“Heroes in moments of crisis are said to hear “angel voices” telling them what to do next… And if you swap the word “instinct” for “angel-voice,” you come close to the more psychologically-minded mythographers: that myths are fragments of the soul-life of Early Man.”
—Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines
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“Children may be born angels, but with all the temptations out there in the world, it takes work to try to keep them that way.â€
—LZ Granderson, CNN.com, August 22, 2013
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“The angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.â€
—Vladimir Nabokov, letter to his wife Vera, 17 January 1924
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“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.â€
—August Wilson, quoted by Seattle Repertory Theatre
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“Angels are happier than men or devils because they are not always prying after good and evil in one another, and eating the tree of knowledge for Satan’s gratification.â€
—William Blake, notes on the picture, “A Vision of the Last Judgement,†in Alexander Gilchrist, The Life of William Blake
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In April 2008, around the anniversary of the death of my Aunt Maxine, I started seeing 11:11 every day when I looked up at the clock. Not every time I looked at the clock because 11:11 only comes twice a day for those of us on a 12-hour clock, but often I’d feel compelled to look at the clock at this precise time. It went on for over two weeks and became rather unsettling.
What was the Universe trying to tell me? Something significant, or just that random chance sometimes gets stuck, throwing “heads” 85 times in a row?
Then I remembered my Aunt Maxine’s birthday was November 11 and wondered if it was her saying, “Hey, I’m still around. Don’t worry so much.” This was a comforting thought and the creepiness factor went away, although the 11:11’s didn’t. I kept seeing them for weeks after.
So I did what any semi-rational human being would do in such circumstances. I googled it.
Golly. There are a universe of beliefs around the coincidence of seeing 11:11. Yeah, I still (mostly) call it a coincidence, even though my personal anecdote seems to convey meaning, because post hoc theorizing and confirmation bias and because of all the fuzzy and convoluted theorizing I read online.
For instance, there’s this guy:
Um. I did scurry to my tarot to see what card was 11. It’s Justice. I thought, “If it’s the Hanged Man I’m going to mess myself.” Because for me that relates to 9/11 and I just didn’t know if I could stand that. The Hanged Man was 12.
Mr. Fuller is right about it being more important for me to find my own answers, but I looked online for more data points.
Uri Geller has a lot to say on 11:11 but I can’t tell you all of it. I fell asleep about halfway through his article. In all fairness to Mr. Geller, this strange phenomenon happened to me on more than one article on 11:11, which doesn’t always coincide with clear and concise theorizing.
Of course, no consideration of 11:11 would be complete without this:
However, some of the folklore surrounding 11:11 is charming, like the idea that if you look up to see it your wish will come true. Or when you see it repeatedly it means that you are beginning to “awaken” spiritually, and 11:11 is the indicator that you’re on the right path. Some believe it’s a sign that your angels are listening and you should ask for their guidance.
Other beliefs are darker, like the theory that 11:11 is a portend of great earth changes or history on the brink of something momentous…Actually, I don’t want to think on that one too hard, given recent seismic events in politics. I much prefer the belief that when you see 11:11, you should stop and consider the significance and importance of the moment in which you live. Of the moment, in the moment.
“The microscope shows you the creatures on the leaf; no mechanical tube is yet invented to discover the nobler and more gifted things that hover in the illimitable air. Yet between these last and man is a mysterious and terrible affinity…â€
—Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Zanoni
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“Good angels are fallible…they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies.â€
—Anatole France, The Revolt of the Angels
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“The apparently unendurable conflict is proof of the rightness of your life. A life without inner contradiction is either only half a life or else a life in the Beyond, which is destined only for angels. But God loves human beings more than angels.”
—Carl Jung, Letters, Volume 1
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“Perhaps all our earthly trials will appear foolish to us after a while; perhaps they seem so now to angels. But we are ourselves…and this is now, not some time to come, a long, long way off. And we are not angels, to be comforted by seeing the ends for which everything is sent.”
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