The Spiritual Meaning of Repeating Numbers

© 2005 Britt Nesheim

Numbers are esoteric symbols that come from the mental plane. When our eye catches a repeating number
combination out of the blue, heaven is sending us a message. We usually see the numbers on digital displays
or on signs or sign posts, usually in combinations of three. But they can be more or less.
Like all things esoteric, numbers need to be interpreted by the person receiving the message for themselves.
Symbol and number interpretation is just that, interpretation. Modern books like Angel Numbers by Dr. Doreen
Virtue and Lynette Brown have already been interpreted for you. If the meaning of the numbers don’t fit for you,
research the original meaning of the number, ask for clarity from your angels and spirit guides, and create your
own meaning for number combinations.

If you see repeating numbers, it catches your eye, your attention. If the number you see has more than one
number in it, combine the symbolism of both numbers to create a message for yourself. If you see a
combination of three numbers, the number in the middle has the most significance with the numbers to the side
supporting the message in the middle.

Here are the original meanings of numbers taken from the Penguin Dictionary of Symbols followed by a popular
modern interpretation by Dr. Doreen Virtue from Healing with the Angels. The original meanings go far back into
time. They actually describe the process of creation where thought emanates from the Godhead and filters
down through the spiritual planes until they become the creation we know of today as our daily lives. They also
represent the development of our relationship with God.

1.        One is the first cause, or impulse of creation. It is the active principal, creator, or God. One is the
beginning and ending of all things. It is the center of creation.

A modern interpretation of the number one: Be careful what you think. Your thoughts are manifesting into reality
very quickly. You can see that this is related to the idea of one being the center of creation.

2.        The number two symbolizes duality or conflict or opposites. It represents creator and created, spirit and
matter, male and female, life and death, yin and yang, day and night.

A modern interpretation of the meaning to two is that your thoughts are in the process of becoming real through
the process of creation. Keep affirming what you want. This author built upon the idea that two represents the
process of creation.

3.        The number three represents the intellectual and spiritual order of God, the cosmos, and mankind.
Three symbolizes wholeness, completeness, unity. The number three synthesized the three in one or results
from the joining of one and two, innovation. Where two represents earth, or the creation of earth, three
represents heaven, or the spiritual realms.

A modern interpretation of the number three goes like this: The ascended masters are near you and want to
help you. I have never personally associated the number three repeating pattern with ascended masters but it
makes sense to me that the ascended masters would be associated with the third heaven or realm.

4.        Four is a principal of organization and represents the totality of all created things. It is related to the
cross and the square. The cross divides the earth into four.

A modern interpretation is the number for is that the angels are close to you sending you a message. They
want you to pay attention, wake up and notice them. Ask them for help now. Nick Bunick popularized the idea
that 444 was a signal of the presence of angels in the book The Messengers: A True Story of Angelic Presence
and the Return to the Age of Miracles.

5.        The number five is at the center of nine numbers. It symbolizes marriage, the center, harmony and
balance. It means perfection and order and represents the phenomenal world in its entirety or symbolizes the
earth as the sum of four regions and a center. It governs the marriage so to speak between the earthly planes
and the spiritual planes. Five symbolizes the human being, the bridge between the spiritual and the physical. It
represents a sphere or the earth with two axes, the horizontal and the vertical passing through the same center.
And symbolizes the world that we can perceive with our five physical senses.

A modern interpretation of the number five is that change is on its way into your life.

6.        The number six represents relationships between creation and God, positive, or negative. It represents
conflict and the part of the self which communes with God. Ideally, people strive for a mystical relationship or
communion with God. It symbolizes unrealized potential or man’s potential to become God-like.

A modern interpretation of the number six says that your thoughts about your relationship with God are out of
balance and encourages you to make spiritual any mundane thoughts that you are having.
7.        Seven represents the enlightened person, full special orientation, awareness of manifestation. Seven
represents perfect groupings, fullness of planetary and angelic orders. Seven symbolizes perfection of order,
energies and spiritual principals. Seven represents eternal life and the perfection of a complete cycle. It
symbolizes a fresh start after a cycle has been completed and positive regeneration. Seven is the fullness of
space and time and the fullness of the universe in motions. Through its hidden properties, the number seven
maintained all things in being, mundane and spiritual, and bestowed life. Seven is the number of crowning
achievement.

A modern interpretation of the number seven affirms that you are on the right spiritual path and that what you
are working on creating is very close to coming into being.

8.        Eight is cosmic balance, central equilibrium, justice. It represents the grand total. There are eight petals
on a lotus flower. Eight planets rotate around the sun. The Hindu god Vishnu has eight arms corresponding to
the eight guardians of space. The number eight intermediates the square and the circle.

A modern interpretation of the number eight states that a phase of your life is about to end, emotionally,
professionally, or interpersonally.

9.        Nine symbolizes the successful outcome of exertion and the fulfillment of creation. Nine is the totality of
the three worlds. Nine is a symbol of completion. A soul must go through nine stages before it reaches rest.
Nine is the symbol of returning to the One, solidarity, and redemption. Nine symbolizes absolutes. Nine is the
loss of personality into mystical union, universal love.

A modern interpretation of nine states that you are at the end of a major phase of your life.

10.        Zero replaces values missing in other numbers. Zero symbolizes a person without powers. Zero goes
back to the beginning and represents the cycle of rebirth. Zero is symbolized by the spiral. It means complete
potentiality. Zero has no properties of its own.

A modern interpretation attributes zero meaning you have gone full circle and are one with God.

References

Chevalier, Jean and Alain Gheerbrant. Dictionary of Sybmols. New York: Penguin, 1996.
Virtue, Doreen. Healing with the Angels: How the Angels Can Assist You in Every Area of Your Life. Carlsbad,
CA: Hay House, 1999.
Star of the Sea, Pamela Matthews
http://pamelamatthews.com/catalog/i
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     Britt Nesheim
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I Give You Star Dreams
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