Properties of the number 5

Symbolism

• It is the number of the harmony and the balance. It is also the number of the divine grace.

• The number 5 is a characteristic of the man. First, according to the Cabal, it is the number of the perfect Man (got rid from his animal side). According to the Bible, it is the symbol of the Man-God by the five wounds of the Christ on cross (for this reason, it is also considered as the number of the grace). But it is also associated to the man in general (2 + 3) having an unstable character of duality, 2, in spite of his divinity, 3. The 5 is also found on the human body: the five fingers of the hand and feet, the five senses (touch, taste, sense of smell, hearing and the sight), the five members (two arms, two legs and the head, the bust being the center), the five bones forming the metacarpus, the metatarse and the brain-pan, etc.

• Considerated as the mediator between God and the universe, the five is regarded as a symbol of the universe.

• Symbol of the will's divine.

• Symbol of the perfection in the Mayas.

• Symbol of the incarnated conscience - 4, Matter, + 1, Spirit.

• Symbolize the force and the limits of the man in his control on the Universe.

• According to Thibaut Of Langres, the number 5 is attributed to the world for some reasons. First because the world is moved following a circular movement, just as the 5 when we multiply it by itself or by the other odd ones returns periodically. Also it is called in this sense "periodical". Five years make a lustre, from "lustrare" which means "to make the turn". On the other hand, 5 is attributed to the world due to the fact that it is composed of the first even and odd, 2 and 3. The world indeed, that is to say the whole of things, increases by the male and the female - even is female and odd male.

• In China, it is the number of the Center in addition to be considered as a male number amulet.

• Number of the life and the nature, according to Aeppli.

• Being the sum or rather the union of the first female number and the first male number, it is the symbol of creative life and erotic love according to Jung. But this one interprets also this number as that of the revolt.

• A nuptial number for the Etruscans and Romans because it is the first number resulting from the addition the first female number and the first male number. For the same reason, C. Agrippa calls it the number of the marriage.

• For H.- P. Blavatsky, "5 is the spirit of life and human love."

Bible

• The five wounds of Jesus on the cross.

• The five parts of the clothing remaining of Jesus during his crucifixion after the soldiers had made four parts of his dress, plus his tunic which they did not tear. (Jn 19,23)

• Saint Paul declares that by five times he received the 39 lashes from the Jews. (2 Co 11,24)

• The five mad and wise virgins of the parable of Jesus. (Mt 25,1)

• The five porticos of the pool of Bethesda. (Jn 5,2)

• The five pebbles which made it possible to small king David to kill the giant Goliath.

• The five kinds of animals that God asked Abraham to present to him to conclude with him an alliance: a heifer of three years old, a goat of three years old, a ram of three years old, a turtledove and a young dove. (Gn 12, 5-18)

• The five books of the Torah (the Law) according to the Judaism that corresponds to the number of the first books of the Bible. The book of the Lamentations of Jeremiah contains also five chapters.

General

• The five wounds of Egypt sent by God by the intermediary of Moses, according to the Koran: the flood, grasshoppers, lice, frogs and blood.

• The five paths leaving from the Calvary and directing to the whole world, according to visions' of Ann-Catherine Emmerick.

• In the visions of Maria Valtorta, Jesus classifies the kinds of love in five categories, each one of different power and which are in the order: the love of God, the paternal or maternal love, the conjugal love, the love of the neighbor, the love of the science and the work. The three firsts are of higher power, while the last three are of lower power. But these six divisions are reduced to five because the love of the neighbor and the conjugal love are of identical nature even if they have not the same force, the conjugal love being indeed only a particular case of the love of the neighbor.

• In the revelations received by Don Stefano Gobbi, of the Marian Movement of Priests, it is question of the five famous mountains climbed by Jesus: it is on the mountain that he promulgated the evangelical law of Beatitudes; it is on the Thabor mount that he lived the ecstasy of his transfiguration; it is to Jerusalem, city located on the mountain, that he gathered one's people for the Last Supper and that he passed painful hours of his internal agony; it is on the mountain of the Calvary that he consumed his sacrifice, on the mount of Olives that happened his definitive detachment of one's people by his glorious ascension to the heaven.

