Number Synchronicities

Posted on August 12, 2022 by Trish and Rob

Synchronicities that involve numbers are some of the most intriguing. There are the popular elevens- 11, 111,1111, and the clusters of threes – 3, 33, 333 or of any number, really.

This evening, while working on a novel, I had one of those weird number synchros. In my book, the character, psychic Mira Morales, is looking for a particular address from years earlier. She knows the street, but not the house number. So I jotted down our house number now and when we lived in Boynton Beach more than 20 years ago.

2784 -2+7+8+4= 21 or 2+1=3

6168 in Boynton 6+1+6+8= 21 or 2+1=3

This was the first time I’d broken down the numbers. Here’s another. In the 1980s, we made a trip back to Venezuela with my parents. One of the places we went was Maracaibo.

We lived there when I was 5 and my mother was pregnant with my sister. We lived in a neighborhood – called an oil  camp back then – for the foreign employees of Creole, a subsidiary of Standard Oil – you know, Exxon.

My dad was hurrying along the sidewalk that day, glancing at the house numbers, trying to remember what number had been ours. Then he stopped at the end of the driveway and pointed at the number on the house. “This is it!” he announced. “Number 57!”

5+7=12 and 1+2=3.

So I think it’s safe to say that the number 3, for me, spells home.

We seem to be surrounded by patterns that appear in a variety of ways, in various forms. Astrology has its own patterns. So do the tarot and The I Ching. The numbers that reappear in our lives have a pattern as well.

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The Dark Trickster

Posted on August 10, 2022 by Trish and Rob

 

In our book 7 Secrets of Synchronicity, secret 6 is The Trickster. We define it as: a synchronicity can reveal  itself with a twist of humor or wry irony so startling it stops us in our tracks.

The trickster is usually intriguing and sort of plays with us, makes us look silly or naive or ill informed. But it has a counterpart in what I think of us as The Dark Trickster. It does basically the same thing as its sibling, but in a way you’re not likely to forget.

For instance:

Our friend Evan, a physical therapist, has been really careful during this pandemic. For awhile he worked on the road, going masked to homes for PT sessions. Then he changed jobs and went to work for one of Orlando’s hospitals, always masked. He has been vexed and boosted, but recently came down with Covid. His symptoms were mild but persistent. Finally, he went back to work and was assigned to – the Covid wing! He says this was unintentional. In my mind, that qualifies it as a dark trickster.

Here’s another example. Before the pandemic, daughter Megan came home one night from a movie with friend Denise and they found her beautiful cat, Piper dead on the living room floor. Megan, hysterical, thought one of the dogs she was watching had killed her. But a veterinarian who arrived shortly afterward to pick up her dog, saw that Megan was distraught and examined Piper. She said there were no bite marks, that it was likely Piper died of a heart attack, that her heart was congenitally weak in some way.

Now here’re the strange synchros. Denise, who had given Piper to Megan, was with her when she got back from the movie. Denise actually spotted Piper’s body first and stayed with Megan for a long time in the aftermath. The next day, October 29, National Cat Day, Megan buried Piper and Denise called her, hysterical because she’d found the cat she’d rescued dead on her porch. The cat had been hit by a driver who had left her a note of apology and placed her cat on the porch. Megan went over to Denise’s to comfort and console her and to bury her cat. While she was doing that, she found out that another friend had to put down his cat. All of this on National Cat Day. Dark Trickster.

Rob experienced one of these on his recent trip to Minneapolis. He stayed with a friend who is a chain smoker and didn’t sleep well that night because to the smoke. So he decided to get a motel room. Turns out they had only one room left – in the a smoking room. “It smelled just like the apartment I’d left,” he said.

I’m not sure what the purpose is of this type of synchronicity. We certainly take notice of these Dark Tricksters, we tell other people about them, talk about them. Maybe they happen just to remind us that the universe is a strangely conscious place, after all.

