Seven pops up a lot, and I have already covered it a bit with articles Seven and Seven Again. But a few more thoughts have gathered since, and how numerology and symbolism appear to play an interesting, if not pivotal role in what we see around us.
7 of 9 – A borg character from Star Trek, and a popular one. She fit well into her uniform I remember, but just as with the android ‘Data’, there was something so very cold about her, and it was always about trying to make her ‘more human’.
7 Horcrux – in the Harry Potter series, there were seven items that had been imprinted with a piece of the lead villain’s soul. Which made me wonder about why there would be 7 pieces to the ‘soul’.
9 (Tim Burton film – following on from the above idea, there were nine creations in this film, all parts of the scientist’s personality, or soul. Separated and each of them to embody a different ‘quality’ of what it is to be human. But because each of them were only part, none of them were anywhere near whole, but still actioned the human like responses of its encoded or transferred behaviour.
9 Realms – Norse mythology – there is another article underway with this in mind, but there are nine very specified realms, inhabitants, locations and history.
9 Circles of Hell, Dante’s inferno – “Hell is depicted as nine concentric circles of torment located within the Earth”.
9 planets, or at least there used to be. And although it’s now 8, it’s part of the reason I realised that even if you believe something, and they say it is so, that can also be subject to change.
9 Muses – the daughters of Zeus, and the inspiration for all areas of the creative arts they say.
9 lives of a cat – turns out this is to do with Atem/Atum, that Egyptian God I mention now and again. It is said he represents nine lives, of him and his 8 descendants who were also gods, and when he visited the underworld did so as a feline. “The Egyptians regarded Atum-Ra, the cat god, as the embodiment of nine lives in one form.”

(c) K Wicks


