Since 3 and 7 have a sum of 10 [Unity], they are complementary to one another.
A pyramid is defined as a polyhedron created by connecting a polygonal base with a point, known as the apex. This quality of evolving upward toward a single point of unity reflects the strong association of the Pyramid with the Solar number 10. The same is true of its 2D counterpart, the upward-pointing triangle. This shape traditionally represents the element of Fire, which is a property of the numbers 3 and 7. The unifying quality of 3 is reflected in words like Sun and Unity [both 21], which relate closely to 10 words such as Solar [19+0] and Nucleus [37].
Although a pyramid can be based on any kind of polygon, there are two major types which are most commonly encountered. These are the Tetrahedron [a Platonic solid with a triangular base] and the square-based pyramid seen in the monuments at Giza. This dual emphasis on 3 and 4 as alternate types of foundations is reflected in the first two letters of the word Pyramid [P = 4, Y = 3], which correspond to the values of the Mayan calendar signs of Kan [Seed – Foundation] and B’en [Pillars – Support]. The third aspect is Lamat [Star – Apex], which is connected to B’en through a relationship of complementarity, expressed by the sum of 20 which results when their numerical values are are paired in a crosswise manner. Three multiplied by four is twelve, which reduces back to three. The sum of three and four is seven.
I used a simple method for reducing each polyhedron to a single number which conveys its essence. First, each face is converted to a number corresponding to its number of sides [e.g., each triangle becomes a 3]. All of these numbers are then added together and reduced to a single digit. By following this procedure, the tetrahedron comes out to 12 or 3, while the square-based pyramid is 16 or 7 [the same value as the word Giza].
In this way, the relationship between 3 and 7 is modeled by the two primary manifestations of the pyramid form. But it is also contained within the form of the square-based pyramid alone. This pattern is expressed through a process of building up by threes. The 3-6-9 triad seen in the structure of the triangular prism results from starting at zero and repeatedly adding 3. Three iterations of this process yield a final value of 9. Zero and nine, respectively, symbolize the primordial and mature aspects of the Divine Feminine. However, there is another way to do this which produces differing yet parallel results. Starting the process at one yields a pattern of 1-4-7-10, with 1 and 10 representing the primordial and mature aspects of the Divine Masculine. The square-based pyramid follows this pattern, beginning with a single square from which arise 4 triangular sides, creating a form with a combined value of 7 which naturally points toward a single apex, representing 10.
When I was organizing this chart, I decided to include a section on the relationship between frequency, wavelength and energy in various types of electromagnetic radiation. This is mainly because it expresses a very similar numerical pattern to that of the pyramid, with the frequency of every type of radiation coming out to some form of 3, while the corresponding wavelength reduces to 1. The energy of each of these kinds of radiation is expressed through a variation of the sequence 124, which adds up to 7. The four triangular faces of the tetrahedron are quantified as the number 12, to which the square pyramid adds a square base with a value of 4. Although I only had room to include three entries, this pattern holds true across a much longer list incorporating all forms of electromagnetic radiation. The pyramid form does appear to have some unique properties which affect the flow of electromagnetic energy in certain contexts, as indicated by a 2014 [=7] experiment involving pyramid-shaped nanoscale antennas.
While the 1-4-7 triad is characteristic of the pyramid, the 3-6-9 triad is more apparent in the triangular prism. The primary qualitative difference between the Pyramid and the Prism is one of Fire vs. Water, which results from the pairing of the shared element of 3 with either 7 or 6. The Water aspect of the Prism is reflected in its similarity to the biological eye. Whereas the Pyramid channels diverse elements toward a homogeneous state, the Prism does the opposite, beginning with a homogeneous input and eliciting diversity.
In the definition of Conceptual Association, Unicity is the primordial concept of Unity; Circularity is a transposition of this Unity after the event of duality due to its ability to contradict itself (a derivative of Linearity’s duality).
Unicity, geometrically, is as the 0th Dimension, or in CA (Conceptual Association), the First Instance; it has no determinate otherness because all is within the singularity. This means that infinite possibility lies within the infinite singular notion of this concept, however, the potential resonates dormant. It is, regardless of conceptual intricacy and application, both the protrusion and envelopment.
Unicity is different from the attribute of unity within Circularity, as well as the concept of everything; the singularity cannot, in turn, imply nothing, but instead the implication of coming from nothing. There is also no magnitude of change, no measurement to describe or confine it.
This concept can be described (in post-dimensional manifestation) as the centripetal point to any complexity. It can be described as the center of any situation or the source of any event.
Unicity does not bare polarity, so instead, it is the expression of (in) totality, or even perhaps the existence of (pre-) duality as one instance.
All things are expressions of the Primal Trinity, expressed here as the three primary colors: blue = active (Alchemy = Sulfur), yellow = mutable (Alchemy = Mercury), and red = passive (Alchemy = Salt) as attributed by vibratory attenuation (blue has the highest frequency, yellow the second, and red the lowest). Even numbers are considered feminine, and odd, masculine. The letters share the masculine or feminine attribute of their associated number. The Six Parents are: A,E,I,O,U,Y. A,E & I are masculine, O,U, & Y are feminine. These vowels, by parity with the consonants, create six tables of 21 consonant/vowel pairs, producing 126 (1+2+6=9) magickal syllables in all.
The process of emanation from the Higher World to the Lower World occurs through the singularity of Consciouness. From it proceeds the three Trinities of Manifestation, mirrors of God in the Lower Worlds. Each principle proceeds from the next. Perception generates space-time, proception generates the concepts of mass and energy, and mentation predicts complexity and entropy, These trinities are mutually emergent phrnomena and have no existence apart. These are the foundations of the hologram and provide us with a UI (User Interface), a set of imperatives, and a means of problem solving within the simulation and fulfilling our imperatives. God has descended into this illusion through the Gate of Consciousness.
