Law of Seven

The Seed of Life - Sacred Geometry

A friend of mine asked me if I had taken any cool bird pictures this year. "Well no," I told him. "There are two hawk babies that I have watched hatch and fledge this year and I have hardly had a glance at them."

It is not that I don't love the birds, I do. It is just that this year is somehow different. I am hardly writing, not taking pictures, sharing at a fraction of my former production.

I am not drinking, nor am I smoking herb. Not sure why, but my head and body needed a break and I am enjoying both my new found clarity and also find that my work productivity has increased for one reason or another.

I'm working more and not sharing so much.

Part of the reason I pulled the plug was that I am horrified by our current government, the failure of some legislators to have any moral red line whatsoever. I was afraid that I would write something that would put me on some one way flight to a Kafkaesque cell in Djibouti, never to be seen again.

I have friends that have kept up the volume this year but their voices seem shrill and almost pointless. They are making themselves sick. I think that the other side will ultimately do itself in and that a conservation of strength is in order now. Hide your light and withdraw as the I Ching suggests we do when fools and tyrants rule the roost.

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I am not a religious man but that does not mean that I do not find value in the teachings of the sages and holy ones.

My brain keeps going back to various texts in the bible that refer to a sabbath year. A year when everything basically stops.

I guess the main passage is Leviticus 25:

On the Jubilee year we return to our holding and let it all rest. Forgive debts, help the poor, stay close to home. The ancient Hebrews were on to something. After a period of time, you have to give it all a rest.

Coincidentally, if you watched my recent video with Mark Sublette, I mention that this is my fiftieth year of business, my jubilee year. Perhaps I am obeying some innate dictates of the ancients and reversing direction in some way?

Who knows how things will play out? Will follow the wind and see what gives.

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The number seven is of great importance in the bible. 

“Then Moses commanded them, saying, 'At the end of every seven years, at the time of the remission of debts, at the Feast of Booths, when all Israel comes to appear before the Lord your God at the place which He will choose, you shall read this law in front of all Israel in their hearing.'” - Deuteronomy 31:10-13

The sabbath year was called Shmita שמיטה in the bible. It literally means release.

“...but on the seventh year you shall let it [the land] rest and lie fallow, so that the needy of your people may eat; and whatever they leave the beast of the field may eat.” - Exodus 23:11

Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel: I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying: "At the end of seven years ye shall let go every man his brother that is a Hebrew, that hath been sold unto thee, and hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee"; but your fathers hearkened not unto Me, neither inclined their ear." (Jeremiah 34:13–14)[12]

"and if the peoples of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy of them on the sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt." (Nehemiah 10:31)[13]

There is a whole body of rabbinical work in the Mishnah concerning proper behavior during the time of Sheviite or seven.

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The number seven represents completion and has special significance in many cultures.

The Pythagoreans believed 7 represented the union of the physical and spiritual, making it a number of spirituality. 

In Vedic scripture Agni the fire god has seven wives and the Sun god had seven horses.

According to something I read, Seven is consistently voted people's favorite number.

Anyway, I promise I am not getting religion, just keeping my eyes open and trying to pay attention. Enjoy your week!