Divination
Number 26 – The Number of Script
Mar 26th
By Wolfgang Held, extracted from “The Quality of Numbers One to Thirty-one“, published 1/03/12 by Floris Books.
Wolfgang Held was born in Germany in 1964. He worked for many years in the Mathematics and Astronomy section of the Goetheanum, where he now runs the publicity department. His latest book, ‘The Quality of Numbers One to Thirty-one’ explores the fascinating characteristics of numbers in relation to our lives. Throughout March we will be featuring selected edited extracts from this book. Today, the 26th of March, we are looking at the number 26.
Pierre De Fermat
The great mathematician Pierre de Fermat demonstrated that something applies to 26 which is true of no other number. Only 26 has neighbouring numbers that are a square (25 = 52) and a cube number (27 = 33). There are square numbers and cube numbers that adjoin each other such as eight and nine, with the satisfying reflection of 23 and 32. Square numbers and cube numbers can also meet in one and the same number. The smallest number this applies to is 64, which is simultaneously 43 and 82. The privilege of being both a square and a cube number belongs to all those where the number of More >
Number 21 – The Number Between Eternity and Time
Mar 21st
By Wolfgang Held, extracted from “The Quality of Numbers One to Thirty-one“, published 1/03/12 by Floris Books.
Wolfgang Held was born in Germany in 1964. He worked for many years in the Mathematics and Astronomy section of the Goetheanum, where he now runs the publicity department. His latest book, ‘The Quality of Numbers One to Thirty-one’ explores the fascinating characteristics of numbers in relation to our lives. Throughout March we will be featuring selected edited extracts from this book. Today, the 21st of March, we are looking at the number 21.
The cannons thundered 21 times when the Crown Princess of Sweden said ‘I do’ in June 2010, and 21 times when President Obama was sworn in. And there is a 21-gun salute when the Queen Elizabeth visits a foreign state. Why 21?
When sailing ships were equipped with cannon in the fourteenth century, they were not allowed to enter harbour primed for battle. They therefore fired off the powder from their cannon without cannon balls, and this sign of peace led to the gun salute. Seven such shots were fired since these early battle ships each had seven cannon. Possibly because cannon on land could fire more quickly, the seven salute shots More >
Number 14 – The Bridge Between Heaven and Earth
Mar 14th
By Wolfgang Held, extracted from “The Quality of Numbers One to Thirty-one“, published 1/03/12 by Floris Books.
Wolfgang Held was born in Germany in 1964. He worked for many years in the Mathematics and Astronomy section of the Goetheanum, where he now runs the publicity department. His latest book, ‘The Quality of Numbers One to Thirty-one’ explores the fascinating characteristics of numbers in relation to our lives. Throughout March we will be featuring selected edited extracts from this book. Today, the 14th of March, we are looking at the number 14.
The number 14 is twice seven, the second step in the seventimes table, and therefore, like that number, connected with time and development.
Salt
This is particularly apparent in human biography. School in Germany, Scandinavia and in Waldorf Schools begins during a child’s seventh year – that is, between the age of six and seven, when physical development is far enough advanced to allow intellectual development to begin, with writing, reading and arithmetic. At age 14 – or somewhat earlier today given good nutrition – soul maturity succeeds physical maturation, awakening in love for the opposite sex but also in enthusiasm for ideas and ideals. From being an ‘offspring’, one becomes a member More >
Number 6 – The Number of Perfection
Mar 6th
By Wolfgang Held, extracted from “The Quality of Numbers One to Thirty-one“, published 1/03/12 by Floris Books.
Wolfgang Held was born in Germany in 1964. He worked for many years in the Mathematics and Astronomy section of the Goetheanum, where he now runs the publicity department. His latest book, ‘The Quality of Numbers One to Thirty-one’ explores the fascinating characteristics of numbers in relation to our lives. Throughout March we will be featuring selected edited extracts from this book. Today, the 6th of March, we are looking at the number 6.
If you catch single [snow]flakes on a cold sheet of glass and, keeping conditions cold, observe them under a simple microscope, something of the distinctive nature of six will be revealed. Every crystal, sometimes as compact as honeycomb, sometimes finely branching, will show a six-pointed star in millions of variations. More perfectly than in the growth of mineral crystals, these fleeting water crystals reveal and embody hexagonal symmetry; and one can observe this wealth of snow crystal forms for hours without ever tiring of them.
The idea that, when snow falls in winter, something falls from the cosmos to the earth, is more than a merely poetic image. The number six, as More >
Valentine’s Day Tarot Readings at Watkins
Feb 2nd
TUESDAY 14TH FEB VALENTINE’S DAY TAROT
2012 is a very special year. First and foremost for the romantics among us, of course, it’s a leap year – the February 29th folk tradition goes that women may propose marriage – so it’s also the perfect month to propose to your partner, no matter what gender.
However, if you aren’t absolutely certain you’d like to get down on one knee (yet), or if you’d like to reveal the consequences what might occur if you do take that earnest chance to court the one you love, why not come down to Watkins Books have a special Lovers tarot reading this Valentine’s Day?
Our tarot reader Cilla will be here to read for both singles & couples for all your pulse-fluttering and blush-inducing questions.
Cilla uses the Tarot deck she designed many years ago to look at all the current issues in your life – career, family, money and especially *Love* – and in combination her Devas of Creation oracle deck which depict cosmic energies, to look at the higher-level energies surrounding you.
Her in-depth readings are compassionate, insightful, and powerful, so why not treat yourself or your loved one – come and cast light on those knotty problems of More >
Tarot and Current Affairs – pt.2
Dec 14th
THE VIEW FROM THE WINDOW
Every Wednesday I sit in the window at Watkins, waiting to give Tarot readings; watching people come & go, overhearing snippets of arcane conversations and reflecting on …
TAROT AND CURRENT EVENTS,
Part Two (Part One)
Now it’s worth taking a little time to discuss the selection of the Significator card. Really I just want to underline that you need to pick the card that fits to your eye, to your judgement, to your opinion. You may use the same deck as me and come up with a very different card because we each have our individual responses to the cards and to the person we’re selecting for. If with your cards and your eye the card for Nick Clegg is the Devil, or Temperance or the King of Wands then use it.
Here’s an example of my own process. This was another political reading to see whether Hilary Clinton or Barack Obama would win the nomination of the Democratic party to be the Presidential candidate. As Clinton was already a powerful and established figure she would have to be a queen. The card that represented her would have to be one demonstrating power an drive; that (for me) narrowed it down to either More >
