Creative Numerology

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“The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it,
ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.”
Winston Churchill

8 is the number of POWER. It teaches us that power, in any form, cannot be maintained without BALANCE, and that balance cannot hold without ACCURATE UNDERSTANDING. 8 is associated  with money, business, competition, and the incorporation of anything that is useful to it. It is widely believed that those are the principle means of gaining personal power in the world. The belief that ‘money is power’ sprang from this rather shortsighted point of view.

Yes, 8 is the number of power on the material plane but, in the  context of true balance and accurate understanding, it is far more  precise to say that knowledge is power. But when knowledge is manipulated in order to gain power, true balance and understanding are lost. We are currently experiencing the rebalancing of power in all worldly matters, including the unstoppable power of Mother Nature, and the money-driven corruption in politics, science, business and the mainstream media. It is likely to be a rough ride for some time to come.

However, the attention being given to the number 8 in August 2008, and it’s extremely reflective connection to the Olympic Games in China, cannot help but reveal more truth, and add more understanding to the true purpose of 8, which is to keep the material plane alive!

8 is the symbol of infinity. The constant flow of energy. Perpetual motion. The continuance of life. We are beginning to understand that our previous lack of understanding has thrown life on Earth, and the Earth itself, so far out of balance that the continuance of life as we know it is seriously threatened. As 8 is one of the numbers that makes up 2008, we will feel its influence significantly throughout the year, with a measurable increase in July, August and September. This will bring further insight and help us to seek the most effective and lasting ways to heal the damage.

Without an understanding of the vital role that balance plays in holding the world ‘together’, the 8 influence translates as greed and, to put it mildly, astounding ignorance. By its nature, greed ignores any reality that does not feed its hunger for “more”! Greed must also convince others to deny reality so that it’s power-seeking mission can continue unobstructed. Greed must control, manipulate the truth, and capitalize on anything that suits its purpose, even if it stands to destroy other aspects of life. Power-hungry people distort the truth by making it seem they have more power than they actually have, using the emotion of fear as a weapon with which to overpower. Underdeveloped 8 energy is the energy of the bully who denies his or her enormous fear by projecting it onto others. People who are genuinely powerful rarely have to assert their power in an intimidating way.

Denial of reality has been the main cause of the great imbalance we are now waking up to on Earth, environmentally, economically, politically, and in almost every other way. However, this year’s concentration of 8 energy (combined with the 2 energy of the 2000s which signifies balance through connection, cooperation and diplomacy) is helping us to end our own denials which will, hopefully, produce an evolutionary movement away from the edge of self-destruction, onto safer ground.

The imbalance is being perpetuated by those who stand to lose what they’ve got if the playing fields of life were more even, and by those who are still mistaking their denials for reality. They even deny the existence of evolution. Of course, there is imbalance on the other side of the creation/evolution argument, too. Those who believe that everything stems from evolution are denying the fact that everything on Earth is, in one way or another, created – and it evolves. A more balanced look at this shows us that life is an evolving creation.

“We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves.”
Eric Hoffer

It is important to understand what denial is because it exists in all of us whether we deny it or not. Denial’s mission is to capture the truth and stop it from reaching consciousness. Although truth can remain hidden for what seems like an eternity, truth cannot be totally destroyed. The mission of denied truth is to seek conscious acceptance. Its magnetism draws attention to situations which, when enough dots are connected, sheds light on the denial until we ‘sense’ that there must be more to the situation than meets the eye or the ear. Truth then reaches consciousness in a roundabout way – through ‘gut’ feelings. Now, truth is breaking out all over the place, only to be denied again and again by those whose purposes are served by keeping the truth locked away, and by those who are too afraid to face and feel what the truth may reveal.

The 8 energy has the firm INTENT to be fully aware. It thrives on truth, and much of that energy is making its way into the hearts and minds of individuals all over the world, with the understanding that everyone is evolving differently, in their own way and at their own pace. Wherever there is a “war” for the hearts and minds of people, you can be sure that it is an attempt to control those hearts and minds with an agenda-driven concentration of misinformation. That tactic has not worked because the more you try to control people, the more tolerance they develop for their own feelings, and the more able they become to feel and sense the truth – even if those feelings take generations to finally express themselves.

2008 is a 1 global year (2+0+0+8=10. 1+0=1), and 1 is the number of the individual and of independence. 8 is the number of power. The power of the individual is on the rise – everywhere – including China. We are all becoming so much more aware of the power that each of us has as individuals. The 2 energy is teaching us how much more can be achieved when empowered individuals join together for a common cause.

