Seven Rings in Hand
What did “seven rings in hand, all wonders under command” really mean?
“Make believes reborn
Myths in mind re thought
Question all that's known
Legends blurred and torn”
Quizzically this song written by Runblebee and performed by Steve Conte for Sonic and the Secret Rings back in 2007 still ‘rings’ through our minds in 2023. But why?
Let’s go back to what Sonic and the Secret Rings was. It was a Sonic The Hedgehog game brought to the Wii allowing you to produce movement to guide Sonic through a magical book with the then brand new Wii remote. It wasn’t just any book, but that depicting the 1001 Arabian Night’s tales. To rescue this fairytale land from oblivion, Sonic must collect the seven World Rings to keep the evil Erazor Djinn from erasing the stories from existence. For more synopsis on what the original depicted visit Seven Rings In Hand | Sonic Wiki Zone | Fandom
This being set aside, let’s view this through the fox’s eyes. (These have been put in an order to make the narrative make more sense.)
“Make believes reborn
Myths in mind re thought
Question all that's known
Legends blurred and torn”
Seven rings in hand represents control of the 7 chakras in the body, which we know through acupressure can, in fact, be controlled through just one single hand.
The chorus could be reconstructed to mean that we must question all that’s known because our legends have been blurred and torn over the ages. These myths from the torn and blurred pages must be reconsidered to rebirth them into our reality.
“No such thing as fate for those who speed
A path out of time instead of just living it
So many things erased before they begin
Hopes un-dream instead of what could have been”
Our future hasn’t been predetermined nor erased for those that can move through time and space. Instead of only looking at our physical reality that we live in today, we can go see things for ourselves through dream like states and astral traveling. If we don’t do this, our dreams become null, and we never accomplish what ‘could have been.’
“Fortune fades like words in the sand
Just like that it nothing it all just seems
Nothing it all just seems
Fortune shines with seven in hand
Back to fact make real of all that seems
Make real of all that seems”
Because we didn’t access knowledge through our dreams of the past; we are unfortunate.
Since we didn’t venture into the unknown to find ourselves, everything just ‘seems.’ Nothing feels real to us, like every word from our mouth, our history, is dry, empty sand. (Sand being a barren soil that can’t nourish anything but be an irritation to our skin.) Here then things turn. Now that we have the command of the 7 chakras in hand, we go back to reality through our dream time to make ‘real’ to us this fairy tale past.
“Be it all the same; it's never the same
Just like that, it's nothin' it all just means
Nothin' it all just means
If all as is, then it's never as is
Back to fact, make real of all that seems
Make real of all that seems”
Through the practice of going through our dreams; they stay in our mind even while awake, as if we are in a trance. Suddenly the fairy tales we had only imagined before became real to us. Things no longer just ‘seem’, but we ‘know’ within ourselves that this is something that happened. This is not mere chance.
“Seven rings in hand speed through nights with feet in sand
Seven rings in hand wonders all under command (c'mon!)
Seven rings in hand wild with just one single hand
Seven rings in hand arrowed hearts catch fire now”
Now that we have the 7 chakras under our command, we can speed through the night while traversing the void of time and space, literally running through the ‘sands of time.’ What wonders are now under our command! Our hearts fill with passion and our sacred fires burn with excitement (think the sacral Chakra.)
“No such thing as an arrow through who dreams
Hopes may burden but forever last to give in
So many things need a push or pull to begin
Unfree to move unless another hand gets in”
You are still dreaming, so you're not yet dead. (The arrow in your heart is an inspiration, not a death sentence.) Your hopes from your dreams may become a passion that constantly burns within you. It has become a burden within your very soul to fulfill. Your hopes and ideas are eternal; they forever last so they can be accomplished another day. There are so many things that are close to manifesting. Sometimes all it takes is a little push to begin, but remains captive until another person comes in to help ‘push’ it along.
“Be it all the same; it's never the same
Just like that, it's nothin' it all just means
Nothin' it all just means
If all as is, then it's never as is
Back to fact, make real of all that seems
Make real of all that seems”
No matter how hard you try; you can’t un-see what you have now seen. What was once just fairy tale nonsense has ‘made sense.’ We question if our current reality was ever real to begin with. Is our current life the dream, and was the fairy tale the reality? Let’s figure out what’s really ‘real’ so we can keep it real.
“Make believes reborn
Myths in mind re thought
Question all that's known
Legends blurred and torn
Seven seas in hand
Speed of sound through sands
All our hopes and plans
In one single hand”
With our energetic bodies in alignment we can now reconsider the myths of all through new eyes. We must question everything we have ever known since we took command again of our energies. We can find all our hopes and plans, because it is now ‘at hand.’
This song has been much celebrated even though it was originally created for a children’s video game. I hope this review will bring ‘new eyes to see and ears to hear’ so it will continue to ring in our heads for another 16 years, and beyond.