The Octad weaves together the Monad's unity, expansion and cycles, as well as the Dyad's polarity and Tetrad's materialization. Eightfold geometry has long been an ancient symbol for the Mother Goddess. The Egyptian, Greek and Mayan traditions all perceived their great goddesses as spinstresses and embroiderers. Modern physics has modeled the Periodic Table of Elements on an eightfold structure. There are eight main groups of elements.
Atomic properties recur in cycles of eight.
Elements in the same columns have the same number of electrons, between one and eight in the outer most peripheries of their orbits. Cell mitosis also takes place in eight stages. Nichomachus of Gerasa Multiplying by nine reveals a mirror symmetry among numbers. If any number is multiplied by nine the resulting digits always add to nine. Thus, the Hebrews referred to nine as the symbol of immutable Truth.