Numerals
Your NOMOS is your core energy. Its numeral, from 1 to 13, is the vibration that gives that energy direction, intensity, nuance and a distinct way of expression. Example: Shaman / 13 is read as “Your NOMOS is Shaman, Vibration 13.”
No numeral is inherently positive or negative. Each contains a range of expression. Read the numeral together with your NOMOS and with its position inside the Cross.
How loudthe NOMOS sounds
Soft
Tender and receptive. These Vibrations need support to express their full strength.
Balanced
Stable and centred. The energy holds its form and flows without forcing.
Intense
Powerful and charged. These Vibrations ask for purpose and discipline.
13 VibrationsOne pyramid
The energy rises step by step. It begins, divides, moves, takes form, empowers and finds its axis.
Seven stands alone at the top. It has no counterpart. From here, every direction is visible.
What was seen at the summit comes back down into the world, gaining power, until 13 completes the cycle and opens the next 1.
Intend. Act.Reflect.
Set the intention on 1. Pause on 3. Act on 8. Reflect on 13. In the traditional count, the Vibrations are spoken aloud from 1 to 13, each one louder, with 13 the strongest of all.
Thirteenways of expression
01
Source
Beginning · Unity · Strength+
One is the point of origin. It carries simplicity, unity, firmness and concentrated power. Its energy begins things. It is direct, resolved and capable of holding great force without needing excess.
1 opens every cycle of 13 and always follows 13.
Clear intention, single-minded strength, the courage to begin.
Too alone. Strength without support. Stubbornness.
Set intentions. Begin practices. Plant.
02
Polarity
Duality · Balance · Choice+
Two introduces polarity. It sees both sides, carries the tension between opposites and learns through choice, contrast and balance. Its strength comes from being able to draw from either side without losing the center.
Relationships are the teacher.
Partnership, mediation, seeing both sides, love and union.
Indecision. Being torn. Living two lives.
Pair work, reconciliation, prayers for relationships.
03
Movement
Risk · Rhythm · Transformation+
Three carries motion before completion. It can feel unstable, uncertain or unfinished, yet that instability creates velocity. Three asks for another ingredient, action or perspective that allows the energy to shift into something that can be integrated.
Traditionally the most challenging Vibration. Its frequency is always transmutable: get creative.
Creative movement, rhythm, the trigger that sets things in motion.
Doubt, obstruction, the feeling that something is always missing.
Pause. Begin nothing new. Music, dance and unblocking.
04
Structure
Stability · Wholeness · Order+
Four creates a stable foundation. It represents completeness through structure, orientation, measure and order. Its strength is the ability to create something solid enough to hold weight, direction and responsibility.
Four directions, four elements, four pillars of the earth, four parts of the day.
Grounded, complete and reliable. The tradition says those born on 4 receive many powers.
Rigidity, fixed patterns, heaviness.
Grounding, home, building, calling the four directions.
05
Empowerment
Center · Standards · Momentum+
Five energizes what it touches. It carries the power of the center and often moves ahead of its time. It empowers through example, enthusiasm and the willingness to establish a higher standard.
Five fingers: the hand, the work, and karma.
Empowers by example. High standards, enthusiasm, practical skill.
Rushing, arriving too early for the world, overworking.
Practical tasks, crafts, blessing the work.
06
Axis
Flow · Stability · Reality+
Six creates an axis between movement and stability. It is practical, grounded and realistic, yet capable of sustaining flow. Its strength is organizing energy around a stable center without stopping movement.
The axis that joins time and space. It raised up the sky.
Stability, practicality, realism, groundedness.
Heaviness. Confronting instead of flowing.
Building, stabilising, centring.
07
Reflection
Perspective · Solitude · Decision+
Seven turns awareness inward and outward at the same time. It sees many directions, which can create depth and reflection but also confusion, loneliness or difficulty choosing. Its work is to turn perspective into commitment.
The view from the top. It has no counterpart, which makes it lonely.
Overview, reflection, the ability to close chapters.
Confusion, non-commitment, loneliness.
Reviewing, taking the overview, closing chapters.
08
Balance
Justice · Harmony · Time+
Eight seeks balance, stability and justice. It carries a sense of completeness and continuity, like a thread running through time. Because it constantly registers imbalance, it can also experience mixed feelings, irritation or sudden changes of mind.
8 Creator is the sacred new year.
The strongest Vibration for ceremony: commitments, initiations, completions.
Mixed feelings, changing one's mind, quick irritation.
The main ritual day. Act on what was intended.
09
Life Force
Patience · Hope · Manifestation+
Nine carries strong but gentle energy. It is patient, life-giving and naturally oriented toward possibility. Its strength lies in sustaining long cycles with hope and allowing intention to become form without forcing the process.
The number of life, gestation and great cycles.
Hopeful, life-giving, an easy manifestor.
Over-giving. Waiting too long.
Healing, creation, women's ceremonies, birth.
10
Manifestation
Work · Cooperation · Bonds+
Ten brings energy into practical form. It asks for participation, work and cooperation. It is strongly connected with completion, relationships and the bonds required to create something tangible together.
Ten fingers and ten toes: get to work.
Cooperation, building together, agreements, community.
Vulnerability hidden under strength. Dependence on the group.
Community, agreements, contracts, group ceremony.
11
Force
Power · Creative Chaos · Purpose+
Eleven carries great force and neutral power. It can create dissonance or creative chaos before resolution appears. It sees patterns across past, present and future, and needs a meaningful purpose so that its intensity has direction.
11 needs a purpose, ideally the soul's purpose.
Creativity, vision across time, raw power.
Drifting, scattering, chaos without direction.
Art, open play, breaking patterns.
12
Totality
Accumulation · Understanding · Integration+
Twelve gathers what has been learned and sees the larger pattern. It carries completion, understanding and accumulation. Its gift is taking account of the whole picture and integrating many pieces into one coherent view.
Summing up and taking account of the whole.
Wisdom from experience, clear overview, independence.
Isolation, over-analysis.
Review, journaling, harvest and gratitude.
13
Ascension
Intuition · Perception · Service+
Thirteen marks completion at the highest point of the cycle. It carries unusual perception, intuition and sensitivity to dimensions of experience that are not immediately obvious. Its intensity requires discipline and refined self-awareness so that perception can become useful service.
Linked to all 13 major joints of the body. It transcends the cycles, and is always followed by 1.
Psychic power, vision, spiritual authority.
Chaos, nervous overload, instability when the gift is neglected.
Meditation, vision, reflection.
The numeral describes the energetic intensity and movement of a NOMOS. It is designed to be read together with the archetype and the position it occupies within the Cross.
