If you are anything like me, you are curious. You are curious about life, and curious about your own true nature. Maybe, like me, that curiosity has led you to explore some of the many systems available for discovering who you are deep down, at the level some would call your soul. Astrology, the Enneagram, the I Ching... there's quite a list of systems to turn to! The one I gravitated to, eventually, was numerology. Why? Because more than any other system out there, what I learned … [Read more...]
Who’s Got the Power?
Two of the most powerful guiding questions you can ask yourself on your soul’s journey through life are: “Am I giving my power away?” and “Am I taking away someone else’s power?” Let’s face it – we have all done both, somewhere along the way. From childhood on, we learn (often by example) about the proper and improper use of personal power. If all goes well, we learn early on how to balance our power, how to stand up for ourselves and take responsibility for our own behavior without … [Read more...]
The Prostitute Archetype – By the Numbers
With this month’s focus on the prostitute, we arrive at the last of the four “survival” archetypes all of us hold in common, according to Caroline Myss. I focused on another of the four, the saboteur, in last month’s column, and if you haven’t checked out that article yet, you might want to do so as a way of gaining additional insight about the prostitute. The saboteur is the part of you that would undermine your forward progress by interfering, blocking or tripping you up – or used … [Read more...]
Numerology and the Saboteur
One of the many powerful aspects of numerology is that it helps you shine a light on parts of you that may be hidden from your awareness. The essential energy of every number in your chart has the potential to be used in a positive or negative way. Other ways to name this potential include: an expanded or contracted approach to life; playing big or playing small; acting from fear or acting from love. The fundamental concept relates to the Law of Polarity – everything (and every force) has an … [Read more...]
An Apple For the Teacher
We looked at the archetype of the student last month, so this month we turn to the other half of the learning equation – the teacher. A teacher holds the key to learning. We all remember very well that a good teacher can ignite a flame of curiosity in any student, even the least engaged, while a bad teacher… well, you remember that experience too, right? In numerology, the number of the teacher is six. I have actually written about this number in a previous column when I discussed the … [Read more...]