When Life Imitates Heart (and Stars?)

Is it mere coincidence or meaningful synchronicity?

In one day of my life recently:

• The electric keyless lock on my front door stopped working
• The secondary deadbolt lock wouldn’t fit into its slot – the male part didn’t fit in the female part
• I split up with a man I had been dating for awhile
• A ceramic bowl with a yin-yang symbol on it split in half when I touched it
• My light switch for overhead lights burned out
• My dog was nipped by a neighbor’s dog on our walk
• I was “nipped” by the neighbor’s harsh response to my  concern about his dog and consequently that relationship chilled

Acausal reality – synchronicity

Whoa! What’s going on here? I’m a firm believer that there is no such thing as a “mere coincidence”.  I subscribe to Carl Jung’s concept of synchronicity…that events that happen co-incidentally correspond to each other in meaning, rather than a cause and effect relationship. So, there must be something going on in my energy field or consciousness that relates these events. There is an attraction between events and thoughts that have similar energy or meaning. The similar meaning of these events seems to be breaking in a flash of energy. What more is there to that story?

Archetypal astrology

Being a student of astrology as well as Jungian psychology, I took a look at my planetary transits that day to see what metaphorical insights they might give me. Aha! More food for thought. So…I saw that Mars (planet of anger, attack, and energy, among other things) was in a very challenging aspect with Uranus (intuition, sudden, electricity), Pluto (personal empowerment, deep psychology)  and my own Sun (my true Self). With years of study, I’ve gained an intuitive feel for what I see in the chart, and it all made perfect sense to me.  The energies are indicating my challenges with speaking up for myself, speaking my truth, not caring so much about what the other person thinks so that I don’t stand my ground.

Life imitates heart…and stars