Numerology for 5/13/2024

5/13/2024 is the number 17
5 + 1 + 3 + 2 + 0 + 2 + 4 = 17
1 + 7 = 8

The number 8 asks us to honor our path that we have walked. That means to honor all the pieces of that journey. The good, as well as the bad. I remind myself of a famous Buddhist teaching, Maitreya said: “A path has to be abandoned.” Path is like a boat, you go to the other shore, use the boat, you reach the other shore. What do you do? You abandon the boat.
This amazing thought was written by Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche. And it inspires me each time to remember that the number 8 is about letting go. The number 8 is just like the paths in our life. Each of us have taken many boats, as tools to reach other distant shores. Many of those boats were taken during duress, had holes in them, and storms threatened to sink us with the boat. But all of those boats, the good and solid ones … and the tipsy, sinking ones were all necessary to get to the other shore. Why then do we hang onto those terrible boats that frightened us and caused such trauma?
Do you notice those people who carry their wounding like a boat on their backs, refusing to let the boat down or to let the boat go? We carry too much around in our life until it becomes unbearable. That is when we finally let the boat go and we understand that we will have to abandon that part of our life in favor of what is yet to come. We cannot carry everything with us on any journey. It is best to remember the lessons learned and the love shared.
But leave everything else behind.
Today, it is time to put down that boat. Besides, you are too tired and exhausted to carry it around, just in case someone else needs it, or you might need it again.
Trust that you will find other means to cross distant shores. It is best today to lighten the loads we place upon ourselves. It is okay to say that you are tired, and you need to go forward with less weight to carry.
Once you do, you will feel how much better you feel and how much easier the path will be.
~Suzanne Wagner~