The Numbers Game
I feel inspired by this thought from my friend xtcian's blog:
I'd be very interested to know your "personal numerology." Mine is based (loosely) on various things I've read over the years--and on my own experience. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, right?
By age 5, I'd already categorized all the single-digit numbers in terms of personality, and used them all day to satisfy some bizarre trains of thought. In my head:I, too, have always associated personalities with numbers:
1 = alone
2 = love
3 = erased the last bad thing
4 = luck
5 = bad luck
6 = bad luck for others
7 = good luck for others
8 = saving grace meant for rare usage
9 = erased the last whole cadre of things
- 1 = Perfection and/or solitary strength and/or new beginning
- 2 = Duplicity and/or togetherness
- 3 = Strength and/or masculinity
- 4 = Femininity and/or weakness
- 5 = Grace and/or gracefulness
- 6 = Human weakness
- 7 = Perfection (divine and/or earthly)
- 8 = Excess
- 9 = Ending, termination, annihilation (sort of the 'Shiva' of numbers)
- Smoked a lot of pot
- Dropped a lot of acid
- Read Joseph Campbell's The Power of Myth
I'd be very interested to know your "personal numerology." Mine is based (loosely) on various things I've read over the years--and on my own experience. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, right?
posted by Warrior of the Woods at 5:52 AM
2 Comments:
It's interesting that 4=luck (four-leaved clovers and such, I would suppose). In Chinese superstition, 4 is a bad luck number because in Chinese it's a homonym for "death".
So that's why! The Japanese also consider 4 unlucky, and I always wondered why...
Interesting how these things come about. Numerologically, 13, the Western unlucky number, also reduces to 4 (1 + 3). Slightly spooky coincidence, no?
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