I've heard many stories of people for whom a particular number keeps recurring in their life - whether it is looking at the clock and the digits always say 11:11 or 22:22. Sometimes it is a very specific number, like 12:34 or they keep being drawn towards say 4's or 9's, maybe even choosing a particular number because they feel it is lucky for them.

Why is this?

To help explain this, I'm going to tell you a little story. A long time ago, I bought a Triumph Spitfire sports car - I doubt if there are many around now, but at the time it was a great little sports car and it felt good driving it. Up until I bought it, I hadn't particularly noticed many other Spitfires on the road. However, driving around in the new car, suddenly I noticed them everywhere and often we would get a wave from the other car driver too! It wasn't that there was an increase in Spitfire owners all of a sudden, it was just that I had an interest in them now and so I was noticing them more.

Going back to numbers - there is a similar phenomenon at work. There is some internal interest in a particular number, which is prompting a heightened awareness of that number around you. This is sometimes referred to as a "wake up call", but generally there is something in you that is prompting you to be more aware of something in relation tothat number.

Perhaps you are a busy little troglodyte, getting on with day to day operational details and forgetting about your overall life plan. However, your sub-conscious or your spiritual self knows that there are aspects of yourself that are being ignored and is acting to draw your attention to this, often by focusing upon a particular number which is also usually a clue as to what needs attention.

Numerology can help unravel these clues.

Pythagoras understood that there was more to numbers than just quantitative mathematics and went further into philosophy and placed "qualitative value" on specific numbers. He devised a system of using numbers to help gain self understanding, which is at the heart of numerology today.

Your individual birth date (among other things) can tell you a great deal about your own personality traits. The fact that you are being drawn to a particular number or that one or more numbers seem to be recurring in your life, shows that there is some specific area that you need to focus on.

What that significance is will depend a great deal on your own birth date. If it is a number that is missing from your birth date, then it could be that you need to do work on those characteristics that are missing. Or, maybe you are ready to move on to a different phase in your life and need to adopt different attitudes and values to do this.

There is no one straight answer for everyone, but understanding more on number values will help point the way. You can view more on numerology and the meaning of the number values on our numerology page.