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Blaugust 4 - Tuesday's Child

When I was little, a poem hung on my bedroom wall. My mom decoupaged a print of the poem onto a piece of wood that was painted green. It was Monday's Child. You may have heard of it.

Monday's child is fair of face,
Tuesday's child is full of grace,
Wednesday's child is full of woe,
Thursday's child has far to go,
Friday's child is loving and giving,
Saturday's child works hard for a living,
And the child born on the Sabbath day
Is bonny and blithe, and good and gay.

So what's the deal with this poem? After some web searching I found that it was probably a device used to remember the days of the week and that fortune-telling by way of which day you were born on has been done since at least the 16th century, probably much earlier.

I am a Tuesday's child and I always thought it was one of the universe's greatest jokes. I am anything but "full of grace"! (I'm thinking of "grace" as describing an elegance of movement rather than a behavior.) I have absolutely no sense of proprioception and whoever came up with that poem would probably cast doubt on whether I was truly born on a Tuesday. Although, I am happy I was not born on Wednesday. That child got a raw deal.

Do I believe in this rhyme as a prediction of how someone is supposed to be? No, I think it's about as reliable a predictor as astrology. Although I will say that I feel like I have a lot more in common with what a Pisces is supposed to be like!

What about you? Do you think your birth day corresponds with your character?

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