0
– Consciousness
1
– Perception
4
– Space
7
– Time
2
– Proception
5
– Mass
8
– Energy
3
– Mentation
6
– Complexity
9
– Entropy
Consciousness touches the noumenal, implicate order of reality, and is the basis
for the human experiential user
interface (HEUI) and is the downlink / uplink for the Divine between the holographic lower world and the Upper World of the One Reality.
The
cosmos, our perception of it, and of ourselves and others, are
mutually emergent phenomena rooted in consciousness. The body is the
soul, the soul is the cosmos, and the cosmos is a dream. We are all
one thing and have no independent existence apart from this shared
delusion.
Perception,
proception and mentation are the causal physical phenomena they
interact with and cannot be said to exist without consciousness,
which supplies the experiential framework. These projections in
consciousness provide limitations necessary for manifestation. We
can observe that the brain is a perceptual apparatus, but that
apparatus does not exists outside of our observation.
Note:
a game without rules is not a game. Perception establishes
boundaries and limits our focus deliberately for the sake of an
engineered experience, such as in a video game or a work of fiction,
and reality has many game like qualities.
Our
experience of being human requires limitation in the form of
operational parameters, yet an awareness that this is a
hallucination (a holographic simulation) and that the phenomena of
mind is not Consciousness, but a projection within the field of
Consciousness, an understanding of which is the basis for all
technologies of liberation such as meditation and certain forms of
gnostic ecstasy.
There
is this notion that Consciousness can be “liberated”. In truth,
it is we who are liberated from our own minds, our identifications,
and from our conception of self / not-self, that false duality which
arises from the scission of perception and the projections that
occupy it. All is one, a unified field of being, divided by
perception for the sake of proception, and susceptible to wear and
complexification in the perceived objective world through the
mutually emergent processes of entropy and mentation.
Sigils
operate through the medium of consciousness and represent a means of
bypassing mentation and proception ( these interfere with action by
imagining a will through its tendency of complexification, which
tends to negate hopes with simultaneously emergent fears that supply
interference in order to maintain homeostasis) by hacking perception
(either visual, auditory, or both). Entropy and thermodynamic
equilibrium are the phenomenal kin of mentation, and effective acts
of sorcery negate their stasis.
Consciousness
may be defined as a dimension whose direction of motion is inward
and outward, a liminal bridge between the acausal and causal
universe. In physics, form equals force, and the curvature of
Consciousness (the fifth dimension) is experienced in three
dimensions as perception, proception, and mentation, the basis of
“self”, which, through perceptual scission, represent three
dimensional cross sections of a singular entity or structure in this
higher dimensional continuum, and all change and apparent
separateness and centrality are mere tricks of perspective.
The
moment is the attenuation of space-time by perception, proception is
the attenuation of energy and matter as tactile and relational
experience in the field of perception, and mentation is the
attenuation of the possible within the fields of perception and
proception. Attention represents the omission of totality as a whole
and is a single vector of playback, a moment isolated from all
possible moments but not itself separate. Real time is the
simultaneity of all possible pasts, presents and futures, not the
relative movement of objects (perspective) nor its circadian
manifestation.
Intellect,
emotions, and will occupy the field of consciousness but do not
exist outside of it. There is no thinker, only thought. There is no
thing that feels, only feelings. There is no will, there is only
doing. And all thinking, feeling and doing are the shadows of
acausal archetypes in consciousness.
So
the questions remains: is reality for us acausal and fixed or causal
and adaptive? Our tendency to think in such harsh polarities is the
result of our self reflective nature. The answer is that it is both.
It is archetypally fixed yet adaptively navigated, and neither
version has any meaning without the other to define it. Causal
indeterminism and acausal determinism are mutually dependent aspects
of the same cosmological architecture, a user-based architecture
that supports conscious experience for its own sake.
Perception is the predictive scission from which space and time are derived.
Space-time coordinates have no meaning outside of perception and are
useful primarily for maintaining an organisms fitness.
Proception is the experiential cross-section by our brains in the
hyper-temporal architecture reduced by perception, and is the
cumulative experience of life that is the sum of the interactions of
self, environment and others. Energy and matter are derivative of
proception which postulates them in precisely the same way that
perception predicts space-time relationships. Proception can be
defined as the sphere of fitness and, in biological terms,
proception is described as the sexual behavior of an organism that
leads to conception which, arguably, is at the root of all human
endeavors. It is the force responsible for the growth and evolution
of all life and may be analogous to Reich’s orgone. This does
not imply that homosexuality or transsexualism is somehow abnormal
or a symptom of a lack of fitness. Rather I see them as adaptive
responses to global and societal pressures as well as representing
an expansion of the possibilities of experience and union. “It is
for Love’ sake that we are divided, it is for Love’s sake that we
are united.”
Mentation predicts complexity and entropy which it abhors and seeks to order
by its very nature, while simultaneously increasing their measure in
the cosmos. Dark Matter may well be an objective expression of
mentation is broader universe (I say this in jest, yet I would not
be surprised to learn that it is so). Here is derived our sense of
executive function and of will (which is, in truth, an afterthought
). Thought, it will be seen in mindful praxis, tends to interfere
with the fluid execution of actions, be they magical or otherwise.
Magic is, in a real sense, the art and science of getting out of
your own way.
These three trinities interact with the Archetypal Trinity and produce the Six Elements: Spirit (the Divine), Soul (the Divne Spark trapped within the hologram), Fire, Air, Water and Earth, which can be seen as follows:
Note that the spectrum of colors is produced by the trinities of the 9. Their symbolic associations and their effects on us are as follows:
If we observe the trinities of the 9, we see their relationships as follows:
The 9 is represented best by the Nonagon regular polytope which may be used to create sigils by transmuting the letters of a statement of intent into angular sigils:
The methods for obtaining mantras and sigils via the New Resvised Pythagorean Table are simple and represented below:
There are ritual implements associated with the 9:
The three causal trinities find expression in Metatron’s Cube which, counting the centers of each of the two cubes of the tesseract as vertices reveals 18 in all or the 9 in 3D and the 3D> archetypes of the 9 as 10 through 18 (1+8=9). Turn Metatron’s Cube out of center, and suddenly you can see the tesseract and the vertices occluded from it’s original position. By using the same method of obtaining mantras, we can use those same numbers generated by parity and syllable and map them through the vertices to produce truly 3D> sigils which I call metamorphogons. Taking this a step further, by using an angular version of the English alphabet similar to the Norse Runes, we can construct complex hyperspacial yantras that represent an entire complex of desires and targets of actuation.
