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People born in the date range of March 21st through April 19th have the Astrology sun sign of Ares the Ram. If you have this sign, you in all likelihood know your basic Horoscope, but did you recognise that sure days of the year are peculiarly lucky for you? Numerology predicts that in regards to 20% of days will be lucky for you based solely on your Aries sun sign.

Birth Date

Your birth date is always a lucky day for you, so in addition to the dates listed below, add your birth date as a lucky day. For example, singer Elton John was born on March 25th, 1947, so he would add March 25th to the list of dates below.

Life Path Days

Days with a Universal Day number which matches your Life Path number are always lucky for you. Your Life Path number is found by reducing your Date of Birth to a single digit using fadic addition. For example, Elton John’s life path number is (4) as shown in the calculation below.

Life Path = (03 + 25 + 1947) = (1975) = (1 + 9 + 7 + 5) = (22) = (2 + 2) = (4).

The universal day number for a date is calculated in the same way, by taking the date and reducing it to a single digit by fadic addition, so July 6th, 2007 was a lucky day for Elton John as shown below.

Universal Day (07/06/2007) = (7 + 6 + 2007) = (2020) = (4)

Calendar Dates

In addition to your birth date, and corresponding Life Path days, when it comes to (6) days of each month are lucky for the sun sign of Aries. They are as follows:

For January: 1st, 5th, 9th, 23rd, 27th, and the 28th.

For February: 2nd, 5th, 10th, 19th, 25th, and the 29th.

For March: 4th, 9th, 10th, 19th, 20th, and the 31st.

For April: 1st, 5th, 14th, 15th, 19th, and the 28th.

For May: 3rd, 12th, 13th, 18th, 21st, and the 31st.

For June: 3rd, 7th, 17th, 18th, 25th, and the 27th.

For July: 1st, 6th, 14th, 23rd, 28th, and the 29th.

For August: 2nd, 10th, 11th, 24th, 25th, and the 26th.

For September: 7th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 21st, and the 25th.

For October: 3rd, 9th, 13th, 17th, 19th, and the 31st.

For November: 1st, 5th, 8th, 14th, 20th, and the 30th.

For December: 1st, 13th, 25th, 26th, 27th, and the 31st.

Twilight Of The Fifth Sun

Amid the ruins of Ancient Mexico, a divination predicts the end of the Fifth Sun, the universal destruction of our own time. Ahuitzotl is determined to fulfill the prophecy, to conquer both the living and the dead, while a ghostly pirate, a journalist, and a young boy fight to stop him.

ReviewI have always been a science fiction fan and this rates right up there, although, I have to admit, I had a little trouble with all those Aztec names! Good luck, Dave, on the next book. I am looking forward to reading it. — Sharleen Martin, Clarks Summit, PA

About the AuthorDavid Sakmyster was born and raised in Rochester, New York. He wrote his initial story at the age of 15. After attending Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, he attended Ohio State to get his Masters Degree. David has written three novels and 25 short stories, with Twilight of the Fifth Sun his basi published novel.

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Thoroughly Engrossing
By James R. Harrington
I purchased “Twilight of the Fifth Sun” after reading a list of books available from the small publisher Dark Moon Press with one-sentence synopses, and thinking “Now here is a remarkably unusual plot.” I had no idea what the writing might be like, but I thought a story about a pirate’s ghost, a journalist, and a little boy fighting an Aztec God for the survival of the world would either have to be very good or very bad. It turned out to be very good!

Several features were present that made this book rather more than a run-of-the-mill fantasy. I am interested in history and cultures of the past, and this book exposes the reader to a facet of Aztec culture that is both intriguing and quite new to most people, namely, Aztec religion. Yeah, we’ve all read that the Aztecs believe in human sacrifice, but just what their religion is about has always been something of a mystery to me. I don’t have time or motivation to bury myself (literally) in some dry treatise on Aztec religion, but having an opportunity to learn about it, to have it made real for me, in an interesting book like this is great. (And I hope what I learned is something like the truth!)

Also, I enjoy reading fiction involving life after death and the supernatural. I’m not a fanatic about it, but those books are interesting. And here is a book whose premise is that all persons either remain as ghosts, or else their “souls” go somewhere else. Sounds like a commonplace idea, but a book telling within its pages of encounters with ghosts of knights, pirates, suicide victims, vikings, Aztecs, conquistadors, and highway accident victims is not such a common treatment. And the answer the author comes up with for where souls go is pretty ingenious.

One thing I hate is a book full of interesting ideas, but with no real point to it, no emotional impact. This book does NOT suffer from that shortcoming! I think most thinking people want to believe that there is a purpose to life, that there is more to it than living a few years here in a difficult place, and dying. The author puts life here into a context which, while being rationally unbelievable, is still very emotionally satisfying. Furthermore, the characters are depicted in sufficient detail to be fully believable, whether they happen to be alive or not. So you sit reading this book, and after you have read some mere twenty pages or so, you realize that you actually can relate to these people, that you want things to work out for them, and furthermore, that the story is acting on you on some deep emotional level. And you think to yourself, “I really like this character. It would be great to have someone like this in my own life.” And then you think, “And this character is a ghost.” It makes for an exceptional reading experience. And when I say the context is not rationally believable, I should add that it does not stand in the way of enjoyment, at least for me. One does not read a book of this type and then criticize it for not being rationally believable! The entire book is about an area of life that goes beyond rationality. The key point is that the novel premise is supported by characters that one readily comes to accept as real.

The book is not perfect. For me, its greatest drawback is related to the difficulty of treating its premise. The party fictionalized mythology was explained in great detail in order to make it more believable. The problem is that the premise of the book is essentially spiritual, even bordering on metaphysical, and when you try to explain that through some supporting mythology you wind up with a lot of words and symbols that get confusing, and I did find myself wishing he had either spared me or at least done a better job of explaining the symbolism in the mythology.

But despite the one shortcoming, I found the book to be one of the most fascinating books I have ever read. People without imagination should stay away from this book, because they won’t enjoy it. But if you enjoy a book that puts your everyday world in a different light, then you will really love “Twilight of the Fifth Sun.” I hope the author will continue writing! I am looking forward to his next effort.

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
JUST OK
By M. Parke
Silly story with some poor sentence structure. At times interesting, at others boring. But the price is right,

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
please make this correction
By James R. Harrington
I just submitted a full review for this book. I named the publisher as “Dark Moon Press,” but I just double-checked (too late) and see that the publisher is “Dragon Moon Press.” Would you mind making that correction for me before the review is posted? Thanks.

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