• A rosary of the Virgin Mary has five mysteries meditated.

• The practice of the five first Saturdays of the month, asked initially by the Virgin Mary to Lucy of Fatima on October 10, 1925.

• In Italy, in Lanciano, exists a reliquary, since the 13th century, where is found a miraculous devoted host. While celebrating the mass, a priest came to doubt the real presence of Jesus-Christ in the Eucharist; and, under his eyes, the devoted host becomes a slice of flesh, and the wine, blood which coagulated in five clots. The analyses, undertaken between November 18, 1970 and March 4, 1971, by professors Limoli and Bertelli, from the Faculty of Medicine of Siena, in Italy, concluded, after examination of the host and the blood preserved since the 13th century, that they had no modification! The flesh is a slice of human cardiac muscle, resulting from the myocardium. The blood corresponds to the blood of which it would have been taken out of a human being the same day of the examination. And the five clots of blood, of unequal size, weigh all the same weight each one separately; and all together, put in the same plate of the balance, the weight remains identical without variation.

• The five commandments of Buddha Gautama: You will not kill; You will not steal; You will not be impudic; You will not lie; You will not drink intoxicating liquors. Buddhism distinguishes also five great evils: the ignorance, the anger, the desire, the malevolence and the envy.

• In the mythology of "Dogons" we find some themes which seem to remind some beliefs of others religions. For example, the bad angel Ogo revolts over Lucifer after having killed his twin sister as Cain had killed his brother Abel. The good angel Nomo, twin brother of Ogo, is crucified to save men from sin, but he resuscitates five days later, period as sacred as the week of Easter for Christians, and became the week of five days which is still practiced nowadays by the "Dogons".

• The five couples of Adam and Eve that they would have had there simultaneously and this, in five different places on the planet, on the five continents, like prototypes of five different races, according to Edgar Cayce. However, according to the mythology of "Dogons", it is rather four amphibious couples men and women that the god Ama would have created and placed on Earth. Those first humans were immortal, but their descendants became mortals because of their sins.

• According to visions of Ann-Catherine Emmerich, the forbidden fruits of the Tree of the Knowledge of the good and the evil of the Garden in Eden hung by five bunches.

• In the Gospel of Thomas, Jesus mentions that there are "five trees in the paradise that do not move neither Summer nor winter and their leaves do not fall. Those who will know them won't die." (log 19.7-11)

• The five fundamental virtues: wisdom, love, truth, goodness and justice.

• The five commandments of the Church: to sanctify the feastdays, to assist the mass on Sunday and the feastdays, to confess his sins at least once a year, to receive the communion at least during Easter, and to pay the tithe to the Church - instead of that, others versions speak about the respect of the obligatory fastdays. The Church recommends also five acts to believers before the Communion: the act of faith, love, humility, desire and hope.

• The visions of the saints are classified according to five categories: beatific or intuitive vision, "abstract" vision, intellectual vision, imaginary vision and the corporal vision.

• The trip of Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem, for the birth of Jesus, lasted five days. They arrived on a Saturday, around four o'clock in the evening, according to visions of Mary Agreda.

• The five pillars of the Islam: profession of faith, CHAHADA; ritual prayer, SALAT; legal alms, ZAKAT; fast of the Ramadan, SAWM; and the pilgrimage to Mecca, HADJDJ.

• The Greeks philosophers admitted five principles in the man: body, animal soul, psyche, intelligence and divine spirit.

• The five cycles of the Chinese lunar calendar of twelve lunar years each.

• The five elements of the Chinese theory: water, fire, wood, metal, ground.

• For the Tibetans, the five elements connected to five geometrical forms: the cube to the the ground, the sphere to the water, the cone to the fire, the half-circle to the air, and the flame to the ether.

