I spent a season at a monastery in Sri Lanka where a monk laughed when I brought up the 108 thing — he said Westerners love finding cosmic math in traditions that were mostly just "good enough numbers passed down by people counting on their fingers." That stuck with me. I think numerology can be a genuine tool for pattern-recognition and self-reflection, same way I think astrology works best as a language, but the moment you start claiming the universe encoded 108 into orbital mechanics, you're doing the same thing retrograde obsessives do — projecting meaning onto ordinary mathematics and calling it revelation. The numbers don't have to be magical to be useful.