OMG SNOW PATROL

Tonight I hung out with him again. For the first time since last winter. The one I referenced in the prior post, "False Love Maze". Although I do not feel the same as I did before...I felt tempted to fall down that rabbit hole quite a few times throughout the night. The first time was when he complimented me on how I looked. The second time was when he played that fucking song in his car that made me crazy when I was at my worst- in total obsession. It's this song by Snow Patrol.

So in the car I laughed about it. I shouldn't have brought it up even but I'd had a few too many which always makes me too honest. Anyways, I joked about getting home and listening to it again and writing a blog post about it... so stupid. Here I am...doing just that. Also I think I love Snow Patrol.

The line that always really got me so bad: "There is a darkness deep in you, a frightening magic I cling to". 

That's it.

I thought he was so much deeper than he is.
I wished he was
I still wish he was,
no one is.

It's probably going to be like this forever.
It's my own fault
I always expect too much
and people can't live up to my ridiculous standards
not even I can.

I want to punch a wall.

There is a darkness deep in you...

...a frightening magic I cling to.

These lyrics pretty much sum it all up. There is a darkness deep in you. A frightening magic I cling to...

I feel like I'm chasing the dragon. I'm a hopeless fucking addict. I am addicted to love. I need it. It makes me feel so good that I don't care about the cost to my mental health or anyone else's.

I should be locked up somewhere so that I can't hurt myself or anyone else.

It's sick.

Tonight all I could think about was that he looked so good. And he dances with me. And he told me I looked good tonight. And I was immediately 24 again. Melting like a popsicle in his hand.

I have no self respect, no self control. Down I go. Easy peasy. Just like that.

what the hell is wrong with me?

I finally got around to figuring out how to make things like this, I am pretty proud of myself. Using it on Pinterest and Instagram,

My Tattoo: The Three of Swords

Many people ask me... friends and strangers alike, why I chose to permanently put this image on my chest. If I'm feeling talkative, I will give them the long version of the story, but usually I just say that it is a symbol of strength.

The three of swords is a complicated card. In the Rider-Waite deck you will see that the heart is hanging in the air with a cloudy sky in the background. The heart is pierced by no less than three swords, however it remains in tact, still together, not in pieces. Three in numerology is linked to growth, while the swords suit speaks of mental energy; truths, and challenges. This card to me asks us to lean into pain in order to fully feel it. Only then can we grow through it, and move on to live in our truth - not unchanged but not broken.

At the time that I had this tattoo done, I was only 23 years old. I'd just overcome my life's biggest challenge to date; healing myself of a major Lupus flare that almost killed me. I was feeling strong and healthy, though forever changed in body and mind by my brush with this chronic illness. I knew that I'd learned some core truths about myself from the experience, and for that I was thankful. Knowing that I grew from enduring this challenge however, did not make dealing with the aftermath easy. The boundaries of pain I felt at the time were worthy of documentation in some form or another, I needed a way to communicate and express it without using words.

A good friend that I grew up with posed the question to me one night at a small gathering of friends; "do you want a tattoo?"- I didn't think twice before saying yes, and in moments I chose the image and where I wanted to place it on my body. It was decided so quickly that there was no time to second guess myself. I felt that I knew exactly what I wanted, and had never been so sure of anything in my life.

I've never regretted this tattoo, and I still feel as true to it today as I did the day that Renee gave it to me. <3

Religion

Religion has been a hot topic for me my whole life. As a child I asked questions until the adults around me turned blue in the face. My mom eventually gave up and started giving me the same answer whenever I had a spiritual query; she would say "I don't know Kathrine. ASK GOD>"...so I did.

I asked God why evil was allowed to exist.
I asked why everyone thought that God was a male and not a female.
I asked why we always had to drink his blood and eat his flesh.
I asked what made God, and how there could be something from nothing.

As my family floated away from a regularly scheduled Sunday mass, I would at the age of 12, go to church on my own.

I read everything I could, checking books out of the library about other religions. Now into my teens, I was wondering, why are we right and they wrong? Are they all going to hell? Why is that allowed if God is omnipotent?

All of these questions were extremely frustrating to me, as I did not for the life of me understand why NO ONE ELSE SEEMED TO BE ASKING. Everyone was ok with the status quo. An adult at one point or another said something like "God works in mysterious ways" and somehow, that was enough for them. No more questions. They were satisfied with this answer.