• The five "takbirs" or formula of prayer, in the Islamic religion. The Moslems insist that the prayer is done five times every day. Let us mention that Mahomet was five years old when his Abdallah father died.

• The five suns or eras at the Aztecs.

• In Hebrew, the number 5 means "seizure, contraction like the five fingers". It is, told Fabre D'Oliver, the matter seized by the most material of the five senses.

• There is in Quebec 5 archbishoprics.

• The spacial representation of the number 5 is the pyramid (5 summits with 5 faces) and also the pentagram (5 sides) so the man would be included there.

• The five Zener cards used for some tests of parapsychology. The graphics of each cards corresponds to the first five numbers.

• The five lines of the stave in music.

• The five reigns: elemental, mineral, vegetable, animal and human.

• The five oceans (Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic and Antarctic) with the five parts of the geographical world: Europe, Asia, Africa, America, Oceania.

• In the continuation of fundamental numbers of 1 to 9, 5 is in the center, as it is in the center of the magic square using the first 9 numbers.

• Anniversary of marriage: wood's wedding.

Gematria

• Numerical value of the Hebrew letter He (the Not-Me) representing the passive principle by excellence. This letter represents, according to Charrot, "a solar ray pouring on the earth its beneficial rain of life" and it symbolizes the universal life, the breath of the man, the air, the spirit, the soul, all what is stimulating and vivifying. For the cabalist Eleazar of Worm, the letter "He" symbolizes "the breath" .

Occurrence

• The number 5 is used 253 times in the Bible.

• In the Bible, 12 numbers are used 5 times. There are the numbers 28, 35, 38, 41, 62, 90, 110, 148, 700, 800, 80000 and 185000.

• The number 5 is used three times in the Koran. (Koran XVIII, 21; LVIII,8 and LXXXI, 15)

• The words: pagan, Christian, Pentecost and the name of Eve are used 5 times in the Bible. By five times in NT we see Jesus pronouncing himself his own name (Jn 17,3; Act 9,5 and 22,8 and 26,15; Rv 22,16). Curiously the Antichrist is not written in the Revelation, where he plays nevertheless a so great role. This word appears in the Bible only 5 times in epistles of saint John.

• John-Mary Matthew, in his book "The Name of Glory", désIris, 1992, enumerates five personages of the Bible who have carried the name of Jesus: Jesus the Christ, Son of Mary; Joshua which entered in Canaan at the head of Hebrews. In the Hebraic language the name of Joshua, "Yehoshoua", is a derivative of "Yeshoua", that is to say Jesus (Nb 13,16; Act 7,45); Jesus, son of Eliezer, mentioned in the genealogy of the Gospel of Luke. This Jesus would be a descendant of the king David and related to the family of the Virgin Mary (Lk 3,29); Jesus, called Justus, was a Jewish converted to the Christ and collaborator of Paul of Tarse (Col 4,11); And finally, the brigand Jesus Barabbas, mentioned in the Gospel of Matthew. In some translation, we can read: "Pilate said them, 'Whom do you want me to release for you: Jesus Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?". (Mt 27,16-17)

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Born On May 5 , 1955

by DJT - 4/23/11 6:07 PM

I too was born on 5-5-55, my first, middle, & last name add up to 15/3 = 5, my street address is 55 and my age right now is 55. "5 " has always been lucky for me. I wonder how many people were born that actual day. I have a friend that was born on the same day but across town in a different hospital on the same day. We are a unique group.

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RE: Born On May 5 , 1955

by Ginger - 12/12/12 8:59 AM

I too, was born 5/5/55 in NYC
My life has been nothing short of remarkable
And for the past twenty years, I wake up every night - every night - at 2:30

RE:Born On May 5 , 1955

by David - 6/05/13 12:22 AM

I was born 5/5/55 at 8 am East Coast Time, which is of course 5 am in California, where I have lived most of my life. Hey, remember 55ers, it was a Thursday, the 5th day of the week. I've had a good life, have always considered myself lucky, but can't claim any special remarkableness.