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Nixon-Trump and August 8

Posted on August 8, 2022 by Trish and Rob

 

Today, August 8, 2022, when I heard that the FBI had entered Mar a Lago, I cheered!I figured there had to be a global synchro of some kind with this. After all, this hasn’t ever happened before in American history. Then again, neither had the insurrection of J6. I figured there had to be a global synchro involved in this one.

Sure enough, there is. On the evening of August 8, 1974 Richard Nixon addressed the American public from the Oval Office and announced his resignation.

Then there’s a third component. Earlier today, before this news, Rob sent me something from a site called Unity, about how August 8 is the day of the Lion’s Gate Portal. It’s when our sun is pst 15 degrees Leo, the center of the Leo zodiac, and the fixed star, Sirius are in direct alignment during this period. “The sun receives a new codex of light and genetic information. The light of our sun holds all genetic information for our Earth and all organic life on this Earth is a photonics expression from our sun.”

My interpretation is that the combination of the sun and Sirius brings truth into the light.

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The Mystical Underground: Rick Bettua: BREATHE

Posted on August 7, 2022 by Trish and Rob

A new episode of The Mystical Underground is live! “Rick Bettua: BREATHE”:

Join Trish and Rob for a conversation with…

Rick Bettua served thirty-two years as a U.S. Navy diver and is back to tell us more about his incredible survival stories that are now featured in his book, BREATHE: A Master Diver’s Survival Tales. He finished his career in 2008 as a command master chief petty officer and master diver, then returned for another three-year stint as an advisor, retiring in 2011.
In October 2004, he became the Navy’s command master chief of salvage diving, and in that role, he managed the world’s largest and most diverse diving command with more than 250 personnel operating throughout the Pacific and Indian Oceans as well as Iraq and Kuwait. Rob is quite familiar with Rick’s story since he edited his book. After Rick retired, he moved to Queensland, Australia where he is married, and has two children.
One other thing, if you think this introduction doesn’t sound like a typical mystical underground interview that explores the paranormal and mysteries of the unknown, you would be wrong. Rick’s story is not without some mind-blowing synchronicities, intuitive experiences and a touch of other-worldliness as well

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The AC synchro

Posted on August 5, 2022 by Trish and Rob

Florida is uninhabitable without air conditioning, at least during the summer and part of the fall. So today, with a temp outside of 91, our AC was blowing out warm air. I called the company we usually deal with for AC issues, but they couldn’t send anyone out until tomorrow.

In the meantime, the dogs were panting and the temp inside the house was 83. Our offices were rendered too hot to sit in. So I called another company. They sent a technician within 15 or 20 minutes. He identified the problems – a clogged hose, a burned lizard on a piece of the equipment, and a dead frog  that may have gotten into the converter.

I walked out to the mailbox and one of the two pieces of mail  was the image above. Synchro about air-conditioning and, fortunately, wrong about the message!

 

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ODDBALL NAME SYNCHROS

Posted on August 3, 2022 by Trish and Rob

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?

 

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Creativity and Precognition

Posted on August 2, 2022 by Trish and Rob

 

When Rob and I wrote 7 Secrets of Synchronicity in 2010, the 4th secret was called The Creative. The premise is that creativity lies at the heart of creativity. In our book about precognition, Sensing the Future, we have a chapter called Painting the Future, which is about how when artists, writers and other creative types are in their zones, what Stephen King calls “dreaming awake,” they often tune into the future.

Numerous examples exist. One of the best known involves Edgar Allan Poe and his unfinished novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. In the novel, three men and a 16-year-old boy are adrift at sea in a lifeboat after being shipwrecked. The men on this lifeboat are desperate, hungry, on the brink of starvation. They decide to draw lots to determine which of them will be sacrificed to a greater good – killed and eaten so the others can survive. The cabin boy, Richard Parker, picks the short straw and is promptly stabbed and consumed.

In July 25 1884, some 47 years after Poe stopped working on the book, a 17-year-old cabin boy named Richard Parker, was killed and eaten in a similar incident. In real life, Parker was on his first voyage on he high seas. He’d boarded the Mignoette in South Hampton, England, & headed toward Australia. In the South Atlantic, the ship was struck by a hurricane and sank.

