Angel Number 1111
Have you ever noticed the number 1111 popping up repeatedly? Are you someone who has wondered why this happens or heard that it’s notorious for popping up on the clock or calendar or other places? Do you know it’s sometimes called an Angel Number?
You’re not alone.
Since the worldwide standardization of clocks and calendars, it has been noticed and accepted as a number that has a significant meaning or carries a special message for you.
Let’s explore what Numerology has to say about it, how to interpret it, and what to do when this phenomena happens. We’ll try to give you a fair presentation of the meanings of 1111 in Numerology and its possible interpretation, so you can decide for yourself as to what this amazing coincidence means to you.
The when the number 1111 appears suddenly, it’s rarely mentioned in the press or in the media, which tend to lean strongly to the materialist interpretation of everything. Also, when something like this is happening most people write it off as a coincidence, but chances are good that if you’re reading this, you’re not the type of person who writes unusual experiences or odd phenomena off as having no meaning or purpose in your life.
First, a piece of advice. Don’t sit around watching your clock for 11:11 or decide to stay home on November 11th. This kind of significant occurrence has nothing to do with “good luck” or “bad luck.” It can be a message of importance in some situations, or you may not encounter anything special at all when it starts appearing around you, other than a sense of being connected to the universe through the eerie power of synchronicity.
And we will explain this as we go along.
Some Numerologists link the sequence of 1111 to chance occurrences.
But that doesn’t mean that chance occurrences are meaningless.
Others say seeing it on a clock (11:11) is considered to be a sign of good fortune. Yet, if you think about it for a minute, every clock crosses 11:11 twice every day. Sometimes we might happen to notice it, sometimes not, and certainly everyone who does won’t have a sudden stroke of luck at the time, otherwise every casino in the world would close for fear of all the players hitting the jackpots at their tables twice a day.
Also, November (11) 11th occurs every year without fail. In ancient Rome and Egypt, and even in some modern ritual calendars, the same date would not carry the same numbers. That’s a long story that has to do with boring details about the different calendars and historical timekeeping systems around the world. Skeptics use obvious arguments like this to write Numerology-based phenomena off as coincidence, but our personal experience as human beings say otherwise.
The famous Uri Geller, whose ideas we will revisit later, said that 1111 is somehow important in world events, but this is a statement that research cannot validate. Uri strays a long way from valid Numerological theory and includes a lot of ideas that are only loosely connected to the core principles of Numerology.
But to be fair, it’s often hard to judge people’s ideas like this, because Numerology, like Astrology, is based on individual and personal experience. What may seem like a special number may have nothing to do with the particular interaction of clock or calendar time and events in the world at large with one’s “personal time,” as calculated in personal charts.
In the case of Numerology, we have personal charts that change over time, based on natural cycles of people, situations and events we read as numbers. What affects one person may not affect the person sitting next to them, much less someone on the other side of the world.
It’s also obvious that people all over the world don’t experience the same events at the same time and in the same way.
A large number of people might become involved in the onset or aftermath of a natural disaster or an event that improves their economic life like a good harvest or an excellent political decision that benefits them, but they will all experience it in their own particular way. And the personal experience is what Numerology is all about.
The Skeptic’s View:
Skeptics are materialists. To them, any unexplained phenomena or supernatural event falls under the rule that if we can’t measure it with our tools and instruments, it doesn’t exist. The great majority of them like to call any mystical event or connection between such things, “coincidence.”
If it seems to exist without a scientific explanation, they rely on certain characteristics of the human mind to make it seem like they are speaking the “truth” to their followers. That includes the majority of the scientific community other than many theoretical physicists who hold fast to their proofs that the universe is more similar to the ideas of ancient mystics than it is to our common beliefs about many scientific laws.
There’s a phenomena called “apophenia” which is used to describe the human tendency to see meaningful connections between things that have no cause-and-effect relationship to one another. It’s most often used to describe the sense of things having important meaning that comes from the connections seen between them.
But today we usually use the term to describe a human tendency to seek patterns in random information.
