Nines
Well, we’re nearly at the Decad (10). Nine has always seemed like a magical number to me - a powerful magical number, though some old writers - particularly Christian - identify it with sorrow and pain, as Christ died at the 9th hour (3pm), and the 9th Psalm apparently contains a prediction of the Antichrist. However, other classical writers consider 9 almost perfect, needing just one more digit to form a complete whole - 10. In many traditions, nine is seen as connected to the highest (ninth) heaven, which is beyond the planets and fixed stars and the alchemists also considered that the harmony of the cosmos rested within nine spheres and nine muses. There are nine branches

The Tarot and Numbers - continued (6)
<!– @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } –> Six Apologies for the lack of images - this problem seems to be down to Wordpress and is being investigated. Six was seen by the Neoplatonists as the perfect number, as it has a wonderful symmetry. It is formed by either adding or multiplying 1, 2 and 3; the product of the first male and female numbers (3 and 2), and contains all geometric figures – point, line and triangle. In biblical terms God was said to have created the world in six days, resting on the seventh. The seraphim were said to have six wings, and in Revelations, six an