The Witch's Book of Numbers by Rebecca Scolnick

Author:Rebecca Scolnick
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781950253289
Publisher: Hierophant Publishing

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THE NURTURER—6

Your wound may not be your fault, but your healing is your responsibility.

—Denice Frohman

The number 6 holds the energies of nourishment, growth, expansion, love in action, generosity, and reciprocity. It rules blossoming and blooming, teaches generous caretaking, supports family and collective responsibility, and encourages nostalgia. It is the butterfly leaving the cocoon—the transition out of the messy middle and into the latter half of the spiral. Following great upheaval and transformation in 5, 6 calls for intentional action with heaping helpings of grace, softness, and care.

Lindsay Mack, founder of Tarot for the Wild Soul, used the metaphor of a broken ankle when teaching the 6s, observing that the day the cast comes off isn't the same day you can run a mile. Healing is underway, but the bone and muscles need prudent rehabilitation before they can strengthen into their new state of being. We need time and repetition to create and integrate new habits, patterns, and stories. The energy of 6 teaches us about recovery, belonging, reconciliation, and new meaning-making, which requires honesty, imagination, accountability, patience, responsibility, and hope.

Associated with the Sun in Kabbalah, 6 is the One Who Sees. That's all we really want, right? To be seen, acknowledged, and understood? There is nothing quite like the experience of seeing and being seen, because self-worth is largely a relational experience. The greatest gift you can give others is the loving space to be their truest selves, and also the freedom to change themselves as radically and as often as desired. My wife and I met each other's families and moved in together during a 6 personal year, and were married on November 22, a 6 day (1 + 1 + 2 + 2 = 6). Showing up for our relationship has truly helped me grow. I've been cracked open, confronted, challenged, and called out on all my assumptions about what love is. I've been melted into sweet, sweet goo, and then held tightly while I put myself back together again.

There are still times when I wish not to be seen quite so vividly in all of my magic and mess—moments of bashfulness after revealing my true self—but the treasure of knowing I'm loved and cherished for exactly who I am far outweighs the ordeal of shedding my former skin and daring to inhabit this new one. In our home, we say: “I am so grateful to get to keep remeeting you.” Ours is a very 6 relationship, perhaps because we share a turbulent 5 public persona. We are endlessly evolutionary and work diligently always to be a soft place to land.

The energy of 6 supports an evolution of the love and choice introduced in 2. The number 6, which stems from the Latin sex, expands our capacity to know and experience love in all of its forms—as eros (sexual, passionate love), as philia (friendship and Platonic love), as storge (familial love), as agape (universal love), as ludus (playful, uncommitted relationships), as mania (obsessive love), as pragma (practical, enduring affection), and as philautia (self-love).

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