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Five

by Firewalker. - 5/05/13 8:32 AM

Woke at 5:55, today is May (5) the fifth and I am still seeing fives all over and have been seeing them for months and writing it down in my journal. I do not believe in coincidence. And I feel oddly very good and am going through a very difficult time. Blessings to all of you.

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Re: five

by Anonymous - 5/07/13 5:02 PM

the angel number 555 brings the test look up angel numbers 555

Numbers 1 and 5

by Omapeg - 10/30/12 2:40 PM

I was born on the 5th day of the 1st week of the 1st month of 1950--Thursday, January 5, 1950--at 5 a.m. Anybody else born at this same moment? I was the 1st girl in a family of 5 children--3 girls + 2 boys. I also had 3 girls, making us a family of 5. My 1st name has 5 letters. What does it all mean? Give me a high 5 if you know! :)

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RE: Numbers 1 and 5

by Anonymous - 3/24/13 10:25 PM

I was born on 05/15,at 5:15am, my weight was 5lbs 15oz and my mother was 15 years old! this is on my birth certificate! my name is Joyce which is 5 letters and i have 5 children. oh and my husband was born in the 5th month as well. i can go on and on..

5 Is EVERYWHERE In My Life!

by Jeremy Adrey - 5/26/11 10:16 AM

‎5 is a number that is always around me. When I say always, I mean ALWAYS. Examples: My movie is in theater 5. I pull up to gas pump 5 without realizing. The truck driving by has JUST a 5 on it. Every kid with a jersey on by me seems to be ...a 5. I looked back to when I was a very young boy and I played city soccer....two different teams.....both wore #5. My favorite team The Heat have won every series in 5 games and can again tonight. I went to the Pompano Track and 5 won both races I was there for. Watched a live race at my boys house and #5 won out of the 5th spot.....in the 5th race. Just weird. I could go on and on. It happens 20 times a day. I wish I knew why....

But I have to say this......

I have always felt like the #5 has been guiding me. I feel better when I see it. I know I am around good when it is near. And I am putting together a motivational presentation that I KNOW I am meant to do. It will help so many people. I KNOW IT! After reading this site and what many of you have said....I am getting this unexplainable, overwhelming tingly, "bufferfly" like feeling inside. I mean right this second.

Feel free to communicate with me....

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RE: 5 Is EVERYWHERE In My Life!

by sophia - 1/23/13 12:40 AM

:) I don`t really see fives all around me, but I`m 5`5 , my shoe size is 5 and 5 (half), born in 5th of... well, august :) at 5:15 am , I don`t know if that means anything at all, but if it does, guess we`ll never know.

RE: 5 Is EVERYWHERE In My Life!

by sophia - 1/23/13 12:41 AM

oh and yeah, august is a house of Leo, which is fifth house, isn`t it? so yeah.. all fives lol

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you're all mentally disabled if you think this babbling about '5' means anything..

by Simon - 12/16/12 4:10 PM

You can find any [small] number anywhere if you stop counting once you get there.. I could write the same kind of story about any of the first primes..

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RE: you're all mentally disabled if you think this babbling about '5' means anything..

by Anonymous - 1/16/13 3:40 PM

Wow! Deep! It must mean something... LOL

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The number 5

by Mike - 12/12/12 11:19 PM

How is this for weird; My mother had an anuerysm on oct 25, 2012.
There are 5 weeks in Oct. 2012- 2+0+1+2 adds up to 5. She was in the hospital for 5 days. Her time of death was at exactly 5pm. Her funeral was on Nov 5- (originally supposed to be on the weekend but had to be moved). Her date of birth is in the 5th month (may). After he death, there are 5 of my Mom's siblings remaining. She had 4 kids- the fifth was considered a miscarriage. Her oldest child is born on the 15th of Nov. Her son-(me) on the 14th (1+4 adds up to 5) her youngest born on the 5th day. Her grandchildren- and there are two of them born on the 25th of the month one is born on on the 15. Her father, born on the 15th. There are currently 4 grandchildren. I noticed all this when I played a cd she made and the 5th track was Sweet child o mine... Why is that song significant? It was her ringtone just before she died. Her street name is 14th. 1+4 = 5. Why would 5 keep showing up, especially surrounding her death? There is more 5's appearing as I think about her life. What does it mean?

