Lets talk about the One in numerology

In the beginning was the Word….. Seen a newly born baby lately? Helpless and dependent, they seem to be thinking “where am I?”. “One minute I’m in a lovely warm quiet dark place with an endless supply of food and the next thing whammo Im being squeezed and painfully pulled out into a cold, cold place where its so light and bright I can hardly open my eyes. If that’s not enough, someone slapped me too!”
Lyall Watson tells a great story of a time when he talked to a village chief about death. Watson was asking about their beliefs regarding the great mystery but the chief replied that you may think death is painful but being born was much more so.
So the 1 is now in the world and before long will be striking out to find his/her path. Its kind of like a person who has just got off the bus alone in a mid-western US town with no job nor money but with luck a couple of friendly strangers will be there to help them out. The 1 is great at arriving somewhere alone and even better at drawing others into their circle to help. They can be very brave and also quick witted, humorous but in the negative they can be sneaky, deceptive, and disloyal. Love or hate them…at the end of the day you can analyse them all you want but they will already be moving on to something else. By that very essence they cannot bear routine. Of course not, because everything is new and they need to explore EVERY-thing. They may find what they are looking for but there is also a good chance they won’t. And so they will move on again. That desire for freedom is actually a trait that the other numbers admire because without that first impulse into life they themselves wouldn’t have become manifest.
There would never be a 9 if there hadn’t been a 1.

The path of life is in the clarity of your awareness

Shankara. It would be difficult to describe in western terms his importance to India and Hinduism. One of Shankara’s disciples was Trotakacharya. He wasn’t known for his sophistication, in fact the other three favourite disciples considered him a little simple. But no one denied his devotion to Shankara. His one-pointedness on his Master whom he considered God’s current supreme incarnation was of legend. While other disciples listened to their Master’s treatises and learnt to recite sublime passages from the Vedas by rote, Trotakarya swept the courtyard in utter devotion; while they were motionless in meditation, he was performing menial tasks in utter devotion. One day after many years the Master and his disciples were at the river bathing while Trotaka was still at the ashram cleaning. Eventually he wandered down to the river to join them and Sankara turned to hear his disciple singing a song only sung by the enlightened.

He had attained the goal of permanently experiencing the transcendent light of God while the other disciples were still held aloft by the intellect. They reasoned God’s existence but through total surrender, he experienced it.

So never think you are ahead of the game. Or behind. Just act according to you. The numbers will tell you the path that you are ideally suited to take for your own sake, best suited for your evolution.

We see the same things and yet we view them completely differently. Some of us are born anxious, happy, rich, healthy, some live long lives, some minutes, some blind, with limbs, without, loving households, brutal fathers, in a mud hut in Malawi, a Manhattan skyscraper, an Italian palazzo, a bungalow in Brisbane. And there could be no reasoning for this. Absolutely none. As random as being born a single cell amoeba or a Nobel prize winning physicist. Or is there some reasoning to it all. At a certain point in life many people begin to wonder if all that is seen is all there ever could be. Some people don’t think about it at all.
I would suggest that having found yourself reading this blog you may be in the camp that wonders.