If I meet someone with my first name, Rob, it’s not a synchronicity. There are a lot of us around. But names do play into synchronicity when the odds of two unusual ones coming together seems highly unlikely. That’s what happened to me recently on two different occasions with names that I’d never previously heard.
One of the names is Tarun. I’m ghostwriting a novel with a character by that name and at one point I realized that Tarun needed a last name. I do ghostwriting through a British company called Reedsy. So I went to my Reedsy site to contact the author ask him for a suggestion for a last name.
However, before I found him on a list of authors who had contacted me, I noticed a new inquiry had popped up and amazingly the author who was looking for a ghostwriter was named Tarun. Since I’d never heard the name prior to working on the novel, I was surprised to see another Tarun come to me for help with his novel.
I saw this Tarun’s last name was Morar and decided that would work fine for the other Tarun. So with that, the hopeful author’s full name became a character’s name in another author’s book. Synchronicity.
Ultimately, I did not work with the new Tarun on his project. I did relate the synchronicity to him, though. His response was silence. A case of a synchro impressing me, but not one of the participants in the synchro.
The second name synchro that happened in close proximity to the first one involves a character’s name in the Netflix series, Succession. The daughter in the well-to-do neurotic family that owns a media empire goes by the nickname Shiv. But her full name is the other one that I wasn’t familiar with. After watching an episode recently, I tried to remember the name but couldn’t. That bothers me when I forget names. So I went online looking for it and quickly found it: Siobhan. In doing so, I went on Facebook and saw that I had a new friend request. Amazingly, the request was from a Siobhan. Like attracts like! What are the chances of that?
Facial doubles or dopplegangers intrigue me. In my undergrad years I drove a VW bus; light blue with white trim and a sheet metal white bumper. I was first in line at a light waiting to turn left when a facial doppleganger in the identical vehicle turned left in front of me from the crossing street. Reflexively, I waved, we made eye contact, and both slightly reared back at the recognition. At the time, I had a two-year post-army beard and long hair as did my double. I never saw him again. I was into alternative religions at the time and was not a user of anything that would have altered the event. Still puzzled after all these years.
That was very interesting especially the part about the name of Siobhan. Sounusual a name anyway.
AGREED!
Siobhán Is supposed to mean “God is gracious” according to a lot of baby name sites on the net.
And a Wikipedia page about that name says, “The popularity of the actress Siobhán McKenna (1923–1986) helped the resurgence of the name in the 20th century.”
McKenna played Mary in the movie ‘King of Kings’.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siobhan
Sarah Snook the actress who plays Shiv in ‘Succession’ is the main actress out of the 2014 movie ‘Predestination’.
Which was based off the ROBert Anson Heinlein short story “ ’—All You Zombies—’ ”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predestination_(film)
Shiv was a good role in Succession. Enjoyed the series!
I’ve never watched the show, but Sarah Snook is an Aussie actress and news of her being nominated for awards for playing that character were all over the Australian media a few months back.
A shiv is also a knife –
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shiv
Shiv as a knife. Given Shiv’s character, that knife things sure fits!
Thanks!