“Reexamine all you have been told…..
dismiss what insults your soul.”
Walt Whitman

In the 2000s, truth is finding its way into consciousness through 2’s intuitive and sensitive passageways. We are growing more adept at feeling and sensing the truth, rather than depending on others for information. Denial does one thing only. It denies. It even denies that it is denial. You only have to look at the main source of information on Earth – the mainstream press – to understand just how rampant denial has become. It is often said that the ‘media’ has a left or right wing bias, but the real imbalance in the media is greed for both money and power. These money-making and power-seeking organizations will ignore any reality that does not suit their goals, or the goals of those who pay them (their advertisers), and their views swing in whichever direction best suits them at the time. Instead of being the carriers of truth, they select and manipulate truth which, of course, is another form of denial.

Not reporting something can be as manipulative as reporting something incorrectly, or over-reporting something. Some things are reported but relevant details are omitted which makes all the difference to one’s understanding of the truth. By reporting one thing while something else goes unreported, the media provides distraction. The practice of repeating stories over and over again is a form of mind control. When a person hears something often enough, it can be taken in by the mind as fact. And, ironically, as they continue to mislead, the media insists that it is being, open, fair, balanced, honest and accurate. Thankfully, as denial lifts off Earth, as it has started to do now, minds open to the truth and intelligence increases. Every country has its “Baghdad Bobs”, its professional deniers, and they are now getting so easy to spot.

One of the most positive things we can do for ourselves, no matter where in the world we live, is to turn off the TV and give our tired receptive centers a complete break from the non-stop rush of information, misinformation and mindless entertainment that is designed to manipulate our fears and dumb us down. The ‘mainstream news’ is no longer the true media. In many cases, it is a circus, run by drooling clowns in full makeup. The real media – those whose intent is to report accurate information to the populace – are springing up elsewhere and, for as long as that is their intent, they’ll have the power of 8 on their side. Truth is the only thing that can lead us out of our present circumstances.

“When an old culture is dying, the new is created
by a few people who are not afraid to be insecure.”
Rudolf Bahro

Denial has taken such a hold on Earth that we have had to bring ourselves to the very edge of extinction in order to realize how ignorant and misinformed we have been about so many things. 8 is the most powerful energy we have when it comes to discovering the truth and taking appropriate action. The overall understanding of humanity is increasing now and, because 2008 is a 1 global year, (1 is the number of the individual), this massive shift in consciousness is occurring, visibly and measurably, one individual at a time. This is personal – and if you’re not denying, you can certainly FEEL the winds of change howling through the world right now. But this time, change really does mean change – a completely new way of life that is almost impossible for people to imagine at this stage – a way of life that enables us to evolve out of denial, to face reality no matter how dreadful it happens to be, and to find ways to reclaim our Free Will.

Power seeking people gain power by overpowering others. They have learned that this is easily done by controlling our emotions, especially the emotion of fear. When people are emotionally confused, they do not know what to think, and then look to others to inform them. The 2 energy of the 2000s is helping us to gain awareness of our emotional power – our sensitivity to reality – so that we can decide everything for ourselves, including what is true and what is not. Many of us experience this as ‘gut feelings’ or instinct, but what we have to learn now is to combine that power with the power of our minds. That means that our minds must begin the often difficult process of accepting our feelings, no matter what form they take. Our feminine energy is every bit as sacred as our masculine Spirit, but acceptance of this does appear to be where Spirit has encountered its own limits. This is changing now, slowly, but surely. If we don’t like the way a feeling feels, we must find out what caused it, and deal with that instead of denying the feeling.

Denial comes in many guises including a belief that we should focus only on the positive and ignore what is labeled ‘negative’, or anything that doesn’t ‘feel’ nice. But, surely, to be truly positive is to be truly aware. Therefore, the focus needs to be on reality, not just those parts of reality which don’t threaten or disturb our so-called ‘peacefulness’. It is amazing how many people are in shock at what is happening in the world, as if it just started yesterday. We must be careful not to use positive thinking as a form of denial. Reality has always been plain to see, but we wouldn’t look at it. We need to start looking at things as they really are, and make a conscious effort to notice what we previously ignored.

