The 13 Portals

PORTAL 12

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The World - The last card. It brings the reflection of the constellations on the Earth. The center constellation is Serpentarius and falls between Scorpio and Sagittarius. It is the 13th sign and is related to the 13 month calendar, each month having 28 days and 4 weeks in perfect balance. This is the end and the beginning.

PORTAL 11

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Justice - when two “ones” come together you have the balance between two great figures that work as one. The Justice of the Universe is subtle to human eyes, but very precise. It is related with Universal Love and Freedom. Universal Love has no reason to be, it is. It is inside, outside and all around. Freedom in this case is not related with cages or money, but with the creation of our own reality through a detached perspective and an adaptable being.

PORTAL 10

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The Wheel of Fortune - is a powerful number, related to 0 and 1 has the energy of the manifest and the non-manifest. It has the full potential for creation and destruction. Choose your destiny, but take care because it will become true.

PORTAL 9

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The number 9 is Neptune. It is the number of Universal Love, all the faces of God, the last number of Pitagoric Cube and the highest vibration. Illumination. It is the light, the source of the life energy, regeneration and rejuvenation. It is the number of the Universal Christ and the Sacred Heart.

PORTAL 8

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The number 8 is Infinite. Perfection. It is stable but also in movement.
8 is related to awareness, consciousness, and development. Ganesh, who symbolizes knowledge and wisdom, represents the opening of the doors of perception. In Hindu tradition, a golden lotus is the path to Brahman, the Origin of the Universe, the Root of all Consciousness. In Buddhism, the eight petals represent mental purification and the path to spiritual perfection.

PORTAL 7

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The number 7 is Saturn. It is death and transcendence. It is the seven colors of the rainbow, the seven western notes and the seven days of the week. 7. Seven is an exceptionally powerful number and also one of the biggest keys to the mystery. Each color, note or planet, represents a different perspective that we can seek to achieve awareness, clarity and enlightenment. It is the metaphor for the different races and the conflicts before they ultimately find harmony.

PORTAL 6

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The number 6 is Venus. It represents art, love and beauty. 6 is related to the sea and brings paradox and movement. It is maternity, care, tolerance acceptance and the origin of life on earth. It is related to Iemanja, the Afro-Brazilian goddess of the sea, and is found in the deep darkness of the ocean and the shallow shores of the beach.

PORTAL 5

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The number 5 is Expression. The Joker, or The Fool is the embodiment of the five and brings all potential of creativity. Five also represents technique and is related to the five fingers of the hand. It is the five, or the Joker that gives shape, transforms, and manipulates the material world. It is cultural creation, environmental transformation, various social structures, reason, logic, and the search for Truth. The Joker hovers on the edge, between genius and madness. He is the wanderer that accumulates knowledge and history, the closest representation of the modern man who builds and destroys illusions.

PORTAL 4

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The number 4 is the Manifestation of the Material World; the world we call reality. It is Nature and Sexuality. It brings the four elements, creation and destruction. The image in the center is a part of the Khajuraho, the Kamasutra Temple in India. It represent sexuality on a high level, beauty, love and respect. The fruits and plants from the borders represent fertility.

PORTAL 3

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The number 3 is Movement. It represents air and it is the planet Earth. It's related to the 3 geometric forms and 3 primary colors.The square, triangle, circle and red, yellow and blue. The Lord of Death from the Tibetan Wheel of Life pictured at the top of the triangle, represents impermanence and change. The Baby Dragon inside the circle represents the movement of time and the three dimensions.

PORTAL 2

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The number 2 is the Moon. It is feminine and it is water. It represents duality and the great paradox. Like the moon that has both a light and a dark side, life and death walk together. It is important to accept both the dark and the light as we can't have one without the other. They are two sides of the same coin. It is important for both aspects to be balanced and in peace.

PORTAL 1

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The number 1 is the Sun. It manifests itself through the Big Bang. It is fire and masculinity. Its colors are red, yellow and white. It is represented in Portal 1 with the Aztec Sunstone, the Egyptian scarab, pyramids and the god Rá who moves the Sun across the sky.

PORTAL 0

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The number Zero represents nothing and the potential for all. It represents the unmanifest and the infinite possibility for manifest. The abstract concept of Zero was developed in Babylon and India in different periods. As the sound of the universe is present in an atom and in the circulatory system, the geometric form of the Ohm represents this energy. It is related to the electromagnetic field and dark matter. Portal Zero depicts the Yantra (geometric form of Ohm) inside of the particle accelerator.