(Metatron’s
Cube, first discovered by the famous medieval mathematician
Fibonacci, contains the blue prints for all of the platonic solids,
as well as a hypercube, a construct of 3> spatial dimensions. The
hypercube, and other 3> polygons, are the foundation of the system
of sigilization I will expound. The system makes use of the mechanics
of perception, geometry, perspective, intent and anoesis to make
alterations to our realities. It is a highly effective form of magick
without relying on gods or spirits to effect change. That is not to
say that the system cannot be happily wed to other systems and used
with deities and daemons. I find combining several different
approaches only compounds the effects of this method. making for some
incredible results).
As
with all sigils of the chaos magick variety, they are based on
“vernacular prime” (as Peter J. Carroll puts it in his seminal
work ‘Liber Kaos’) which, in our case, is English. The above “runes”
are the letters of the English alphabet geometrically interpreted
using the inherent symmetries of the the square.
To
make a basic square sigil or “bind rune”, one starts with a
statement of intent. This is phrased in the immediate present, as if
the thing has already come to pass. This statement should be as short
and precisely worded as possible.
Once
this is obtained, these words will be written in the same dimensional
space, framing the intent in a state of superposition, not unlike
quantum states. Repeated letters are naturally omitted as they
eclipse one another when inscribed one over the other. The resulting
design is your sigil; it may be used on its own, coupled with a
mantra version of the intent by way of conversion with the Key of
Naming, formed into a compound sigil as a cube, or constructed as a
hypercubic sigil referred to henceforth as a metamorphogonal sigil,
or “morphogon” for short. (The latter being very
effective).
In
forming a cube, each face will represent an aspect of the desired
outcome. One must be certain that the sigil is facing outward so that
if the cube were rotated in 3D space, the sigils are not reversed
when facing you. This will require that some sigils be reversed and
manipulated in 2D using logic and perspective to visualize their
correct arrangements.
Building
a tesseract can be a bit trickier in that what is desired to be
effected is arranged on the faces of the central cube, and the
external vectors that may realize the desired results are arranged on
the faces of the outer cube. (I recommend using a mantra formulated
with a condensed version of the desire as a means of binding the
total tesseract for realization).
You
will note the incredibly complex designs that result, and how the
combined sigils produce vectors that move through multiple spaces at
impossible angles, thus binding the subject of desire and the object
of effect, creating vectors of realization.
As
you use these, you will notice how they seem to shift and change.
They can become disorienting. Allow your vision to drift through the
angles, but then gently return your gaze to the thing as a whole.
They will sometimes fluoresce and appear to mutate and fold in and
through themselves. This is normal. Just return your gaze to the
totality. Once you achieve anoesis, either destroy the sigil, or put
it away so that it is out of sight and out of mind.
(An
important part of chaos magick is that the sigil be put out of mind
following the working. I will often meditate silently afterward or
use my personal meditative mantra to clear my mind. I recommend using
a simple banishing rite before and after as well as this helps
prepare the mind initially, and serves also to put the desire and
sigil out of your immediate focus. You may use The Rite of The
Pyramid for this purpose which I have posted earlier in this blog).
The Gnostic Circle is an alchemical Key of knowledge from the Vedic
texts of ancient India revealing the primary role of Time in our
developmental process. Most astrological systems are oriented toward
the individual’s egoic development, but the Gnostic Circle provides a
means by which we can perceive the imperatives of the Soul and its
hidden but primary influence in our lives. It is the unifying
element of a complete astrological work-up which helps us to understand
the cyclic nature of our developmental process; where we have been in
the past, where we happen to be at the present moment and what we are
moving toward in the future.
“The Gnostic Circle is the most effective method for understanding
the transformation of human consciousness. It represents a vision of
wholeness and has only one objective: it deals with the soul or seed of
the divine in each created thing and reveals the process by which that
seed is made to flower in its process of becoming.” – Patrizia
Norelli-Bachelet
Used in conjunction with the practice of yoga, the Gnostic Circle
reverses the long-standing perception of Time as the destroyer and
presents mankind with an entirely new awareness of Time as the
integrative mechanism by which a Divine purpose is expressed in the
world, thus it contains the highest wisdom of our age.
“The Gnostic Circle allows us to measure the progression of any event in time. And it provides the means of assessing an event’s relevance to time and place within a global and universal context. Above all, it permits us to appreciate the interconnectedness of events through a unified, spherical approach to Time. The
Gnostic Circle is a yardstick which can be applied to any event and by
which that event or object may be made to reveal its intrinsic nature
and objective value. In ancient literature and tradition, such a tool was sometimes referred to as the Golden Rod, or the Philosopher’s Stone. Its
value resided in the fact that because of its special relation to Time
and Space, it could provide an objective means to assess the
truth-conscious substance of any given situation or event or object. In
a word, it could objectively reveal the element’s inner pulse and place
within the greater harmony of life on Earth and within the solar
system.” The Vishaal Newsletter, – Oct 30, 1991
For each person there are two ways of being in the world, two
existential situations critical to our perception of life and reality.
The first and most common is an experience of the world from the historical perspective of linear time.
The second, and more rare, is the direct perception of non-linear time or cosmic cycles.
These modes of awareness represent two different worlds, one within the other. Non-linear
or sacred time appears under the paradoxical aspect of whole time, an
eternal present which is connected with man’s deepest spiritual
dimension. It is based upon a perception that time does not proceed
endlessly in a straight line. Rather it is always and everywhere a
closed curve, although from our ordinary perception, we do not see that
it’s movement is either curved or closed.
