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1010 angel number

The digits 1010, as on a clock at 10:10. Angel-number writers read it as a spiritual new start.

Angel numbers. Also called 1010 meaning, 1010 spiritual meaning, seeing 1010.

Meaning

In the New Age belief that angels or the universe send messages through number sequences, the four-digit 1010 is read as a sign of spiritual growth. The astro-numerologist Sidhharrth S Kumaar told TODAY.com that combining one with zero gives “a strong angelic message” that “marks spiritual enlightenment and development”, and that 1010 means “heavenly direction, assistance and the attitude of fresh beginnings”. Doreen Virtue’s 1999 list had no entry for 1010; her reading for ones and zeros together was “Powerful Divine guidance from God and the angels asks you to alter your thoughts.”

Origin and history

The belief’s writers disagree about where angel numbers come from. Courtney Cunningham told TODAY.com that they are unlike other lucky numbers, not tied to the zodiac or numerology, and go back to ancient Greek philosophers. Mental Floss says the opposite, that angel numbers “stem from numerology, multiple faiths, and, more recently, spirituality”. Of the ancient Greeks, it was the Pythagoreans who, Britannica says, believed that numbers had mystical properties and held ten to be the most perfect number, as the sum of the first four (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 = 10). How much of this goes back to Pythagoras himself is disputed. He wrote nothing, and Carl Huffman, in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, notes that Aristotle spoke of the “so-called Pythagoreans” and may never mention Pythagoras by name in his surviving works.

See also

111 angel number, 000 angel number, 111 angel number, 222 angel number, 333 angel number, 444 angel number.

Sources

  1. 1010 angel number meaning, Sarah Fielding, quoting Courtney Cunningham and Sidhharrth S Kumaar, TODAY.com (NBC News)
  2. Number Sequences From The Angels, Doreen Virtue; the page gives it as a book excerpt from Healing with the Angels (Hay House, 1999), Spirit Library (spiritlibrary.com), Number Sequences; Number Combinations
  3. The Spiritual Meaning of Angel Number 777, Nitya Rao, 27 March 2026, Mental Floss
  4. Pythagoreanism, Holger Thesleff, Encyclopaedia Britannica (Wayback Machine copy, 5 September 2026), What do Pythagoreans believe about numbers?
  5. Pythagoras, Carl Huffman; substantive revision 5 February 2024, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Introduction; 2.3 Plato and Aristotle as Sources for Pythagoras

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