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\"Kindred<\/a><\/p>\n

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The universe constantly surprises me. Over the weekend, I received a Facebook message from one of my daughter’s friends,\u00a0 asking if I remembered a kid she and Megan had gone to high school with \u2013 let\u2019s call him Bob. His mother, the friend said, wanted to get a tarot or astrology reading. Apparently I had done Bob\u2019s chart back in high school and he remembered it. So I told Megan\u2019s friend to give the mother my email.<\/p>\n

This morning, she emailed me. Let\u2019s call her Rita. (I\u2019m using pseudonyms because she works in the corporate world.) She said that for her job, she covered three counties and was in Palm Beach County today and did I have time to see her? We made an appointment for four. Shorty before she arrived, I wondered if she was married to a Scorpio. Random thought, right? But I brought out a copy of Unlocking the Secrets to Scorpio <\/em>for her just in case that random thought was precognitive.<\/p>\n

Rita was a few minutes early and from the moment she walked in the door, I felt a connection. She\u2019s an upbeat, attractive woman in her late forties, nicely dressed, gorgeous hair. We sat down at the dining room table and talked a few minutes about our kids and a job she had just accepted. She had sent me her birth data, but didn\u2019t know the time, so I erected a solar chart \u2013 using noon for the time.<\/p>\n

A solar chart doesn\u2019t depict the correct houses, which depend on the time, and the moon in a solar chart is always iffy because it moves so quickly. But it gives me the relationship of planets to each other and I ran transits to the chart and saw that she was probably going to move. It wouldn’t be a to the next town type of move, but a major move.\u00a0 Before I started with the cards, I blurted, \u201cAre you married to a Scorpio?\u201d<\/p>\n

She looked startled. \u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n

I gave her the Scorpio book and knew things from this point forward were going to move along well.<\/p>\n

When I laid out the cards, everything pointed to a move that her husband and two youngest children still felt conflicted about. It also indicated a contract, her trailblazing spirit, her need for change.\u00a0 Yes, yes, and yes, she said, nodding. The move is to the northeast, for a job that would engage her fully, and for a lot more $. The transits indicated the move would be fantastic for her.<\/p>\n

From here, our conversation veered into the stuff I love to talk about \u2013 life after death, reincarnation, synchronicity, spirit communication. It turned out that for the last few weeks, she\u2019d been feeling anxious about her decision concerning this new job and had been asking her deceased relatives for insights \u2013 her parents, a younger brother who died suddenly and unexpectedly a year ago. Her sister had called her out of the blue and told her she\u2019d had a really vivid dream about their brother, in which he\u2019d imparted information about what was going on in her life. Rita didn\u2019t understand why he\u2019d communicated in this way with her sister, who \u201cdoesn\u2019t believe in this stuff. I\u2019m the one who is open and ready to receive, why did he communicate with my sister?\u201d<\/p>\n

After her mother died several years ago, Rita was devastated. \u201cHer death was sudden, she was my best friend, and I kept thinking, If only I\u2019d had another day with her. It took about two years for her to finally contact me.\u201d The contact occurred through a dream so vivid that Rita awakened from it sobbing. \u201cIn the dream, my mother said she was here so we could spend one last day together. And that\u2019s exactly what we did. And toward the end of the dream, she told me I had to release her now.\u201d<\/p>\n

I told her my experience with my own parents in one of Rob\u2019s meditation<\/a> classes, in which I\u2019d seen them in a corner of the room, engaged in life on the other side, a confirmation for me that they had both healed from the physical ailments that had killed them.<\/p>\n

This experience with a woman who had walked into the house as a stranger and left as a kindred spirit drove home the point that synchronicity is always at work in our lives. It hums along in the background, prepared to wake us up, shake us up, surprise and delight us, and does it when\u00a0 we least expect it.<\/p>\n

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This was the second experience I’d had within a few days where a stranger and I talked about spirit communication. I suspected it was leading somewhere. Sure enough, today Rob and I talked about writing a book called The Talking Dead, <\/em>about the language that the dead use to communicate with us and how common this experience is.<\/p>\n

That language is synchronicity, but that’s like saying your native language is English or French or Spanish and doesn’t really address the specifics. The dead, it seems, use virtually anything they can to say hello – dreams, objects, sounds, clusters of numbers and names, animals, patterns of clouds..the list is long. These things are their nouns and verbs, their conjunctives and prepositions, their adjectives and adverbs. But the connecting thread to all of it is love. They reach out because they care. Because they want us to know they’re not only around, but are doing just fine, thanks, and have info that may be helpful.<\/p>\n

Skeptics, of course, think you’re nuts for even thinking about this stuff, much less writing about it or talking to strangers about it. But the older I get, the less I care about what skeptics think and the more eager I am to engage a stranger in a conversation that veers into the strange, the mysterious, and the ultimate unknown.<\/p>\n

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