Number 7
the seeker
The number that goes inward and stays a while. A 7 wants the actual mechanism — of a subject, a faith, a person — and distrusts any explanation that arrives too easily. It is the most private of the numbers and often the most unnerved by ordinary company.
The lamp carried so far from the road that nobody can follow it.
At its best
- Analysis that pushes past the first satisfying answer
- Comfort in solitude that others need distraction to survive
- An honest instrument for detecting nonsense
At its cost
- Withdrawal at precisely the moment closeness was available
- Skepticism turned on the people who meant it
- Thinking used as somewhere to hide
Ruled by Neptune — Ketu in the older reckoning · in the tarot, The Chariot · inquiry · solitude · depth · doubt · the closed door