It’s all in the numbers

Numbers are magical creatures.  They bring joy and sadness; show advancement and retreat; and often serve as a universal language. One of the many things I love about numbers is the way they can be massaged and poked, prodded and twisted to form patterns and messages.  Mother Nature herself weaves number patterns into many natural systems.  And I know I am not alone in my love to find meaning in numbers. The fields of numerology and cryptology, among others, thrive with millions of designs encountered each day as people puzzle over possible relationships and hidden messages.

So, I like finding patterns (I think that is why I love a good conspiracy, ancient secret group story, they just swim in numbers, puzzles and patterns). Heck, even my abbreviated birthday follows a neat numeric pattern called a palindrome (I do love palindromes).  And will I be playing with number patterns in my contributions to TofR – you betcha!

But, anyhoos, the reason for this little diatribe is that a really cool number pattern is coming up this month, a once in my lifetime pattern; the twelfth day in the twelfth month in the twelfth year of the century – 12/12/12

That number just looks so cool and is such a perfect number (not THE perfect number, which, depending on if you talk to a mathematician or a sci-fi geek, is either 42 or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_number).

So, what does one do when a really cool numeric pattern comes along?  Why, celebrate of course.  And that is just what I intend to do, and, I think TofR just might be doing a little something on that special day too.  Come back on that day and take a peek.

PS – for a mega convergence, I plan on celebrating at 12:12A.M. on 12/12/12 – holy cosmic number alignment Batman…