Dream symbols · Number · The Self

One

Primordial unity, the source before anything divided from it. Also the state before the ego separated out, which is why it can read as wholeness or as not yet having begun.

Where the reading comes from

The Monad in the Pythagorean and Neoplatonic sequence is not the first number so much as the ground the numbers come from, and the alchemical unus mundus is the same idea returning.