Number Seven

I may be a day late, but seven is still a special number. The world was formed in seven days, there are seven wonders of the world, seven deadly sins, seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, seven hills of Rome, seventh heaven, etc.

•     Shabbat is the seventh day of the week. Shabbat connects the six days of the week. All of the other days revolve around it. It serves as the center for the three days before it and the three days after it.
•     Number 7 is the number of perfection, security, safety, and rest.
•     Number Seven contains the number three of the heavens and soul with the number four of the earth and body.
•     The Pythagoreans called the number 7 “the Septad”.
•     Seven colors of the rainbow. Isaac Newton identified the seven colors of the rainbow as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.
•     There are seven days in a week.
•     Each airplane in Boeing's line of passenger jets is named with a 3-digit number beginning and ending in 7.
•     There are seven dwarfs.
•     As You Like It by William Shakespeare's contains Shakespeare's 7 Ages of Man theory.
•     There are seven notes to the diatonic scale.
•     Music has seven notes in an octave (the eighth is a repeat of the first): Do, Re, Mi, Fa, So, La Ti, Do.
•     There are seven letters in the Roman numeral system.
•     Seven circles form the symbol called “The Seed of Life”. The Seed of Life symbolizes the six days of creation. The central circle symbolizes the day of rest.
•     Number seven is the number of Neptune.
•     In the Harry Potter series of novels by J.K. Rowling, seven is said to be the most powerfully magical number.
•     Number seven is lucky for Cancer and Pisces.
•     In the Tarot, seven is the card of the Chariot. The Chariot is symbolic of the need to focus.
•     September means “the seventh month” in Latin.
•     The British fifty pence coin is a heptagon (seven sided).
•     Nitrogen (N) has the atomic number 7.
•     Number 7 is the international country calling code for Russia.
•     Lotus Seven was an open top, two-seater sports car.
•     The opposite sides of a dice always equal the number seven when added.
•     In Japan there are Seven Lucky Gods. They have a ship called Takarabune, the Treasure Ship. They arrive in town every New Year and give gifts to all worthy people.
•     In Hindu weddings the bride and groom walk around the holy fire seven times during the wedding ceremony.
•     Seven people have been beheaded privately on Tower Green within the walls of the Tower of London.
•     There are seven continents – Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia.

I could go on, but it is already the eighth.