| 1 Transformation |
| As a being of Power, Intelligence and Love, and the lord of his own thoughts, man holds the key to every situation, and contains within himself that transforming and regenerative agency by which may make himself what he wills. James Allen |
| In Faith Javane’s and Dusty Bunker’s Numerology and the Divine Triangle:
1 represents the male principle, the yang. It is the pioneer, striking out alone, seeking the experiences which will establish its distinct identity. It is in the process of discovering its own abilities. It is raw energy, positive, original and creative, in a state of perpetual motion. Since 1 is alone and is imbued with so much creative energy, it must decide how its energy will be used. It must take command and have the courage to maintain its direction without fear of opposition. 1 is the real I AM of humanity, the unity of all, the unit of vibrational measuring. It is self-consciousness. I woke up terrified for the third time. I’d dreamed of flying on the back of a huge bird through a narrow winding canyon. I couldn’t see around the bends. With my business career gone, wife number two decided our marriage was over. None of my plans worked out. There was nothing to do but start from scratch and hope for success. I stopped on the road in front of my spread for a last look at the home and barn I built, the cattle grazing in the pasture I planted, and drove away, never to look back. Astrologers say the real me is my sun sign, Virgo. The developing me is my rising sign, Aquarius. My heavenly influences (some scientists call them world lines) are both negative and positive. We’re given the right to choose. I can say my chart is all about me, but it takes a lot more to make a case. I had nothing better to do with my time. I’m retired. It was not my intention when I started writing my memoirs to make an astrological case, but in thinking and writing my thoughts every day, exercising my mind, like practicing on a piano, I’m making more satisfying music and becoming more intrigued. At this writing, I’ve been experiencing life eighty-one years. The thoughts I express herein were not present until I started thinking and writing. With the time to review my long life, many of my experiences connect to give me a different perspective, one neither I held, nor I presume, the rest of society holds. What intrigues me so is that astrologers and numerologists predicted this. Widening Horizons sent me a numerology report from a magazine ad. From the Internet, I learned that Widening Horizons’ report was the thoughts of Matthew Oliver Goodwin, the author of Numerology: The Complete Guide. Goodwin employed a technique that looks for similar energies in the subject’s chart—“synthesis,” he calls it. I was in my late sixties when I received Goodwin’s numerology profile. Under “Your Mid-Life Concern with Freedom:” Sometime in the middle of your life, probably between the ages of thirty-five and fifty, you’re apt to begin thinking about how free you would like to feel. You probably haven’t been too concerned with freedom—or the lack of freedom—before, but current circumstances may bring it to your attention. There may be significant change in one of the major stabilizing factors in your life—the end of a marriage or business, for instance, or the passing of a parent. There may be a new potential for freedom because of important financial gains or perhaps, the abandonment of self-imposed responsibilities. Whatever the reason, it wouldn’t be surprising if you start to change some of your attitudes and actions related to freedom because of this mid-life appraisal. Had I requested a numerology profile when I was twenty, the above report from someone who didn’t know me would have been a prophecy of what actually took place on Good Friday, 1975, in my forty-ninth year. On the Internet, numerologist Hans Decoz, from the date of my birth, my name, and a few other details, made an analysis of me, as follows: Life Path: Your entire life exists as a potential that has been prepared for. Joe, you have ultimate freedom to do with your life as you like: To fulfill its potential completely, or to make some smaller version of yourself. It all depends upon your effort and commitment. You make the decisions to fulfill, to whatever extent, the potential life that exists within you. That is your choice. In this sense, the possible you is implicit during the moment of your birth. Life Path is 25/7 Joe, you are the searcher and the seeker of the truth. You have a clear and compelling sense of yourself as a spiritual being. As a result, your life path is devoted to investigations into the unknown, and finding the answers to the mysteries of life. You are well-equipped to handle your task. You possess a fine mind; you are an analytical thinker, capable of great concentration and theoretical insight. You enjoy research, and putting the pieces of an intellectual puzzle together. Once you have enough pieces in place, you are capable of highly creative insight and practical solutions to problems. Expression Your Expression number reveals your physical and mental constitution, the orientation or goal of your life. Some numerologists refer to this number as the Destiny, because it represents a lifelong target at which you are aiming. You work at fulfilling this potential every day of your life. Thus, the Expression number reveals your inner goal, the person you aim to be. Your Expression is 16/7 Joe, you are gifted with an analytical mind and an enormous appetite for the answers to life's hidden questions. You have a strong interest in exploring scientific matters, philosophy, and even mysticism. You possess clarity and persistence in your search for truth. You can be a great researcher, educator, and philosopher. You are driven by a desire