Are you the sort of person who notices numbers and for whatever reason attributes meaning to them?

I suppose there is a spectrum of intensity for those who do that. But before I go on let me Google to find out if there’s a name for such a thing…. ahh and yes, there is! ”Apophenia, also known as patternicity, means seeing patterns in random events. It also applies when people deduce meaning from numbers, images, shapes, or any other objects that are truly random. This phenomenon is very common.” And there you have it, we may both have learnt something new today, I certainly have.

Now the reason for my question, is because I noticed today’s date and loved the pattern of the 0s,2s & 4s. As someone who is not at all mathematically inclined, I nevertheless found this numerical line up interesting, beautiful and at the same time laced with ominous tones. 

Honest Self-Reflection is the Key to Discover Your Core

Leaning into this sense, it’s hard to believe that four years have passed since war was waged by a super bug and the world shut down. Four years are a long time and yet it feels like they were blinked away. So much has changed on a global level and on a personal level for a range of reasons. Let’s be honest, some remained relatively untouched and experienced only a few inconveniences regardless of the catch cry “We’re all in this together!” at a time when we had never been further apart. While for others, it was bloody hard to get through.

Yet as I looked at this arrangement of mirrored even numbers, I feel something new rising within me, and that is I suppose what could be called my own personal “Reset”. Scars I’d been wearing over the span of my life feel as if they’ve completely healed and I can no longer trace them. In fact my reactions to previous triggers are completely different, more often than not I remain unfazed and calm in the face of behaviours that once upon a time would have thrown me. The grief experienced during lockdown and afterward feels to be finally lifted. Not that remembrance isn’t there, but that paralysing pain has shifted. Rather than be frozen looking backward, my feet are firmly facing forward, like a runner at the starting blocks, raring to go!

There’s an added sense of urgency around the concept of time, not the time that’s been lost, but the time that’s left and a strong desire to imbue it with as much quality and purpose as possible, down to the seemingly smallest detail, leaving little to no room for anything which would not respect those values. This mindset recalibration has been fascinating, as it has inadvertently, through the practice of meditation, dissolved internal limitations I had. For example certain wounds I’d practically enshrined in my memory, I’ve realised only continued being relevant because I chose to focus on them. It came to the point that I realised that enough attention had been given to them and I farewelled them in the sky of my thoughts. Similarly, many other anchors which were not, and will never serve any purpose other than keep me tied to some painful moment of the past, were released.

Shedding the Scales of the Past

The new personhood emerging from all this is one I’m both humbled by yet very content with, despite the added wrinkles and grey hairs which have accompanied this challenging period. Who knows if such maturation would have happened regardless? I’ll optimistically assume not and carry on with a degree of satisfaction.

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What other meanings could there be to these numbers?

According to the Law of Attraction, 0 means you’re on the right path toward becoming the best version of yourself. 2 calls you to stay true to the vision you have for the future and know that your optimism is justified. 4 is a sign that you could benefit from taking a leap of faith in some respect. 

Counting to Infinity

I like the Law of Attraction’s optimistic twist to those numbers and I’ll allow them to become infused with that meaning. Nevertheless, the world we create after undergoing and emerging from our own reset, needs to be one that moves forward with haste, grace and rescues from the past that which will make our path ahead lighter and more light filled, individually and as a collective. There can be no other options.

So go ahead! Create your life with all that makes your heart beat with love, delight and magic. You’ve more than earned it. The time for liberation of the burdens of the past has arrived. It’s ringing on your doorbell, banging at the door. I’ve certainly got a couple of things on my renewed “to do list” which tick those boxes and which will be my main focus aside from the #1 priority that is my family. 

I encourage you to also give your all to the vow of truly cherishing your life and your role in it. We have no time to waste. Let’s make this an even more beautiful Life than anyone dared to imagine. The future we are manifesting and walking into, is exquisite and filled with endless possibilities. Let us unite in our shared quest to co-create a future that surpasses our wildest dreams.