Number 7
Symbol: Heptagon-
Sound/Music
reference: Diatonic seven notes
Quote: “When
the real music comes to me – “the music of the spheres, the music that
surpasseth understanding”- that has nothing to do with me, ‘cause I’m just the
channel. The only joy for me is for it to be given to me, and to transcribe it
like a medium…Those moments are what I live for. – John Lennon
Song: Seven- by David Bowie
Music of the Spheres
In the 6th card of the Tarot, we explored hidden messages in
water, and today we’ll touch upon hidden messages in musical notes. As I
ventured along my journey through sound and vibration, one day I came across
the term, Music of the Spheres. Hmm.
That seemed like an important clue, so I jumped on the Fool Express, and
yelled, “Hi ho, hi ho, it’s off to discover the hidden messages in music I go!”
I’m a complete Fool in case you haven’t already noticed.
Pythagoras
may have been the father of geometry, but he also created a mystery school that
taught not only the magic of numbers, but the healing powers of music. His Music of the Spheres considers how the
movement of the heavenly bodies might be perceived and reflected in the
intervals of the notes on a musical scale. In other words, each of the seven
known planets had a specific vibration, and though you couldn’t physically hear
it, they were supposed to resonate with the seven notes of our diatonic scale.
DO a Deer…
There are seven notes in the diatonic scale (C D
E F G A B or Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti). By the way, Do Re Mi… are the beginning two
letters of Latin words that in ascending order, describe the layers of the
physical universe and the planets, beginning and ending with Do, for Dominus,
which means Lord or Absolute. “This scale was meant to model the hidden side of
the macrocosmic design, the universe ruled by mathematical harmonies of music.”
(Beginner's Guide To Constructing the Universe). During the Middle Ages, lots of smart dudes attempted to create
models which reflected how sound and music were a mirror of man, the universe
and God. The electromagnetic spectrum depicts the same thing: a universe based
on vibration.
Robert
Fludd’s Celestial Monochord, 1618
Music
influences our emotions
Ancient civilizations knew that music bypassed
the intellect and powerfully influenced feelings. In this way music was used to
heal emotions, which in turn impacted the psyche and physical body. Once the scientific method reigned supreme,
we lost the awe and magic power of music and sound. But when I read about these
ancient ways in which music was used to heal, and connect us to the divine, I
began to understand why I was led on this crazy bus ride through rock music
.
I think of it this way. As souls we understand the healing
impact of music, so as human beings we are instinctively drawn to sound. That’s
why rock music was so incredibly important to our generation because it
provided a harder vibration, which was a frequency that many of us could relate
to and needed to connect with so we could emotionally heal the lower charkas
and connect us to our heart. I believe all music displays the healing power of
sound, but only if you match the resonance or frequency of it. That’s why some
of us are drawn to rock, others to Classical, Country music or Dolphins
singing. There’s a musical genre for just about everyone, and it appears you might be drawn to it to help you emotionally heal.
Tarot Wisdom
The 7th card, The Chariot, represents empowerment, drive, ambition, mastery, will,
focus, strength, progress, self-discipline, the wise use of energy,
self-control, persona, social face, victory, (material) and success. To me, the
Chariot represents rock musicians and their journey toward stardom. In fact,
the Charioteer is wearing a star on his crown, and there are stars in the
canopy above his head and moons on his breastplate, which makes me think of the
harmony of the spheres. It was also an important card to me as I faced health
issues on my journey and had to dig into my inner strength, will, and
self-discipline to heal.
Sound/Musical reference: 7 notes of the
diatonic scale
The seven whole notes in our musical scale,
seven colors in the rainbow, seven days of the week, and seven main chakras in
the human body correspond to one another. White light through a prism displays
the seven colors of the rainbow, always in the same order as shown below due to
the color’s wavelength.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/413189/Sir-Isaac-Newton/images-videos/145754/newtons-prism-experiment
But there are many vibrations beyond the seven
colors, like radio, infrared rays, or gamma rays that we do not see. Fools only
perceive about 10% of the light spectrum…90% remains invisible to our eyes. We
hear approximately 10 octaves, yet there are many vibrations we are deaf to. We
live as though we see and know it all, but so much is more is going on all
around us than meets the eye or ear.
The
correspondence between light and sound in our body with the chakras seems to
reflect the scale of our soul. Before you say, “Chakras, what a load of crap,” remember there is much the average Fool
doesn’t see or hear, yet the seven spinning energy centers have been seen and felt by
many people for thousands of years. Why don’t you sense them? Like tuning into
a radio station, you haven’t tuned yourself to the correct chakra frequency. If
humans are vibration and sound, then is it plausible these corresponding
principles of light and sound can be utilized to help us heal or “tune” our bodies?
See if working through the notes of the musical scale, you can tune your life.
There are many “hidden” messages and aspects of our being which most of us
haven’t begun to explore.
Note Chakra/Rainbow
color Planet Day of week
B VIOLET MOON MONDAY
A INDIGO VENUS FRIDAY
G BLUE JUPITER THURSDAY
F GREEN SATURN SATURDAY
E YELLOW MERCURY WEDNESDAY
D ORANGE SUN SUNDAY
C RED MARS TUESDAY
Note: This system was created by H.P. Blavatsky, a great
synthesizer of Western and Eastern religion, in her book The Secret Doctrine which was
originally published in 1888.* However, there were lots of people over the
last several hundred years who explored the mathematical ways to interpret
which planet corresponded to which note, and to be honest, I couldn’t
understand most of what was written. It was way over my Fool head. HPB’s correlations make sense to me, but they
are by no means definitive.
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