This isn’t always a mental disorder; in fact, many psychologists, detectives, intelligence officers, scientists, artists, musicians, lawyers, and other professionals use this natural human ability for their work. Doctors and healers, for instance, use it to diagnose disease.
Random information is key to understanding many things; patterns and meanings depend on the perception of the viewer.
But skeptics only use this wonderful quality of the mind as an excuse to put down people who don’t agree with them, like the European “witch hunters” of the past who attacked old, poor, independent, or childless women as an excuse to take their land and expand their own estates.
Skeptics love attacking people like Dr. Carl Jung, Dr. Dean Radin, and other scientists and science writers who don’t support their beliefs. They don’t even have an adequate definition of consciousness; they think it’s a mass of jelly inside the skull making electrical signals in response to measurable phenomena outside of it. They believe that what they say is provable truth and they try to undermine anything that shows their materialist viewpoint as being, at best, incomplete.
You might say that they are like the members of the flat earth society.
They cannot allow for things like mind over matter, precognition, telepathy, or any other phenomena that have been rigorously studied and produced reams of bulletproof statistical data. They try to make the data look bad as an excuse to avoid studying it, and even change the laws of statistics to try and prove it wrong.
Unfortunately, the skeptical view is the only one that most people are aware of. Skeptics are disinformation agents contracted to keep people from exploring their own gifts and potentials, or the wonders of the universe.
So, if what skeptics have to say bothers you and throws you off your game, just remember: everything they do is based on the dogma of scientism, which doesn’t follow the scientific method (or its own rules) when it comes to looking into something it doesn’t understand.
You could say they are people trying to justify their own superstitions. And there are many other ways to see the universe than through their unimaginative eyes.
Synchronicity:
Synchronicity is a term invented by the famous analytical psychologist Dr. Carl G. Jung. He used this term to describe circumstances or events that appear “meaningfully related” but have no causal relationship. He also called it the “meaningful coincidence of two or more events where something other than the probability of chance is involved.”
In his work, he called the recognition of these synchronicities a healthy function of the human mind that may be necessary to make sense of the world.
From this view, it could be a very ancient quality built into us by the process of evolution, in that it could help us know when weather was changing or where the herds of animals that provided food could be located.
You find a lot of poetic writing in very ancient books, like the I-Ching, which used symbolic images to link unrelated events together for guidance and prophecy.
Most studies have shown that synchronicity experiences may be useful for therapy, because individuals can enhance their consciousness by understanding the meaning of these experiences, although obsessing over them or making them up can lead to other dangerous habits of thought.
Modern “new age” thinkers have mistaken synchronicity to mean that these causally unrelated events have a paranormal form of causality between them, even though Jung called the connection between the events in a synchronicity as having an unknown causal connection.
Thinking they are related in some paranormal way is called “magical thinking,” but Jung, Wolfgang Pauli, and others cite the difference between the paranormal and the unknown, in that paranormal connections are various theories and ideas that have no basis in available knowledge but are made supernatural by way of their dogmas.
‘Unknown’ is a term that blankets all these theories but avoids the burden of proof of one dogma over another.
The clear thinking and insight of both Jung and Pauli have been only slightly abused by new age people, who think of synchronicities as magical events, and try to use the ideas of their brand of mysticism to explain them.
The psychology of Dr. Jung takes many years of study to get a good grip on, but many of his ideas – his map of the soul, the process of attaining wholeness, and so much more – are almost identical to some of the ancient teachings on the inner self and esoteric cosmology.
So, it’s only natural that the skeptics like to call his work pseudoscience, despite the studies in quantum theory that seem to favor Jung’s ideas over their atomistic materialism.
Going Beyond Synchronicity:
Sometimes synchronicity is just the tip of the iceberg. Quantum mechanics has shown us that information can travel not only from the past by our preservation of it, but it can travel from the future into the present.
There are teams of researchers that believe we’re soon to have mathematical and scientific proof that precognition and other forms of PSI phenomena exist.
Governments around the world have been researching these phenomena for years. Even though it was a secret for a very long time, the United States government’s Project Stargate was a prime example, and there’s little doubt that gathering intelligence using psychic ability is not a black hole for budgetary dollars, but a natural skill that can be trained and used by almost anyone with a sound mind.
