28

 

It’s June 28^th.  That number 28 holds a special resonance for me in so many ways:

 

• It’s my birthday number (July 28^th)

 

• It’s my wife’s birthday number (February 28^th)

 

• It’s the average of my daughters’ birthdays (Sept. 30^th and Nov. 26^th)

 

• It’s the day I returned to San Francisco from an extraordinary one-year trip around the world, turning 28 that July 28^th. 

 

• It’s the day my wife and I married after returning from that trip. (Oct. 28^th)

 

• It’s (almost) the number for the Saturn return cycle, an astrological transit that occurs when the planet Saturn returns to the exact zodiac sign and degree it occupied at the time of your birth. This phenomenon triggers a profound period of maturation, karmic reckoning, and life restructuring, which indeed happened as I returned to work at my school for another 42 years, got married, got pregnant (well, my wife) and generally settled into a life in San Francisco that continues until this day. (I had heard it took 28 years for that cycle, but extensive research —ie. Google— says it’s actually 29.5 years and then says the karmic effect can happen anytime between 27 and 30).

 

So on this Sunday, June 28^th, it feels like an auspicious day to announce the availability of my new book on Facebook, deal with the new storage facilities that hold and send out my books, write a welcome letter to my upcoming Level III students in the Orff Levels Courses, plan the last 4 days of the Jazz Class I’m teaching, update my Website, record a Podcast, do my laundry, replenish the ice in the cooler, write two handwritten letters to my grandchildren and so on. 

 

Do you have a special number/ day? And what will you be doing on that day?