The survivors scrambled into a lifeboat with few provisions and 19 days out were in danger of starving to death. They discussed drawing lots to select who would be killed and eaten and settled on Parker who was delirious form drinking seawater. The group survived 35 days on Parker’s carcass. The specifics in this one are stunning.

On August 14, 1992, I mailed off my novel, Storm Surge, to my editor at Hyperion. In those days, yeah, snail mail. The story revolved around a category 5 hurricane – Alphonso – that slams into South Florida and devastates the coast. On the same day I mailed the novel, a tropical waved moved off the coast of Africa and 10 days later, it became the most powerful hurricane on record, at least up to 1992.

By August 24, about the time my editor was reading the novel, that tropical wave became Hurricane Andrew. At one point its winds were estimated to be greater than 200 mph. It slammed into Homestead, Fl as a cat 5 hurricane with a central pressure just below 922 millibars.

The precognition is striking in several ways. In fiction and real life, both hurricanes were the first named storms of the season and began with an A. Both were cat 5 storms with tightly compacted eyes rather than sprawling messes that covered the entire estate. In the novel, the hurricane struck Miami and Miami Beach were obliterated. In actuality, Andrew destroyed Homestead, just south of Miami. The synchronicity really disturbed me so I decided not write about hurricanes again. I did, but that’s another story and another synchronicity.

This evening, I ran across an article in The Guardian about a novel Hothouse Earth
by Bill McGuire, a professor emeritus of geophysical and climate hazards at University College London. The article points out that McGuire believes we have passed the moment of no returnwhen it comes to climate change. “The crucial point, he argues, is that there is now no chance of us avoiding a perilous, all-pervasive climate breakdown. We…can expect a future in which lethal heatwaves and temperatures in excess of 50C (120F) are common in the tropics; where summers at temperate latitudes will invariably be baking hot, and where our oceans are destined to become warm and acidic. A child born in 2020 will face a far more hostile world that its grandparents did,.”

The article disturbed me for many reasons. Even though McGuire is more extreme in his views than his colleagues., he’s clear about his beliefs. “I know a lot of people working in climate science who say one thing in public but a very different thing in private. In confidence, they are all much more scared about the future we face, but they won’t admit that in public. I call this climate appeasement and I believe it only makes things worse. The world needs to know how bad things are going to get before we can hope to start to tackle the crisis.”

So this brings me to White Crows,  a group of people in 2141 who live in a huge dome because the world outside is so toxic. Crows have extraordinary abilities but are outnumbered by Normals, who keep them drugged and enslaved. A group of Crows escape to Tango Key in the 21st century to seize it for themselves. The parallels between their world in the 22nd century bears uncanny parallels to McGuire’s views. It feels like another precognition that came through the writing of fiction.

 

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The Mystical Underground: Trish MacGregor – Star Power For August 2022

Posted on July 31, 2022 by Trish and Rob

A new episode of The Mystical Underground is live! “Trish MacGregor – Star Power For August 2022”:

Join Trish for the August 2022 astrological forecast!

Here’s the written version.

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Remember The Celestine Prophecy?

Posted on July 29, 2022 by Trish and Rob

Remember The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield?

Well, today, Rob was going through some old papers and found an article about this book from January 26, 1995, when Redfield’s “spiritual novel” knocked Grisham and King off the top spot on the bestseller list. It was first published in 1993.

There are some interesting facts about the book. Redfield first self-published it and sold 100,000 copies before Warner Books scooped it up and paid Redfield $800 grand for the rights. At the time this article was written, it had spent more than a year on the bestseller list.

Once you write a book that sells like this one had, you can move to Fiji and drink Margaritas all day. Or you can keep writing, which Redfield did. The 10th Insight was published in 1996. He has since written other books and is now 72.

So how do the insights in The Celestine Prophecy hold up in 2022, 39 years after Redfield wrote the book? Let’s take a look. Here are the 9 insights:

1. A critical mass: there are no coincidences, everything happens for a reason.

Well, yes. It’s called synchronicity and the concept was born with Carl Jung. A lot has changed in 39 years, with more people researching, studying, and writing about synchronicity.

