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I think that the foregoing number juggling
by now has led us to a point where we are beginning to feel a bit unsure
about what a week really is. That is good. An open mind can learn. Somewhere I promised to return to number 7, after having discussed 13. This is the time / place for that. Seven is a lucky number, in contrast to 13. That our own culture tells us. But 7 and 13 belong together, we have seen that. I think that is exactly the point: these numbers are each others opposites. Light and dark, birth and death, new moon and full moon, summer and winter, day and night. Every distinction starts in opposites. 7 is prior to 13 I believe. But as soon as we see 7 than we also see 13 (I hope we can agree). 7 is not only the number of the 'planets', but also the number of stars in the Big Dipper and the number of prominent stars in Orion (if we see these as forming a square with three stars in the center, like a belt). The Pleiades we consider as having 7 stars too, but the Polynesians find only 6 in their Matariki.
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