December 31 zodiac sign: Capricorn, day arcana and character

Born on December 31

People born on December 31 often expect arcana 31 and find 4 (The Emperor) instead. The count ends at twenty-two, so the digits are summed (3+1); birth sign Capricorn, month arcana 12 (The Hanged Man). Your birthday landed on the thirty-first of December, and it has spent your whole life dissolving into the general celebration: congratulations in passing, one present covering two occasions. Capricorn takes that without drama; thirty-one folds to four, which likes everything to have its own frame.

Where your strength is

You can hold your own inside a general noise. You do not fight for attention and do not sulk: you decide in advance how you will spend the day, and then you spend it that way.

What comes harder

Stopping and looking back is what is on offer, and on that day you are closing the year for everybody. Your own reckoning ends up last on the list again.

One thing to try

Do your personal year-end reckoning a few days before the thirty-first, separately from the shared one.

The numbers of this date

4 - The Emperor
12 - The Hanged Man

The other twenty come from the full birth date.

Who else was born on this day

Jacques Cartier (1491) - french maritime explorer of North America
Andreas Vesalius (1514) - anatomist, physician and author
Émile Loubet (1838) - president of France from 1899 to 1906
Henri Matisse (1869) - french artist
George C. Marshall (1880) - american politician and United States Army general
Simon Wiesenthal (1908) - austrian Nazi hunter
Avram Hershko (1937) - hungarian-Israeli biochemist
Alex Ferguson (1941) - scottish football manager
Alex Salmond (1954) - first Minister of Scotland from 2007 to 2014
Val Kilmer (1959) - american actor

Dates and short descriptions come from Wikidata.

Frequently asked questions

Is this the same as a star sign?

No. The zodiac sign comes from astrology, the arcana from the destiny matrix. They describe different things and do not contradict each other: the sign speaks about temperament, the arcana about how you move.

How many arcana are there altogether?

Twenty-two major arcana. This page uses two of them, the ones drawn from the day and the month; the full calculation brings in the birth year as well and fills considerably more positions.

How does 31 turn into 4?

By adding the digits together: 3+1. The deck does not run past twenty-two, and the same rule applies to every date after the 22nd. Arcana 4 is The Emperor.

The destiny matrix is a language for self-reflection, not a prediction. The choices stay yours.

A reading in Luna voice

The Emperor and The Hanged Man are two of the twenty-two arcana, and the other twenty only open up once the full birth date goes in, free, inside Luna.

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