The following is an article that was originally published in the Connect Magazine – November 2009.
The Mayan Calendar, one of the greatest prophetic documents available to us today, says that we’re about to enter the second last “gear shift”. This occurs on November 8th, 2009, when we move from the 6th Mayan day to the 6th night. And so it’s timely to reflect on the meaning, and essence of this word prophecy.
As with all things there are always two aspects – a positive side and a negative side or meaning, and prophecy is no exception. We’ve all heard of the “false prophet”.
We each have a prophet within, who knows the truth of any given situation. However, if we give away the power of our internal pro-phet, we are giving away control of our life or destiny – thus pro-stituting ourselves. Remember that the prostitute works for material profit at the expense of gaining soul prophet which offers us more subtle and lasting true rewards.
Prophecy, is a gift, and needs to be used wisely. Just as it can be used positively or negatively, it can also be a blessing or a curse. To develop either quality, positive or negative, takes quite some time. The show-down point is usually around our mid-life crisis point. Remember that we’ll gain recognition for which ever quality we develop – the positive or the negative.
Prophecy also has the letters “ph” in its very centre. Again, this is a reminder of the need to be balanced between the acid and alkaline in our nature. It goes without saying that erring on the acidic side eventually makes one negative and eventually unwell in our personal projections. The negative prophet will always end up physically dis-eased.
From a numerological perspective, the number code for the word prophecy is 52 then reduced to the single digit of 7. Does this have any correlation with the Tarot?
The tarot has 78 cards. The first 22 cards represent the major arcane and can be said to represent the symbolic journey of the Fool. The Fool card is one of the major arcane, but unlike the other 22 cards, the Fool has not been given a number. Some people use it as 0, others look at it as number 22. So like all of us setting out on our life’s journey, the Fool metaphorically starts at zero, and at the end of the journey at card 21, they have either remained a Fool or become a Prophet – depending on their life’s decisions.
A true Prophet is Master of the “little self”, whereas the Fool acts out the whims and desires of the body, and thus prostitutes him or her self. The numerological value of the word fool is 6663 = 21. Co-incidence or not? And so if we end up at the 21st card still a Fool, then we must go back and repeat our journey all over again.
For us, that 21 card journey is a metaphor for the 26,000 year cycle presented in the Mayan Calendar, or One Zodiac Age. Another interesting metaphor to reflect upon is the 26 mile marathon. The marathon can also be seen as the great race we run as we live our lives.
Another “coincidence” as some might call it, is the numerological word code for Master, which is 22, also the alternate number given to the Fool card if the fool has completed his/her journey as a prophet. Further, 22 is known as “the God number”, be-cause the dual-ality in self is now perfectly balanced out and under the control of the soul.
Again in the Tarot, the card numbered 52, the same number as the word prophecy, is the Queen of Swords. The Queen, of course represents our feminine, creative side. On the card she sits on a throne decorated by butterflies, symbols of incarnation and reincarnation – our journey. She holds the active Sword of Discrimination between true and false – positive and negative prophet. Her left hand is extended towards the unknown FUTURE, but she is ready to face whatever comes.
When 52 is reduced to a single digit of 7, we gain even greater insight. The number of the Chariot, in the Tarot, is also 7. And the Chariot repre-sents the receptivity to the will of the “one source”.
Symbolically, the Charioteer is the soul, directing the Chariot, or the Body. You’ll notice that on the Tarot card the Charioteer has no reins. Instead he directs the sphinxes, who are drawing the chariot, mentally, through his will and his positive and negative senses. Similarly, in our lives, positive and negative forces join into a working relationship within the self.
The message here is that through control of our senses, elevation and purification of our desires, and by the use of our own free will, we can achieve complete dominion … while in our physical body (Javane & Bunker, 1979, Numerology and the Divine Triangle)
Why is it important to reflect on such things? Throughout his-story or is that her-story these symbolic metaphors keep occurring in numerology, the tarot, and Mayan prophecy. At this dawn of the 6th Mayan night it’s essential to consider what these symbolic metaphors mean. How do we interpret them? What are we really being told? And why?
Many of these questions will be answered in forthcoming posts.
