I’ve been feeling a bit rubbish this morning. A bit blue, finding it difficult to lift my spirits even with writing, that sort of thing. The muse for writing has left the building today which I always struggle with, but with a Retrograde Mercury I guess I was feeling the shift in energy. None of my usual tricks to lift me were helping. And then, over the course of the morning I had some amazing synchronicities which have reassured me that spirit is there, listening and by my side supporting and helping me in ways that have lifted me up hugely.
I am, like a lot of people, currently in the midst of some financial difficulties. It’s been tough for the last 18 months or so. There have been some times when I have not known how we were going to eat, but that has improved somewhat recently luckily and for which I am hugely grateful. There are, though, some fundamental hardships still ongoing which are difficult to cope with sometimes. It’s difficult to shake the fear and anxiety they bring. I have learned one thing that does help, though, which is to set intentions of how you want to feel. So, rather than waking up with the stomach churning anxiety as I have been, I set the intention to feel peaceful. And I think it’s starting to get there. I even woke up with that intention today until a funk of unknown origins settled on me. I am self-aware enough to know it’s there, aware enough to try and do something about it but sometimes all the meditating and going into my heart space just doesn’t lift it. And that is when spirit can lend a hand through the miracle of synchronicities.
The term synchronicity was coined by the renowned psychotherapist Carl Jung. It’s definition is “the simultaneous occurrence of events which appear significantly related but have no discernible causal connection”. So, things which are inextricably linked but have no means of coming together in a way that can be explained as accidental. For me, two things happened this morning which in my belief system confirmed each other, and then a third occurrence which completed the set. So, I listen to YouTube videos when the silence gets too much for me – when my muse isn’t speaking to me and I’m in a funk like this morning. I just wander through different videos, often of a spiritual nature, listening to whatever appeals to me in that moment. This morning, it was a video posted 9 days ago by someone I had not seen come up on my feed before. It was about the endings of chapters (in numerology terms, 999) and the need to be open to new things. To be open to spirit. To not feel like you are doing things alone. This was the sense I got in my meditation this morning, that I was being give a huge hug by my ancestors because I am not alone. None of us are alone no matter how much we might feel we are in the 3D. We are never alone and we are always loved, things it can be very easy to forget when we are in the midst of upheaval, pain and drama – namely the very times we need to remember that we are never alone and always loved!
When I was doing some gardening in the summer, I listened to a YouTube video to keep my mind off the fact that I was doing some pretty strenuous weeding. And one of the things I listened to was ‘how do you know spirit is sending you messages’. The host said that, actually, one of the ways in which spirit is sending you messages is to highlight things like that very video to you. To bring to your attention things you would not otherwise see – not an advert or anything sponsored (though they can also help) but the random coincidence of seeing a video out of all the many millions posted on a daily basis even on the same subject. It’s true, because I have rarely seen anything by that person since! The videos I saw this morning are such messages. The first one was a short video, a channelled message talking about the ability to celebrate and, as I say, the end of a chapter. An end of struggle and upset, good karma being on its way. And being open to what is meant for you. With the suggestion that perhaps Reiki healing would help open people up to the good things coming, being receptive to them. It was a lovely message and one that was comforting in the moment, one that I felt called to listen to. Later on, I saw a short which shouted at me. Now, I’m not entirely sure about numerology but I have been seeing 1717 every day for about two weeks. To the point where I just thought this has to mean something, I am seeing it accidentally every single day. So, what was the sign on the short video? 1717 with the message – this is a sign for you that you are on the right path, that everything is going to work out in your favour. It was by the same person as the first video, and it felt like a confirmation of the original message. Which settled me further. Finally, a few hours later I was on Instagram posting something for my book when I saw a post with distance Reiki healing to unblock you to receive abundance. I don’t follow any of these accounts. They aren’t related because the Reiki was on a different social media platform. And it was a full Reiki session, not a few seconds at all. This is synchronicity in action.
I’ve had synchronicities before, where you literally have to stop because your breath has been taken away. A dream where I heard the words of a phoenix rising from the ashes and then later that day seeing a photo someone had taken of an optical illusion that looked like a phoenix rising, and then hearing the phrase over and over again from different people in different circumstances. Listening to a profound podcast that mirrored another dream I’d had about the flow of water (maybe a post for a different day, it’s a long one!). Dreaming the other night that my grandfather was warning me about driving in unexpected snow – only to open the door the next day to see it had unexpectedly snowed and the advice he had given in my dream coming in tremendously useful. I believe these things are sent by spirit to help lift us but also to help us shift our mindset. Mine this morning was, as I have said, pretty morose really. And in having that mindset, I was in danger of bringing more negativity to me. Of creating the situation I didn’t want rather than the one I did. Knowing I needed to focus on something but finding it very difficult to do so. And, it provided me with my muse to write this post when I’d had none for any form of writing.
So, what am I trying to say? I’m trying to say that look out for those synchronicities because they happen. Sometimes they completely slap you round the face because spirit does not want you to miss them! Or sometimes they just slip in and make you blink. I am sure that many others pass us by. But it’s in being aware of their existence, being alive to them that means we don’t miss them. That we can take the messages from them and perhaps course correct when needed, or take the reassurance from them. I am very often heard to say that there are no coincidences, and I firmly believe there aren’t. I don’t believe that what I experienced this morning was coincidence, it was far too deep for that. Two social media accounts that I do not follow? One of which I have never experienced before today at all and another which I haven’t seen on my feed for a while. And I have just realised – they were both posted on the same day. The one on Insta was posted on 16th November (I always check when it feels extremely relevant to me), the YouTube one was posted 9 days ago…and it’s the 25th November today. Yet another synchronicity. Two different people posting different messages on the same day which collectively had a significant meaning for me and hopefully others too. Really, what are the chances?
Anyone reading my book (and these blogs really) will know that I am a very spiritual person. But I don’t think you have to be that spiritual to think that there is a link here that goes beyond the ordinary. Perhaps my seeing them to day is also meant to serve an additional purpose which is for me to write this blog and help others find their synchronicities. I hope so because it can be a wonderful experience I think. So, please, be open to them. They are out there, they happen more than any of us realise I think and they can help enormously if you need that sense of a bit of support from something greater than us.
Louisa Simpson 