New Delhi:
Remember the hype and phobia over June 6 last year as the date 6/6/06 was associated with the Devil? Well, the buzz around this coming
Saturday is even bigger. For, 07/07/07 in the western world is being
associated with perfection.
Here’s
why. Seven is a crucial numeral in the Bible. Creation took all of seven
days, there are seven petitions of the Lord’s prayer and, not to forget,
there are seven levels of Heaven. Rationalists may wince at all this
but couples across the western world are flocking to the altar in droves
this Saturday to keep their ‘date with destiny’.
Seven
is a crucial numeral in the Bible. So. couples across the Western world
are flocking to the altar this Saturday to keep their ‘date with destiny.’
The date is considered auspicious by the Indian and Chinese astrologers
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There
have been media reports that as early as March this year, more than
31,000 couples had signed up with wedding-planning website,
theknot.com,
saying they planned to marry that day.
The figure
is roughly triple the number for any other Saturday in July and nearly
20,000 more than the number of couples who got married on the corresponding
weekend in a year earlier. Most hotels and travel websites have put
up an ‘all booked’ board for the day.
It’s
a rare date, says Delhibased astrologer Navin Khanna, since 07/07/07
is being considered auspicious in Indian, Chinese as well as western
astrology. “Seven is indicative of Venus. So it’s a great day to
propose or solemnise marriages. India, however, may not see a huge wedding
rush as the day may not have a good mahurat,” he adds.
The play
on seven has also proved irresistible for event organisers. The ‘New
7 Wonders of the World’ will be announced at an official declaration
ceremony in Lisbon, Portugal on Saturday. Youtubers plan to meet for
a big bash at New York’s Washington Square Park that day.
That’s
also when Live Eartha monumental music event bringing together more
than 2 billion people through rock concerts in New York, London, Sydney,
Tokyo, Shanghai, Rio de Janeiro, Johannesburg and Hamburg - takes place.
The seventh book in the Harry Potter series (Deathly Hallows), however,
won’t be launching on July 7, contrary to the intense buzz in the
blogosphere over! that date. Instead, July 21 has been chosen for the
mega release.
In the
blogosphere, the hiss over July 7 has been steadily growing but not
all blogs display elation over the numerical coincidence.
As this
question from a blogger testifies: “Will terrorists try to use the
date 7/7/07 to show God is on their side, like Sodom and Gomorra?”
According to the book of Genesis, Sodom and Gomorra were two cities
destroyed by God for their sins.
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