Ladybugs

Posted on April 26, 2009 by Trish and Rob


Animals often play roles in synchronicities, but this is the first one we’ve come across that involves ladybugs. We ran across this story courtesy of Google alerts. Katrina is a photographer and writer. Her blog is listed at the end of the post and under interesting websites.
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Recently, two house guests of mine had an amazing encounter with ladybugs. As they hiked along a serene trail in Muir Woods, they happened upon hundreds of ladybugs swarming on a fallen log. Both of them recognized this was noteworthy; they took pictures, mesmerized by the collection of insects. Later on, as they walked along Stinson Beach, they saw a lone ladybug crawling on a rock. Seeing hundreds of ladybugs on a log in Muir Woods was surprising enough, but here was a solitary ladybug in an unlikely place. I suspect that’s when they sat up and took notice.

When they returned from their trip, one of the first things they told me about was the ladybugs. They sounded excited and couldn’t wait to show me their pictures. That’s when I knew this visitation had meaning for them. There was a distinct feeling of awe in the room.

I knew this was a great moment to work waking life as a dream, so I asked them what ladybugs meant to them. Starting from your own meaning of symbols is important. However, in this case, nothing immediately sprang to mind for my friends, so I grabbed Animal-Wise by Ted Andrews to discover what ladybugs symbolize to others.

We learned that ladybugs are lucky in some cultures. They can symbolize wishes coming true. There was another interesting piece to the puzzle: ladybugs can also signal a time when we are pushing too hard for a wish to come true and we need to sit back and patiently wait for it to arrive in its own time.

As we talked, the number three began popping up. One of my friends mentioned her brother had a recurring dream three times that my friend was pregnant with triplets. I realized that the date was 3/9. The my friends mentioned it was their 9-month anniversary. We all got chills, which were amplified when I read that ladybugs live for 9 months. I realized their plane had arrived at 3:30 p.m.and that they were in town for three days.

The number three is about expansion, creativity, and luck. It is a spiritual number as well: there is the Holy Trinity as well as the Triple Goddess and the Three Graces.

We knew the universe was trying to say something. We talked about it for a while longer and what the signs might mean. Then, at a certain point, we knew it was time to move on.

My friends flew home the next day. That night they broke off their relationship. One of them wrote to me a few days later to tell me about it. “Maybe the ladybugs signified that something had run its course.” They saw the life span of the ladybugs as significant and realized they needed to let go of their relationship in order to expand.

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Girl With the Red Hair

Posted on April 25, 2009 by Trish and Rob

Here’s another one from Ray Getzinger, who contributed the synchronicity entitled Volcanos. It certainly illustrates how synchronicities occur in dreams. Author Fred Alan Wolf discusses this topic extensively in The Dreaming Universe.

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When I was twelve years old I used to dream about a red headed woman from Georgia with her hair up in ringlets. Ten year later, in 1966, I married a woman with red hair. She lived in Virginia, but was born in Georgia where her father was in the same Army Air Force squadron as Gene Autry during WW II. Before we had been married a year she styled her hair exactly as I had dreamed.

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‘Sorry, I meant sari, not soiree!’

Posted on April 24, 2009 by Trish and Rob

The dreaming mind sometimes plays word games. Here’s a good example of that from Stephanie Ryan, of Kintnersville, Pennsylvania. The dream was precognitive so the synchronicity came into the waking world three days later.
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I had a dream, one of those dreams that resonate throughout the day. I always consider those dreams as significant. In it, I was sitting at a table talking to someone who gave me a photograph of an Indian woman wearing a blue sari. A woman walked behind the person I was talking to, and it was the same woman from the photo in the blue sari! Then, another woman came along right behind her, and she too was wearing a blue sari.

I thought it was a weird dream and told a few people about it. But every time I tried to explain that the women were wearing blue saris it came out that they were wearing blue soirees.

About three days later, I was talking on the phone to my business partner. We had just started up our own stationery company and she called to tell me that we got our first order. The order, she said, was for our blue bridal dress card. Blue dress, like in the dream. The store that placed the order was owned by two women… and the name of the store was Soiree.

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Kimonos?

Posted on April 23, 2009 by Trish and Rob

Objects – like Max’s two teapots – are often involved in synchronicities. But the following story, also from Mysteries of the Unexplained, defies any rational explanation.
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In Japan in 1657, there was a kimono that was successively owned by three teenage girls. All three girls died before they had a chance to wear the kimono. It was considered so unlucky that a Japanese priest decided to cremate it in February 1657. “As the garment was being burned, a violent wind sprang up, fanning the flames and spreading them beyond control.” The result? The subsequent fire burned most of Tokyo, wiped out 300 temples, 500 palaces, 9,000 shops, more than 60 bridges, and killed 100,000 people.
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Sounds like an urban legend, right? But it’s apparently documented in a book by Noel Nouet, Histoire de Tokyo, page 98. I’d love to hear anyone explain this.

