Author: Shams-Tabriz

You felt like you were progressing, and now you seem to have slid all the way back, and you fear you’ve lost it all. Let me show you, gently, why the spiral staircase passes the same window again — higher than before — and why this isn’t regression but integration.

You keep seeing 999 and something in your life is ending. Let me give you the older meaning — nine is the number of completion, and the empty room is not a punishment. It is the last thing a chapter does for you.

You keep seeing 777 and half the internet says it means luck is coming. Let me give you the older meaning — seven is a well, not a jackpot, and what it offers is only reached by going down.

You keep seeing 555 and something in your life is shifting before you can name it. Let me give you the older meaning — five is the number of change, and the birds go before the cold arrives.

You keep seeing 444 and you want to know what it means for your love, your money, your future. Let me give you the older answer — 444 is the number of the ground, and it is telling you what you are standing on.

You keep seeing 333 and you want to know what it means for love. Let me give you the older answer — three is the number of the voice, and there is something in you that has not been said out loud.

You keep seeing 222 in the middle of something unfinished. Let me give you the older meaning — 222 is the number of the seed underground, and it is asking you not to dig it up to check.

You keep seeing 111 and something in your life is only just beginning. Let me give you the older meaning — one is the number of the first flame, and new things need a hand around them before they need an audience.

Every August the same story goes round the world about the Lion’s Gate, and every August it is wrong. Here is what the sky is actually doing on the 8/8 — what the eights genuinely carry, and why the lion is the thing you are being asked to set down.