To move beyond the illusion of linearity and recover a realization of
whole time one must undergo a process of yoga which illumines the
cyclical nature of the life experience. This is most easily achieved
through the application of a cosmological model which highlights
certain essential relationships between man and the universe and which
unveils a common center. In ancient times these cosmological models
were based upon the known universe which was believed to consist of six
planets and a central Sun. It was not until the 20th century, following
the discovery of Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, that the complete
cosmological key could be revealed and man’s integral transformation
fully understood.
In ancient India, as in all other traditional societies, the
unveiling of this axis or ‘center’ was achieved through a disciplined
study of the archetypal language contained in the zodiacal hieroglyphs
and a knowledge of the principles of the Cosmic order. Once these
foundations are laid, one’s lived experience becomes revelatory. The
awareness gradually shifts from the ordinary linear perspective of past,
present and future to an experience of time as a cyclical developmental
process. As the individual lives and repeats these cycles of whole
time, he becomes imprinted with their order and aligned with their
harmonies. The axis of his being gradually shifts from the pivot of ego,
to a higher perceptual center. For it is by observing the cycles of his
own microcosmic process, that man comes to know the macrocosm and the
principles of its evolution. In the Veda, this realization is known as SWAR or Truth-Consciousness, and grants the seeker a direct and unequivocal perception of Unity.
‘The Gnostic Circle is merely the combination of the zodiac – the
occult circle which contains the knowledge of the evolution – and the
structural pattern of the solar system. The Circle of 12 is the zodiac,
and the Circle of 9 is our actual solar system, each orbit representing
one year of Earth life. The joint harmony of these two, superimposed or
synthesized in one circle, is what constitutes our key to the evolution
and flowering of the seed of the Spirit. In fact we can say that the
Gnostic Circle is mainly for this purpose. It shows mankind the ultimate
and ideal perfection that can be attained during this particular phase
of the evolution, during this great transition point from animal-mental
to the more divine mankind.’ – The Gnostic Circle p. 159, 1975, Patrizia Noreill-Bachelet
My favorite general tarot spread technique Ive been working with recently and starts to be my very fav overall. It works with mystical properties of number nine. You cannot find this technique anywhere on the internet.
Simplified:
1) Throw cards on the table, play chaotically with them, shuffling them as a kid at least for a minute. Tell Spirit how you gonna draw cards: 3 for past, 3 for present, 3 for future.
2) Get deck into form, then cut the deck into 3 piles (1-2-3), fold the deck back to form (1-2-3). Bear in mind from the beginning what you are conceptually doing.
3) Now draw every ninth card while puttin each of these cards in a column, one under the other. You will get 3 columns: past, present, future – together 9 cards. Leave unused cards aside.
4) bonus: if you will continue drawing next 9ths of cards – they will also fit to reading.
If you are new to numerology, please see the earlier articles in the archive – for a menu of the detailed information behind this.
Sometimes it is helpful to access the link between numerology and
astrology, to call on the additional symbolic vocabulary which
astrologers have developed to a very sophisticated level.
If we are working in pure number – for the story told by numbers, or
for their manifold interrelationships, or even working with dates – we
can use the astrological linkages (see below) directly. However, if we
are working with words or names then we have an intermediate step to go
through.
The astrological vocabulary of numerology was brought in by the
Romans, and further developed in mediaeval times. So we have to work
with the number-values of letters which traditional European numerology
has used since Roman times:
1 is the value of A, I, J, Q, and Y
2 is the value of B, K, and R
3 is the value of C, G, L, and S
4 is the value of D, M, and T
5 is the value of E, H, N, and X
6 is the value of U, V, and W
7 is the value of O, and Z
8 is the value of F, and P
No modern letters are evaluated at 9
This is very different from the “normal” sequential values used by
modern numerology. It actually arose out of the letter sequence of the
pre-roman Etruscan alphabet. The Romans kept the old values when
working in Latin, and modern letters such as J, U, W, and Y were fitted
in later as they arose. So it looks a bit of a mess now, but a lot of
powerful people have been energising it for over 2,000 years. You may
sometimes find this called the “Chaldean System”, but the Chaldeans
wrote in cuneiform characters, so that name does not really stand up.
If we were to use the astrology with the much easier direct
letter-values which are normal in modern numerology, we would usually
get complete rubbish in the interpretation. Please stay with the
Aura-Soma Equilibrium Bottles as your deep vocabulary when working with
sequential modern letter-values.
The astrological linkages are:
ZERO was a concept unknown in Europe until about 1300, so it has no
old attributions, but has latterly been associated with the element
aether, and by some people with the planet Pluto.
ONE has positive polarity, and is associated with the fire element and the cardinal quality. It is ruled by the Sun.
TWO has negative polarity, and is associated with the water element and the fixed quality. It is ruled by the Moon.
THREE has positive polarity, and is associated with the air element and the mutable quality. It is ruled by Jupiter.
FOUR has negative polarity, and is associated with the earth element
and the cardinal quality. In Roman times it was ruled by Saturn, but
the Mediaeval revision (see below) gave it to the Sun, now in modern
times it is ruled by Uranus.
FIVE has positive polarity, and is associated with the air element and the fixed quality. It is ruled by Mercury.
SIX has negative polarity, and is associated with the air element and the mutable quality. It is ruled Venus.
SEVEN has positive polarity, and is associated with the water element
and the cardinal quality. In Roman times it was ruled by Jupiter, but
the Mediaeval revision (see below) gave it to the Moon, now in modern
times it is ruled by Neptune.
EIGHT has negative polarity, and is associated with the earth element and the fixed quality. It is ruled by Saturn.
NINE has positive polarity, and is associated with mutable quality.
It is ruled by Mars. Its elemental attribution is less clear.
Originally it was given the fire element, but the Mediaeval revision
suggested that it related to all elements, and some more recent
authorities associate it with aether.
The Mediaeval Revision
In Mediaeval times they thought that it was unfair that Saturn and
Jupiter should have two numbers each (although that can be traced back
to Chaldean astrology); so they decided that the “two great luminaries” –
the Sun and Moon – should have two numbers each and ordinary planets
only one. Likewise the fire element was identified as unfairly having
three numbers rather than two, so they associated the NINE with “all”
elements.
