The Universal Laws of the Twenty Count

While in my 30’s I had experiences of waking at night and would be viewing another dimensional time and space, one in which I was seeing the universal language of the Twenty Count. This fascinated me as I was not familiar with it. Through my studies of shamanism I became aware of the Twenty Count system. In his book , Shamanic Experience, Kenneth Meadows gives his readers an understanding of it’s origin as a ancient system of numerology. He goes on to say that some researchers attribute it to the Inca civilization of South American, but believes it to be much older, and I also feel this is the case. This Twenty Count system had many applications and was a means of describing the primary powers affecting the Earth, and it’s relationship to different life forms, and of explaining aspects of the human condition.

Meadows explains further that “the Twenty Count was sometimes called ‘ the Children’s Count’ because of its simple way of using only two symbols — a dot and a bar — and because it could be demonstrated easily with the fingers and thumb of one hand. A single dot represented 1, two dots 2, three dots 3, four dots 4, and so on. The numbers 1 – 10 primarily concerned the Tonal reality of mortal and everyday life, while the numbers 11 – 20 were related to the immortal Nagual realities of spiritual life. Apart from a qualitative value, each number had a directional value and a place on the Medicine Wheel, which added further meaning to whatever was associated with it. In the Native American cosmology the Medicine Wheel mandala was used as a tool to teach how the universe worked.”

Please find below a brief interpretive analysis of the indications of ‘connections’ made through the Twenty Count numbers from Kenneth Meadows work. All such insight’s and knowledge is personal and comes through your own shamanic understandings.

THE TWENTY COUNT

Zero – The externally existing No-thing that contains the potentiality of everything. The All That Is. The Wholeness of male and female energy. That of which all comes and in which all is contained.
One dot 1 – The power to see. Enlightenment. The power to determine. The power of Fire and of Light. The human kingdom.
Two dots 2 – Bonding power. Transformational energy. The power within. Introspection. The power to hold. The power of Earth. The mineral kingdom.
Three dots 3 – Molding and shaping power. Emotion. The power of giving. The power of Water. The plant kingdom.
Four dots 4 – Balance, alignment and harmony. Mental power. Knowledge and wisdom. The power of Air. The power of receiving. The animal kingdom.
One bar 5 – Merging power. The power of family. Unconditional love.
One dot and one bar 6 – Personal history and experience. Ancestry. The power of blood relationships. Ideas of self.
Two dots and one bar 7 – Dreams and desire. Hopes and aspirations. Visions of what we want to be. Striving for perfection.
Three dots and one bar 8 – Rules, laws and karma. How our life is ‘conditioned’. Our Book of Life –what we are doing with what we have got and have been given.
Four dots and one bar 9 – The power of determined and purposeful movement. Designed change. Choreography of energy.
Two bars 10 – A merging zone of the Tonal and the Nagual. The realm of the High Self.
One dot and two bars 11 – Spiritual illumination. Access to the collective unconscious.
Two dots and two bars 12 – Organizational stability on a spiritual level.
Three dots and two bars 13 – The shifting of energy from one dimension or level to another.
Four dots and two bars 14 – Instinctive and elemental power.
Three bars 15 – Power to communicate with the souls of other humans.
One dot and three bars 16 – Power of access to inner plane guides and with teachers.
Two dots and three bars 17 – Power to interpret dreams.
Three dots and three bars 18 – Cosmic and cyclic laws of cause and effect.
Four dots and three bars 19 – The power of making changes in the design of energy.
Four bars 20 – One-ness and perfection. Awareness of immortality. Cosmic consciousness.

Kenneth Meadows

Kenneth Meadows (1925-2002) is internationally respected for his work in adapting shamanic wisdom to a contemporary context. He was the author of a number of bestselling books, including Earth Medicine, The Medicine Way, Rune Power, and Where Eagles Fly, and was founder of the Faculty of Shamanics.