Pluto is still a planet in our hearts, eh?
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As mentioned in the article
“The Cutting of the Orm,” the number 9 is one of the guiding principles of our solar system, and the universe. The orbit of all bodies in the 9-planet system can be evenly multiplied into what’s known as “The Nineveh Constant” — 195,955,200,000,000, which is divisible by nine, and includes the precession of the equinox — 25,920 years — also divisible by 9.
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The word “Nineveh” means “City of Fish,” deriving from “Nun,” the Babylonian/Sumerian word for “fish,” and it is the name of the ancient Babylonian city-state where this number was found — a city founded by “Ninus” or “Nimrod,” another name for Cain, the “Fish-man” God-King who undoubtedly provided it with its name.
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However, “Nineveh” also contains within it the English word “Nine,” and since scholars such as L.A. Waddell have suggested that the Sumerian language is derived from the same root as Old English, this gives us pause for reflection.
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The word for “nine” in Latin is “novem,” which is very close to “novus,” the Latin word for “new,” linked specifically to the concept of “renewal” in celestial cycles. The number nine is also linked to the passage of time through celestial cycles, and its cabalistic meaning is defined by Aleister Crowley as “stability in change.”
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The thing that creates the “stability in change” that we find in the heavenly bodies of our solar system is the Sun, which causes bodies to rotate and revolve around itself in orbits that tend towards perfect circles — circles of 360 degress, which is, of course, divisible by 9.
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Michael Schneider, in A Beginner’s Guide to Constructing the Universe, described how ancient man marked the recurring cycles of important dates in his circular calendar on the points of an enneagram — a nine-pointed star. “If we put January 1, the beginning of the Western year, at the top of the enneagram at point nine,” he wrote, “the distance between each of the remaining points marks a period of forty days, a traditional milestone in time-reckoning and mythological symbolism.”
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Unlike any other number, the multiples of nine can all be reduced to the same digital root, which involves the process of adding all of the digits in a number together to get the sum, and then adding those digits together, and on and on, until you are down to a single digit, which is the “digital root.” When dealing with multiples of 9, the digital root is always 9 as well. You can also, because of this property, take a multi-digit number that is a multiple of 9 and move the digits into any configuration you wish. The resulting number will still be a multiple of 9 — always, every time.
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Another interesting property of 9 that is based on this same principle can be found by examining the familiar multiplication table of the numbers 1-9, and then creating a second table which reduces those numbers to their digital roots — a process called, since medieval times, “casting out nines.” The rows whose digits add up to 9 form geometric patterns that mirror one another perfectly and turn at right angles.
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The only pattern created that has no mirror reflection is the one created by the number 9 itself. “A square of four nines appears at the table’s center,” writes Michael Schneider, “and then a wall of solid nines forms a boundary along the table’s edges, the proverbial horizon, or shepherd, which the numbers below approach and revolve before in patterns but never pass beyond. Nine bounds and directs the choreography of the cosmic order revolving around it.”
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We find that the sum of all the corner angles in any symmetrical polygon has a digital root of 9. As Schneider writes, “Nine serves to bound or enclose numbers and shapes despite their apparent differences,” providing that “stability in change” that Crowley described so aptly.
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Michael Schneider shows how 9 points can be arranged to form a St. Andrew’s cross, or an X, which can then be used as the basis for building a labyrinth in which a person who walks through it takes nine turns through eight rings, a traditional labyrinth design
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“The lost clues to their music are built into the labyrinth structure. Each ring of this labyrinth corresponds to a note of the musical octave. The order in which the traveler ritually traverses the different rings determines the sequence of notes to be chanted as the ‘song’ of that labyrinth.”
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The calendar, described in the article The Cutting of the Orm, is based on both the numbers 9 and 13, 9 being a solar number that factors into the revolutions of the Earth (and other planets) around the sun, and 13 being a lunar number that factors into the revolutions of the moon around the Earth. The extremely complex and accurate Mayan and Aztec calendars were also based on the numbers 9 and 13. It seems that we have unlocked one of the greatest secrets of the ages, and it is based on the “universal language” of number.
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