Identifying the Signs which will be revealed
Aries is positive cardinal fire
Taurus is negative fixed earth
Gemini is positive mutable air
Cancer is negative cardinal water
Leo is positive fixed fire
Virgo is negative mutable earth
Libra is positive cardinal air
Scorpio is negative fixed water
Sagittarius is positive mutable fire
Capricorn is negative cardinal earth
Aquarius is positive fixed air
Pisces is negative mutable water
In analyses, the elements and qualities are more important than the
polarities, as it is possible to have a result showing such as “negative
cardinal air” – a combination which does not exist in a real sign. In
such cases we would ignore the polarity.
How can we use this?
Let’s try an example of finding the astrological vibrations in the name of “Fred Smith”:
FRED SMITH
8254 34145
using the traditional letter-values.
First we count the occurrences of each factor:
Positive has 4 occurrences, from 5, 3, 1, and 5
Negative has 5, from 8, 2, 4, 4, and 4
Fire has 2 occurrences, from 3 and 1
Air has 2 from the two fives
Water has 1 from the single 2
Earth has 4 from the 8 and three 4s
Cardinal has 4 from the 1 and three 4s
Fixed has 3 from the 2 and two 5s
Mutable has 1 from the single 3
Sun has 1 occurrence
Moon 1
Jupiter 1
Uranus 3
Mercury 2
Venus <none>
Neptune <none>
Saturn 1
Mars <never occurs on an individual letter>
The total value of “Fred Smith” is 36, which reduces to (3+6=) 9, so the overall ruler is Mars.
Within the detail above, we have Negative slightly greater than
Positive, Earth out-ranking the other elements, Cardinal out-ranking the
other qualities, and Uranus (followed by Mercury) out-ranking other
planets.
Result
The Cardinal Earth sign in astrology is Capricorn, and it happens to be negative. So the dominant astrology is of Uranus in Capricorn. This could be refined to be seen as a Uranus-Mercury conjunction in Capricorn, with Uranus the stronger.
So words and names and pure number carry astrological influences.
Their vibration resonate to a harmonic in sympathy with normal planetary
astrology. If you are doing a personal reading, this enables you to
use numerology and astrology together. If you are working with the
symbolism of pure number, the astrology will bring out additional subtle
tones.
Details when using traditional letter-values
Accents
Umlaut = 5
Circumflex = 3
Cedilla = 3
Other accents = 0
Double letter ß = 10
The rationale here is that the umlaut represents a missing letter
“e”, and circumflexes or cedillas represent a missing letter “s”.
Whilst “ß” now represents “ss”, it originally represented “sz”. Other
accents are pronunciation indicators only.
Abbreviations
Spell out all abbreviations: including
“&” becomes “and”, or “et”, or “und”, etc.
“@” becomes “at”, or “à”, or “zu/bei” etc.
“U.N.” becomes “United Nations”
Extra information on number, unrelated to the use of astrology
In my time running this blog, I haven’t seen a single post about numerology, maybe just because nobody knows it, or maybe because witches have a pathological fear of math. Either way, it’s a shame! The basics of numerology are painfully easy to grasp, and I would mark it down as one of the easiest divinitory systems I’ve tried to date. So let’s hit the basics!
We’ll jump right into it.
The Math
Actually, we need to work out the numbers we’re using first. While a person’s birthday is already very handily in a numeric form for you, their name is written up in pesky letters. But every letter has a corresponding numerological number, and by noting the number for each letter in a name, you’re able to calculate what you need.
Here’s a chart of the numbers, nice and easy and not necessary to memorize at all.
The numerological ‘alphabet’ if you will, only goes from the numbers 1-9. The letter ‘A’ marks 1, then J does again, then S. The more you work with numbers, the more you’ll come to just know what letters are associated with what, but even if you don’t, this chart is easy to replicate and even easier to find online.
The next part comes in writing out the numbers for a person’s name. You’ll want to keep this organized rather than messy, as you’ll be using different parts of the numbers to calculate different things. I like to write out the names, then write the numbers for all the vowels above the name, then all the numbers for the consonants below the name. When you’ve done so, it should look something like this:
Some things to note:
Y is treated as a vowel when there are no other vowels in a syllable (Ex: Lynn, Carolyn)
W is treated as a vowel when preceded by a vowel and when it produces a single sound (Ex: Bradshaw, Matthew)
The birthday, again, is already in numeric format, so now all of your numbers just need to be added properly. Which brings us back to the scary part.
The Actual Math
Really, it’s nothing more than basic sums.
If you can add, you can figure out your numbers. Hell, if you can’t add,
you can have a calculator figure it out for you.
It is a little more involved than adding all the numbers you’ve so dutifully marked down and calling it a day, but let’s work through it first.
First, add all the numbers from the vowel section together. Then, add all the numbers from the consonant section together. If we go off the name I provided above, it should look something like this:
Congrats, the hardest bit of math is over!
“But Shay,” you say. “You said the numerological alphabet only consists of the numbers 1-9!”
And so I did. But I also said only the worst of the math was over. Next, we need to break down the numbers we got until they fall into that range. What you do for this is you take each numeral in the number and you add them together.
Let’s break it down. Looking at the vowel section, we’ve been left with the number 22. To get the numerological number, you take each numeral and add them together – here, that looks like 2 + 2 and leaves us with the number 4, perfectly within our range.
Our consonant number at the moment is 54, or 5 + 4, which adds up to 9. Again, in range. Should you get a number that’s still too big, keep breaking it down until it’s only one digit. For example, the number 98 becomes 17 (9 + 8), but then 17 becomes 8 (1 + 7) and is now within the acceptable range.
You’ve just calculated the Inner Dreams number and the Soul Urge number. And by adding those two together (and reducing as necessary) you will have the Destiny Path number. In this case, it’s 4 (The Soul Urge and Inner Dreams numbers 9 and 4 add up to 13, and 13 as 1 + 3 equals 4).
