'E casecavalle

'E casecavalle. Eighty-eight is caciocavallo, the cheeses tied in pairs that you see hanging in delis to age. The name comes from exactly that: they were tied two at a time and set “a cavallo,” astride a pole, and that’s how they’ve hung for centuries — always in twos, never just one. The Smorfia chose an image of household plenty, and added the detail the number itself suggests: two identical rounds, paired up. Eight and eight. In a tradition made by people who counted what they had in the pantry, a hanging cheese wasn’t decoration: it was the certainty of not going without for a while. In dreams, eighty-eight arrives when something comes in a pair. Two people who are good together, two things that go hand in hand, a symmetry you notice — between siblings, between partners, between two parts of you that finally get along. And it arrives when there’s quiet abundance: the feeling that for a while nothing is missing, which is different from wealth and worth more. Among the images that lead here are the caciocavalli, and on their own they already say a lot. It’s one of the most concrete numbers on the list: in the Smorfia abundance isn’t a concept, it’s food hanging up that you see as you walk in. If eighty-eight showed up in your dream, there was a pair or a fullness in it. We promise nothing, as always: we point out that in your dream two things went well together.