This in itself shows there is more to the world and the powers of the human mind than one might imagine.
A Little About Numerology:
People try to gather otherwise unavailable information through the practice of divination, and there are many methods of doing so.
Numerology is only one of them.
In Numerology, the numbers are symbols of things that share certain common characteristics. Today, Numerology is used mostly for decoding the human personality.
In the past, no one thought that numbers were only cyphers through which we could measure distances or count values. It was the general belief that numbers were the symbols of both the inner and outer aspects of the human experience. In historical times, the practice of practical mathematics were thought to be a magical art.
Today, the most common application of Numerology is to discover things about the human personality and understand the events in people’s lives. Today, there are still those who understand the “meanings” of numbers, and the methods that can be used to decipher omens or reveal hidden messages.
Almost every group of people on Earth has a system of Numerology. Most of them work in slightly different ways; some are based on mythologies, some are based on religion, and some are based on “esoteric” philosophy or a philosophy of nature. There are hidden meanings known only to philosophers, mystics, and their disciples, which are carried from generation to generation through history.
A few of these systems have been somewhat standardized into coherent bodies of teaching. The most well known of these are the Modern system of Numerology, sometimes called the Pythagorean method.
Although we have no evidence that Pythagoras “invented” Numerology (the facts we know say it wasn’t likely that he did), the common system that goes by his name was developed by people who believed he did. It’s well known that he spent quite a bit of time in Egypt where he studied geometry, architecture, philosophy, and mathematics, but he and his students, because of their beliefs, would not have used Numerology the way we use it today.
The method of Numerology from which our modern system was derived was created by the German mystical philosopher Cornelius Agrippa, who built a “scale of numbers” based on the Latin alphabet, and one of his disciples adapted it to the English alphabet as it existed some 700 years ago. Still, it had very little to do with the Numerology we use today.
Anyway, we’ll be working with the modern method, which started with the American Dr. Julia Seton in the late 19th century. It caught on throughout the English-speaking world and is the most common method we see in use today.
We may also use some definitions from the Gematria, the letter-to-number correspondence of the ancient Hebrew people. Their ancient Holy Books are the main source material for the Old Testament of the King James (and Catholic) Bible. This is important because most of the original work in modern Numerology began with attempts to explore secrets of the Bible which could help us return to a more spiritual way of living.
The Numbers:
Since we’re working with 1111, let’s start at the basis of this number, which is 1.
1 is the number of new beginnings. It’s the action number and is normally associated with the pursuit of one’s interest. In personal Numerology, it is usually connected with an innovative or assertive attitude, and when it’s overbalanced, aggressiveness and independence (maybe too much).
In general, it is considered a “fast” number, in that when it is strongly affecting someone’s Numerology chart, time seems to speed up and the person is struck by a feeling of immediacy, and motivated by feelings of “if not now, when?” or “the time is now.”
Two ones in a row make 11, which is usually not reduced to two (1+1=2) when it appears in personal charts, rather when it appears as a sum in birthday or name Numerology. There are a few compound numbers that have special qualities that should not be reduced. 11 is usually seen as a sign of great intelligence and intuitive or innovative thinking. When it’s the Life Path (the total Birthday Number) or Expression (the total Name Number), it’s called the “Visionary” or the “Master Psychic” because it’s the first of the doubled numbers, or Master Numbers: 11, 22, 33, through 99. As you can see, these are all multiples of 11. It’s impossible for any of these numbers beyond 22 to become a Life Path, and rare to see an Expression larger than 33.
Under certain conditions, 11 is seen in an event chart. November 11, 1918 at 11 AM Paris Time, which had 3 sets of 11 (11 (month)/11 (day)/11 AM (time) when the Armistice, ending World War 1, came into effect. 1918 sums to 1+9+1+8=19, 1+9=10, 10=1, which makes the complete year, month, day, and time 1111111. Very interesting, eh?
Considering the interest in metaphysics back then, it’s very likely that Numerology was involved in the decision to set the soonest auspicious date for the end of the great war.
