The summer has been quite gloomy in Wales, not much sunlight, not many warm pleasant days. So maybe the weather has affected the synchros coming out of the Welsh realm. This one from Jane Clifford might make you swallow and touch your throat.
On one recent day, she and her ex-husband, the father of her two children, got together and during their conversation, Mr. X mentioned that he’d been upset for a few days after watching a gruesome documentary of the hanging of a Nazi after WWII. The first two attempts failed and they had to hang him a third time before he died.
Jane mentioned episodes of Shakespeare on TV that had been filmed there in Pembrokeshire, then for no particular reason asked which royal personage had been beheaded badly. Her ex responded: Mary Queen of Scots. Her head was still attached after three blows and was finally cut off with a knife.
The conversation turned even more macabre when they discussed what they’d heard about how long heads retained consciousness after a beheading. Supposedly, 20-30 seconds, determined by blinking eyes and moving lips.
A while after Jane’s ex left, she heard a noise at the door, opened it, saw nothing, but then as she closed it, the door got jammed and wouldn’t close all the way. She opened it again to discover that she had beheaded a toad in the inner corner of the door. Yuck!
We weren’t going to write up this one – a bit too weird–but then hours later, Jane wrote back. Here’s what she said:
“Was just chatting online with a chap about precognition and he shared a precognitive dream he had when young. He was dating a girl and dreamed that she was in a white coffin in a white dress and he knew it was precognitive. His family moved away, but not long after he heard that the girl had died in a car crash and was beheaded.”
“Might be related to the toad,” she added, “but UGH. These things come in threes.”
That was plenty enough for us. After all, let’s not lose our heads over a synchro!
Gulp.
Beheading would definitely be a bad way to go. There was a time I was fixated on Henry VIII – now there was a guy that put that style to good use!
I hope the weather isn’t affecting the synchros, it’s been dreadful here in Cornwall – but we’ve kept our heads. Though in saying that I’m about to write a post about something nasty that happened because of the weather. Fingers crossed that the sun pays a visit for the Olympics.
Jane offered a mysterious follow-up comment via e-mail. Here it is in part:
“It took me some days to integrate the whole thing, because when I looked at the beheaded toad, centuries passed in a moment and something karmically rippled through the centuries, something got released or corrected and this was a powerful experience. I finally moved the decapiated toad farther from the house and put it on top of a plant pot, strongly thinking an owl would take it. The next day it was gone!
Last time I experienced centuries passing in a moment was in the desert with Beduin last year,after this happened the Cheif looked at me and just said “You have power.” I think such experiences are preparation for the cosmic shift when we will experience time differently. As if one is accessing all time NOW.
Yes, mysterious …
Oh and several saints lost their heads but were able to fix them on again …
I seem to have read about beheading everywhere since your post! But here’s a funny(ish) one about the threat to behead a gnome here.
What a funny link!
oh, good grief! 😉
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macabre – Lovecraft on the top
Total agreement on Lovecraft!
I’m always having synchros about spiders, which are creepy for most people, but for me have a spiritual and creative symbolism. I wonder if this lady has an inner fear that she is “losing her head” over something? I tend to think that synchros, like dreams, can be “living metaphors” for what is going on inside us.
btw, thanks for your thoughtful comment……you’re so right!
Living metaphors! Love that phrase.
Talking of spiders and be-headings,I’m listen to a “42 Minutes” podcast with Jeffrey Kripal where they are talking about Kali as the spiderwoman ( she is the Indian god who has a necklace of heads around her neck…for those who don’t know).
https://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=113894&cmd=tc
It’s quite a good talk…so far.
That’s a synchro for me, Daz. In tthis third novel in the Esperanza series, there’s a parrot named Kali who traverses the border between the living and the dead. I was just writing about her.
Thanks for the link!
https://suite101.com/article/the-heroines-journey-a190932
There is Kali at the bottom of this web page holding a head of a poor guy.
I’m reading these days Lovecraft’s stories. I was less than a month ago lost in a foreign town looking for the hotel (Veliko Turnovo in Bulgaria – stunningly similar to the town from The Haunter of the Dark, they even provided me when I was there a light-show reflecting from the fortress combined with some spooky music), jumped three days ago over an “abyss” in asphalt (I wasn’t aware how deep it was – something like The Shadow Out of Time (it even has a part about time and space as an illusion)). Today is time for The Call of Cthulhu, a story about visions (and statues) and brutality of some kind of ancient demon simultaneously happening around the world.
After Hesse, Poe, and Crowley (all masters of weirdness), Lovecraft would be one more weirdo that somehow aligns to details from my “boring” life.
Maybe we should’ve held off with this one until Halloween, but that seems a long way from mid-July. You could say we are aHead of our times today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTCEfxi0v6Y
This is what I was talking about in my previous comment. It sure can prepare you for some Lovecraft in your life, especially if you get lost a few hours after seeing it.
Well that’s a happy new moon story – NOT.
Happy new moon anyway to all you syncros out there.
Hmmm. May the new moon forgive us!