09/09/09 appears after 1,455 years
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=197625
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Islamabad
It was the ninth day of the ninth month of the ninth year of the 21st century Wednesday and this happens only once in a century.
The magical date that appeared after 1,455 years has different interpretations for people belonging to different fields of life.
In numerology, 999 reflects the point of transformation - an inverted 666 - and the moment in which a crisis shifts in the direction of an opportunity. The Buddhists see the sky divided into nine celestial levels. While in Islam, the universe is composed of nine spheres.
According to reports, several new couples planned to tie the nuptial knot on 09/09/09 to make their weddings memorable.
Though technically theres nothing special about the symmetrical date, some concerned with the history and meaning of numbers ascribe powerful significance to 09/09/09.
For cultures in which the number nine is lucky, September 9 is anticipated, while others might see the date as an ominous warning.
Modern numerologists, who operate outside the realm of real science, believe that mystical significance or vibrations can be assigned to each numeral - one through nine - and different combinations of the digits produce tangible results in life, depending on their application.
As the final numeral, the number nine holds special rank. It is associated with forgiveness, compassion and success on the positive side as well as arrogance and self-righteousness on the negative, according to numerologists.
Though usually discredited as bogus, numerologists do have a famous predecessor to look to. Pythagoras, the Greek mathematician and father of the famous theorem, is also credited with popularising numerology in ancient times. Pythagoras most of all seems to have honoured and advanced the study concerned with numbers, having taken it away from the use of merchants and likening all things to numbers, wrote Aristoxenus, an ancient Greek historian, in the 4th century BC. As part of his obsession with numbers both mathematically and divine, and like many mathematicians before and since, Pythagoras noted that nine in particular had many unique properties.
Both China and Japan have strong feelings about the number nine. Those feelings just happen to be on opposite ends of the spectrum. The Chinese pulled out all the stops to celebrate their lucky number eight during last years Summer Olympics, ringing the games in at 8pm on 08/08/08. What many might not realise is that nine comes in second on their list of auspicious digits and is associated with long life due to how similar its pronunciation is to the local word for long-lasting (eight sounds like wealth).
Historically, ancient Chinese emperors associated themselves closely with the number nine, which appeared prominently in architecture and the royal dress, often in the form of nine fearsome dragons. The imperial dynasties were so convinced of the power of the number nine that the palace complex at Beijings Forbidden City is rumoured to have been built with 9,999 rooms.
Japanese emperors would have never worn a robe with nine dragons, however. In Japanese, the word for nine is a homophone for the word for suffering, so the number is considered highly unlucky - second only to four, which sounds like death. Many Japanese will go so far as to avoid room numbers including nine at hotels or hospitals, if the building planners havent already eliminated them altogether.
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=197625
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Islamabad
It was the ninth day of the ninth month of the ninth year of the 21st century Wednesday and this happens only once in a century.
The magical date that appeared after 1,455 years has different interpretations for people belonging to different fields of life.
In numerology, 999 reflects the point of transformation - an inverted 666 - and the moment in which a crisis shifts in the direction of an opportunity. The Buddhists see the sky divided into nine celestial levels. While in Islam, the universe is composed of nine spheres.
According to reports, several new couples planned to tie the nuptial knot on 09/09/09 to make their weddings memorable.
Though technically theres nothing special about the symmetrical date, some concerned with the history and meaning of numbers ascribe powerful significance to 09/09/09.
For cultures in which the number nine is lucky, September 9 is anticipated, while others might see the date as an ominous warning.
Modern numerologists, who operate outside the realm of real science, believe that mystical significance or vibrations can be assigned to each numeral - one through nine - and different combinations of the digits produce tangible results in life, depending on their application.
As the final numeral, the number nine holds special rank. It is associated with forgiveness, compassion and success on the positive side as well as arrogance and self-righteousness on the negative, according to numerologists.
Though usually discredited as bogus, numerologists do have a famous predecessor to look to. Pythagoras, the Greek mathematician and father of the famous theorem, is also credited with popularising numerology in ancient times. Pythagoras most of all seems to have honoured and advanced the study concerned with numbers, having taken it away from the use of merchants and likening all things to numbers, wrote Aristoxenus, an ancient Greek historian, in the 4th century BC. As part of his obsession with numbers both mathematically and divine, and like many mathematicians before and since, Pythagoras noted that nine in particular had many unique properties.
Both China and Japan have strong feelings about the number nine. Those feelings just happen to be on opposite ends of the spectrum. The Chinese pulled out all the stops to celebrate their lucky number eight during last years Summer Olympics, ringing the games in at 8pm on 08/08/08. What many might not realise is that nine comes in second on their list of auspicious digits and is associated with long life due to how similar its pronunciation is to the local word for long-lasting (eight sounds like wealth).
Historically, ancient Chinese emperors associated themselves closely with the number nine, which appeared prominently in architecture and the royal dress, often in the form of nine fearsome dragons. The imperial dynasties were so convinced of the power of the number nine that the palace complex at Beijings Forbidden City is rumoured to have been built with 9,999 rooms.
Japanese emperors would have never worn a robe with nine dragons, however. In Japanese, the word for nine is a homophone for the word for suffering, so the number is considered highly unlucky - second only to four, which sounds like death. Many Japanese will go so far as to avoid room numbers including nine at hotels or hospitals, if the building planners havent already eliminated them altogether.
