Andrea Green - Numerology: Including Simple Number Spells & Tarot

If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generation of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words?

I believe it is the atomic hypothesis (or the atomic fact, or whatever you wish to call it) that all things are made of atoms little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed into one another.

In that one sentence, you will see, there is an enormous amount of information about the world, if just a little imagination and thinking are applied.

- The Feynman Lectures on Physics , volume I; lecture 1, "Atoms in Motion"; section 1-2, "Matter is made of atoms" (1964), p. 1-2.

A Brief Account of Numbers

In this book you will discover and learn to use your personal power-numbers which are easily created in minutes from your name, date of birth and even the place you live - or work. When you know these magical numbers, you can quickly align yourself to the deepest patterns of the universe which are manifest through number.

I will also share several unique methods, rituals and spells from my own tarot and numerology experience along with a few intermediate and advanced methods of gematria from Kabbalah.

I know that numbers are not everyones favourite subject, but I can assure you that this book will be more magical than mathematical.

In fact, it is known that a lot of people have an aversion to maths - and I definitely have some negative memories of school maths lessons. It could even be called arithmophobia if you have an uncontrollable reaction to numbers. But it is my intention that whatever you feel about numbers, you will find this book extremely easy.

If you can do 4 + 3 = 7 and concentrate on holding a few numbers in your head to add them up, even if you have to write them down, you are good to go.

I would, however, like to start with a bit of history and philosophy; if you want to get straight into working out your luckiest numbers, your birth number, the number of your place of work, and more, then skip ahead to chapter 4 and we will get started.

However, if you are as interested as I am in what numbers are, and why they may well be the most magical thing in the universe, read on.

We start with the fact that numbers are everywhere and in everything; beginning with the number one and the actual invention of the number zero, which was not until a bit later in the development of counting. Early humans counted by making tally marks on objects, on walls, in sand, perhaps, simply representing every item or count by a corresponding mark.

But they are not natural to us, or nature - the patterns may be, but we made up the numbers:

Mathematical concepts are not wired into the human condition. They are learned, acquired through cultural and linguistic transmission.

This was an early form of language and magic, through symbolism - the marks on the wall each represent one object in the real world; a number of geese, of trees, of people. Perhaps they could somehow be predicted or even controlled through their marks, as we come to see in later magic, focused on the marks which make up a name?

This early system was then taken to another level when, to account for bigger counts, the actual position of a number - the same number - meant more than it did in another position. This abstraction of numbering opened a new realm; 5 was different to 5-- or 5---, which we now recognise by placing our more-recently (in the history) discovered zero, so we know that 50 is different to 500, and 5,000.

This also explains why we reduce numbers in magical numerology; we are returning to the original idea of the power of a number before it became important where the number was in a sequence.

But, more importantly for our magical use, numbers are also discovered in (and represented) by letters, by shapes and symbols; a triangle represents three , and a square represents four . These shapes then have immediate correspondence to our material world because they are objects with attributes; a triangle can be turned into the pivot of a lever, a square into the four walls of a temple or a house.

A circle, that most illustrious representative of both nothing and everything, is the best way to arrange a group of people around a campfire, or a pool of water in a sacred amphitheatre so that all can benefit from approaching it - and a circle, actually - a sphere - is how light radiates from a source.

When we start to see the numbers that build the world, we soon see that indeed, they are everything, even if we do not quite know what they are or where they came from; the 60-minutes in an hour is because of Babylonian Base-60 counting, but we have 12 hours in a day because of the ancient Egyptians, and the 78rpm of an old vinyl record-player is 78 because of mechanics, not for the same reason that we have 78 cards in a tarot deck.

As we explore numbers, there is always a pattern, both obvious and hidden. You can tell if a number is divisible by 9 by adding the numbers within it up, and if the result is divisible by 9, the whole number is also divisible equally by 9 - a great party trick.