technical aspects you (the 8th of Oct) were male in your last life and he (the 6th of Jan) was female! You not only have known each other before but actually enjoyed a physical connection! Was he your brother, husband, father or son? Now you have your other guests interested you should 'free associate' - talk about your likes and dislikes in this life (the one you're living now) and see where you gel. Listen to the other person talk about their interests, hobbies, pastimes and pleasures and your dinner guests will be all ears...

A question: do we live one life at a time (in a linear fashion) or are all lives lived simultaneously? Another question: if you believe in past lives then you have to accept the concept of a future life - where you will go when you depart this life. A can of worms is being opened here for although we talk about past lives in a glib sort of way not many of us talk about where we go when we leave this life! Having the ears of your guests and 'free associating' talk about your next life - the person you'd like to be - male or female, rich or poor, nationality - whatever...

The topic of past lives - soul mates - current associations is a fascinating one when you consider all of the above - why do we attract the same people into our lives over and over again, what is the reason we keep falling for the same 'sob story' over and over again? Do we ever solve a problem or grow out of it? People born to Birth Number Eight are, whether they acknowledge it or not sway towards reincarnation and all of its possibilities, what about you? There are no easy answers or conclusions yet, if you took the time to look at your own life you'd soon come to notice that certain signs of the zodiac keep cropping up, the same Birth Numbers keep appearing. Even the places you live (house numbers) have the same number combinations!

Until we explore the last number in this series - enjoy your dinner party conversations.