Magic Numbers

That is just too weird!!!!!!!!

Lots of witches and mages, including me, ascribe significance to different numbers. Times and dates are big of course, with 11:11 being among the most prominent. Just as we learn to keep eyes and senses out for other signs, we learn to spot numbers.

Tonight a number popped up in an odd way, during a rather dull (all right, say "meditative") activity. Among the many things I feel I need to do before a blank Century Tome is ready for my personal use, besides sticking in pretty cover flyleaves and making sure all the glue is sound, is pagination --- page numbers. As you can imagine, for a long book this can seem tedious. I feel it's necessary precisely because of this length, however, because riding on the back of page numbers, it's then possible to add an index. A book hundreds of pages long, full of random crap entered by date? Uh, yeah. Trust me, you want a friggin' index.

Anyway, I left one page in front for the title and its design, or simply as a grace page, then began putting tiny numbers on every page corner. Now, I don't plan these books' lengths in any way; along with stacks of sketch paper, I mixed in a random number of pieces of pretty colored scrapbook backing pages as I fancied, in no special order, sewn together in six equally random, estimated-by-eyeball signatures.

Yet my paginating efforts ended smack on Page 700. (The final page, like its cousins in the front, was a soft flyleaf of decorative herbal paper that doesn't count.)

Weird !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Is there any significance to such a wackily perfect number? Who knows. I do know that seven is a rather magically loaded number, and here we have a multiple, so perhaps this book is simply welcoming my magic and telling me to not hold back in embellishing its pages. Time will tell!

Above: A wonderful example of a designer Potions kit and book in one! My practical mind can't help but point out the awkward aspects of carrying and shelving a book like this, in light of how easily those little bottles might get caught on other books, bumped or broken; besides, I'd need a lot more bottles. But this thing certainly looks wicked, and the idea of a combined kit and book holds lots of potential for creativity!