All Things Six
Cardinal: SIX
Hindu-Arabic: 6
Ordinate: Sixth
Roman: VI
Greek: Digamma
Pythagorean number: the hexad
1+5, 2+4, 3+3, 2x3
Words of Six:
Roman words
- sex, sextus: sextant, sextuplets, sextile
- Latin seni: 6 each
Greek word
- hexa: hexagram (6 pointed star, Seal of Soloman), hexagon, hexapod (insect)
Social, Religious, Family Association:
- Christian number of creation & order, world made in 6 days. Imperfection - 1 short of completion
- Sixth Commandment: Thou shall not kill.
- Biblical: manna fell from heaven for 6 days; Jesus changed six pots of water into wine for his first miracle. Six days of creation.
- Seal of Soloman
- Six Point Star as symbol of Judiaism.
- 666 – number of devil.
- Hexateuch: first 6 books of Old Testament.
- Sext2 (Eccles.) 4th and 7th Canonical hours or services.
- Games, sports references: Woman's basketball team, Sixte (in fencing – 6th defensive position) cards: Captain Hicks (dice), six spot, sixer
Time and Holiday Associations:
- June
- Saturday or Saturn's day for weeks ending with Sunday.
- Friday for weeks ending with Saturday
Alpha letters: f, o, x
Scientific, Geometrical, Monetary:
- Carbon (C) periodic number
- Six as unit of measure, 60 minutes, half-dozen
Astrological association: House of Virgo
Astrological & Numerology Prophetic references:
- Six represents the human soul because six is symbolic of the union between fire and water. The number of ambivalence and effort.
- A 'perfect number' because it equals the sum of its divisors and is divisible by both a 3 (odd) and a 2 (even) thus harmoniously combining the elements of each. Also a hermaphroditic number.
- The number of the days of Creation and therefore symbolic of the cessation of effort.
- The number of love, marriage and domestic happiness.
- The Pythagoreans referred to this number as 'the perfection of all points.' It was called the form of forms, the maker of the soul and the articulation of the universe.
- Its keywords are time, panacea, the world, omnisufficient & unwearied. It is associated deities are Orpheus, the Muse Thalia & the Fate Lachesis.
- Negative connotations:
- unfinished or imperfect business, projects; conversely, becoming a work aholic. Losing sense of time and place, being in want or exhausted. Working for evil.
Tarot Divination: the lovers represents conscious knows the super-conscious by seeing through the subconscious. Choice, temptation, attraction. the struggle between sacred & profane love. Harmony of the inner and outer aspects of life.
Symbols: Venus, Diana, Janus, the heart Venus governs love, harmony, artistry, feminine sexuality, attractions, affection, physical beauty and art.
Sign: A double triangle or circle divided into 6 representing unity of spirit and body and harmony between man and God.
Liturature, folktale & art:
- Six Feet Under, 2001-2005 TV show
Common usage, slang:
- Half dozen
- six shooter
- six gun
- six pack
- six penny
- six fold
- six footer
* * *
Sources Some information drawn from:
- The Discoverers by Daniel J. Boorstin
- The Numerology Workbook by Julia Line
- Dartmouth, Number Symbolism in the Middle Ages at http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/~matc/math5.geometry/unit8/unit8.html
site offers much info on Christianity.