Tens Everyday

by Yvonne Rathbone
©1997

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The 10 symbolizes completion and beginning, the rebirth with the experience of all that has come before.We have now gone through all the numbers. With the 10, we realize all the preceding numbers. The 1 meaning unity, the 0 meaning nothingness, in the 10, we realize the Universe. This is the beginning nature of the Fool with the full consciousness of the Magician.

10 is the number of the wheel. The Monad (1) and the Ennead (9), the Hub and the Rim, together make the Decad (10), the Wheel. The experience and age of the Hermit with the youth and will of the Magician, the end and the beginning.

In the 10, the cycle of expansion and contraction, initiation and reaction and resolution that was experienced in the first 9 numbers, is seen as a whole. The 10 raises that cycle to a new level of consciousness and experience. In this way, 10 is the number of memory, represented by the Mother of Muses, Mnemosyne. She remembers what came before, and starts anew.

10 is a hermaphroditic number, both male and female, for it combines and balances the female and male numbers. 10 is 2 times 5. The Hierophant and the High Priestess, outward and inward mystery. 10 is a number of balance, it balances the active, yang numbers with the passive, yin numbers. It contains the prime, indivisible numbers (1,2,3,5,7) and the compound numbers (4,6,8,9). In this balance it represents love and peace and is therefore a number of trust.

Finally, the 10 represents the downward flow of energy into manifestation and the upward flow of matter into energy. This is shown in the glyph of the Holy Tetraktys which shows a pyramid with a base of 4. 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 = 10 The Monad (the top row of 1) represents Unity. The Dyad (2) represents duality. The Triad (3) represents the three-fold nature of the psyche; subconsciousness, consciousness and superconsciousness. The Tetrad (4) shows the four-fold nature of the physical world. Another arrangement of the 10, the Tree of Life, also symbolizes this movement between Divine Unity and Physical Manifestation.