Exploring the Significance of Number 5 in Numerology

Mercury is the ruling planet of people born on day 5, 14, or 23 of any month, or
whose destiny or name number adds up to 5. The qualities of Mercury described
below are most clearly visible in people who have 5 as a psychic number.
Mercury, the smallest planet in our solar system, is famous for being
associated with quick response, changeable character, ready wit, and
restlessness. It is also known as an evergreen planet—the planet that is always
young. Its Sanskrit name, Kumar (youthful), indicates its youthful and princely
nature. It is also called Buddha in Sanskrit, a planet of buddhi, which literally
means intellect and ready wit or pratiuttapanna mati.
It is related to the respiratory system, the nervous system, speech, education,
and intelligence.
It is neutral in gender and is regarded as a cold and moist planet. In the Hindu
system, Earth is its element and it is a merchant by nature. This merchant-like
nature of Mercury makes it take risks and gamble—a planet of extremes. On the
one hand, the Mercury-dominated natives are lovers of physical comforts and
money-minded and, on the other, they do not care for money or physical
comforts.
Although Mercury is regarded as a benefic and auspicious planet, it makes its
natives suspicious, serious, cunning, and sometime deceitful. Mercury natives
are witty and lovers of humor and entertainment. They are manipulative, wise,
delicate, attractive, and fond of travel and adventure. They are born orators,
although they are scientific in their approach. They are also lovers of the fine
arts, soft-spoken, doubting, fragile, and tenderhearted. They are easily attracted
to the study of astrology, numerology, palmistry, physiognomy, graphology, and
psychology because they want to know about themselves and others as clearly as
possible. They are materialistic, rational, analytical, and critical by nature; and
they love modern ideas.
Mercury, a planet of mixed temperament, has a dual nature. It makes its
natives think of both pros and cons at the same time. Its natives are learned and
scholarly people and enjoy the company of like people. Mercury is the only
planet that is exalted in its own sign.
Mercury is friendly with the Sun, Venus, Rahu, and Ketu. Saturn, Mars, and
Jupiter are neutral toward it in friendship. Mercury feels enmity toward the
Moon, but this feeling is not mutual.

NUMBER 5
Psychic Number 5

These natives have gentle and fragile characters and are elevated thinkers. They
are scholars by nature and are trying to learn every minute. Their active brains
are always engaged in thought. They love amusement and try to become jovial
and create a happy atmosphere around them. This sometimes consumes a lot of
their energy, since nobody can make everybody happy. But, as they are
interested in winning the favor of others, they spend all their energy and use all
their resources to make others happy.
They are quick in their decisions and impulsive in their behavior. They love
change and do not make long-range plans (which call for patience), although
they are always busy planning new ways to make money. Because they are
endowed with a facility for speculation and are willing to run risks, they invent
new ways to make money quickly and avoid long-term plans. Their willingness
to risk makes them gamble; and if they really do so, they may gain wealth in this
way.
They have youthful and fertile brains with mature thoughts, which make them
unique and attractive. They can develop friendships very easily and quickly with
any number, but because they are unstable by nature, the friendships do not last
very long. They often break friendships very easily during their weak period; at
such times, they are deceived by and lose faith in their friends and feel lonely.
Psychic number 5s are very intuitive by nature. They can accurately
understand the intent of any person who visits them and can easily see the
maneuvers of their partners and colleagues. They give answers to questions
before the person asking finishes. Often they say, “I know what you mean”
because they understand intuitively the essence of what is being said.
They are very adaptable and can bear any tragedy and calamity with a smile
on their face. However, they are not very flexible in their own homes and do not
like people to touch or change the order in which they have things arranged.
With children, they are like a child; with young persons, a revolutionary and
progressive youth; and with wise elderly people, wise.
They are brilliant logicians—openness and eloquence render their opponents
helpless. They can befriend their opponents and convert them to their own point
of view.
They are able to impress people by their attractive and charming personality,
progressive ideas, adaptability, clarity of expression and logic, positive and
optimistic attitude, and jovial, youthful nature.
They are spendthrifts by nature, but sometimes they become extravagant.
Although their financial condition fluctuates, they are able to save money, which
they can use during their hard times. They are generally lucky in getting money
whenever they need it.
They do not earn through one source only. They cannot sit idle and love to
invent methods to make money quickly. They always invest money in business;
and, because of their speculative nature and willingness to take risks, they
ultimately become successful in business. They are reliable partners.
They are time conscious—they value their own time and are always in a
hurry.
They are fond of fine arts, especially poetry—they can and do express their
ideas in a very poetic way.
They have a flexible character and change easily, but they do not like to
change their way of working, which is very distinctive.
They are travelers by nature and broaden their experience and knowledge
through their journeys, both in their own country and in distant lands. They like
to live in foreign lands away from their families, to enjoy life and learn.
Those psychic number 5 people born on the twenty-third of any month are
luckier than those born on the fifth. Those born on the fourteenth of any month,
however, are less fortunate. They have to face many obstacles and difficulties
and much opposition in their family life, although they are able to achieve
success in the material world rather quickly. Psychic number 5 people born on
the twenty-third are helped by their relatives, superiors, government officials,
politicians, and those in authority. Those born on the fifth of any month are
obstinate, hard working, independent, reliable, self-made, and lucky in love.
They spend their old age in peace with reasonable comforts of life. They remain
youthful and attractive into their old age and always have helpers around.
Although they believe in fate and destiny, they praise the law of karma and
work constantly. However, they know that fate is more important, and they are
lucky enough in their life to get whatever they want by chance. If they gamble,
they multiply their money two or three times; and they do not regret their losses.
They live on their nerves and love excitement.
They are not influenced by any kind of preaching. They appreciate traditional
beliefs but do not become mystical. They remain independent thinkers, open to
new ideas. They love the company of learned and wise people, as well as young,
progressive, and modern people.
They are very cautious about their health and careful in selecting foods they
need. They are quite conscious about their physical appearance. Although
fragile, they have strong builds and remain healthy and active into their old age,
usually living long lives.
As Mercury is exalted in its own sign, Virgo, two psychic number 5 people
are the best friends.
Psychic number of 5 women are more attractive, impressive, gentle, soft-
spoken, and fragile than psychic 5 men. They are career conscious and, through
their hard labor and pleasing manners, build magnificent careers for themselves.
They can receive benefit by marrying young. It becomes difficult for them to
find real friends and true mates later in life. They can easily attract people; but,
because they are very cunning, overly selective, and diplomatic but superficial in
handling members of opposite sex, they have difficulty choosing a good
husband. Only a few men can qualify for the role as their husband. When they
are associated in business or otherwise with men, they make financial and social
gains. They execute their duties so perfectly that they get proper recognition and
are beyond criticism.

