One day, Google delivered an alert for a site called The Synchronicity Code. We checked out the site and were delighted to discover what J Andrew Goodman has uncovered about synchronicity and numbers. We ordered his book- The Synchronicity Code : How to Follow Coincidence and (sometimes even) Predict the Future.
From the book: “The Synchronicity Code presents a new discovery about the way history repeats across hidden cycles of time. The author’s experience as an investor based on cycles led to this discovery. As the research progressed, it soon became clear that meaningful coincidences are the key to de-coding the patterns of history.”
From the beginning of the book, Goodman makes an excellent case for how historical cycles repeat themselves – not randomly, but when they’re supposed to happen. Yet, predestination is not at work here. Synchronicity is the force that brings these events about. “It is the interval of time between two events that determines when a subsequent event will occur,” he writes. “It all boils down too hidden cycles, but to see them, we need to calculate simple fractions between the two outside events, such as ½, 1/3, ¼, in order to arrive at them. These events then “roll” forward to find the next related event in the sequence.”
Goodman provides numerous examples throughout history. Many of these stories are well known, but what makes this book unique is the author’s mathematical approach to the timing of events. He uses various calculation methods for doing this, which are explained in chapter 2. Since this is a method that apparently works for historical events, then it must work for landmarks in our own lives, right?
So I spent several hours one evening playing around with Goodman’s calculations. The easiest example he provides is using his own father as an example. So I used my dad for my test case.
My dad was born in 1913 and died in 2005. Subtract one from the other for a result of 92. It’s off a bit since my dad died about 3 weeks before his 92nd birthday. But let’s call it 92. What we’re about to do is find important years in my dad’s life:
Now, according to Goodman’s example, I multiply 92 by:
1) .33 – 92x.33= 30.36 let’s round it off to the nearest whole and call it 30
2) .382 (inverse Fibonacci ratio) – 92x.382= 35.144 or 35
3) .5 (half) – 92x.5= 46
4) .618 (Fibonacci ratio): 92x.618=56.856 – call it 57
5) .66 (two thirds) 92x.66= 60.72 or 61
I also used another fraction he suggests experimenting with – .75, the ¾ mark. 92x.75
As an astrologer, I’ve kept rather large databases on significant dates for our family, so I have those dates for my dad. Goodman says that when you’re looking at significant events over a long span of time, the actual event can be up to a year off. He says the yearly time frame is the least accurate for the code. But it’s also the easiest to do! So here’s how this broke down using my dad’s life as the example.
Age 30, 1943: My parents were married in 1942 and 6 months later, he enlisted and was sent overseas. In 1943, he ended up in India, an important landmark for him.
Age 35, 1948: I was born in 1947, so this one is about a year off
Age 46, 1959: I’m not sure about this one. My sister was born in 1953, in Maracaibo. We moved back to Caracas at some point, but I’m not sure of the exact year. 1959 could be the year my dad was put in charge of an investment arm of Creole (Exxon).
Age 57, 1970. After returning to the U.S. in 1963, my dad had various businesses. I think this was the year he became a Realtor.
Age 61, 1974. My parents moved into the home they lived in until for the next 30 years
When I fiddled around with dates from my own life, there were some hits, some misses.
I loved the chapter on predicting the future. Here, Goodman takes you back and forth in time, illustrating how an event in the distant past can be connected to an event decades later. This is the sort of pattern astrologers work with, but using transits – (the daily motion of the planets) and other predictive techniques. He covers 9-11, space shuttle disasters, major art thefts, Chinese politics, even the death of Bin Laden.
My sense is that Goodman is onto something with his synchronicity code. Be sure to have a calculator handy when reading this book. The temptation to do your own calculations is overpowering! Or, use the calculator on his intriguing blog, the link at the top of this post.
Quite a few years ago, when I came to the belief that the universe is cyclical rather than linear, it kind of put me outside the norm in regards to Christianity (which seems to go by linear time system). But I see evidence of circular motion everywhere…from the atoms to the way our world spins, to the rotation around the sun, to the cycles within a human life, and how the same issues come around again. If I missed an opportunity, one will come around again eventually. Its like a merry-go-round and trying to determine the best moment to jump on.
Can’t wait to read this book!
You’ll enjoy it!
fabulous post – and info from both goodman and math – and you all – wish i were able to respond more in-depth but only moments online for now – right when all i want to do is sit and do my cycles!
Very interesting as always. Off to play cycles!
Trish, your review is as much appreciated as it is astute. My thanks for your bringing it to the attention of your readers. While the math is integral, what remains most striking to me is that the evidence uncovered thus far suggests that something is going on in this life of ours that for the most part is entirely misunderstood. We, and the events that make up our lives, cannot be as we have imagined, if “cyclic synchronicity” is true. For there is an invisible link, across time, not only within our own lives, but sometime across great distances of times and many lives. I am most appreciative of your observation that “predestination is not at work here”. That is fervently hoped. But it is as yet conjecture. The antidote to predestination is “knowing in advance of the occurrence.” It is yet to be proven and cannot be proven by one person alone. Kind regards, +jag
I suspect it was math addict who said predestination isn’t at work here – I went back and read my review and couldn’t find that phrase. But whoever said it, I agree. Loved your two recent posts.
Nancy, the seven-year cycle is significant in a different way, and that’s for another day!! Seven is a mystical, magical, mysterious frequency in and of itself and requires intense study. But in terms of our life cycles, just remember that our particular universe matrix, including the matrix of our planet Earth here, and everything in it and on it, have been constructed within the foundation of the nine “known” mathematical frequencies. I often find myself wondering if there may be “more” mathematical frequencies on other planets and stars of which we humans have no awareness. It’s possible.
