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23 Skidoo
by Terri Glass
I am not a numbers person. I dropped out of calculus in college, but in my last year of schooling, my slow plodding mind began to wake up to the possibility that particular numbers may bear certain meanings. When I turned 23, my life was in a whirlwind. I was under a great deal of stress to finish my studies. I was also involved in very entangled relationship. On April 23, 1977, the day of my 23rd birthday, a month short of graduation, I realized I lived on 2323 Park St.! How peculiar, I thought, but it wasn’t until five years later did I learn the significance of the number 23.
When I moved to Seattle after college, I had the great fortune meeting the author Tom Robbins
who told me the number 23 was powerful, magical. When I began to research about the number I discovered, The Hexagon 23 in the book, The I Ching, means break apart. The number 23 in telegrapher’s code means bust or break the line. According to the magician, Alister Crowley, 23 means parting, removal, or separation. This information began to make sense why my 23rd year was so tumultuous. I was leaving the academic world for a shot on the real world and leaving a relationship that was based in fantasy.
There are also several significant patterns in nature that revolve around the number 23. Humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes. In the DNA coil, there are bonding irregularities every 23rd angstrom. The earth spins on its axis that is tipped 23 1/2 degrees. 10 to the 23rd power (cycles per second in the electromagnetic spectrum) is the creation of the proton, the ultimate unit of light. Every crystal belongs to 230 kinds of natural design in 3D symmetry. According to a basic biorhythm chart, our physical cycle peaks every 23 days.
The author, William Burroughs began to keep track of the number when a ferry boat captain died the day he claimed to have been running the ferry 23 years without an accident. He sunk the boat killing everyone on board. Robert Anton Wilson wrote about the number in Cosmic Trigger, all the synchronicities and connections that occurs around 23. Hollywood subliminally uses the number quite frequently. Often it is the 23rd floor of a building on fire or Chapter 23 begins the story in a film. William Shakespeare, our greatest playwright and poet, was born on April 23rd and died on April 23rd. Isn’t it interesting that the 23rd Psalm of the Bible is the most remembered passage?
The phrase 23 skidoo always intrigued me and recently I found out it originated in New York City after the turn of the century where the flatiron building is located at 23rd street and Broadway. It is known as one the windiest sections of the city. Many degenerates, undesirables and gawkers would hang out there waiting to catch a look at a girl’s ankles, as their dresses would fly up. The policemen would come by and tell them to get moving before they landed their asses in the pokey. This action became known as 23 skidoo. Once again proving the meaning of 23 is to break apart.
As I was writing this article three interesting synchronicities occurred around this number. My friend, Michael showed me a small beautiful leather bound book called Science of Being written in 1923 by Eugene Fersen. Only 5,000 of these books were printed and Michael had one of them. He told me that Eugene Fersen predicted in 1923, the most spiritual nation would do the most devastating deed, the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 22 years prior to it happening. In my conscious evolution class, the instructor, Noel McInnis told me that on April 23, 1994, Lazaris predicted the Vortex of Sirius would open allowing a stream of goddess energy to awaken the people on planet earth. This vortex has not been open for 90,000 years. My friend, Jack Gallagher who so graciously loaned me the book, Cosmic Trigger told me his mother was also born on the 23rd of April and no less in the year 1923. As we walked through the magical redwoods on an intoxicating spring afternoon, he looked at me and said, " You know, you always reminded me of my mother."
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