10,000 days

Today I read the following paragraph in John Opsopaus's commentary on the World card in  his Guide to the Pythagorean Tarot.

Ecstatic dancing, which follows no choreography, allows the Dancer to pass from mortal time into transcendental time, but the dance of the World is not the chaotic gyrations of Dionysos . . . or the frenzy of the Maenads, but a rhythm evolving spontaneously in time. The steps follow each other in a regular pattern, but where the dance, or the Dancer, will go, we cannot say. The sun will rise tomorrow and the next day will dawn, but we cannot say what sort of world it will rise upon in ten thousand days (p. 262).

About two weeks prior to this, Bruce Charlton had left this comment on one of my posts.

I had a minor synchronicity today... striking but separated by a few days. In a dinner table discussion a participant mentioned that he was about to be 10,000 days old - I had never heard anyone mention this unit of time before (it amounts to 27 and a bit years). Today - reading Howl's Moving Castle (by Diana Wynne Jones) - there was a plot point about the character becoming 10,000 days old.

This, then, is an even-more-minor synchronicity, separated by two weeks but still striking. ("Ten thousand days" is quite a rare expression, since time periods of that length are normally reckoned in years.)

As an ancillary coincidence, the post to which Bruce's comment was appended was about Robert Frost's poem that begins "Some say the world will end in fire / Some say in ice" and also mentioned "a gypsy fortune-teller, sitting at a table with a crystal ball and some cards spread out in front of her." The Opsopaus passage also syncs with John 3:8, discussed in another recent post: "The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit."