The number One. The Monad. The ONE. The purest form, the source and birth of all… without the one there is no ‘other’.

Esoteric enough for you?

I finally found my way into the number qualities block, and it was through a door I had no idea I would ever enjoy. Actually I’m not certain I knew it exsisted before a couple of years ago. The spiritual side of numbers, the beauty, the intrinsic Nature of Number. The correlation of the spiral, the circle, the line…considered the purest form of thought and acedamia in Plato’s age. Mathematics.

I found a book titled A Beginner’s Guide to Creating the Universe and it opened me up to the beauty and non-threatening nature of numbers. The author warmed my heart with his tales of being lost in the boredom and tediousness of math in school. This was EXACTLY what was causing all of my aprehension about teaching math. I too was bored, and then through learned apathy became a ‘bad’ math student. I want so much for my own children to feel at home with numbers and to feel their connection with the entire universe around them. The book has really helped me to find that spirit. I would not recommend actually using it with a child until after the age of 9 when the learning style changes to a more intellectual capability, but it would be a great asset for learning Artistic Geometry together with your older child. And I am finding that just reading it is giving me the depth I need to bring the kids into the sense of each number.

We have done number one, the kids realized quickly that they are each a ONE. The essence of the number being uniquness I would say that each child is the definition of a ONE. Nature never repeats herself exactly, each of these children with me is a completely unique expression of her heritage, birth, parenting, world….

If I can’t find beauty in that, then where could I?