Today is the twelfth day in the twelfth month of the twelfth year.

How specific and unique is that?  Where will you be and what will you be doing at noon? At twelve minutes after?

Twelve is a cosmic number that deals with governing.  Here are twelve instances of twelve I came up with.  Can you think of any more?  Enjoy this auspicious day to the twelfth degree!!!

1. There are twelve days left til Christmas Eve hence the twelve days of Christmas.  Time to sing that song!!

2. There were twelve apostles.

3. There are twelve jurors for every court case brought to trial.

4.  The twelve steps of recovery and the twelve traditions of twelve step groups.

5. The twelve signs or constellations of the Zodiac.

6.  There are twelve months in a year.

7.  A clock’s face represents twelve hours.

8.  A dozen is twelve of anything.

9.  There are twelve inches in a foot.

10.  There are twelve petals of the lotus in the Anahata or heart chakra.

11.  There are twelve Nidanas or causes of existence in Buddhism.

12.  There are twelve animals in the Chinese Horoscope.