Happy Palindrome Day! The dawn of a new decade, 2010 is making a grand entrance. Finely dressed in a rare and lovely New Year's Eve blue moon and an even more rare palindromic date, 2010 is the talk of the town.
A palindrome is a word, phrase, number or other sequence of units that reads the same in both directions, a mirror image of itself. It is said that there will be only 12 palindrome days in the 21st Century using a format of MM-DD-YYYY. The first palindromic date of the century was 10-02-2001; today is the second, being 01-02-2010, and the third will be 11-02-2011. The final palindrome day in the 21st century will be 09-02-2090. Obviously, the frequency of palindromic dates will vary depending on the configuration. In some places the common date configuration is DD-MM-YYYY.
In a recent article in The Beacon, Aziz Inan, a college professor of engineering, wrote symmetry "possesses the magic power of drawing our attention." Inan goes on to say symmetry "conveys a sense of the aesthetic, of balance, beauty, equality, evenness, harmony, neatness, perfection, pleasure and/or simplicity."
In numerology, the repetition of a single digit (11, 111, 1111) is referred to as a Master Number. These palindromes are believed to accentuate the meaning of the single digit number used in the sequence. Click here to learn more about these and other meaningful numerological sequences.
Our fascination with palindromes is proof of man's continued search for the deeper meaning of life through words and numbers. Lighten your spirit and postpone worries as you have fun with palindromes throughout the day. Click here for a fun list of palindromes on funwithwords.com, or click here for a printable palindrome word search puzzle. Remember, play and laughter serve to raise your vibrational frequency. Have a happy Palindrome Day!
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In college one of my campus job co-workers HAD to set her alarm clock with a palindrome. Since then whenever I hear about palindromes I think of her....geez WHAT was her name?!
Gina, that an unusual idiosyncracy. Hmmm. Wonder what that energy was about in her life.
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