“Our complex global economy is built upon millions of small,
private acts of psychological surrender, the willingness of people
to acquiesce in playing their assigned parts as cogs in the great
social machine that encompasses all other machines. That
capacity for self-enslavement must be broken.”
Theodore Roszak,
The Voice Of The Earth:
An Exploration of Ecopsychology

8 is the number of SATISFACTION – knowing when enough is enough. But when 8 is abused and misunderstood, greed takes control, and greed is the opposite of satisfaction. It can never get enough – even when it appears to have it all – because it is SO afraid of losing what it already has! It needs to control everything, including people’s personal lives, thoughts, feelings and needs! It tells us that we must do what it says or some terrible fate will befall us. It tells us we cannot expect privacy. It tells us that, in such a dangerous world, we have no rights at all. To have no rights is to be enslaved – which is how life has been for many decades in China. However, in our system of greed, China’s abominable human rights record has become less the subject of outrage and more accepted as a model of capitalism, even though its current existence is based on communism, which is capitalism’s opposite extreme. Human rights violations are seen as something the ‘markets’ will sort out. But, the markets are the system. The system is greed. And, as far as greed is concerned, if such violations produce more money and power, then that should be the way of the world!

The enormous pain that the Chinese people have been subjected to will not last for ever. With so little help from the outside world, it is up to the people themselves to evolve and break free. When the Republic of China came into being on October 1, 1949, they did so on a karmic wave which is quite visible in numerology, and which denotes a return to individual freedom and the evolution of a certain wisdom that already existed in China. When the Chinese people themselves are so moved by the realization that money in itself is not power, and that accurate knowledge IS, they will not want to waste their precious energies making cheap and useless goods for the rest of the world. They will want to share their deep age-old wisdom which, because of their suffering, will have evolved significantly, showing an understanding of balance between not only the 2-dimensional Body and Mind, but a four-dimensional balance between Body, Mind, Emotion, and Love.

“If you can find money to kill people,
you can find money to help people.”
Tony Benn

We are already seeing such an evolution in the people of other parts of the world, including the United States, at last, in which denial is starting to bend under the weight of truth, and the lost power of the oppressed is rising through the genuine desire for real and meaningful change. It would take a lot for me to have complete faith in any politician, but I must say that Barack Obama is the only one I have ever heard, albeit subtly, talking about “maintaining the balance”, which seems to be the true – evolved – role of government. If government were to evolve into a balanced body of intelligence and compassion which exists solely to maintain the balance points of life so that all people, in our great diversity, can live freely, without the fear of being overpowered by others, then the role of government would be an awesome one indeed! The power involved is almost unimaginable because we have never been able to imagine government as using its power for the good of all, not just the few. I am not suggesting that Barack Obama will achieve this, or that any of us will see the completion of such a change in our lifetimes, but he and the very intelligent people surrounding him, do seem to be looking in that direction which, in itself, is meaningful change, and brings real hope to the lives of our children and our children’s children. Since 2008 is a 1 Global year, and 1 is the number of change, it seems that if we do veer in the direction of genuine Free Will, then we are doing so in the nick of time because we really are living ‘on the edge’ right now, and we have BIG problems.

8 may well be the number of power on the material plane, but when our practices stand to destroy the material plane itself, the 8 energy produces reflections of ourselves and what we are doing, and we can see that we will destroy ourselves if we do not make the right changes. There are many out there who would rather die than face their own denials, and some of them do have the appearance of having more power than everyone else. That is an illusion, of course, because self destruction is the opposite of power. 8 offers correct understanding of the role BALANCE plays in holding physical life together. Our day to day lives have become increasingly dramatic, traumatic and emotional, for everyone, not just the most vulnerable. It is important to recognize just how widespread this reflection is, because it is showing us where we all are, where humanity is in our evolutionary journey. At the extremes of life.

The environmental condition of earth is a huge reflection of just how dumbed down we became, and how those we looked to for information have covered up the truth. They are still doing so. In terms of balance, how can any intelligent being suggest that now that the polar ice caps are melting, we should drill for oil in the two most important and sensitive balance points on the planet. The Arctic Circle and Antarctica. The North and South Poles are Earth’s electro-magnetic connection. Greed wants to drill into them in its relentless and mindless search for more oil while, clearly, alternative sources of energy which do not threaten Earth can be developed. If the poles collapse, as their ice caps are currently doing, there is every likelihood that the very axis of Earth will collapse along with it. The poles are what enable a planet to be a planet and not just a collection of rocks and dust.

In her effort to survive, Mother Earth is begging us to stop what we’re doing to her not because she will die, but because WE will. She is our first and foremost connection to the material realms of life. She is the physical manifestation of mother energy. She will survive because survival is the very nature of the feminine. We inherit our survival instinct from her. But the fact that the majority of people are still denying these survival warnings is a startling reflection of just how denied feminine energy has been in general. Survival is the most basic instinct we have. Yes, 8 is the number of power, and Mother Nature will continue to remind us, brutally if necessary, with what we still like to call ‘natural’ disasters, until we reach the necessary understanding, that SHE wields the greatest power of all on the material plane.

