Base Twelve

Just a suggestion here if you are visiting the mountain which you can take onboard or not. I’m not an expert on this, but have observed it over and over again in my research.

When visiting Pilot Mountain it is important to remember this is a sacred landscape and you will learn more from it using Base 12 or what is commonly referred to as the duodecimal system. The mathematical, philosophical and cultural way of looking at Pilot Mountain is Base 12, especially from an indigenous perspective.

So many of the oral history stories that Eastern Band of the Cherokee wisdom keeper, Yona FrenchHawk, tells at his talks and sweat lodges have the number four mentioned often.

It isn’t that big a leap since we use a dozen, a gross (12x12), 12 inches in a foot, 12 hour cycles in our clocks, 360 degrees, 12 months, four directions and then, of course, there is the zodiac. There are 12 jurors, 12 grades in school, 12-step programs and the list goes on and on, Often there are 12 tribes, 12 apostles or 12 gods in stories. 12 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6 — whereas 10 is only divisible by 2 and 5. Base 12 is much more intuitive for humans with cleaner fractions and is more easy to understand.

There is a intuitive harmony or balance found on Pilot Mountain when you pattern your thoughts that way using Base 12.

In addition, if you find yourself on the mountain on an equinox, solstice, cross-quarter or an eclipse make note of what the birds are doing.

It is a place filled with sky knowledge and earth wisdom that forms a cosmic summit we call Pilot Mountain in modern times!

Note: This is based on a table done for the Newark Earthworks in Ohio that was published by the late great Judith S. Young (daughter of astrophysicist, Vera Rubin). Rubin, her mother, was an extraordinary woman whose fundamental work in physics and astrophysics is still reverberating throughout the field at a foundational level years after her death.