Sacred Eight
Today, I woke up experiencing Ace of Cups kind of energy in the heart, and the desire to show cleavage, bring out the boobs. I use that word because it's so juicy and round, just like the very feminine date of 8-8-08. Eight is the number of wholeness, cause and effect, and the cycle of life. In numerology, 8 is auspicious, strong, lucky, solid and as the infinity symbol when turned on its side, the energy of life's endless spiral. It's known as the Great Balancer, the numerology of what goes around, comes around. Hans Decoz of Tarot.com writes, "We can expect shocking and unexpected events, but they will be corrective -- this includes big surprises on the global and national stage. These "8" occurrences tend to bring relief and justice."
If you're a child of the 70s, you'll remember Figure Eight by Schoolhouse Rock. It's a song by which I learned my eights, the multiplication tables, and this one has shades of the mystic cosmic questions. There's a sweet melancholy to the voice of Blossom Dearie, as she sings, "That's a circle that turns round upon itself... place it on its side and it's a symbol of infinity." I was that dreamy child that stared out the window, and this was one of the few children's programs that reached in and caught my attention. The number 8 is simply magical. Pythagorus called it Light and Darkness a hint at the idea that what's created here in the physical has a mirror reality in the celestial. It's a natural path in and out of the realms, one where we take divine concepts and bring them into form. It's the path in and out of the infinite, the zone of endless possibilities.
There's the 8th House and its Scorpio connection to kundalini, the life force that awakens at the base of the spine/root chakra. The feminine ecstasy coming in could be a taste of the mass awakening of 2012, when prophecies have foretold a return of the Goddess in harmony with the masculine principle. If shapely Venus is a number 8, her receptive energies help us come to our senses. Last night I listened to an interview with Credo Mutwa, a Zulu shaman who told of an ancient time when drinking a glass of mountain spring water was a religious experience. The human senses were alive, and we had the eyes to see the shimmering of nature. Today's succulent energies might inspire you to seek out sensory pleasures that fill you with that bliss-feeling we're all in short supply of these days. There's an instinctual path, if we tune into it, that takes us and out of the mystery, and adds richness to our life. Perhaps 8-8-08 is a symbolic evocation of the circular (with the Olympic rings), the Sacred Hoop, the Spiral Dance, nature's seasons and cycles, wholeness, balance of masculine and feminine, and is a preview of things to come.
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