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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.