A Biggie

Recently, Suzanne Cunningham emailed me with a spirit message for someone. That post is going up later this month. We started emailing and I discovered she’s a Reiki healer  who sometimes receives mediumistic messages because of her Reiki work. Today, she shared a stunning synchronicity:

I was leaving a marriage of 25 years, trying to decide where to live. Our son was living and going to school in Charlotte, NC, and I was living and working in Syracuse, NY. I worked for a woman that owned a couple of bridal salons, one in Syracuse, the other in Charlotte (part of the reason my son was there, as I visited often). I was trying to decide the direction and location my life needed to move in. As my personal life was deteriorating I asked my boss if I could work in her Charlotte location as well as NY while I decided what I needed to do and where I needed to live.

At the same time I was also working on developing my intuition with a teacher in Central NY. She is a powerful intuitive with a group of wonderful, equally powerful friends. Our group included a former local mayor, a graphic artist, a corporate trainer, my teacher and I. We decided to create a festival/retreat weekend to celebrate women. We lived in the land of the Haudensaunee, the Iroquois, and the Clan mothers had been so important to the tribes that called CNY home and to us, as young women growing up there. We were feeling inspired and decided to call it The Goddess Weekend.

My teacher invited a young woman she met on a recent trip to San Diego, an author, Julie Hunt, to come to our weekend in NY. We were thrilled when she said yes! I picked her up at the airport on the Friday of the retreat and we shared a room in my teacher’s house. We celebrated women, were serenaded by the incomparable Joanne Shenandoah along with her sister, Diane,  and her daughter, Leah.  It was a miraculous weekend, so fun, and something we hoped to do annually. Our “frequencies” were so high! It truly was just such an inspiring weekend.

Julie, the author, spent the 3 days meeting, greeting and selling copies of her book. Everyone kept asking her who the beautiful young woman on the cover was. The young woman just exudes such Joy as I’m sure you can see. Over and over throughout the weekend Julie politely told each person it  was a stock photo chosen by the publisher. On Sunday night, she presented me with a copy, inscribed with a lovely message. I left there feeling like I could manage, regardless of where I would end up. I was still afraid but the weekend had so filled me with hope. I felt surrounded and supported and most importantly loved, and so I drove to Charlotte, the Queen city!

When I arrived at the store I brought my copy of the book to share with my boss. We chatted for a few minutes and then, as I was telling her about meeting this wonderful young woman, the author, Julie Hunt, I slid the book across her desk. She looked at the cover and turned white, I watched the color drain from her face and could only ask WHAT???

She said “Suzanne, do you know who this girl is?”

“No. Lots of people asked Julie but she had no idea and would love to know but it was a stock photo.”

Now – spoiler alert – here comes the synchronicity.

“Suzanne, this girl asked me for a job a few weeks ago. When you called needing to be here, I told her the job was no longer available, my friend needs the job.”

There were no words. We both just sat there, letting the reality of what had just happened sink in. I then asked her if the young woman on the cover KNEW she was on a book cover. We called her, shared the news, and then I called Julie to tell her the mystery was solved although the mystery was hanging thickly in the room because HOW COULD THIS BE POSSIBLE?

I lived in CNY, the Goddess Weekend was in CNY, Julie lived in San Diego and the young woman (forgive me, I cannot recall her name but I’m working on it) lived in Charlotte.

So Trish, synchronicity or miracle? I’m here to tell you I’m still not sure. The thing is, this is an example with tangible evidence, something I’ve physically held during moments of doubt. I just carry the experience like a bubble of emotion and memory.”

Synchros like this one, Mind Blowers, seem to originate in what physicist David Bohm called the implicate order, a kind of primal soup that births everything in the universe. Bohm believed that even time unfolds from the implicate. He referred to our external reality as the explicate order. It seems that synchronicity exists along the border between the two and is our most immediate bridge to our own psyche and intuition.