(Note: the date of this post has been changed to make this the first visible post in the blog)
[EDIT: ADDED on 2022-10-10 - exactly 8 years after the occurrence of this original synchronicity, arose another directly related to the original synchronicity.]
I have been married for over a decade with the most
wonderful woman I have ever met who is from Colombia. Her name is Cristina. I met her in Curaçao on January 28, 2002 and seven days
later we were engaged. Seven months later from the day we met we were married. We had lived in
the Caribbean and Central America over the next 10 years. Due to issues related to one of my sons from
a previous marriage, I moved back to Texas to help him out. Unfortunately, it is far harder to bring your
wife to the US if you married out of the country (as we did), so we had been
working on the immigration process for two years when this event happened.
The following story is based on our having to
be apart (thank goodness for Skype) other than a few brief visits I made to
Medellin (her home)… and how much we miss being together as a normal couple in
love would be.
On Friday, October 10, 2014... inspired by my love for Cristina, I created the following and placed it on the small wall portion between the two windows behind where I sit at my computer and which can be seen by anyone who is looking through my webcam.
The flower is a flower that Cristina made and had placed on a gift she gave me (also something she made).
The three images are photocopies of three Crop Circle Cards. The Crop Circle Cards are an oracle deck similar to Tarot but inspired by crop circles. The deck has 64 cards. The bottom left was Cristina's first card, card number 3 - Love. The bottom right was my first card which was card number 60 - Starseed Spiral. The card above (center) is card number 6 - Union / Marriage. Below is our wedding picture from back in 2002.
In the evening of this same day I experienced the following.
I was watching the movie, Transcendence. Early on in the film Will Castor (Johnny Depp) says to his wife, Evelyn - “Think about the garden. Think about our sanctuary."
I recalled thinking how special this was to them... it was their sacred place, just for the two of them. Clearly a love story was emerging.
About 1 1/2 hours later it’s the end of the movie and Will and Evelyn had just perished. Their good friend is in the very garden and was looking at two sun flowers. I am blind in my left eye and so when I am with Cristina, I always stand on her left. She is four inches taller than I. So as I looked at this scene during which their friend was stating some final words in their remembrance, I imagined the two sun flowers were not just Evelyn and Will… I imagined that they might as well be Cristina and I.
At that precise moment... and I mean literally within a few seconds of this scene and my thoughts... my Skype lit up. It was Cristina. She was looking beautiful and beaming and immediately said... "Would you like to see the new painting I did at art class today?" I said, "Of Course!"
You
can't make this stuff up...
I was blown away.
After I recovered a bit I asked her to hold it up again so that I could grab the screenshot.
2022-10-10 -
On the morning of October 10, 2022... in the midst of a phenomenal stretch of my life, I realized that it was exactly 8 years ago today that I was gifted with the most meaningful synchronicity I ever experienced in my life.
And so, not long after I had consciously reflected on October 10, 2014 and the immense love I have for my dearest Cristina, Cristina walks into my office to share, "Good morning," and to engage in our daily ritual of embracing each other in a deep, heartfelt hug.
I then reminded her it was exactly 8 years ago today and showed her this blog post (again) so that she could enjoy revisiting the memory.
The astounding new addition to this synchronicity string occurred soon after. Just a little backdrop will help. Cristina (as written about above) is from Medellin, Colombia. She's from a large set of brothers and sisters (she's one of 10!). One of her sisters named Sonia, who is a few years older than Cristina, is married and has two children. Her husband, Mario, has done real well in life and for the last decade or more they lived in a wonderful home with many, many walls which, over the years, has featured some of Cristina's earlier art.
Recently, Mario reached the point where he's at retirement age, yet he decided to continue working and since the oldest child has moved out of the home, they decided to sell this large home and move to a smaller home much closer to Mario's home office.
Note, some of Cristina's art is what we call, "Functional Art." She makes things like napkin holders, key chain holders, coasters and place mats, etc. Long, long ago (more than a decade ago), Cristina had made some place mats and coasters for Mario, Sonia and their two kids. And long ago, Sonia had boxed them up.
And now for the synchronicity.
About 30 minutes after our morning hugs and reviewed this original cherished moment (above), Cristina was sitting at her art table so as to work on something new. She suddenly calls out to me, "Chester, ven!" ("Chester, come!) She's holding her phone and, as I come next to her, she shows me the message she just received in WhatsApp which was from Sonia.
Sonia had been unpacking boxes and came upon these place mats and coasters... laid them out on their breakfast table... photographed it and then sent it to Cristina with "Have a great day" and "Thank you" where the image is of one stretching their arms out for an embrace.
And an important note (as I asked Cristina this very question). Cristina had not mentioned a word to Sonia about our private/personal synchronicity. This came through cold!
Again, the original synchronicity was exactly 8 years ago to the day and there are 8 sunflowers on the table. WoW!
[EDIT Updated 2022-10-14]
This morning I was able to share the above two-part synchronicity story with Jason Reza Jorjani, author of PROMETHEUS AND ATLAS (and eight, soon to be nine, other great works). P&A was awarded Book of the Year in 2016 by the Parapsychological Society and there's no one better to speak with about anything "paranormal" than Professor Jorjani.
Less than six hours later I learned of the following "event" that had occurred earlier today - read here
This is the tweet of the video of the very act as it occurred
A painting (like Cristina's above) by Vincent van Gogh named Sunflowers was the target of protesters who threw a can of tomato soup all over it. Fortunately it was covered with protective glass.
Instantly I jumped on our communication app and shared this "latest synch" with Dr. Jorjani who was already quite impressed with the original story as well as Monday's new edition from our discussion earlier in the day.
The Professor -
"Wow, that's crazy, Chester."
"The synchronicity continues to unfold."
"You should add this to your blog post, though. The odds against chance are now totally astronomical."
Done!
