Dear Jo-Ann (WhiteRaven);
As you perhaps already know, I do kinda do things a tad different…
Justice following Hanged-Man? Only if you use a post 1909 deck.
But we really need to examine the Calendar, before we can examine Numerology.
In the Third century BC, Eratosthenese observed (at noon on the summer solstice) that the sun illuminated the bottom of a well in Aswan (on the Tropic of Cancer) as it crossed the meridian; but in Alexandria (500± miles north) shadows were cast by the sun at high noon. He reasoned that this was due to the curvature of the earth – concluding that it was spherical. By double measurement of the arc of the meridian between the two places in degrees and stadia, Eratosthenes determined the circumference of the earth to be 252,000 stadia (Columbus was using Eratosthenese works when he sailed in 1492 which lead to his conclusion that he had indeed found India…but he could not reconcile (or admit he was wrong) that India just wasn’t there…he was off by just a few miles). It was not until 1669 that Jean Picard computed the circumference of the earth to 24,500 miles, accurate but still off.
We had the Ptolemaic Theory, (Claudius Ptolemy used the works of Psoidonius (130-51 BC) to determine the earths circumference to be 180,000 stadia) placing the earth at the center of the solar system. This was refuted in 1543 by the publication of De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium by Nicolaus Copernicus who ‘proved’ the Heliocentric theory first championed by Aristarchus of Samos ( 4th century BC?).
Then we had the calendar systems…The Julian calendar was used and accepted by Europeans after the heyday of the Roman Empire. They dickered around about when Christ was born (using that event as a starting point, I think they should use the birth of Ty Cobb myself). Around 1614, Johannes Kepler decided to (Kepler proved much of Tycho Brahe’s work to be archaic, Newton did the same to Kepler, who in turn was refuted by Leverrier, and everyone fell to Einstein) place Christ’s birth at 4 B.C.E. Recently they decided that Kepler was off and the J.C. was born in 6 B.C.E. (but they don’t say if they count year 0 or not…).
But the equinox kept falling behind, on the calendar one full day every 130 years.
By the 1500’s, the spring equinox was all the way back to early March.
This was a dreadful situation…
How can we celebrate Easter without ‘knowing’?
So the pope decided to mandate a working calendar. 1582 was the year that Pope Gregory XIII ordered ten days to be dropped from the calendar…so that the equinox (vernal) was on March 20th, as it had been during the time of the Council of Nicea (now there is a historical event worth your while to research…woooo hooo!).
Also “New Years” was moved from March 31st, to January 1st. Leap years were added.
Most European nations adopted the Gregorian reform, with the exception of England and its Colonies, which held out until 1752. At that time, 11 days had to be cut from their calendar.
Now the first Chronometer was not invented until 1660 by Christian Huygens. So until that time – time could not be accurately measured, and longitude was guesswork.
You see in celestial navigation…Latitude is easy. You take a reading from heavenly bodies. But Longitude my friends, is difficult. You are moving, on a moving body, sighting other moving bodies and attempting to justify relative locations. Now if you know how fast you are moving and for how long (time measurement), you can guestimate approximate location.
Worse yet…this all assumes a Eurocentric system. Not a Judaic or Arabic system, and since J.C. was not European…
So if the death and resurrection of J.C. is fixed to the Lunar calendar (first full moon etc.), how come the birth is fixed to the Solar calendar (3 days after the Winter Solstice).
Now anyone worth their weight in salt knows that in the ‘Holy Land’ you don’t tend your flocks in the mountains in December, also in an agrarian society, you do not pay taxes in the middle of winter, you pay after the harvest.
Anyway…here’s the nut…!
What is Numerology based on?
An un-rectified Julian or Gregorian calendar?
It all assumes that the birth date of old J.C. being accurate was year 1 (AD). But that was refuted in 1614 by Kepler…and now they believe he was off by a couple of years…
BTW: and if you aren’t hep to the Council of Nicia…you really do need to check it out. Do a google on the Nestorians.
Where is the all going?
I mean seriously…the current Gregorian calendar was based upon Ecclesiastical convenience – not fact. And if it was ‘agreed’ that JC was born in 4 B.C. then all numerological studies would be off by at least five digits (since the year 0 is not counted).
So numerology…and Personality, soul, and year cards…they would be based upon myth…
And if Myth is more powerful than truth…
Is it unfair for us to tweak our own numerological systems?
Just a question…
Vast portions plagiarized from prior posts of my own. Research is from The Practical American Navigator by Nathaniel Bowditch, the History Channel, The Learning Channel, Internet sources, and so on and so forth.…
Further…why do folks change their year cards when they change their calendars? It’s not like your ‘life’ suddenly changes on December 31, 2004.
Now on and around your birthday…That’s when major cycle changes occur in your life.
The Calendar as we know it…is Eurocentric, based upon a Semitic mythos.
Do we change our numerology when reading for Indians? Jews? Muslims? Chinese? Japanese? Native Americans? Mayans?
No. Indeed we go off about the vibrational qualities of the numbers blah blah blah…
We have however, created and immersed ourselves into a culture that honors and elevates the decade. This is fine in my opinion. There is the Pythagorean Decad and the Sephiroth… We center our lives around 10’s, counting our years (“…in my thirties”).
I use a 100-year cultural cycle as opposed to a 2000 Christian cycle.
I only use the last two digits of the four-digit year. Our culture tells us (because we created it) that we live in “Oh-Four” and it’s about to turn “Oh-Five”. Remember the Hoopla over turning from Ninety-Nine to TWO THOUSAND…we went from a two-digit year to a four-digit year and then back to a two-digit year. We really have to listen to our own self-talk, and the talk around us to really get a grip on this concept…
If you don’t get up every morning and say…”Wow, it’s the twenty-first day of the twelfth month in the year of our Lord and Savior Jesus Kristos Two thousand and four…” then you live in a centennial, decade modality.
I only use the last two digits of the year; so it’s based on a 100-year cultural cycle as opposed to a 2000 Christian cycle. I have found it far more accurate than using the entire four-digit year, and I’m basing this on thirty years of active reading.
I figure year cycles based on decades – figured from your last birthday.
If a number comes out to double digits, reduce this to a single digit.
Let’s suppose your birthday is on March 4th.
March is the 3rd month. The fourth is the 4th day. 3+4=7.
Add digits of the year you had your last birthday (not the current year), (let us imagine it is currently winter of 2004. Your last birthday was spring of 2004, so your year to add is a 4-year. 7+4 = 11. and of course 1+1=2. It is a TWO year, not an Eleven. It equates to TWO’s, and perhaps Chockmah (second Sephiroah), and not as a part of the Major Arcana (Eleven).
Only when people are trying to ‘fit’ numerology into the Major Arcana do people come up with double digits; an attempt to reconcile dissimilar systems…
But that’s my opinon…based on my understanding of the calendar…
Now the pressures of a Two-year (relationships and possibilities of relationships – and the suppression of ego in and around those possibilities) can most certainly be seen as a Hanged-Man time or our lives.
