Three Sixty Five

For the three hundred and sixty-fifth day of 2011, I thought I’d do a ramble on the number itself.   Everyone knows, of course, that we celebrate this number because it takes approximately 365 days (365.24219 days to be exact) for the earth to make one orbit around the sun, the left over quarter day being the reason we add on day to the year every fourth year (leap year).  Less well known are leap seconds, which are corrections to Universal Coordinated Time to account for variations in the actual time in a year.  According to Wikipedia, 365 is a semi-prime number.  Semi-prime means that it is the product of two prime numbers (a number divisible by only 1 and itself), that is, 365=5 x 73.   It is also the smallest number with more than one expression as the sum of consecutive squares, that is, 365=13²+14² and 365=10²+11²+12².   If you find yourself mesmerized by such things, you might be interested to know that 365 is a centered-square number and the fifth 38-gonal number, both of which relate to geometric patterns produced using 365 dots.

I’ve always been highly skeptical of numerology but after having Dan Millman’s book on birth numbers, The Life You Were Born to Lead, describe me to a T, I’m also intrigued.  I found a page on the Alphabetic Bible Code that claims some pretty amazing correlations in the Alphabetics Word-Number studies around words and pages numbered 365 that relate to the New Year.   Here’s how it works.  To decode a number, say 365, you look up the 365th words in the New Testament Lexicon, a dictionary of all the words in the New Testament.  The 365th word in the Greek Lexicon is ananeoo, which means to renew or make young.  According to the Alphabetic Bible Code, it is very close, alphabetically and etymologically to the Latin word “annus: a year.”  Also, the spelling of this Greek word begins with the letter alpha and ends with the letter omega — the beginning and the end, signifying a complete cycle or year.  This seems like a lot of work come up with a not-so-amazing correlation when we already know it’s New Years Eve.  Another site featuring a peculiar mix of Bible study and New Age Mysticism offers that 365 represents the activity of the creature, 300, related to the cosmic Karma, 60, by its incarnation, 5.  I have no idea what that means.  Elsewhere I discovered that number sequences are showing up in my life as communications from angels and Angel Number 365 is a message that the changes happening around me have been manifested by my true inner desires to make positive changes in my life.   I hope that’s true although I haven’t noticed any particular sequences showing up lately.   Other than 365.  And all my PIN numbers.  And the combination to our garden shed.  Hmmm.

At the end of the day, it’s just New Years Eve.  365 is just the semi-prime, centered square, 38-gonal number of days it takes for the earth to complete one trip around the sun.  And, oh yeah, it’s the number of posts I’ve posted in 2011.  I made it.  Deep breath.

I wish you all a very Happy New Year of renewal and positive changes in your lives.  I don’t need numerology to do that.

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