I read just this past week that a ‘new’ physicist has been able to challenge the Einstein Theory of Relativity, and he has been able to determine that there is potentially a speed greater than the speed of Light, which doesn’t surprise me because our original laws of physics as they are applicable on this planet continue to expand and change over the decades, just as Newtonian physics were altered by Quantum Physics, etc. There’s so very much we have yet to learn, and what a fascinating journey it is! For those who decide to chart your nine year cycles, it is wise to always understand that the seemingly ‘negative’ cycles are nothing more than experiences that bring us to a greater learning and growing timeline, and at the end of the day, when all is said and done, this can be interpreted as ultimately being positive. I choose to look at these cycles in that manner. Deaths and major illnesses and multiple changes have touched me deeply in these past months, and I mourn, but I also know that there is a greater Life beyond this physical one and that it isn’t The End. That these experiences mark the release of that which is past and precedes the birth of that which is future. It is comforting.
There’s a 7 year cycle in astrology that involves the planet Uranus….Not sure how that fits with numerology.
I believe there is a Cyclic Law for just about everything. I remember from the Rosicrucians how health is in 52 day segments from your birthday with each period having differing qualities. Our lives should be of 20.5 seven year cycles making our lives about 140 years.
Great post, another book to read! Also an interesting comment from math. Must have a dabble with cycles again.
We’re all dabbling with cycles, aren’t we?
Guess so, but we’re not always aware of them.
I just read the last three posts and figured you wouldn’t mind if I comment here. I’ll look at this book next time I go to the bookstore, but I was fascinating by your story about the couple who was abducted. I do wonder about these accounts and wonder what really happened way back then. And I don’t even want to think about Troy Davis and the injustice perpetrated on him. But I do want to say thank you for your well written posts and interesting topics. I always read them but still cannot sign up for a reminder when you have a new one, so I remember sporadically. Have a great weekend!
good to see you, DJan!
This book sounds fascinating and it’s positively going on my list….I love this stuff!! Mathaddict had great insights to offer and explained perfectly so that even a non-mathaddict like myself could understand..hoping the book is easy on me as well. Mathematics was never my thing…thank goodness for calculators. Appreciate your bringing this book to light. Can’t wait to read this one.
Have a great weekend R&T.
Very interesting. Thanks for the info. I always thought it was every seven years that we went through adjustments and major events.
My work with math is parallel with Goodman’s. Let me point out that the cycles occur within a TWO-Year timeline as opposed to a ONE-YEAR time line
cycle. Do you recall how often I’ve mentioned to you in emails that, for example, when a person is 41, that person is in his or her 42nd year? If the year a person deals with is 53, the year is actually in its 54th year. This occurs because there is a zero (0) point in time and in our lives, zero being the mathematical “starting place”, so that at One(1), it is actually within the Two (2). For this reason, your calculations are not “off”. They are correct….because, again, the mathematical cycles are within a two-year, not a one year, timeline. As individuals, we have such cycles each nine years, and they bring alternating positive and negative events which we may easily track. You begin by using age 9 as your Zero Point, (because we don’t remember Age One events and must depend upon what may have been told to us by parents or other relatives), and we then remember significant events at the age of 9, determine if age 9 was a positive or negative cycle, (because you need to know the nature of the frequencies at your beginning point), then move forward to age 18 and recall signifcant events at that age, and continue using this to chart your life to the present time. If the events at age nine were primarily negative learning lessons, you can determine that your Zero Point at birth and during Age One was positive, then follow through.
An example could be, for instance, during the first year of life were you sickly as an infant with lots of childhood ailments. Were you a preemie with the corresponding challenges. Did a parent pass during your first year. Etc etc etc. Or was that first year, from birth to age one, free of negative events and/or ailments, and if so, your Zero Point was positive and you go from there to age 9. It isn’t nearly as complex as it may sound. I’ve done this with my own life and with the lives of people who are close enough to me for me to have knowledge of their experiences, and it holds true. I have a chart for myself, my sister, both my parents, my three sons, because these are the people whose lives with which I am intimately acquainted and so can accurately follow their cycle patterns. It’s absolutely mind-boggling how accurate it is. It’s essential to understand that these 9-year cycles bleed into two years, however. At the moment, I’m in a journey through a cycle of devastating losses…..the transitions via death of many of my loved ones….and the grief that accompanies these losses of the physical presence of these beloveds. Other painful losses and lessons are occurring now, and this tells me that I’m in serious “schoolwork” at this time; that I’m going through major tests; but that I will move into a bright and positive space soon, a week after Christmas. In retrospect on my chart, I am able to see that 9/10 years ago were among the happiest in my life, with two of my three sons finding their wives, the beautiful weddings, and other such delightful events.
The book by Goodman sounds like a great one, and onto my list it goes! It helps to make an actual chart by writing down the year at age 9 and recall specific personal events for that year, write them down, and keep going every nine years. It will surprise you. Be careful to understand that everything happening within a negative timeline will not be negative. Generally speaking, these cycles we call “negative” simply are timelines that can bring us difficult changes and learning experiences that may be heavy and occasionally more challenging than during previous timelines. They are definitely NOT cycles to dread because we do learn so much from them. Basically, every 18 years our lives undergo extreme shifts, and can be tracked via math.
Thanks, math, for these terrific insights. I’m going to follow your suggestion about age 9 and see what turns up!
Wow…that really explains why the past decade (mid-2000 through 2010) was a series of losses for me. Nothing seemed to go right. I had a great 90s, hopefully I’ll have a great 2010s. I’ll have to check into that.
new decade, Nicholas!