Today I do not consider myself religious, but I am spiritual. I see certain truths in almost all of the religions. To me the truth shines through the main message of each of them. They speak of love, and that says to me that perhaps, they are all coming from the same source; and maybe just telling different stories about the truth of all that is - because their stories are how they interpreted God's love. They follow certain prophets, who no doubt were all-wise, and these prophets had an unduly understanding of God, which was beyond that of those of around them. They each imparted what they knew to be true to others, which resulted in followers, and ultimately lead to the creation of the books that were meant to guide them.

To me, God is within all of us and is not a bearded man in the sky. God is the light of divine love. God is our human potential for perfect truth. We each of us are capable of growing in this love, and making the light of God in this world bigger, or else we are lost and seeking a way back to this light. We should have compassion for those who do not serve God, because we all are one and the same, and the best we can do for these lost ones is try to direct them back to the source. We do this through empathy, compassion, and understanding.

My idea of God can actually be summed up best by the current Pope Francis:

"From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us."

Haunted Hawthorne Hotel

I live in Salem MA, known to many as "Witch City". It is famous for the witch trials that took place way back in the 1600s. The whole city is filled to the brim with museums, shops, tours, novelty stores, etc; all cashing in on this ancient history. We even have a statue of Elizabeth Montgomery (from Bewitched) in our central square. So before I moved here, this place was always on my radar as I love to revel in the "woo" here and there. But besides all of that, there is also an excellent art museum called The Peabody Essex, loads of beautiful architecture, maritime history and historical sites, and cute shops with neat little trinkets just about everywhere.

Before moving here about two years ago, my boyfriend's mother suggested that we spend the night at the Hawthorne Hotel for mother's day; followed by a leisurely trip to the museum the next day. I was all in, as I had never stayed at the Hawthorne before and I loved Salem for all of the reasons mentioned.

When we arrived at the hotel I noticed right away that it had a very authentic feel, as though the building belonged chiefly to the past. The original elevator was still working and intact from the hotel's construction in the 1920s. As we ascended to our room on the third floor, a couple who were in it with us mentioned to each other that the third floor was said to be haunted. I didn't think anything of it. Of course, it's haunted I thought...all of Salem is supposedly haunted. That's the whole shtick. I figured it was just a tourist's fantasy and brushed it right off.

That night Nikki and I went out and had a nice dinner at which I drank no more than two glasses of wine. Then we strolled back to the hotel and got to bed by 11 p.m. Nikki is a morning person so I was hoping to get right to sleep since I knew she would be waking me up at some ungodly hour. I settled in and shut the lights.

At around 1 a.m I was just falling asleep when I heard some strange sounds coming from Nikki's direction. I realized suddenly that she was talking in her sleep. As strange as that was- I thought, "ok, that's o.k, people do that. It's normal". Then the talking got spooky as she started to sound distressed like she was having a nightmare, so I woke her up. She looked at me and said "oh, Kate, were you just lying down here in the bed next to me? I said, "no, I have been here in my bed all night, you were talking in your sleep." Nikki said that she felt like someone was with her on the bed and she was trying to wake herself up. I thought then that it was just a classic case of sleep paralysis. She said that she felt like someone was touching her with their hands on her arm. I did not touch her to wake her, I spoke loudly to her saying her name until she woke up, so at no point did I put my hands on her.

Nikki quickly fell back asleep, but I was still a little weirded out and turned the light off but then turned the t.v. on to help me relax. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air was on, and I was comforted by the very not spooky Will Smith and his fluorescent colored wardrobe. I finally started to doze off at about 3am. Just as I was in between the state of waking and sleeping I heard the loudest banging sound, just above my head over the bed. It was so loud that I shot straight up in the bed! I looked around, feeling confused, and then said out loud to myself "no way!". I got up and went to the door. I opened it to see if anyone was in the hallways. No one was there. I tried to replicate the noise with objects in the room, but there was nothing that could have made that noise. I sat up wide awake the rest of the night, annoyed...by the first haunting experience I'd ever had.

Normally I would have loved this kind of thing and been oh so interested in what was happening. This particular occasion however was not prime ghost hunting time. I was just supposed to be having a quiet evening with Nikki spending quality girl time; shopping and seeing art. I wanted to sleep and be a person for her the next day, but I stayed wide, wide awake.

