Human Relationships:
The number 1 is a good companion and fine company, pleasant, good-natured, a good talker with a keen sense of humour, wit, and gift of repartee. It represents sterling qualities and outstanding character, but is different from all others.
Its feelings are expressed with dignity, sensitiveness and artistic taste. It enjoys social contacts and friends, but prefers well-liked associates of common interest, rather than the crowd of unrelated groups. It is attracted to the opposite sex but responds only to beauty, personality, character and self-confidence. It strongly dislikes dullness, the commonplace, or a demanding companion. Without realizing it, it wants to do the demanding itself, and generally does so, for it has great self-respect, deep pride and expects its importance to be recognized. It has great respect for others with wealth and abundance.
In business and marriage the number 1 must be understood and led into its own good. Since number 1 is very sensitive to the approval of others, criticism and disapproval may bring about resentment and anger, causing it to retire into a shell of silent unreasonableness – even inertia – or to react with hurtful opinions, cynical speech, and surprising temper, not the true nature of number 1. At times this strong and capable one may appear shy, vacillating, self-conscious, afraid to express its opinion – anything but the forceful character it really is. This is overcome with good education, vocational training, and wise and understanding encouragement. The sense of insecurity and lack of usefulness which may fill the mind of the number 1 when it does not understand itself disappears when it is placed into the right environment and association. Boastfulness and aggressiveness frequently cover up an inner sense of aloneness and self-distrust.
The number 1 needs a warm and patient mate, capable of standing on its own feet and strong in character. Love and affection are important to the number 1, for with all its independence it does not reach its highest possibilities of success in worldly affairs without understanding at home and in the domestic life. The number 1 is apt to react in a negative manner when told what to do, or where it is wrong, if love and approval are lacking.
There is a very strict side to the nature, generally concerning obedience or cleanliness. It is offended by carelessness, indifference to order and principle, or vulgarity and unlovely speech. There is a spiritual force in the heart of the number 1, as it was the first step in creation in the beginning. Therefore, it will turn away or seek to escape from unattractive situations or environment when the finer nature is not understood, causing problems in marriage.
Vocational training when young, and understanding of individuality, help to make the pathway of life easier and more successful. Often the number 1 is the non-conformist, being urged on by its love of the new, its desire to do something different and the feeling that the whole world is its own. But the number 1 can be the man or woman deeply loved and admired or highly successful when it loses itself in its desires to provide the new, the beautiful, and the wealth of the world for mankind as well as for its loved one.