Number Synchronicities

Synchronicities that involve numbers are some of the most intriguing. There are the popular elevens- 11, 111,1111, and the clusters of threes – 3, 33, 333 or of any number, really.

This evening, while working on a novel, I had one of those weird number synchros. In my book, the character, psychic Mira Morales, is looking for a particular address from years earlier. She knows the street, but not the house number. So I jotted down our house number now and when we lived in Boynton Beach more than 20 years ago.

2784 -2+7+8+4= 21 or 2+1=3

6168 in Boynton 6+1+6+8= 21 or 2+1=3

This was the first time I’d broken down the numbers. Here’s another. In the 1980s, we made a trip back to Venezuela with my parents. One of the places we went was Maracaibo.

We lived there when I was 5 and my mother was pregnant with my sister. We lived in a neighborhood – called an oil  camp back then – for the foreign employees of Creole, a subsidiary of Standard Oil – you know, Exxon.

My dad was hurrying along the sidewalk that day, glancing at the house numbers, trying to remember what number had been ours. Then he stopped at the end of the driveway and pointed at the number on the house. “This is it!” he announced. “Number 57!”

5+7=12 and 1+2=3.

So I think it’s safe to say that the number 3, for me, spells home.

We seem to be surrounded by patterns that appear in a variety of ways, in various forms. Astrology has its own patterns. So do the tarot and The I Ching. The numbers that reappear in our lives have a pattern as well.