Expression number
9
Numbers describe tendencies in a symbolic tradition. They cannot decide health, money, law, marriage or children.
About this number
Balliett in 1905 reads 9 as three times three and says the gifts of 3 are multiplied here. In her comparison, 8 strives for honors and wins them, while 9 has them laid at its feet. She places many well-loved judges under this number.
Other writers disagree. Walton in 1914 calls 9 the number of love, universal and personal, at the far end from the individuality of 1. Cheasley in 1916 lists philanthropy, drama, art and disregard of possessions, along with the extremist. Sepharial's 1911 list prints grief and anxiety.
Tomas Kane shows the sum: Tomas adds to 14 and reduces to 5, Kane adds to 13 and reduces to 4, and the pair makes 9. Modern popular numerology reads an Expression of 9 as ability turned toward wide causes, which sits nearest to Walton and Cheasley.
Where this text comes from
Statements credited to an older writer follow the scanned text named here and are paraphrased unless quoted. The modern readings are labeled as modern and come from none of these works.
- Mrs. L. Dow Balliett, How to Attain Success Through the Strength of Vibration: A System of Numbers as Taught by Pythagoras (1905)
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- Dr. Roy Page Walton, Names, Dates, and Numbers: What They Mean to You (1914)
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- Clifford W. Cheasley, What's in Your Name? (1916)
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- Sepharial, The Kabala of Numbers: A Handbook of Interpretation (1911)
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