Precautions for Psychic Number 5

These precautions are helpful to number 5 natives during their weak periods.
They should not, in any case, lose their natural sense of humor and jovial nature.
They should not use bitter, pungent, or sharp language when angry.
They should stop being overly critical at all occasions.
They should avoid stress and strain on their heart and nerves.
They should keep the company of children and not stay away from amusement.
They should stop hurrying all the time.
They should stop straining their eyes by either reading at night or watching
TV, films, and other performances.
They should avoid misjudging people and instead create faith in their friends and well-wishers.
They should overcome irritation and brooding.
They should do exercises to develop self-confidence, tranquility of mind, calmness, and strength in their heart.
They should develop more patience toward their family members and friends.
They should avoid being fatalistic.
They should try to become less obstinate.

Number 5 natives are advised to avoid the following:

Excess salt if they have problems with their heart or blood pressure. (If they are not troubled by any kind of heart or skin ailments, they should use more salt. They are advised to use more salt during the growth periods of childhood and adolescence.)
Exposure to cold.
Forcing their ideas on others.
Giving false hope and making false promises to others.
Trusting strangers and being inattentive while traveling.

They should:

Take good, long morning walks.
Drink more juices and be conscious about the purity of their blood since they are easily susceptible to skin diseases and heart troubles.
Make small trips, stay happy, avoid the company of unsuccessful and pessimistic people.
Listen patiently to the opinion of others.
Massage their bodies with almond oil at least once or twice a week to strengthen their nerves and enhance circulation.
Do manual labor or gardening to relieve their overactive brains.
Enter into business partnerships or life partnerships with numbers 5, 1, 3, or 9.
Develop contacts with prominent people, without any selfish motive.
Learn to be content, to honor their friends, and to appreciate others

Destiny Number 5

Five is the best destiny number for psychic number 5 people; they become very
strong, obstinate, independent (but dependable), lucky, wise, attractive, and
impressive.
A psychic number of 6 is also very suitable for destiny number 5 people, who
become self-sufficient in the early part of their life. These people can solve their
own problems, make good businesses, and create a good and inspiring
atmosphere among their colleagues and business partners. A psychic number 6 is
slow in making decisions, while a destiny 5 is quick. This balance of speed and
caution makes their decisions valuable in whatever business they do.
Five is a good destiny number because:

It brings gentleness, kindness, wisdom, intuition, insight, happiness, alertness, and good luck.
It brings wealth through the lottery, inheritance, and risks taken in business.
It makes its natives logical, rational, and systematic.
It gives them the power to speculate and progress in the material field; sometimes it makes them pioneers—discoverers and inventors in their field of work.
It provides them with favors from the government, people in authority, political leaders, friends, and relatives.
It brings them recognition for contributions in their field of work.
It makes them versatile, impressive, attractive, and naturally optimistic.
It brings them change in their work and living situations.
It brings them good luck in love affairs.
It makes them live in foreign lands for long periods of time.

Five is a good destiny number for all numbers except for psychic number 2s
and 7s. It is most suited for publishers, writers, lawyers, critics, politicians,
businessmen, actors, scholars, orators, storytellers, entertainers, sculptors, and
astrologers.

Name Number 5

Five is also a good name number. It makes its natives progressive, jovial, and
alive; it gives them popularity and positive vibrations. This name number is
especially beneficial when the destiny number is 5 also; then it brings its natives
great material success and fame. Their name continues to be remembered even
after death.
Name number 5 is not good for people with a psychic or destiny number of 2
or 7, or those with a destiny number of 4. The number 2 becomes more unstable
with a name number 5. Number 7 earns a bad name. And number 4 faces more
and more difficulties because 5 is a number of communication and 4 does not
like to communicate.
Name number 5 is very favorable for writers, poets, businessmen, bankers,
sportsmen, publishers, journalists, doctors, actors, politicians, and those in the
communications business.

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