Some days when I’m hoping for a synchronicity, searching for one, nothing happens. Other days, I see a synchro only in retrospect and wonder why I didn’t recognize it as it was happening. That’s what happened today.
My sister flew into town yesterday. She and some friends from high school – five women who have known each other more than 40 years – take a trip together every year. This year’s trip is a Caribbean cruise, that leaves out of Fort Lauderdale. So this morning, we drove Mary to Pompano Beach, picked up one of the women, then drove to yet another woman’s house in Lauderdale.
Here’s the synchro: our trip started on Greenbrier and ended on Greenbrier. What are the odds? So this would qualify as a what Wolfgang Pauli called a “word seriality” or what we’ve referred to as a cluster, where a word or phrase comes up several times.
I thought there might be something to consider in the word, greenbrier, and Google turned up some interesting references. If, for instance, you’re ever lost in the wild and come across this plant, the stem, leaves and tendrils are edible!
The scientific name for greenbriers come from the Greek myth of Krokus and the nymph Simlax. “Though this myth has numerous forms, it always centers around the unfulfilled and tragic love of a mortal man who is turned into a flower, and a woodland nymph who is transformed into a brambly vine.” The entry in wikipedia cited the ballad of Barbara Allen:
They buried Barbara in the old church yard
They buried Sweet William beside her
Out of his grave grew a red, red rose
And out of hers a briar.
So I googled Barbara Allen and discovered that the Everly Brothers had done their own rendition of the ballad. I’m not sure if there’s a deeper synchro here, but I enjoyed listening to the Everly Brothers singing it.
Another weird coincidence was I got an e-mail this morning from Weiser books ofering me a discount on books about ghosts.
It read ;
“Everything You Wanted to Know about the Uninvited Dead-But Were Afraid to Ask!
Not all Ghost Hunters go looking for spectral evidence. Sometimes, the entities come to you! What then? Echo Bodine, Raymond Buckland and Gary Leon Hill offer real-life insight on how to identify, approach, and deal with the dead.
“True Ghost Stories-The Little Book of True Ghost Stories ” $14.95
Echo Bodine didn’t want to be a psychic – of course, neither did her mother or brother. Yet be it a gift or a curse, the Bodines embraced their abilities and ventured forth to become the first family of American Ghost Hunting. In this compendium of true tales from Echo’s years as a medium and paranormal investigator, we are introduced to the entire Bodine clan and the surprising variety of spirits they encounter, a stoner, a cop, a drunk, and a Peeping Tom, to name but a few. Echo also offers helpful hints for those who think they might be haunted. A funny, frightening and highly informative read!
“The Weiser Field Guide to Ghosts” $14.95
The Weiser Field Guide to Ghosts: Apparitions, Spirits, Spectral Lights, and Other Hauntings of History and Legend
Raymond Buckland (“The Father of American Wicca”) offers practical insight into the world of spirits in this handy field guide to the paranormal landscape. With practical tips on ghost hunters, for young and old! ”
Great timing by Weiser books with this offer,I think.
I might even buy the first one on offer,after this synchro,but usually I would delete an e-mail about ghost haunting books like these.
Re:
“Though this myth has numerous forms, it always centers around the unfulfilled and tragic love of a mortal man who is turned into a flower, and a woodland nymph who is transformed into a brambly vine.”
I’m half way through a book by an Australian actor/writer that I met at the Byron Bay writer’s festival by the name of Brenden Cowell,and the book is called
“How It Feels”.
I didn’t know this at the time,but he was with an actress named Rose Byrne for seven years and they had two children together and then split up,with her staying in the States and him coming back home to Oz.
I looked her details up on Wikipedia and found out her full name is Mary Rose Byrne
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0126284/bio#quotes
the Byrne coat of arms has a mermaid looking into a mirror at herself on top of the (water nymph) plus three hands and a knight (she was in a movie called “Two Hands”,also starring the late Heath Ledger,and he was in “The Dark Knight” and “A Knight’s Tale”)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byrne
the Hollywood name she goes by is Rose (flower),but her real first name is Mary (your sisters name) and she has just ended,some would say a tragic love relationship to a mortal man (Brendan Cowell).
And I found this great quote by her on the IMDb website
(the first link on this comment) which truly sums up my own feelings on book,music,and film synchros.
“I think a movie can inspire change, absolutely. Art, a book, a painting, a song, can definitely inspire change, whether it’s a small change or a big change but you know there’s novels I’ve read or a scene in a film that I’ve seen where I definitely inspired something and made a change or addressed an issue in my life or done something cliché like make a phone call. Absolutely, that’s the power of art you would call it because it inspires movement within yourself. You know it’s only really powerful when it reflects on you and you can relate to it or are moved by it in some way.”
Also when I just put in “greenbrier+Krokus” to Google image search,up popped an image of Rob’s new book “Double Heart” (obviously because you wrote this post…but why should Robs book come up over other images on the page ??) and Bob Dylan’s Album cover of “Tell Tale Signs” which has the song “Things Have Changed” on it.
Another thing that came to my attention was that in the “Greenbrier Ghost” story
Zona Heaster (almost could be Heath?-) Shue was found dead on January 23, 1897 by a young boy,and Heath Ledger died on 22 January 2008 and his autopsy was done on 23 January 2008.He died from drugs and Zona’s mother’s name was Mary Jane Heaster.Mary Jane is a slang term for Marijuana funnily enough and Mary is the connection in the story to the “Greenbrier+ Mary” (your sister) that made these coincidences connect through Google.
Entertaining stuff,don’t you think?
Wow, what a string of intriguing synchros, Daz! Off to check your links.
I love this story.
wonderful greenbrier synchro! and i’ve always loved that song from days gone by!
My synchro for yesterday and today is sesame. Since sesame is a plant, I’d just wondered whether sesame and greenbrier are from the same family or something, so I Googled them together. Here is the result: https://www.amazon.com/Zoo-Sesame-Beginnings-Greenbrier-International/dp/B0043GO5M6 (the words in the link).
Funny! A kid’s book.
Sesame is also the kid’s show…sesame street.
I put Greenbrier + Mary (your sister’s name) into Google and hit search and got this interesting story of the Greenbrier ghost.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenbrier_Ghost
“The Greenbrier Ghost is the name popularly given to the alleged ghost of a young woman in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, United States, who was murdered in 1897. The events surrounding the haunting have led to it becoming a very late instance in American legal history in which the so-called “testimony of a ghost” was accepted at a murder trial.”
Wow, thanks Daz. It never occurred to me to do that. Testimony of a ghost: cool title!
you know, there’s a little bit of magic in each and every day, and all it takes is looking, seeing, recognizing it for what it is…
! 🙂