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sdi ([personal profile] sdi) wrote2021-10-13 11:17 am
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Playing with Numerology

In the Gibson's Complete Illustrated Book of the Psychic Sciences, there is a very fun chapter on numerology. It talks about how the names of things indicate their essential "vibration," and how that energetic effect is brought to bear on the nature of the named thing. I was playing with this today and found it pretty successful at describing what I tested. (Which is pretty weird.)

Here's one example. A bit over a decade ago, I started a small tech startup. It took a lot of hard work, but eventually we were quite successful, and I managed to sell the company last year just before the COVID panic broke the economy. In numerology, there are two important numbers associated with a thing: the date at which it was born, and the name by which it is known. I'll describe both of my company's numbers, below. (Apologies for omitting specifics, but I'd prefer to remain anonymous until my obligations to the acquiring company are complete.)

The date on which we first became known to the world reduces to the number 4. According to Gibson, "As a birth number, 4 stands for a steady, plodding nature, which always favors caution rather than risk. [...] Honesty and reliability are normal attributes with this birth number, but they hinge upon the satisfaction or security that the individual may gain from patience and perseverance." Our company's reputation was founded upon being easy-to-work-with, "low drama," and reliable. Indeed, we were the only company in our industry with these attributes—as it turns out, each of our major competitors had the cloak-and-dagger birth number of 7—and this was the driver of our success.

The name by which we were known reduces to the number 8. According to Gibson, "As a name number, 8 spells Success with dollar signs ($UCCE$$). People expect big results from a person whose name is tuned to this powerful vibration. [...] The weakness with this name number lies in [...] wasted efforts and indulgence in small things when large opportunities are available." As it happens, this was true on both sides: the company was notorious for failing to ship product, and yet we were financially successful despite ourselves. It is very likely we could have been two or three times as successful, had we not squandered so much effort!

I find these associations pretty interesting, and I wish I knew about them when I started the business: I might have picked numbers that were less serious and more fun! Still, I suppose exploring the occult aspects of it after-the-fact helps to make up for that, and I plan to play with numerology more as time goes on.

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[personal profile] boccaderlupo 2021-10-15 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Not sure the numbers synch up perfectly, but wonder if there's some correlation to be had with the Cabala...4 is in certain mappings attributed to Jupiter, with all of those associations (including wealth), while 8 is mapped to your friend and mine, the good Mercurius.

Axé and all blessings with these developments in your life.

Fra' Lupo
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[personal profile] boccaderlupo 2021-10-15 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not sure who this Gibson gentlemen is, but perhaps that mapping works in his system--but I agree that association strikes me as off.

One mapping of the sefirot and planets:

1 and 2 are left out--I tend to associate them with the Demiurge and the Nous and/or Logos, but that's me.
3. Saturn: This could potentially gibe with the above, if we attribute to Saturnus the "expression" of spacetime.
4. Jupiter
5. Mars: Advantage...?
6. Sol: Harmony could conceivably be construed as dependability (?)
7. Venus: I could see an argument for the connection to "mystery"
8. Mercury: the association with wealth and success has potential here
9. Luna

10 does not fit into the pattern, but would fall to Terra--conceivably could make sense if we think in a cyclical manner, with one being a kind of reflection or refraction of 10. Reading his above associations, I could imagine an argument that those aspects fit, but...

Axé
Edited (Added some additional thoughts on possible correspondences) 2021-10-15 23:47 (UTC)
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[personal profile] boccaderlupo 2021-10-16 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
Fascinating. Yes, the disjunct between the 9 and the 10 certainly throws one off. Will have to read more on this, as I'm entirely green to it.

Axé
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[personal profile] boccaderlupo 2021-10-16 01:08 pm (UTC)(link)
My Cabala is amateurish at best, but interesting to note the association in this set of Neptune with, in the correspondences I listed, Luna, with their shared association of the tides and the moon. Very interesting.

Axé
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[personal profile] boccaderlupo 2021-10-17 12:29 pm (UTC)(link)
My sense is that "the seven planets" have been with us throughout history and prior to the telescope, therefore the correspondences people have noted with them are more robust. So the "new planets" discovered since the arrival of the telescope may require some additional time for their full complement of associations to be fully understood.

Axé
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[personal profile] boccaderlupo 2021-11-17 03:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, it's nothing if not straightforward!

Axé