Things don’t always work out like that; just because a discovered number sequence is amazing, we cannot find evidence of their giving results that reflect the qualities of the numbers involved.
Then we come to 111. Modern Numerology generally uses the numbers between 1 and 99, with special consideration given to 0 when it appears.
In Gematria, the alphabet-to-number conversion method used for finding numerical correspondences to phrases or words from Hebrew Holy Scriptures, there are several meanings for this number, not all of which have positive meanings.
When written some ways, it can mean a familiar person or friend, or to bind together. In others, it can mean to fall or sink, darkness or concealment.
The Gematria that best fits our research are ascent, staircase, and burnt offering. Ascent means rising up, moving toward a high place. Much religious imagery depicts angels moving up and down a staircase to the divine throne of heaven. The last may seem confusing, but in the early scriptures, burnt offering meant the sacrifices given to God at the altar, so the angel might carry the message to God, or bring the blessing from heaven to those whom are making the prayer.
When we’re interpreting 111 by stricter Numerological methods, we do it like this: if 1 is the “action” number, then three 1’s in a row showing up repeatedly (apparently at random) is much like the scenes we see in movies when something needs to be done immediately and someone yells “GO, GO, GO!” to emphasize that now is the time to take action. We even hear officials shout the same phrase at the launch of rockets carrying astronauts into space.
And Now For 1111, The Angel Number:
It turns out that 1111 is one of the most common repeating numbers that people notice on clock faces and at other places. This is a new phenomena thanks to digital clocks being everywhere: on alarm clock-radios (for those who still have them), on stoves and ovens, digital watches, and cellphones; even on the faces of media devices that run televisions and other entertainment devices. Many of them adjust themselves to the correct time for the location, once their initial settings have been made, even when things like daylight savings time happen. Even people who are not “tech-savvy” and don’t care about the “official” time being wrong will reach 11:11 occasionally. A digital clock set to give 24 hours instead of 12 will have it appear once a day. It’s on the signs of many gas stations, and if you go inside the convenience store, it’s likely to be over the cash register. It’s even possible for it to show up on a credit-card machine or cash register, but of course, having 11.11 show up as the price of something would be odd.
But it happens.
It also happens that you might get a call on the cellphone at exactly 11:11, and if it was missed, today’s phones usually mark the time of events. But it’s not that which makes the number intriguing; it’s the fact that when we notice it once, it often shows up again as if to remind us of something.
So what’s this number all about?
As mentioned before, the division of the Holy Kabbalah called Gematria handles large numbers as a matter of course because the alphabet has a different system of number codes for the letters than the more common 1-9 values used in modern Numerology. It’s similar to the letter conversion code used in ancient Greece, where the number harmonies were used for speechwriting and the analysis of important books.
In these ancient methods, some of the letters have values of three digits, so it’s easy for a word or phrase to reach or exceed a numeric value of 1000. Because of this, we can get more insight into large numbers used in the sacred writing of the ancients than we ever will by confining our opinions to reduction of a sum to one or two digits as is done in modern Numerology.
But in modern Numerology, we can get an idea of what this vibration might be about if we think about it as four repeating ones. Thinking about four can bring us to ideas about being grounded, solid, reliable, and established. This would include the four seasons, four directions, and the cube – a perfect solid that occurs only by human construction. A cube is not something found in nature. Salt crystals are one of the main staples of our diet, and are roughly (but not perfectly) cubical in shape. The four corners or walls of a room give us a sense of security. Most domestic animals have four legs and can do work for us, with work being another “keyword” for 4 in Numerology. It can also mean the base or ground on which the situation exists.
In modern Numerology, we don’t care much about “how many” of a certain number are there; we depend more on which numbers are repeated. And 11 is considered to act as a single Master Number, so let’s follow best practices and reduce it to two 11’s. Again, 11 is a number of innovation, vision, revelations, ideals, insight, and stepping beyond the boundaries of the nine numbers. So, two of them would bring the idea of partnership or the “11 experience” coming through cooperation with others. Two of them can mean that inspiration comes from someone or something “outside” oneself, or through a relationship with something or someone else.