2. The Longer Now: As we reach the end of the second millennium of history, we are again embracing the spirituality that once dominated and defined us before we became preoccupied with the physical world.

We started drifting away from this particular insight with the electoral election of Bush in 2000. Imagine what a different world this would be now if Gore’s popular vote had ushered him into office. We might actually be tackling climate change.

3. A matter of energy: An invisible but quite physical energy connects humans to all other things.

Quantum physics seems to be right on track with this one.

4. The Struggle for Power: All human interaction is a power struggle, a”control drama” in which one person becomes stronger by taking energy from the other.

Or one faction, group or party takes energy from another group: the supremes decision on June 24 to ban abortion strips women of the power to make decisions about their own bodies.

5. The Message of the Mystics: Mystical consciousness is the key to ending human conflict in the world, because one day we will no longer need to take energy from others but we will be able to receive it at will from the universe.

We’re not there yet.

6. Clearing the past: Our control dramas were formed in childhood as as way of winning energy back from our families. Only by understanding the control dramas our parents endured can we understand – and defuse – the ones that caused us to develop.

I don’t buy this one. I think we come in to life with an idea of what we would like to experience and achieve and that we choose all of it – from the families and circumstances into which we’re born to how we ultimately leave this life. We’re not all the way we are because mom or dad unloaded their baggage on us.

7. Engaging the Flow: We begin our evolution toward complete spirituality by constantly becoming aware of coincidence. Dreams are ways of guiding us in the steps we must take in our evolution and coincidences appear to push us along.

Synchronicity, again. It pushes us along in a variety of ways – through dreams, visions, hunches, intuition, through music, art, books, experiences and people who appear on our paths. We have to interpret what the synchros mean.

8. The Interpersonal Ethic: We must focus on each other in a way that sends them energy rather than takes it from them.

A lot of us need to learn this, but it seems that our current politics is screaming for this kind of change.

9. The Emerging Culture: We are here in order to consciously evolve, and the world will evolve toward complete spirituality in a predictable, logical way.

I agree with the first part of this insight. But the last part – that the world will evolve toward complete spirituality in a predictable, logical way – is just flat-out wrong.

There’s nothing logical about this country moving toward the reality depicted in Margaret Atwood’s novel, The Handmaid’s Tale. Fascism. Theocracy.

There’s nothing logical about a society that tries to control women by denying them the right to make decisions about their own bodies.

There’s nothing logical about a supreme court that most likely will ban gay marriage and contraception.

Spiritual evolution isn’t necessarily facilitated through oppression and suffering. That’s like a throwback to the time when suffering was believed to strengthen your spirit, bolster your masculinity or femininity, prepare you for life. You had to be dirt poor before could could appreciate wealth, when you had to suffer for your passions.

That’s bullshit. Suffering serves no one and nothing.

We choose our dramas. We may not always choose consciously, but if we’re the creators of our own realities, (Seth Books by Jane Roberts, Abraham/Hicks) then we can also change our personal realities to something that doesn’t involve suffering, fear, despair. If enough of us do this consciously, collectively, so that it finally reaches a critical mass…that’s when external change happens.

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New Moon Leo

Posted on July 28, 2022 by Trish and Rob

 

Today we have a new moon in Leo at 5 degrees, up there in the 9th house. The beauty of this new moon is the trine to Jupiter in Aries in the 5th house. That alone  makes today a lucky, expansive day.

BUT there’s a square between Saturn at 23 degrees Aquarius in the 4th house and Uranus at 18 degrees Taurus in the 7th house. Looks like authority – or an authoritarian figure tries to control a sudden, unexpected event and it doesn’t end well. Or, a sudden unexpected event or news threatens authority – the status quo. Even so, a new opportunity surfaces. Where in your life it surfaces depends on your sign.

Check out the July horoscope in the masthead before it turns to August!

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