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RE: The number 5

by Anonymous - 12/12/12 11:20 PM

she was 51 years old.

Curious about the number "5"

by Kris - 11/28/12 6:26 AM

I just noticed all the 5s from my Kickstarter project.... 55 backers, for 5,000, actual pledges 5,166, 5 updates. The title of my project is "Planet-MIND". Thanks for the info. It is VERY interesting.

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fifth child

by Edwin - 1/31/12 4:22 AM

My parents have 6 kids and I'm their fifth child. My parents named us in alphabetical order: a,b,c,d,e,f. So they named me Edwin. My name has five letters. I graduated in high school in 2005. I also graduated community college in 2010.

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RE: fifth child

by Edwin - 11/24/12 12:01 AM

In addition, I was born 12-16-1986: 1+2+1+6+1+9+8+6=34; 34/4=8.5, which relates to my height: 5 feet and 8 inches. Or 34/5=6.8; 6+8=14; 1+4=5. 1 stands for I'm the only left handed in my nuclear family. 4 stands for fourth boy child in my nuclear family. 5 stands for fifth child in my nuclear family. My full name is Edwin (5 letters) + Middle Name (7 letters) + Last Name (7 letters)= 19; 19/5=3.8; 8-3=5. Or 1+9=10; 10/2=5.

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Christian Numerology?

by Raibeart - 11/09/11 5:53 PM

Interesting since the Bible condemns such rpactices as divination (unless you are King Saul) But then Christians routinely borrow fron other religions...Christmas, Easter, Halloween, and many other things, even the death and ressurection of their God.
Goddess bless!

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RE: Christian Numerology?

by Anonymous - 11/08/12 1:57 PM

i was born the 5th month 1958 the fifth born!!!

edifying

by Mia - 10/30/12 7:59 AM

i found this sight to be very refreshing edifying and satisfactory to my spiritual desires as well as my physical aim.

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the number 5

by Van - 4/26/12 8:47 AM

You may notice that the digital number 5 is a 2 in the mirror. "Now wouldn't it be strange if biology is a way for the earth to alchemically transform itself into a self-reflecting thing?" Terence McKenna

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RE: the number 5

by Anonymous - 10/28/12 9:07 PM

I notice 555 cant remember when it started.
I realise after a while my brain just picks it out alot.
At first i was mystified by it and tried to link it to something i was supposed to figure out
Which sounds like most of these comments,but just recently ive started noticing 222.
Ive had thoughts of my consciousness as a mirror
So ur comment rings true with me somehow and leads me to the next step
Very mysterious! ;)

RE: Nicely Written

by hhhhhh - 3/09/11 1:38 AM

i want to known abt my marriage status

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RE: RE: Nicely Written

by i am a swati from india - 10/21/12 6:21 AM

same is with me,can u plz reply to me @ swati_goel78

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5

by ZBGOW - 7/26/11 12:56 PM

I am haunted by this number. I have no idea whether it is lucky or unlucky. I see all information introduced to me as blocks of data grouped in 5's. I see the number within ordinary life situations where most would call coincidence. However, the occurrence is significantly high for mere coincidence. Ever felt that there is a message that begs to be decoded by those who are on the cusp of understanding?

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RE: 5

by Anonymous - 9/05/12 5:53 AM

ah ok

RE: 5

by Anonymous - 9/09/12 12:48 AM

the number 5 has been coming up in many photographs of mine, when everything I take pictures of is usually nothing more than nature, water, etc. And, this isn't kind of like a number 5, it IS the number five..WTF is up with that? It's small but perfect, always.

