For many years, after moving from the Austrian Alps to the big city of Munich, I naturally paid attention to the colors in my surroundings.
When I visited friends, I would often wonder why there was very little of a certain color in their immediate surroundings.
For example, in one house, the color red was virtually nonexistent, even though the hosts definitely lacked energy. It took me a while to real-ize that they were not familiar with such healing methods. If anything, they might have called these methods pure superstition. Years later, when these same people needed help with various illnesses, they came back to me for advice. I recommended that they see a holistic healer and suggested color and Number work as additional support. It worked well for them and in many cases later, with others who would call themselves
“nonbelievers.” I didn’t explain or justify my recommendations, but simply let the results speak for themselves.
The Wheel in Practice
The Wheel is ancient knowledge that has been used for centuries. Farmers and workers have known its powers and have implemented it in their livelihoods in order to see their ideas come to fruition. Let’s see the Wheel in motion with the help of a real-world example. We’ll use the development of an idea for a product and its implementation.
Inception: “I have an idea!”
The creative process can begin anywhere and is not tied to a particular Station; this door is open to everyone. Let’s say your date of birth contains the North ( or ) and the Center ( or ) (and, therefore, has the Signa-ture North–Center), and you have a terrific idea for a new board game. In order to transform this idea into a successfully realized task using the Code, we must set the Wheel in motion. What follows first is the transfer of your idea to the East, where all ideas must take their first steps. What does that mean? Let us explain.
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Development: “It is a good idea!” Wheels and lives are meant to accompany and monitor the realization of ideas during their initial stages. They are the ones who are able to create the prototype of your idea.
Presentation: “It is a good thing. Everybody look!”
In the next step, the East passes the prototype on to the South ( or ). If the first company also has the characteristics of the South integrated, it will take the next step itself, or another company with Numbers in the South will take over. At this point, the next step is to make a convincing presenta-tion of the product on a small scale—at a trade fair, for example, where the product can be noticed by a larger audience. One of the most beautiful things in the creative process is a successful presentation that stirs up enthusiasm for the product (a typical feat of the people of the South). Your personal task here in the South is to monitor and accompany your product to ensure that your philosophy has been preserved in the process and is seen through to its ultimate completion and release.
Realization: “See how feasible it is!”
The South has now opened the way to pass your brainchild, the terrific board game, to the West ( or ). The West can at times be a spoilsport and put a damper on your enthusiasm, but that is often necessary. The West is the home of the serious development of your initial thought into a mature idea or product. Here you will find the balance between what is ideal and what is feasible, between the perfection of what you dream about and its practical realization. This includes smart calculations and price strategy, advertising and publicity, target group selection, adept marketing, The Code 17
logistics and distribution—everything necessary to bring a good product to the public that is representative of the inherent qualities of the people of the West. Your task is to monitor and supervise this process. You might also want to hire a good tax adviser who will keep a close eye on sound finances.
Maturation: “You can have it now!”
This final step completes the journey around the Birthday Wheel to the North, where the game is handed over to the customer. The North, there-fore, is not only the birthplace of the idea but also the completion of its maturation and its readiness to be handed over to the world. Let’s say you have the North ( or ) in your Birthday Wheel, including its wealth of ideas and the savvy for launching fully formulated ideas to the public. As a result, you can now take a number of matters into your own hands.
This example of developing the board game shows that you do not have to do everything yourself when it comes to the empty Stations of your Code. You should merely keep the ball rolling by understanding the inher-ent abilities that lie in Stations other than your own, assisting when possible and overseeing the work. Our example can be applied to all situa-tions and Signatures. By substituting “special knowledge” (or “music,”
“healing,” “invention,” and others) for “board game,” you will come much closer to understanding the heart of the Code.
Let’s assume that in your Code all Cardinal Points are present except for the West, like in March 26, 1951. In this case, you can successfully guide the product maturation process, with the exception of sound finan-cial planning, accounting, advertising, and the application of commerfinan-cial standards. Those belong in the hands of people with an occupied West in their Wheel. All that is required is that you be intelligent about contracts, and monitor the logistics and activities of the West.
Lift Yourself Up with Each Rotation
Let’s summarize what happens within the circular movement of the Wheel.
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mary inner energy starts its invisible rotational in the North with the and . The North simultaneously represents both the end and the high point of development as well as the start of a new cycle. It is like the quiet before a new beginning or the collecting energy for a new circumstance, like winter before spring. The beginnings of a new development are already present but not yet readily noticeable.
In the East, however, where the and are present, the new develop-ment is already fully at work and moving along. Spring is in full bloom.
The South, which contains the and , represents the power of sum-mer, the full enjoyment of energies—vitality. In this stage, preparations and initial guidance are now finished. All things hidden are now expressed, formed, and shaped.
The West, with the and , fortifies the success, presents it, and makes it useful for posterity. Then the North completes the circular move-ment by bringing what has matured out into the open, making it available to everyone. It adds a special something that will plant the seed for the next round, which begins again in the North with the and .
The Numbers in the Center ( and ) carry something from each Station; you can go anywhere from the Center. The Center can be used as a wild card in order to bring empty Stations to life. Life has more than one cycle.
The Wheel does not circle with endless repetitions. Instead, it moves to the beginning of a qualitatively higher developmental plane, a spiral that becomes stronger and stronger when the energy is moving well.
You lift yourself up with each completed rotational cycle. As an idea is realized, knowledge is transferred, and good things are manifested with each completed rotation of the Wheel. As seen from above, the Wheel is a two-dimensional, colored circle, but when seen from all sides, the Wheel becomes a colorful, three-dimensional spiral winding toward heaven!
As time passes, you might want to occasionally reflect upon this beauti-ful shape as your understanding of its interrelations grow. You may even reach the point where you do not think of things as “jumping” from Station to Station and instead perceive them as having an uninterrupted flow.
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Our language knows terms like baby, toddler, child, teenager, and adult.
But on your eighteenth birthday, were you really much smarter and more grown up than you were the day before? Everything in life flows and inter-twines, much of it seamlessly. This is also true for the Birthday Wheel.
Extreme developments and inner stagnation occur when we do not leave enough room for the natural flow of life. The Native Americans have a wonderful allegory for this: “Only a bubbling stream that freely gives its water away will remain fresh and clear. Standing water becomes a foul-smelling swamp.”
From the very beginning, everyone is destined to follow a calling. This also becomes apparent from the Wheel’s composition. If we actualize this calling, success will come—and with it the obligation to pass it on materially, intellectually, and emotionally. Success kept to oneself never means true success and happiness, and it frequently burns out quickly.
Share your treasure with others so that everyone will benefit!
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