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Numbers are often seen as symbols - but number symbolism is often quite fuzzy ... Moreover, it often invites one to lose touch with reality a bit and get into the fog of relationship madness. However, on closer examination, the symbolism of numbers can be described quite precisely. It is important to distinguish between four types of symbolism: 1. the natural symbolism of the numbers like e.g. the complementary opposite of the "2", which is found among other things with the two poles of the electro-magnetic force or as Yin and Yang; 2. the traditional-mythological symbolism of the numbers, which can be explained historically like e.g. the association of the "9" with the otherworld; 3. the number symbolism that results from a system, such as the "7" for Venus from the association of Venus with the 7th Sephirah ("Netzach") on the Kabbalistic Tree of Life; and 4. symbolism based on individual associations such as to one's birth date. If these four types of number symbolism are kept clearly separate, the observance of numbers can be quite helpful and enriching - in omens and oracles, in magic, and even in research.
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Table of Contents
The four types of number symbolism
The natural number symbolism
The traditional-mythological number symbolism
The system number symbolism
The individual number symbolism
Result: different symbolisms
The application of number symbolism
The numbers
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I The four types of number symbolism
Number symbolism is often a rather spongy matter: the interpretation of a number is not always the same; it isn't also always clear when a number has a meaning and when it does not; sometimes number mysticism feels a lot like escaping from the world and a lack of grounding; for some people, paying attention to numbers degenerates into obsessiveness …
There are many reasons not to concern oneself with number symbolism …
But one should be careful when forming a judgment about something, so that one does not throw out the baby with the bathwater. Therefore, a careful consideration of the number symbolism could be beneficial.
The first thing that is noticeable is that in general people do not look at all why a number has a certain meaning. There are four different roots of number symbolism, which also say something about the reliability of the symbolism of a special number.
And some numbers have even several "reliable meanings" …
I 1. The natural number symbolism
There are some numbers which have a well assured meaning, because this meaning is found in such different places as in physics and in astrology. To this kind of numbers belong, for example, polarities, angles, rhythms, and the like.
With these numbers one should be able to assume that they are reliable – in their interpretation in omens, in their application in magic and in their use as an indication of certain qualities in research. These numbers should form the foundation of any reliable number symbolism.
However, only the numbers "1", "2", "3", "4", "6" and "12" have a reliable, natural symbolism – the symbolism of "12" results from the symbolism of "3" and "4", but still has an independent quality.
I 2. The traditional-mythological number symbolism
In mythology often certain numbers develop from other numbers – they have thus a secondary symbolism, which was created only by humans.
This includes e.g. the "9", which follows the "8", which has been the perfect number in almost all ancient cultures – the "9" is therefore the destruction of the "8" and thus the number of death. In later times, the "8" has been replaced by the "12" as the perfect number – which then made "13" the number of death.
In some cultures, such as the Teutons, the multiplication of a number by "100" has been used to represent the greatest in the range to which the number multiplied by "100" belongs. For example, "900" represents the greatest in the realm of "9" – the afterlife goddess ("100") in the realm of the dead ("9"), which is why she sometimes has "900 heads".
In mythology numbers have been used partly like adjectives: The "nine worlds" under the world tree, for example, are simply the one realm of the dead – and not nine different underworlds.
I 3. The system number symbolism
There are quite a number of magical-mythological systems whose elements have been numbered: the cards of the Tarot, the hexagrams of the I Ching, the Sephiroth of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, the seven classical planets, and so on.
There are also some systems in which each letter has a numerical value, such as in the Jewish Gematria, whereby each word has a certain "sum". According to this system, words with the same letter-number sum also have the same qualities. The most known number from this system is the number "666", which originally was the number of the sun, but in the revelation of John became the number of the enemy of God.
There are also in today's time isolated systematic number symbolisms – e.g. in architecture: "00" means "toilet".
Finally also the different number systems have coined the symbolism of the numbers important for this system:
In the Paleolithic binary system, the 1, the 2, the 4, and the 8 have meaning; in the decimal system the 10, the 100 and the 1000 have a meaning; and in the duodecimal system, the 12, the 144, etc. have a meaning.
These numbers are found as symbolism especially in mythology.
I 4. The individual number symbolism
Finally, there is the individual number symbolism. It arises in two ways, which are, however, closely related to each other.
1. If one (like me) was born on 8.8., one will have an associative connection to the "8" – a friend of mine who was born on 9.9.1999 has such a connection to the "9".
The numbers, which have played a formative role in one's own life at some point, go over, so to speak, into the associative image treasure of one's own subconscious and thus become a part of one's own individual symbolism, which can also contain numbers.
2. If one deals more intensively with number symbolism, one will develop a preference for one or the other symbolism – for the Jewish Gematria, for the numbers of the hexagrams of the I Ching, for the numbers of the Tarot cards, for the binary number symbolism from the Old Stone Age, for the Jewish Gematria, for the North Germanic number symbolism, for the numbers of the Maya calendar – there is a rich selection available.
From these two sources then the individual number symbolism feeds itself, on the basis of which one can interpret e.g. "coincidences" as omens or which one can use in magic as an analogy system.
For oneself this individual system is of great importance – but when cooperating with others, however, one must agree on a system which one uses together. Fortunately, there are also some numbers which have the same meaning in several systems.
I 5. Result: different symbolisms
According to the very different derivations of the symbolism of the numbers, especially with the small numbers below 10, now and then a far-reaching uniformity of the symbolism can be found – e.g. because the "2" is in almost every system a pair or an opposite complement.
In particular with the number symbolisms derived from a system, however, very different meanings of the numbers can be found.
