Forgot to say - I know what you mean about getting to the stage where you can guess people's numbers - I was like that with astrology for a while. Likewise with the tarot, where I would just ask people for three numbers between 1 and 78 and do a past-present-future reading.
I think what happens is that the brain gets so used to it, by constantly reinforcing all those neural connections, and builds up the database of examples (memory), so to speak, such that your mind instantly absorbs a whole load of non-verbal data from a person (microexpressions etc.), then checks the database for matches. Then again, there is something magical about it too, because the more we do these sorts of activities the more in harmony with reality we become.
Anyway - a few more thoughts there that just popped into my head and wouldn't go away. I really must get myself back into the habit of divination.
I've encountered a fair amount of numerology in my time, partly because I used it a fair amount when I've done tarot. There are 78 cards in the tarot and each one can be related to a specific number (between 1 and 78 - obviously each one can also be reduced to single digit). Likewise there is a clear numerical/meaning sequence (or progression/development) in each suit from 1 to 10, with, naturally, the 10 (1+0) also being the first step in the next cycle (so it's 9, as you say). I have a book somewhere specifically relating numbers to cards, and astrology for that matter - they're all related somehow. To relate name and birthdate numbers to the tarot simply means not reducing them to a single digit (unless greater than 78 of course).
So I'm right with you on this one. Likewise with the Pythagorean aspect. When I was studying philosophy I wrote my dissertation on Pythagoreanism, as I loved all that mysticism. The Tetractys obviously springs to mind here, although it was also the reincarnation that I had an affinity with. I think there's a fair amount of that with the Egyptians too.
One thing I had not heard of was having six numbers - what I learned was three from the name (vowels (=soul)-consonants (=outer personality/how you manifest in life) and then add the two (=path of destiny)), with just one from the birthday (life lesson number). So with three numbers from the birthday that's day-month-year? Well, that makes things even more interesting and I'm going to have to go away and think about that...
I had the video on as a podcast as I finished up household tasks and felt both productive and enlightened :) Thank you so much for this introduction, your explanation was both thorough and entertaining.
Forgot to say - I know what you mean about getting to the stage where you can guess people's numbers - I was like that with astrology for a while. Likewise with the tarot, where I would just ask people for three numbers between 1 and 78 and do a past-present-future reading.
I think what happens is that the brain gets so used to it, by constantly reinforcing all those neural connections, and builds up the database of examples (memory), so to speak, such that your mind instantly absorbs a whole load of non-verbal data from a person (microexpressions etc.), then checks the database for matches. Then again, there is something magical about it too, because the more we do these sorts of activities the more in harmony with reality we become.
Anyway - a few more thoughts there that just popped into my head and wouldn't go away. I really must get myself back into the habit of divination.
I've encountered a fair amount of numerology in my time, partly because I used it a fair amount when I've done tarot. There are 78 cards in the tarot and each one can be related to a specific number (between 1 and 78 - obviously each one can also be reduced to single digit). Likewise there is a clear numerical/meaning sequence (or progression/development) in each suit from 1 to 10, with, naturally, the 10 (1+0) also being the first step in the next cycle (so it's 9, as you say). I have a book somewhere specifically relating numbers to cards, and astrology for that matter - they're all related somehow. To relate name and birthdate numbers to the tarot simply means not reducing them to a single digit (unless greater than 78 of course).
So I'm right with you on this one. Likewise with the Pythagorean aspect. When I was studying philosophy I wrote my dissertation on Pythagoreanism, as I loved all that mysticism. The Tetractys obviously springs to mind here, although it was also the reincarnation that I had an affinity with. I think there's a fair amount of that with the Egyptians too.
One thing I had not heard of was having six numbers - what I learned was three from the name (vowels (=soul)-consonants (=outer personality/how you manifest in life) and then add the two (=path of destiny)), with just one from the birthday (life lesson number). So with three numbers from the birthday that's day-month-year? Well, that makes things even more interesting and I'm going to have to go away and think about that...
I had the video on as a podcast as I finished up household tasks and felt both productive and enlightened :) Thank you so much for this introduction, your explanation was both thorough and entertaining.