Number: 8
Symbol: Octagon 
Sound/Music reference: Octave
Quote: “Only two things are infinite, the universe and
human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.” - Albert Einstein
"Nothing
separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or
nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than
his passions for procrastination and weird clothes." -- Bill Cosby
“Our music has depth, and attempts philosophical thought and meaning
with discussions of infinity, eternity and mortality. There is a line which
people cross that turns it into some magical, mystical realm, for which I don't
claim responsibility and don't hold any great truck with.”- David Gilmour of Pink
Floyd
Song: Eight Days a Week, The Beatles
Why was 6 afraid of 7? Because 7 8 9.
A few
summers ago, I pulled some Oracle cards to kill some time while waiting for Cheap
Trick to come on stage, and several were numbered with an eight…8, 28, 38, 48
etc… I thought it unusual to see that many eights in a spread, but what did it
mean?
When the
band took their places, the drummer had on a shirt that at first glance
resembled the number eight. I thought it was an odd synchronistic event, and
when he came closer, I realized there were two black 45 rpm records stacked on
top of each other (they represent music) to give the illusion of the number 8.
I wondered, “Okay, drummer boy, what are you telling me through the law of
synchronicity? What do I need to know
about the number eight and how it’s related to music?” I put my hand to my head
and did a little Winnie the Pooh imitation, and said, “Think…Think….Think.”
Aha! Eight = Octave- the tone that is eight full tones above or below a given
note.
But what
did I need to know about the octave? I wound up writing an entire chapter on
the significance of the number eight, but to give you the Reader’s Digest
version, the answer is…reincarnation and eternity.
Infinite Infinities
Yikes. Are
you ready for all this? The number 8 is actually a vertical infinity sign. The
symbol is like two circles, entwining one another with no beginning or end, or
eternity. Two sound waves overlapping one another create the infinity symbol as
well. Sound can connect us with the infinite because it is infinite. In the Tarot, the infinity symbol represents a balance
of forces, and appears above the head of the woman in the eighth card,
Strength.
This is
connected to reincarnation because the night of my awakening, I wondered why
legions of rock music fans were still so passionate about their favorite bands.
Why were some of us as enthralled as when we were teenagers? I asked what I
thought was a benign question, but in an instant, I heard, “Group Soul Reincarnation,” and my body felt as if I’d touched a
live 100,000 volt wire. Energy surged through me, and somehow I knew I wrote a
book about this clue and that it had a significant impact on the people of my
generation. It was so profound, so life altering, that for months afterwards I
walked around in this intense state of bliss, grinning like the Cheshire cat
wherever I went.
Reincarnation,
like chakras and all this other woo-woo stuff, is just big piles of cow poop,
right? Well, that’s what your ego will tell you, and my ego tried to ram it
down my throat over and over again during my journey. But day by day I
discovered more and more evidence that maybe this wasn’t temporary insanity.
Maybe I was being led to important hidden clues about rock music and numbers
and reincarnation for a specific reason.
Reincarnation and the Spiral
Here’s
why. Some metaphysical leaders use a spiral to describe the basis of
reincarnation. Our souls come back many times in the attempt to evolve, expand
and heal. Our souls, which I believe are
waves of vibration, carry our karma so that energetically we can repeat our
“past” in order to transcend it (aka, heal our baggage): to move up an octave
so to speak along the spiral.
What is an
octave? It is a repeat of the
same note but at a higher vibration. Supposedly, when we heal ourselves “now,”
we heal all of our past selves as well as our future selves in other lifetimes.
Because we repeat similar emotional patterns lifetime after lifetime*, we are
being given an opportunity to heal our past and move up an octave on the
spiral, to a higher vibration. Perhaps this is why I was given
the clue that group soul reincarnation and rock music were connected. I wondered if rock bands play music which drew
the souls who resonate with their sound together in order to heal trauma from
our childhoods, which in turn is possibly a repatterning of previous
lifetimes.
There’s a
bit more info is below under TERMS, but that’s all I can squeeze into today’s post without having your head engage in
spontaneous combustion.
Sound/Musical reference: Octave
There is
another important connection to the octave in science. Early chemists noted
that chemical groups repeated every eight elements. It was named the octave
rule, and compared to a musical scale. Music and the physical world correspond
once again.
Numbers
are archetypes and carry inherent meaning for us. Sound and music are numbers
expressed as vibration. Eight is the number of periodic renewal, and like the
octave, constantly seeking a higher vibration. Can you intentionally lift your
consciousness to a higher vibration with music? What music brings you to a
higher octave?
TERMS
*In
numerous past life studies either using hypnosis which taps into the
subconscious or superconscious, or spontaneous recall, a person often sees
similar emotional patterns that are present in their current lifetime in a past
life in order to address an area of their lives which needs healing. Most Fools
say, “Well, how can our consciousness survive death? How could those memories
be real?” Good question. Here’s a possible answer I made up.
Human beings, on their most fundamental level, are packets
of quantum energy. According to researchers, since quantum waves also encode information, it’s also as
though, on the tiniest level of reality, a memory of the universe for all time
is contained in empty space that each of us is always in touch with.**
Energy at the quantum level also suggests, to me, that the waves which make up
us Fools could encode our various levels of consciousness.
Are our
memories stored as waves, and when we physically die, those memories remain
within the matrix of our soul? When you incarnate into your next lifetime, are the
memories and emotions tucked neatly away in your subconscious as a wave
pattern? Through your soul’s guidance those emotions which need healing begin
to once again be expressed in your life’s experience. Until we Fools raise our
consciousness, we just keep repeating the same emotional patterns over and over
again until we consciously decide to make a different choice and change our minds
and hearts toward love and forgiveness of ourselves and others.
Whether
you believe the past life recall is possible or just tapping into the
collective unconscious or sheer fantasy is up to you. But there is overwhelming
research from many different disciplines which are highly suggestive that a
soul experiences many lifetimes in order for it to grow and learn.
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