That’s three numbers down, one to go.
We’ve largely neglected the Life Path number, but all it really requires is the reduction method we just covered.
Take my birthday. April 27th, 1993, or in number terms, 04/27/1993. All you have to do is add all these numbers together, then once they’re nice and neat in one giant number, you simplify it as you learned. 04 + 27 + 1993 = 2024, which gives us a number to reduce. Even though it’s more than two digits, you handle it the same way. 2 + 0 + 2 + 4 adds up to 8, making a quick work of the reduction and giving us our Life Path number.
For you visual learners out there, it looks something like this:
Breaking it Down
So now, we have all four of our numbers! And with minimal tears shed. For the sake of having everything in one place, all of my numbers put together look something like this:
A number showing up more than once implies a strength of presence in that number – two or three times indicates that the traits associated with that number are strong, as do numbers that ‘resonate’, such as how 4 fits evenly into 8 or 3 fits evenly into 9. If there are too many repetitions of a number, expect to see more and more of the negative associations of those traits brought to light. Keep your eye out for these, as they will amplify one another.
Okay, but what does it all mean?
The Divination
There are four major numbers you go for when putting someone’s numbers together. The Life Path number, the Destiny Path number, the Soul Urge number, and the Inner Dreams number.
Life Path:
The
life path number is the sum of the numbers in one’s birthday (date,
month, and year). It relates to the path in life one will take and the
traits one has at birth.
Destiny Path:
The
destiny path number is the sum of all letters in one’s full name. It
relates to the tasks one was meant to achieve in their lifetime.
Soul Urge:
The
soul urge number is the sum of all vowels in a person’s name. It
represents a person’s inner cravings, their likes and dislikes, and what
they value most.
Inner Dreams:
The
inner dreams number is the sum of all consonants in a person’s name. It
represents secret dreams, inner desires, and fantasies.
And lastly, the meaning of the numbers themselves. This post is already long enough to the point where I’m not going to write up a paragraph about each and every number (they are all available and more if you look them up online), but I’ll give you a run-down for each.
Scattered energies, self-centeredness, unfinished projects, lack of direction
4:
Positive Traits: Strong sense of order, highly practical, steady growth, fine management skills Negative Traits: Lack of imagination, stubborn, fixed opinions, argumentative, slow to act
So there you have it! Put the numbers you calculated to their associated meanings and work it out in your head, just like with tarot or other divinatory practices.
Just a few parting comments before I end this post.
In Summation
This is the setup for a slightly above basic numerological reading. The most basic that I ever use involves taking just the Life Path and Destiny path numbers. To take an even more complex spread, you could break down the person’s full name by each individual name, analyzing the vowels, consonants, and overall number for the first, middle, and last name individually, so that you can study what builds a person up into their full name and their path numbers. This gets very extensive very fast, and even with just the four above, you may end up doing three numbers per name plus the Life Path number. For your standard 3-name schema, this would involve ten numbers. Still manageable, but quite a lot.
On the topic of nicknames: generally, the rule in numerology is that you should use the name a person has held the longest. For example, Shay isn’t my birth name, but I’ve been called Shay for just over half of my lifetime. This is a good guideline, but please consider it only as a guideline. If someone has a name they do not wish to be called, respect them, and analyze the name they give you instead. An interesting thing to do – if the subject is comfortable – is to compare the birth name with the chosen name numerologically, and they can comment on advances that you have made through your life.
This is all I can think of at the moment! Go forth and numerolocize!
Lastly, I put together a blank template so you can practice on your own 😀
We devised the Alchemy Thoth Tarot Spread primarily for the
purpose of problem solving, though no doubt it has more subtle uses. The
three-card groups allow the Tarot dignities to be used. One advantage of this
layout is its simplicity; it is based on the idea that Rajas (Sulphur, action)
acts upon Tamas (Salt, inertia) to bring about Sattwas (Mercury, wisdom).
Alchemical Salt (5 2 8): The inertia that must be overcome; the
problem or any difficulties around the question.
Alchemical Sulphur (6 3 9): Activity; the action that is most likely to be taken by the Querent.
Alchemical Mercury (4 1 7): A synthesis of forces; the solution; that
which will come to pass.
If desired, a card may be chosen and placed in the centre of
the triad before shuffling and laying the other cards, to represent the
Querent.
Philosophical
Astrology consists of the links between philosophy and astrology, from
the mysticism of ancient religions and cultures based in part on
astrology to the mathematics common to both astrology, numerology and
Sacred Geometry, and to the curious aspects of astrological Symbolism which have profound philosophical implications.
The Ha QabalaandTree of Life,
for example, are fundamental to Jewish, Christian, and a host of other
ancient, medieval, and modern mystical traditions and/or mystery
schools. Together with Numerology and the Tarot, Astrology describes and identifies the characteristics of the many pathways between the Sephiroth in the Tree of Life. Everything
from the “dark night of the soul” (usually referred to as the 32nd
path) to all the varied manifestations of processes contained within the
Tree come within the purview of the so-called occult arts. Astrology provides one tool for identifying the meaning of the multiple transformations and transitions of life, all a part of The Fool’s Journey – the latter one of the better examples of a philosophy of living.
Astrology’s connection to the Tree of Lifecan also be seen in such things as the Tree’s column of severity, which is represented by the astrological planets: Uranus, Saturn and Mars. Uranus is revolutionary and sudden change, Saturn, limitation and boundaries, and Mars, aggressiveness and war). Meanwhile the Tree’s column of mercy is composed of Neptune, Jupiter and Venus (illusion and fantasy, benevolence and generosity, love and romance). In
essence, the attributes of the Sephiroth reflect what we know of the
astrology of the applicable planet being assigned to the Tree of Life. Saturn,
for example, is about government, citizen responsibilities, societal
rules, boundaries and limits; while the Sephiroth corresponding to
Saturn – Geburah – is about severity and strength, justice, strife,
loss in pleasure, and earthly trouble. Clearly a good definition of earthly trouble can be found in such government troubles as the IRS, FBI, CIA, DOD, ETC! Other
examples include the Sephiroth, Yesod (foundation), which is amply
personified by Mercury (communications, analysis, thinking, and so
forth).