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Black Watch

Posted on April 22, 2009 by Trish and Rob

We’ve had a dramatic event occur here in the village of Wellington, Florida. On Sunday, 21 polo ponies–all from one professional team–died within hours. Some collapsed on the sidelines just before the match, others died in their stable. I remember driving by the sign advertising the match and thinking it was unusual that the polo season was still going on. It usually ends here on Easter.

When I heard what happened, I figured there must be synchronicity related to such a dramatic event. For example, 21 horses die on April 21, but that wasn’t it. The tragedy occurred on the 19th. The synchronicity wasn’t immediately apparent, but it was there, hidden. I realized it Tuesday morning.

The name of the Venezuelan team is Lechuza Caracas. Lechuza mean owl, and owls are often seen as portents of death. In some native American cultures, they’re the creature that communicates between the living and the dead. In our book proposal for Seven Secrets of Synchronicity, we included two owl stories. Both were instances where owls appeared outside our house and were followed closely by the death of a good friend the first time, and the death of Trish’s mother after the second appearance.

Then there’s another level to this synchronicity. The members of the team that were to play Lechuza stood on the sidelines and watched in shock as their opponent’s ponies fell and died one after another. The name of that team: Black Watch.

At this writing, there is no known cause for the death. A toxin, possibly in the hay or water, is suspected.
Rob

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RUSHDIE

Posted on April 21, 2009 by Trish and Rob

Sharlie West is a writer who contributed an earlier synchronicity about her mother and her current partner, Mom’s Help, a March 6 post. She really gets right to the emotional heart.

While reading a book on synchronicity, Synchronicity and You, I read a paragraph out loud to Jimmy about the author traveling down the highway and the name Rushdie kept popping in his mind. Soon after, he saw the license plate Rushdie in front of him. That afternoon I went to the library and the first book in a cart of hundreds of books was by Rushdie. Later on, the librarian, without seeing the book in my hand, recommended I read a book by Rushdie.

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Another Anagram

Posted on April 20, 2009 by Trish and Rob

This is kind of funny. It comes from the British science magazine Nature, Dec. 11, 1975.

Sir Peter Scott, a naturalist and enthusiastic believer in the Loch Ness monster, was so confident that the creature’s existence would soon be proven that he promoted the use of a Greek name for it: Nessiteras rhombopteryx. This name, which he and underwater photographer Robert Rines coined in December 1975, may be roughly translated as “The Ness monster with diamond-shaped fin.”

London newspapers quickly and gleefully pointed out that the name is also an anagram for “Monster Hoax by Sir Peter S.”

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Volcanoes

Posted on April 19, 2009 by Trish and Rob

Today I joined Twitter and asked people to send their synchronicity stories. This one from Ray Getzinger showed up within ten minutes or so. I first met Ray years ago, when I received an e-mail from him about one of my books. He’s an avid reader and definitely has a great sense of story, as you’ll see from his synchronicity! He also wrote Girl With the Red Hair.

Trish
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In 1980 I was working out of a tent at the Marine Corps Base Twenty Nine Palms California. One afternoon I was lying on top of my sleeping bag, reading a novel about an Icelandic romance. In one exciting scene they had to run from an impending volcano. I was so into the book that I almost missed the most important event of the day, heard on the radio.

Once I heard I focused on the real event. Mount St. Helens had just blown its top; the same mountain I had stared at out of the window of my high school classroom in Portland, Oregon twenty years earlier, America’s answer to Mount Fuji in Japan. Such beauty destroyed in an instant.

Ray
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‘When the ice melts…"

Posted on April 18, 2009 by Trish and Rob

Here’s an electoral/political synchronicity.

On February 16 in an interview with Rachel Maddow, Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota predicted that no decision in the disputed Minnesota senate race between Norm Coleman and Al Franken would be made “until the ice melts on Lake Minnetonka.”

At 6 p.m. April 13, a three-judge panel determined that “Franken is entitled to receive the certificate of election” after defeating Coleman by 312 votes. Forty-two minutes later, the official ice-out was declared for Lake Minnetonka.

Norm Coleman apparently wasn’t impressed and decided to appeal.

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Sevens

Posted on April 17, 2009 by Trish and Rob

After so many UFO synchronicities, I need a break. Tonight I was paging through one of the best books that Readers’ Digest every published – Mysteries of the Unexplained – and found a short, startling synchronicity involving numbers. Arthur Koestler,received it after the publication of his book, Roots of Coincidence. I’ve got no idea what it means, other than the possibility that the universe is a mathematical construct!

Trish
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Anthony S. Clancy of Dublin, Ireland was born on the 7th day of the week, 7th day of the month, 7th month of the year, 7th year of the century – 7-7-1907. He was the 7th child of a 7th child, and had 7 brothers. On his 27th birthday, at a race card meeting, he looked at his race card to pick a winner in the 7th race. “The horse numbered 7 was called Seventh Heaven, with a handicap of seven stone. The odds were seven to one.” So what does Clancy do? You guessed it. He put 7 shillings on the horse and it finished 7th.

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