Strong feelings are bound to arise in the months ahead. Let them. And take full responsibility for them. There is never a need to hurt yourself or anyone else when expressing your feelings. As we continue to evolve emotionally, many of us will become much stronger for the experience. But many others will not understand what’s happening and we are likely to see people’s suppressed emotion’s exploding out of them in dangerous ways. A reflection of this comes in the form of the ‘suicide bomber’, the disgruntled employee, the rejected lover, or the crazed teenager, whose pain, anger and hatred have been held down for so long that it has to burst out in any way it can in order to express itself. It is important to understand that it is up to each of us to find ways to express our feelings safely, and preferably privately, until a deeper understanding of the emotional healing process is reached. There is a lot of information on the creativenumerology.com website, and in my book LIFE CYCLES Your Emotional Journey To Freedom and Happiness which, in Part Three, discusses in more detail the emotional healing process and its undeniable connection to Free Will.

THE 8-8-8 MISUNDERSTANDING

“It is inadmissible that the games are taking
place in the world’s biggest prison,”
Sylvain Garel (Green Party-France)

8/8/8 has become the symbol of the 2008 Olympic Games, and this has tremendous symbolism. By ignoring the 20 in the year 2008 and blatantly trumpeting the calendar numbers 8, 8, 8, and then another chorus of 8, 8, 8, which comes from the commencement time of 8 minutes and 8 seconds after the hour of 8 pm, China is viewing the 8 energy as a mere resource and announcing its greed to the world. This is not to suggest that China is any more greedy than other countries. Rather, China has set itself up to serve as the current reflection of greed that has gripped the world. The world of sport has also become a reflection of greed and unfairness. All those 8s are reminding us that sport is competition and that when greed takes over, for money, for power, for ego, for whatever reasons, competition evolves into the ultimate contest – war!

The correct sequence here is not 8/8/8, but 8/8/2008. When 2008 is reduced to a single digit, (2+0+0+8=10. 1+0=1), the sequence becomes 8/8/1. However, this adds even more 8 energy to the mix because when you add 8+8+1, you get 17. Add those two digits together, and you’re back to 8.

In numerology, there are two numbers that do not bode well when they are forced together in high concentration. One of those numbers is 4; the other is 8. When 8 is exaggerated like that, it’s natural desire for correct understanding and balance gets crushed by the urge to attain and amass. Concentrated 8 energy often results in inaccurate assessments and wrong diagnoses, misunderstandings, underhandedness, falsifying the truth, the manipulation of rules, winning at any cost, ruthlessness, bullying and, of course, denial, denial, denial.

The karmic vibration that comes out of the date August 8, 2008 involves coming out of denial and changing habitual behavior. It’s about recognizing and healing from all forms of addiction and prejudices which, essentially are the shackles that prevent us from evolving into the next stage of our existence. Being ONE does not mean we are all the same. Yes, we are all one, but the ONE is infinite in scope. The ONE is diversity.

August 8 is usually the 220th day of the year, but since 2008 is a leap year, it is the 221st day. Add 2+2+1, and you have 5, which is the number of freedom, diversity, habits and addictions, gambling, and the sudden and unexpected. In common with number 1, 5 is the number of change. It is also the number of resourcefulness. There is a karmic and evolutionary element to all these numbers which will, hopefully, provide the insight we need to learn from our mistakes and stop repeating them. It is an opportunity to gain experience we previously lacked. This is an opportunity for vast numbers of human beings to come out of the darkness of denial and face the reality of life on Earth at this time. That is the only way to survive the inevitable changes. August 8 falls in calendar week #32, which also adds up to 5. 3 is the number of communication, friendship, creativity and appearances. 2 is the number of the new millennium, patience, cooperation, diplomacy, partnership, intuition, emotions, connections, and feminine energy. 5 is the number of sudden and unexpected developments, freedom, expansion.

“If we always do what we’ve always done
we’ll always get what we’ve always got.”
Toni Worst

AUGUST 2008 – is a 9 Global Month (endings, drama, deep emotions, the end of an era), in a 1 Global year (beginnings, independence, leadership, change, a new era). The emotional movement that August triggers is likely to open the minds of millions by bringing our attention to that which we value the most on the material plane. Love of money and material possessions have led the way for many but the concentration of 8 energy, combined with large amounts of 1 and 9 energy, is likely to cause a shift in priority which focuses on the health of our physical bodies, our relationships, and our ability to both give and receive LOVE.

