The Number Six Pattern

The Digital Root Patterns Lead to Six

As previously documented in the entry entitled Month-Day Alignments and the Enneagram, the digital roots of the month-day alignments (example: 2012.1.1) form a perfect pattern without exception and describes 3 (4 with 2 overlapping) triangles plotted on an enneagram circle. In this article, we will be further drawing connections to the thirteen month calendar and triangles using the digital root process.

You may have noticed that the digital root pattern of our four groups of roots is 6-9-3-6:

We can get to this same 6-9-3-6 pattern another way. Recall that the digital roots we used above plot 4 triangles on an enneagram. Let's use the same triangle concept to get new set of numbers using the actual month numbers rather than the digital roots of the month-day alignments (we will soon explore this possibility as well):

• Triangle 1: 1-5-9
• Triangle 2: 2-6-10
• Triangle 3: 3-7-11
• Triangle 4: 4-8-12

Time to get our digital roots:

• 1 + 5 + 9 = 15 = 1+ 5 = 6
• 2 + 6 + 10 = 18 = 1 + 9 = 9
• 3 + 7 + 11 = 21 = 2 + 1 = 3
• 4 + 8 + 12 = 24 = 2 + 4 = 6

As you can see, we have obtained the same 6-9-3-6 pattern from a completely different starting point. Also, 6 + 9 + 3 + 6 = 24 = 2 + 4 = 6. You may have noticed in the first method that we grouped the four quadrant groups which differs from the second method of grouping months by triangles. Why does this vary? What happens when we use the four quadrant groups for the actual month numbers or the triangle groups for the month-day alignments digital roots?

In the former case, we get:

• 1 + 2 + 3 = 6
• 4 + 5 + 6 = 15 = 1 + 5 = 6
• 7 + 8 + 9 = 24 = 2 + 4 = 6
• 10 + 11 + 12 = 33 = 3 + 3 = 6

The triangle grouping applied to the digital root numbers gives us a pattern that is a bigger departure from the other three:

• 2 + 6 + 1 = 9
• 5 + 9 + 5 = 19 = 1 + 9 = 10 = 1 + 0 = 1
• 8 + 4 + 8 = 20 = 2 + 0 = 2
• 3 + 7 + 2 = 12 = 3

It does, however, show four consecutive numbers in the base 9 numerical system where only the numbers 1 - 9 exist. These last two examples also lead to 6:

• 6 + 6 + 6 + 6 = 24 = 2 + 4 = 6
• 9 + 1 + 2 + 3 = 15 = 1 + 5 = 6

As we can see, the patterns are consistent with multiple different starting points. We could even add, perhaps, that the four sixes again add up to six... although there may be other sixes hidden in the calendar as well.