Now we go to the older system that reads 1111 as a single number. Some of the terms related to 1111 are strength, mighty ones, noble ones – all of which are words used to describe angels in cultures worldwide. The one that is most striking, however, is “Elevation.”
Elevation means height or describes a position above the ground or the horizon. While we had “ascent” for 111, “elevation” means that the rising up is complete. In other words, since 1111 is a 4-number sequence, it could very well be read as a higher plane of existence.
In all mythologies, this is where angels dwell.
There is even an allowance in proper Gematria for 11X11, which is 121, and that means “a crucible of earth” which would be an earthen or ceramic pot in which metals are purified and alloyed by fire in the work of alchemy. When we consider alchemy as a symbolic method of describing spiritual evolution, the purifying fire is an apt metaphor.
In other words, 1111 could be seen as a contact with an elevated plane of existence, but the insight or intuition comes from that plane through the consciousness of the individual with the aid from another. In that none of the words describing 1111 are commands, the inspiration may not come in words or special feelings, it may just mean a taking part in the power of a higher plane for a moment of revelation.
Another word that measures to 1111 is “persistent,” which is probably an indication of noticing the 1111 multiple times. There is another one called “munificent”, which is a 15th century word that means generous, charitable, unselfish; giving freely without the expectation of return, which is something one might expect a blessing or heavenly gift to be.
Guidelines For 1111 and Contact With the Angelic Plane:
Many authors have talked about the 1111 phenomenon and called it a “gateway” to a higher dimension of being, although most of them requires one to have the time and mindset to buy into a cosmology different from all spiritual traditions that were around before the 20th century.
And we must pay attention to the ancient depictions of the angels as humans wearing togas and wings. That’s something which has come about only within the last two thousand years. They were depicted in the Bible as fiery beings, blazing wheels with eyes around their rims and multi-winged creatures with calves feet and so on. Even those who appeared in the form of humans were noted for the brightness of the light surrounding them. In far-eastern cultures, they were often described as people with magical powers, sometimes winged and sometimes not. They usually came before people as representatives of a higher being, but sometimes as Gods or representatives of the natural forces they were in charge of.
In most cases, these representatives are the ones that have become famous because of the stories about their interactions with people. They would best be described as Archangels and Elohim in today’s terms, because the higher orders of angels rarely have much to do with us. But there are many angels that work with humans that are usually invisible and can be considered the forces that carry out the will of the higher angels. They do so without question and also respond to our prayers and intentions. They carry our intentions and the universe’s response back to us; they are the feedback loop that carries out the universal laws of exchange and attraction.
This is why mindset is so important when we’re doing spiritual work or trying to find practical applications of these universal laws.
Thinking about what you don’t want may attract exactly that to you, because of the angelic response to that thought. Staying focused and positive about what you really want around you or your long term goals attracts these angel’s attention. The more you do to achieve these things, without thinking about them constantly and consciously is the key.
Make A Wish
Many people have said that if you’re getting repeated and random occurrences of 1111, you should make a wish. The famous Uri Geller has told people to make a prayer for 11 seconds for world peace when that happens to you. Others have said that it doesn’t matter what the wish is.
What’s most important about consciously and successfully wishing for something is that it’s framed with positive words, and that it’s something that might actually happen.
Again, sitting and clock-watching for 11:11 and wishing to win the Powerball lottery is not likely, considering all the forces competing with you, and all the factors in your own life that might undermine the clarity of your message – desire is one of these.
Living an honest and good life, being fair and kind to others and doing good for someone other than yourself will usually be enough to call the attention of the angels, so rather than trying to “catch the wave” you have to be confident enough to know when it is there for you.
1111 is an angelic message that tells you that the higher planes are open to you so it’s time to make a wish. When the conditions are right, your prayers or wishes will be heard. You might wish for more angelic presence around you, or for your intentions to become clearer, or for your resolve to become stronger, or for something you dearly desire.
The clearer and more focused your intention, the more likely it is to reverberate on that higher plane and get the attention of innumerable angels. The appearance of 1111 doesn’t guarantee your wish will come true. But make one anyway.
There’s no harm in trying.