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Wednesday August 01st 2012, 8:34 pmDry, oppressive, and activity sapping, its starting to be extra hot here. Where we live tends to be pretty warm in the summers, with August usually being the warmest, or at least an increased number of days breaking triple digits. This idea of increasing in temperature is kind of interesting, in that some of the origins of the name August derive from Augustus. Some meaning definitions of the name Augustus use the term “great”, derived from “augere”, meaning “to increase”. I find this fascinating, when correlating this with history centered around this month’s origin’s, originally called Sextillus (six), until Octavian, first emperor of Rome, was entitled Augustus. The month was also increased in number of days at this time from 30 to 31, therefore increasing the stature of it being named after Augustus, an increased sense of ego certainly. So the loose connection in the notion of “increasing” associated with the month’s origin’s and the increasing of temperatures where we live is interesting. I tend to find that in life there can be unexpected connections between things, even trivial things when broken down to and examining components of what is around us. As another example, the number 32 crops up in my life quite often. I really became aware of this when working on Promethea and some of the content of the story dealing with the 32nd path of Qabalah, a metaphysical number representing a metaphysical path to other forms of higher universal thinking. When working on the Sword album images recently, and realizing some of the personal context of them in relation to overall metatextual (probably not a real word but sounds good) aspects of the songs, I developed a multitude of images, some simple and some more complex, but what caught me by surprise a bit was that when all the images were counted up from every aspect of the design package they added up to the number 32. This was not planned, but yet still quite appropriate in context of the music and symbolic meanings of the images. I love finding these kinds of connections, although in most cases unintentionally. As another example, the number of this blog if turned into a math equation forms the number 32 (21+0+5×1+4+2= 32), I literally caught this as I was typing. I in no way consciously planned to discuss the number 32 with this particular blog number, just happened. The fact that connections of meaning can be gleaned when examining the details of what is around us, providing something symbolically profound, makes one wonder about perceptions and our realities, just how we are intertwined with it all.
Increasing Personal Reality
(And I believe I counted 16 sentences to the paragraph above, 32 divided in half, also not planned. I’ve counted them several times, so if I’m wrong forget it)
August 1st 2012
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