Astrology shows up elsewhere in the cultural and philosophical traditions of everything from
ancient Egypt – where an astrology very similar to modern day
astrology is carved into the Temple of Denderra – to ancient Babylonia
– where Berossus predicted and wielded an astrology sufficient to grab
anyone’s attention. Astrology was
also a primary tool of Nostradamus (1503-1566 A.D.), who used astrology
as the basis for the timing of his many prophecies (many of which
profoundly affected royalty and influential leaders and whose validity
could thus be determined).
On a yet more fundamental level, astrology is based upon Sacred Geometry, which is in turn based on the Golden Mean (represented by the Greek letter, phi). Philosophy
can be written: phi-lo-sophia – wherein sophia (sophy) is “the study,
wisdom, or knowledge”, lo, “the amazing sight” (as in “lo and behold”),
and phi… just phi. Thus philosophy is “the study, wisdom, or knowledge” of “the amazing sight” of… phi! Sacred Geometry may then be said to connect astrology and philosophy. The latter can be said to be wholly within the purview of Sacred Mathematics, i.e. the universe is based on numbers. This
is not a definition of philosophy that many philosophers would accept,
but this is probably due only to their lack of mathematical acuity.
A philosophy of astrology, per se, is less obvious, but can be described by alluding to what are known as “Sabian Symbols.” These
symbols, according to Dane Rudhyar, “take events from the realm of
the fortuitous, the unprecedented, the unique and the incomprehensible
to the realm of ‘universals’.” “Expressed through symbols, life becomes condensed into a relatively few interrelated units of experience. Each unit is a concentrate of the experiences of millions of people.” Symbols
use “an imagery that is close to the foundations of the natural life –
and these foundations are still very real and active in the immense
majority of human beings.” The
Tree of Life, for example, is replete with symbols, and it is those
symbols which constitute its meaning – even when discussion and mere
words prove to be wholly inadequate.
The history of astrology’s Sabian Symbols is critical to their understanding. It
began in 1925, when Marc Edmund Jones (an astrologer) approached Elsie
Wheeler (a clairvoyant medium, who happened to be crippled by
arthritis). Jones had a novel idea. He
provided a deck of 360 cards, each card representing one degree of the
Zodiacal circle (and identified, for example, as one degree Aries, ten
degrees Scorpio, and so forth). In
Miss Wheeler’s presence, Jones shuffled the deck (and reshuffled many
times during the process), and then began pulling one card at random –
without his or her seeing what the card was. Miss Wheeler responded by describing what she saw. Apparently,
a scene flashed in her inner vision, which she quickly described, and
which Jones made a brief pen notation on the card of what she said. Not
only was the procedure entirely aleatory as far as the normal
consciousness of the two participants was concerned, but the amazing
thing was that the 360 symbols were obtained during a few hours in the
morning, and later in a few hours during the afternoon – at a rate of
roughly one symbol every ninety seconds.
What made the resulting Sabian Symbols
so incredible is that while the two individuals had proceeded at
fantastic speed and had operated purely at random, the result was a
series which, when carefully studied, yielded a definite and complex
internal structure. The entire 360 cards matched with one another in geometrical pattern. Dane
Rudhyar, for example, found that the symbols formed, among other
possibilities, a pentagonal five-step process – much in accord with
Sacred Geometry. Apparently, there was some kind of Consciousness at work. For
the symbols were not only operating at both an existential and
archetypal-structural level, but they could be considered as “phases of a cyclic process rather than as isolated images
– that is, when the possible interpretations are considered in the
light of preceding and following phrases in a characteristic five-fold
sequence, and in terms of wider relationships – any ambiguity usually
disappears.”
Possibly
of all the Sabian Symbols, which might garner your attention, is the
symbol for the North Node (aka the “Dragon’s Head”, and which represents
destiny), taken from the chart of 2012 A. D. (i.e. the end of the Mayan Calendar, and potentially the “end of Time as we know it.”) The symbol for this most incredible of all dates is “An X-Ray Photograph.” Rudhyar interpreted this to mean, “The capacity to acquire a knowledge of the structural factors in all existence.” He goes on to say, “The true philosopher is able to grasp and significantly evaluate what underlies all manifestations of life. His
mind’s eye penetrates through the superficialities of existence and
perceives the framework that gives an at least relatively permanent
‘form’ to all organized systems. Thus
if the structure is weak, deformed by persistent strain, or unbalanced,
the basic causes of outer disturbances and dis-ease can be discovered. This
symbol… provides the conscience of the individual who refuses to obey
his society with a depth-understanding of what is wrong in the
situation he faces. Beyond the
powerful feeling quality of ‘peak experiences’, the mind can understand
the great Principles of which they were the manifestations. This is STRUCTURAL KNOWLEDGE in contrast to existential knowledge.”
Interpreted as the end of time as we know it, implies that there may be much to learn in the ultimate “peak experience” of 2012 A.D., a time when Novelty and the TimeWave go to infinity, and the greatest changes of all human experience abruptly manifest! Similarly,
another date – based on the TimeWave theory – is November 11, 2011
(just over 384 days prior to the perceived ending date of roughly
12-21-2012). The Sabian Symbols (and a brief interpretation from Rudhyar) for this critical “beginning of the end” are:
Sun – “A Woman Draws Away Two Dark Curtains Closing the Entrance to a Sacred Pathway – The revelation to the human consciousness of what lies beyond dualistic knowledge. Plunge ahead into the Unknown”
Moon – “A Peacock Parading on a Terrace of an Old Castle – The personal display of inherited gifts. Consumation.”
Mercury & Venus “A Flag turns into an Eagle; the Eagle into a Chanticleer Saluting the Dawn – The spiritualization and promotion of great symbols of a New Age by minds sensitive to its precursory manifestations. (An Eagle is the first living creature to perceive the rising sun.) Annunciation”
Mars – “In a Portrait, the Significant Features of a Man’s Head Are Artistically Emphasized – The capacity to picture to oneself clearly the salient features and the overall meaning of any life situation.
