#217

Back in August, my friend Jennifer in Denver invited me to zoom with her book club, a group of women who had read The Synchronicity Highway. During the meeting, there was some discussion about a dog named Luna who had gone missing and Jennifer’s friend, Barb, had been looking for the dog in her neighborhood. That name kept cropping up and Barb was curious about whether it was a synchro.

In a follow up email, I mentioned that Luna meant moon in Spanish and that Barb should pay attention to the next new and full moons on 9/2 and 9/17 respectively. Turned out that 217 is a number that has appeared repeatedly into her life and may be an instance of spirit communication with her deceased mother.

Here’s Barb’s rendition of the importance of 217 in her life:

217 was my mother’s lucky number & aqua was her favorite color.  She was the leader of Girl Scout Troop 217 for 17 years & loved it.  Whenever buying lottery tickets she would always play those 3 numbers in any combinations & though she never hit the biggest win she did manage to win over $300 which she used to buy her first & only airplane ticket for a visit to Colorado.  After she passed away, the number 217 kept keeps appearing in my life or I’m just more aware of that number now & also the color aqua hit me straight in the face once.

Shortly after her death on a business trip to hospitals in Montana, I was driving around a bend & first saw Flathead Lake near Polson, Montana.  It was the most striking color of clear blue/green water that I have ever seen. While reading the local newspaper the next day it mentioned the exceptional color of the water the day before & described the color as AQUA (1st Synchro).

During my trips to hospitals in several states, I was staying at a hotel which put me in their Room 217.  (2nd Synchro).

One weekend I drove to Estes Park, CO & stopped at the Stanley Hotel gift shop.  I was so surprised to see mugs, key chains, door plates, glasses etc. with the number 217 on them (3rd Synchro).  Turns out that Room 217 is the haunted room in Steven King’s book The Shining & the mini series was filmed at The Stanley Hotel. I had seen that movie several times but never paid attention to the actual haunted Room 217 until being in that gift shop shortly after my mom’s passing.  I purchased a few beer mugs, key chains & door plates. Our guest bedroom has my mom’s furniture from the 1950s & the door has a door plate that says The Stanley Hotel 217.  The gift shop also had a room plate with Overlook Hotel 217 (the hotel that Steven King named in The Shining) which I purchased. Also a key to our house on a Room 217 key chain is always handed to company staying with us.

A few years BEFORE my mom passed away a childhood friend from grade school that I still keep in touch with called me after the 4th of July in  2001 saying that she thought my mom’s picture was in the Canton, Ohio Repository newspaper from the year  1963. She sent me the clipping. Sure enough, it was my mom proudly marching with her Girl Scout Troop 217 during a 4th of July parade on September 17, 1963 ( 9/17).  So this is the most bizarre Synchro from Trish’s dates in your email.  The  9/17 date she said to pay attention to is the same date as the picture of the 4th of July parade only it was in another year (1963).

Going back in time again, after showing my mom her picture in the paper in 2001 (a few years before her passing), she wanted to make a visit to the Girl Scout Headquarters in Canton for a tour & to donate her memorabilia. So the number 217 helped us to bond & forgive in the end & still seems to creep into my life today.  What does it mean?  I have no idea…

Sometimes now when I wake up at night around two in the morning even though the clock may not say exactly 2:17 I might just lie awake until it does read 2:17 a.m. before closing my eyes again…

After this Pandemic is over, welcoming guests to Room 217 at our home in Colorado can resume!