While I was at the Fall BATS this past weekend, someone mentioned to me another way she looks at templates: by simply adding up the digits of her year of birth! Many people check out the current year and what it can hold by summing the digits; it’s also a valid way to look at templates. What was going on in the year of your birth? For me, it was the Lovers: talk about contrasts! It was the last year of the 50’s, Alaska becomes the 49th state, Cuba is taken over by Fidel Castro, plants must be named in a modern language (not Latin), the planet Venus occults (think eclipse) the star Regulus allowing astronomers to determine the planet’s diameter and the structure of the atmosphere…
I could go on and on (thank you, Wikipedia!). The year is full of edges and contrasts, and firsts and lasts, and choices. That’s what the Lovers are about.