for knowledge and truth. You must learn to discriminate between illusion and reality, but you are well equipped for this task. Your fine mind offers you insight into the veiled mysteries of life. You also possess a considerable amount of perspective. Somewhere inside you, you are aware of a peaceful place that you call upon during difficult times. Joe, you need time to be by yourself. Too much social interaction causes you stress. You need your privacy and a place that can be shut off from the hustle and bustle of life. Currently “shut off form the hustle and bustle,” a sheep pasture next door, Bear Mountain in the background, writing my memoirs, the reality of who I am and what I’m about is rapidly expanding. At the time of my departure from my old life, I was not into astrology and never had heard of numerology. It was shortly after I cut my umbilical chord with my past that I met an astrologer at a social. There was so much uncertainty in my life at the time that I hired him to make an astrological chart. He asked for my exact time of birth and the place of my birth. The time and place of birth allows an astrologer to mathematically find characteristics and events that would occur in my life. A few days later, the astrologer called me to set an appointment time to discuss my chart. We sat at his dining table. He placed a tape recorder and my astrological chart in front of him. Starting with, “Your recent life must have been like a sack of cement falling on your head,” then he asked me if I was psychic, stating that my chart indicated it. In reviewing the tape he made, I hear him informing me that I would not be interested in the theoretical but whatever I studied would be for practical reasons. The following are notes from the astrologer’s tape: I’d be the recipient of misunderstandings. People would be an extremely important factor in my life. I’m a double Virgo with Aquarius rising. I’m particular and demanding, good at detail, procedures, planning. Mental activity is a long suit. I’m quick to anger but I would rather negotiate. I’m logical, good with the spoken and written word. I learn quickly. I’m serious, thoughtful, and hard working. I have a love of beauty and a personal loving nature. I’d be successful in litigation. I’m popular with people and deal easily with others. Partnerships are important but there would be changeful relations. I’m reasonable, considerate, a bit of a skeptic, and discriminating. Basically, serious and quiet, I’m a good student. What I do is solid.. I have a lot of energy, and a lot of mental energy. I’m likely to be mentally critical, but use some tact. I’m strongly intuitive. I’m idealistic. On the downside, there is a potential for rashness, holding a grudge, and my temperament can be triggered. I have a potential for depression. I could be excitable and erratic. One thing I can’t abide is restraint. Uranus in my first house, and opposing all of my principal natal planets, first adds a note of interest in the psychic. It adds a tendency to associate with unusual people. It also accounts for the fact that I find myself having prophetic dreams, or visions, or repeating dreams. It gives me an independent spirit, the love of freedom. I’d have an interest in the occult. I could have a willful nature. I could be stubborn in my beliefs. I could make sudden decisions, and not necessarily good ones. On the positive side, I’d have a lot of willpower and persistence. I’d be inquisitive. There is a dichotomy between my physical nature and my love nature that reads out somewhat detached unless I find myself truly in love, in which case I would be unreserved and totally committed. There would be a lot of moving in homes. I’m a little bit of a gypsy, but a happy gypsy. I care about the public. I want to be of benefit to humanity. I’ve got to feel that what I have to offer will be of use to people. The basic key to my life is relations with other people. My astrologer told me the heavens would be in good alignment at my up and coming divorce trial. I hear him saying, “this symbol is the circle called a part of fortune. Then, in a similar sense, the Venus and Jupiter indicates a fortunate area in your chart. Planets that interrelate to it along the bottom line of this triangle here howin you can gain material things, primarily. It’s right on your ascendant. It’s in your 12th house. This indicates a potential to gain from people who are secretly working against you.” I hear him say, “A date you might guard is when your transiting Jupiter opposes Venus in your 8th house. This is a minus that will occur on the 4th day of April 1976.” In further reference to this date, “Remember that April date, as it pertains to loss, particularly loss regarding women. Be specially cautious in regard to partners and spouse.” It is mind-boggling. I won big at the divorce trial and I met my third wife on April 4, 1976. In The Astrologer's Handbook, Frances Sakoian and Louis S. Acker say that when Saturn is trine Pluto (in favorable angle), "This trine gives the natives the ability to understand the laws by which subtle forces are organized, enabling them to use these laws consciously or unconsciously." My horoscope shows that Saturn is trine Pluto. "If other aspects to Saturn and Pluto are also favorable and if the chart as a whole indicates occult leanings," write Sakoian and Acker, "the natives can have a vast comprehension of the nature of life and of the universe. . . They are able to work slowly and make fundamental and irrevocable changes in their own and other's lives." A great amount of evidence is there to say if this is so that is so, one must admit. Sakoian and Acker: "Often there is a sense of destiny or a peculiar karmic mission which they must fulfill. This is one of the most profound of aspects." Back |