New Decade

Revelers welcomed the new year in worldwide celebrations that often emphasized the hopes for a more peaceful future.

Ten is completion and it is also beginning; according to the Cabala everything physical and spiritual is formed in Ten Sefirot/Luminaries–from the atom until the universe, ten is the operative number of creation. The reason why our solar system is made of up of a sun and nine planets, why we sport ten toes and ten fingers and why the earth is made of seven continents and three oceans is because ten is both completeness and beginning. The previous ten years of zero has made a separation between the past and the future. The 2000 years promised to Rome has been completed and the Roman calendar is being reduced down to a mechanized time by which computers will continue to operate, but the myth of Rome will be put to rest. A new time is beginning known as the End of Days during which the Roman, Mayan and Hebrew calendars will end and the human being will be spiritually transformed. In the Cabala the lower seven of the ten is related directly to life on the earth, the seven continents. The seventh continent, Antarctica corresponds to the seventh day, the Day of Rest which begins in 230 years–no wonder it is beginning to melt.