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Favorite Number 5

by Andrew Marshall - 8/26/12 7:11 AM

Five has been my favorite number since 1978. My DOB is 01/29/1973 [1+2+9+1+9+7+3 = 32; 3+2=5]. I wore #5 for the ARC Raiders for basketball. My #5 tooth has been filled and I had a root canal on that tooth. My favorite pro athlete is Donovan McNabb [#5 for the SU Orange, Eagles, Vikings, and Redskins]. I first met Patsy Evans at RDC at the age of 5. I lived on Route 5 in Kirkland with the Stockbridges (Peggy, Big Tom, Lil' Tom, Joann, and Carl).

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t

by tman - 7/22/12 2:59 AM

this is it

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Moon turn to number 5 when I click the camera

by Mischelle - 7/01/12 8:07 AM

I don't know what happen but number 5 just appear so clearly last night.I look at the moon and it was so beautiful.So when my husband and I got home I saw the moon clearly from where I stand to I grab the camera and focus it.All I was a dot in there since it was so far.But I click it anyway and to my amazement it was not the moon I saw it was a number 5! So start to sear for the meaning since I'm a bit scared so now I find quite amazing meaning for it..

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dream

by leilani block - 10/13/11 6:14 PM

my aunt has taken consevership over my granma. it has been in in justicve. beffore the lady in my dream told me about 5 divinitys she sarcasticly giggled lorraine will b the first to die. she still didnt give me the feeling she was on my side

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RE: dream

by Nicole V. - 6/11/12 6:06 PM

Sounds like this energy in your dream is negative- I'd take divine precaution; protect yourself- now you feel this woman is about to meet the grave, that conscious acknowledgement will soon materialize; you will be promoting such a premise to unfold.

5

by Van - 4/26/12 9:22 AM

Another interesting thing... on the Mayan calendar something of great interest seems to always have occured on the 5th day and 5th night (3115 BC Christianity and the Dark Ages), (1755 AD E=MC2 and WW2), etc...

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5

by hana - 3/24/12 3:53 AM

i was born on the 5th of the 5th at 5:50pm. would this mean i'm going to have an interesting life? hahaha

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5

by dheeraj arora - 2/21/12 10:11 AM

no. meaning and related to this no

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v 5

by brittany - 2/04/12 11:16 PM

i have a birthmark thats a V. i was wondering if it had a meaning. and then i relised the roman numeral meaning 5.

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i was born 12 -5-1966

by Gary Alan Smith - 1/19/12 9:29 PM

This is very interesting to . Personally i feel a power truth on the inward part of me because the teaching from the church i used to attend only scratches the surface of the one speaking to me ,with in me .please talk to me.

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56

by JM - 11/18/11 9:26 PM

kimsabe? big ballin your hobby?

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My son was born on the 05/05/2005

by Anonymous - 11/09/11 9:58 PM

My son was born 05/05/2005 but at 18.18pm, I thought it was weird that he had alot of the same numbers even with the time, all my other children except on other(which was born on 10/10/2008 all have two's in their birth dates, this includes my partner and I. It would be nice to know what it all meant.

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RE: My son was born on the 05/05/2005

by Anonymous - 11/09/11 10:00 PM

Also forgot to mention my youngest sons birth date is 12/11/2010. I think all my kids birth dates are kind of strange

55555

by bunnypoo4u2 - 2/04/10 12:35 PM

born on 5/11 first name equates to 23 which is 5, middle name equates to 11 and last name equates to 23 (again equating to 5) born at 5:23 am (totaling 5, ... 5's ...55555 and 11 doubling as well being the day I was born and what my middle name equates to....

anyone?care to share your input?

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RE: 55555

by Anonymous - 11/08/11 1:53 PM

I was born on 5/25/55 @ 1:31 PM. WE ARE ALL BEING PICKING UP ON SOMETHING. NOT SURE WHAT, BUT, I KNOW ITS THERE.

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