Up: [[Symbols]] Related: [[Inanna - A Chosen Descent]] Created: 2022-11-11 Updated: 2026-06-14 Three is a sacred number and four is a human number, so seven becomes the tension between[[The Self]] and [[Ego]]. Seven is also the number of stages of transformation in some alchemical treatises. Associated with tests and advancement (PQ) There are 7 days in a week, the completion of a cycle. There are 7 chakras, spiritual points. There are 7 colours in a rainbow. In the middle ages, an [[apprenticeship]] was seven years. In rites of initiation there were often seven tests to be gone through in the underworld. These were commonly symbolized by seven steps, seven rungs of a ladder, or the seven gates [[Inanna - A Chosen Descent]] passed through on her way to the underworld. Sophia, goddess of light and wisdom, arose through seven planetary spheres. It is said that Buddha took seven steps at his birth.