Another thing to remember is that panic is the denial of what fear has to teach. Panic is a dreadful experience in which you cannot see any way out of a situation. You believe that no alternative exists. It is the feeling of being trapped and simultaneously judged against. It is usually you doing the judging but there is no way to realize that while the feeling of fear is so concentrated and indescribably intense, and while your denial is pushing its message away. You feel like you’re going to die. And yet the moment you realize that a panic attack is what you’re having, it subsides – immediately. At that point, you need to realize that you are NOT stuck in fear. On the contrary, you just let it pass through you and out of you – and you are so much stronger as a result. If you are able to relate to this material, you are at a stage of emotional, intellectual and physical evolvement which will enable you to develop the antidote to paralyzing fear – genuine COURAGE.

We must help the process along by lifting ourselves out of our own denials, no matter how unfamiliar the concept feels, no matter how strange it sounds, and no matter how much emotion we have to let ourselves feel in the process. While it is true to say that denial of reality caused most of this imbalance, it is also true that emotion is the reality that was most heavily denied. For instance, people see some awful thing happening in the world and they ask, ‘where is the outrage? Doesn’t anybody care?’ But then, when people do get angry, they are told that anger is ‘bad’ and that we must ‘control’ this natural emotion. Consequently, nothing gets changed. How can there be outrage if rage is not allowed out?

There is nothing wrong with anger provided it is allowed to express itself. That is why loving intent is so necessary – but we must also be aware of when we are denying our true feelings in favor of the appearance of loving intent. We need a more accurate understanding of the positive power and purpose of emotion, as well as HOW to express emotion so that healing, not harm, occurs.

What makes its so hard for people to embrace their own feelings is that, in the course of a lifetime, or many lifetimes, denial has created an enormous buildup of emotional energy which must also be released from the body so that balance between our masculine and feminine can be achieved within the body. These feelings are OLD feelings. But, no matter how old and bitter they happen to be, they need acceptance in order to heal. This form of healing is going to be a massive task – impossible for some. Nonetheless, we all embarked upon that leg of the human journey in which emotional healing must take place when the numbers changed from 1999 to 2000. We must now learn how the energetic imbalance in individuals is directly connected to the planet. There are so many experiences that we have not yet had, individually and collectively, which will help us to gain deeper understanding and, perhaps, bring a sense of excitement and adventure back into our lives, and break those chains of rigid conformity that have placed such awful restrictions on our natural creativity.

“The quest for certainty blocks the search
for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition
which impels people to unfold their powers.”
Eric Fromm

The current influence of the 8 energy is helping us to see through the illusions that we mistook for life, and to look at reality head-on. The more we see things as they really are, the more emotional our lives are becoming, the more intelligence we gain, and the more determined we are to be honest with ourselves and each other about our problems, our blessings, and our potential to change the habits and patterns of generations.

We appear to be involved in a very slow process. But in the context of time/space, rather than the linear time we are accustomed to on Earth, these changes are occurring more rapidly than we realize. Linear time denotes the amount of time it takes for an effect to occur, step by step, once a cause has been triggered, as opposed to the ‘instant’ result we could achieve if we were not so densely clogged up with unexpressed emotion and therefore lacking in understanding of how to change things. The rapid pace of life being experienced now is an illusion. We are actually evolving in slow motion.

“One day it will have to be officially admitted
that what we have christened reality is an even
greater illusion than the world of dreams.”
Salvador Dali

8 tells us to look at what we’ve got and appreciate it. To appreciate means to understand the value or magnitude of something. And what we’ve got is this monotonous cradle-to-the-grave-cookie-cutter existence which cannot possibly be what life is all about. We haven’t even begun to recognize our own powers as human beings, let alone tap into them. We have been asleep to our own personal power because we’ve been so tied up in this feelingless system in which we give our power to others for the sake of what we are told is our own security. Compared with what we could be if we were more able to think and act for ourselves, we are only half present in our own lives. We use such a small part of our physical, emotional and mental capabilities, that we have not learned to test our limits, striving occasionally to think ‘outside the box’, only to find more boxes on the other side. We have all kinds of powers and can sometimes imagine them in detail. But we fail to use them because we have been conditioned to believe that we cannot.

The 8 energy has a love of high quality. It tells us that we can – and must – evolve into higher versions of ourselves if we are to survive the changes, build a balanced new reality that is based on Love, and then thrive in it. It must also be remembered that 8 is just one number – one form of energy that really does need the unique powers, vibrations and qualities of all the other numbers. Only together do they add up to balance.

“We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery,
guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate.
The world is all gates, all opportunities.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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