Jupiter – “The Pot of Gold at the End of the Rainbow – Riches that come from linking the celestial and the earthly nature. Communion” [Jupiter always was the Santa Claus of the Zodiac!]
Saturn – “A Butterfly with a Third Wing on its Left Side – The ability to develop, for inner strengthening, new modes of response to basic life situations. Original Mutation”
Chiron – “In a Crowded Marketplace, Farmers and Middlemen Display a Great Variety of Products – The process of commingling and interchange which at all levels demonstrates the health of a community. (…what is stressed is the coming together, in a final experience of community, of all factors previously experienced.) Commerce”
Uranus – “A Woman Just Risen from the Sea. A Seal Is Embracing Her – Emergence of new forms and of the potentiality of consciousness. Impulse to Be”
Neptune – “A Butterfly Emerging from a Chrysalis – The capacity to utterly transform the character of one’s consciousness by radically altering the structural patterns of everyday living and the types of relationships one enters upon. Metamorphosis”
Pluto – “Ten Logs Lie Under an Archway Leading to Darker Woods – The need to complete any undertaking before seeking entrance to whatever is to be found beyond. Threshold”
The more complete interpretation for Pluto is perhaps worth noting. “Number 10 is a symbol of completion; it symbolizes even more the revelation of a new series of activities just ahead. [i.e. Death and Rebirth] Yet
unless the concluded series is brought to some degree of fulfillment,
nothing truly significant is likely to be accomplished by a restless
reaching out toward the as-yet-unknown. Number 10 is a symbol of germination, but the seed (Number 9) must have matured well. No natural process can be accelerated safely beyond certain limits. It establishes a foundation for what will follow.”
It
rather as if we’ll each have about three weeks (November 11, 2011 to
December 3, 2011) to complete all our stuff, toss off all our baggage,
and prime ourselves for the last 384 days of the TimeWave. Or we can begin to do all that shedding, right about now!
The Sabian Symbols are just one aspect of the philosophy of astrology. Determinism and Free Will also play a major role, as does the basics of how anyone interprets the symbolism of astrology. Pictures
– and astrological charts – convey a thousand words, and perhaps more
than most things, demonstrate the limits of language (or rather, why,
perhaps, language is considered a curse during the time of the Kali Yuga). Symbolism, in fact, conjures understandings and emotions far beyond a written sequence of words.
According to Dane Rudhyar, an astrological “birth chart is a person-centered symbol. That is to say, it carries a ‘message’ – the symbolic formulation of the individual’s dharma [destiny]. It suggests how [the individual] can best actualize the innate potentialities of his or her particular and unique selfhood. It is a symbol, a mandala, or logos, a word of power. Astrology, seen from this point of view, is a language of symbols. It implies a process of unfoldment of an idea of feeling-response.” “…a process of unfoldment, as Carl Jung might have said, of ‘individuation’.”
A person’s experiences “basically repeat themselves [Cycles!], even though [the individual] might respond to them differently at each new encounter.” “There are only a certain number of basic meanings
to be gathered by a human being in his or her lifetime, and that these
meanings can be seen in terms of structural and cyclic sequence.” “An
individual, however, acting as an individual and having succeeded in becoming free from collective patterns,
may break through the circle of limitations and tap into a deeper
source of life and consciousness; this indeed is what true occultism is
about.”
Rudhyar goes on to say, “Man should not seek tensely and self-protectively to avoid or control events. Events do not happen to an individual person; he or she happens to them. An individual meets them, and imparts to them his or her own meaning.” “All truly constructive, creative, or redeeming acts are performed through the individual person by a focalization of the whole universe. This is the ‘transpersonal way’ of which I have spoken for many years.” Astrology is thus, in many ways, transpersonal. It is part of the Creating Reality and Intermingled Realities, in which we all have a part.
Astrology can also be used for the most mundane and trivial purposes. But then again, so can all really useful tools in the hands of men and women with limited intentions.
Every
letter of the alphabet matches a number from 1-9. The number can be calculated
by the digit sum equaling the place of the letter in the alphabet. E.g. ‘K’ is
the 11th letter, the digit sum of 11 is 2, so ‘K’ equals the number
of 2.
Alphabetical
number table:
1 A J S
2 B K T
3 C L U
4 D M V
5 E N W
6 F O X
7 G P Y
8 H Q Z
9 I R
For the
calculation of your Name, Personality and Heart number use your complete name(s)
with first, middle and last names as it is written on your birth certificate!
(This will bring the most accurate results.)
Here’s an example of how to calculate the Name
number:
J E F F R E Y L E B O W S K I
1 5 6 6 9 5 7 3 5 2 6 5 1 2 9
add
together 39 33
build digit
sum 3+9=12 3+3=6
1+2=
3 stays 6
add
together 3+6=9
NAME NUMBER
IS 9
What your
Name number indicates:
(1) A leadership personality with
frontier spirit, strength, independence and determination.
(2) A diplomat and peacemaker who is sensitive
towards the own and other people’s emotions.
(3) A master of words, always appearing
to be youthful who is able to do many things at once and who becomes more
self-confident in the process of getting older.
(4) A practical person who works hard,
is patient and possesses a sense of detail.
(5) A freedom-loving traveller who appreciates diversity and change and who is able to do many things
at once.
(6) A harmonious person who loves a peaceful home, family and
all things beautiful and who is responsible as well.
(7) An analyst who is wise to use his
time for reading and writing and moreover doesn’t miss the forest despite of
all the trees.
(8) An organiser who gains power and success when being
in charge of one’s own fate.
(9) A true humanist who loves art, music or voyages.
You give generously and need recognition.
For
calculating your Personality number you
do the same as above only using the consonants of your name(s).
E.g. J
E F F R E YL E B O W S K I — J F F R Y L B W K S Personality number: 6
Your
Personality number indicates that the people surrounding you see you as:
Occult Aspects 