Coincidence in the news: It's YOUR house!

If you haven't heard about this already - a 911 operator got a call about a house fire and the address turned out to be his own. The first firefighter who had responded to the scene was actually the operator's cousin. WOW.

Read all about it here:

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/33118905/ns/today-today_people/

Directional Synchronicity: Busted!

I LOVE this story about the victim meeting the identity thief in this case of coincidence...

As Michelle (hardly a "victim") said on the Today show, it had to be fate that the identity thief ended up at her register...

Way to go Michelle McCambridge! The universe is behind you!

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009818847_idtheft07m.html

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Mirror Synchronicity: horoscope confirmation

Last week I talked about how my friend and I discovered that we weren't there for each other during rough times. Follow the Signs: Mirror Synchronicity: Go it "alone"

How strange then to read her horoscope by Susan Miller for the month of September which said in part:

Saturn tends to give a feeling of isolation, so if you feel others around you don't have a clue about how hard it's been for you - if they dismiss your suffering or fail to even see it - I sympathize, dear Virgo. This is how Saturn works, but there is method in his madness.

By temporarily taking away your usual sources of support you will learn new ways to develop and grow independently. Although Saturn's methods are extreme, he does get the results he is after - to make you stronger and more resourceful than you ever were before. Afterward you will feel as though you've become much more mature and seasoned. This is a month to drop any fantasies you have harbored and to see thing as they really are.

I think it's really cool that we came to the conclusion on our own, but this shows that maybe we were right!

P.S. Looks like September 2009 is going to be a rough month for everyone! Yikes!

Mirror Synchronicity: The downside of insight

Recently I was talking to a friend on the phone and she suddenly started sounding very angry. For me, it was out of the blue and I was surprised and a little hurt. I didn't know what I had done to deserve the tone that I was hearing. I asked her - "You sound angry" and she said that she was. She was irritated with me because she said I always had a negative outlook on things.

I actually think I am a very optimistic person, but I also believe in the philosophy "hope for the best but plan for the worst." Sometimes when people tell me things that they are planning, I can see things they haven't thought of but when I bring it up, they think that I'm being pessimistic.

Then last night another friend yelled at me because I made a comment about a fire pit. I am a red cross disaster responder and I see fires every day happen from really benign situations. Fire pits, cigarettes, stray lighters, mulch... but my friend was like "enough already with the fire stories!! We don't care!!" (rather mean too).

So with these two incidents happening within relatively close proximity to each other, I am getting the message that I need to adjust. I am grappling with my natural tendency to think three steps ahead and what that means for others when I offer unsolicited comments. I am not telling them what to do. I am not trying to stop them... I just think about consequences and outcomes more than other people... I know now that it's annoying but I know that it's going to be hard to stop. Any suggestions? Hopefully someone in the universe will read this post and help me. I certainly don't want to be annoying people. I'm really just trying to help (and yes, I know that they don't see it that way).

Directional Synchronicity: Modern Day Manners

Lately I have been lamenting that no one is returning my calls. I have multiple friends who normally are very good at social graces. Suddenly ALL of them are not calling me or writing me back. These are even people who don't know each other. I was starting to feel very alone and rejected. The coincidence of it all was just too much to take. Then it hit me. It's not about me. It's not about them. Right now, I have things I want to accomplish and I have not been focused. I have been procrastinating and using my friends to do it. Whenever I didn't feel like staying on task, I was calling friends to go out to lunch or dinner or just get together. The universe took my friends away from me temporarily so that I can get my work done this summer. It was a harsh way to do it, but I wasn't focusing on my own, so the universe decided to 'help me out a little bit'.

very funny. I get it.