When the sun FINALLY came up, and Nikki got up all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, we got ready for the day and then headed downstairs for breakfast in the beautiful dining room at the Hawthorne. I sat across from Nikki, looking disheveled and she asked me how I slept. I said I hadn't and then started asking her more about the sleep talking incident. She said that she doesn't normally talk in her sleep but had the strangest dream and felt like someone was touching her. I told her what happened to me with the banging noise and she and I kind of laughed about our little haunting.

I was not done sleuthing the situation however so I scrolled through some of the reviews of the Hawthorne online. Multiple accounts from the customers described hauntings on the third floor, and in the elevator. Most of these accounts involved two things. The first was "phantom hands" the feeling of someone touching you when no one is there. The second was loud knocking or banging sounds late in the night. The hotel responds to all of these posts very professionally trying to debunk the claims, saying that it is a very old hotel so noises, of course, happen, etc., etc.

We experienced two of the most common haunting scenarios that night.

It would have been less convincing to me that we had indeed had been haunted if I did not see that these two things were so common. After all, in between waking and sleeping, both of us could have been simply dreaming. I know that we were not though. I know it from both the experience and my intuition that this was what it was.

The Hawthorne Hotel...is haunted!

The Lonely Doll

The right book always seems to find me at the right time. It was during my third quarter life crisis that I found this gem; A Lonely Doll: The Dare Wright Story. 

Dare Wright was a fabulous, quirky, talented, and interesting woman. She was an artist and a writer; creating books for children. Her most well known series of books "The Lonely Doll" can be recognized by their pink gingham boarder, and the unique photographic illustrations of a doll and her bears. 

 

All of the original photographs were taken by the author. Both the stories and the photos were peppered with both adventure, and an undercurrent of sadness. Children were mesmerized by these pages all throughout the 50's and 60's. 

Some were even seen as a bit too naughty for children's books.

The Lonely Doll was famous, and the books are still now collected by art lovers and the original nostalgic fans alike.

What was hiding behind this fantasy world however, was an incredibly tragic, beauty, a lonely doll herself; Dare Wright.



Her story is one of intrigue, as she was a truly tortured artist. Edith was the name of her muse, the main character of the Lonely Doll...and was also a sort of alter ego.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4258856

Diet Coke Extremists Threaten Boston

Last night I slept very poorly, thinking too much about the recent incident in Charlottesville and the upcoming "Freedom of speech" rally in Boston. It took me 3 days to finally read a whole article on it, and watch the infamous Vice news video. It was so disturbing and I knew it would be this thing that I then would have to deconstruct and work through, so yesterday I had some time and I did just that.
When my friends and I participated in the Women's March, we knew we were part of something big. It was so big and so energetically charged that we felt a slight sense of danger in it all, and as a precaution- we each wrote our emergency contact information on our arms in permanent marker (just in case).  Luckily that amazing day ended without any kind of violence and turned out to be one of the best days of my entire life. The whole world showed up to stand in solidarity to say that we were opposed to inequality, misogyny, racism, and homophobia. Those who would seek to destroy progress in feminism and human rights. Those who would elect that awful man and all that he stands for. We knew it was only the first step, but we definitely made a statement, one that needed to be made. One that we knew we would be making again and again for the next four years. The rally today will be one of many scheduled around the country. According to "the organizers" they are calling it the "Freedom of Speech Rally". It comes to us just one week after the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville which ended in 3 deaths and many left injured. All I knew at first was that a similar demonstration was scheduled for Boston and that everyone was freaking the eff out about it. After reading a few news articles and watching the news clips I was left with so many questions... such as "who is actually behind the rally, like what are they called?" and "why do they keep saying they are not the 'same' as the Charlottesville group? What makes them different?" and "who is even speaking at this rally?". If you are going to one of the counter protests you should probably know who you're dealing with. I don't understand how this stuff was not addressed in all of the news coverage for this thing. One of the first things I did was pick a random person from their FB flier speaker list and google'd him. I came up with a black man from Dorchester who recently ran for city council. His name is Donnie Parsons. I was surprised because "Unite the Right" was from what I understood; a white nationalist rally. So, okay this is not that...but that doesn't mean that those assholes won't ride in on the coattails of their fellow Right wing-nuts just to start some shit. After some time scouring more stuff online I found some answers. According to a blog post by the Anti Defamation League: "The alt lite, sometimes referred to as the New Right, is a loosely-connected movement whose adherents generally shun white supremacist thinking, but who are in step wth the alt right in their hatred of feminists and immigrants, among others. Many within the alt lite sphere are virulently anti-Muslim; the group abhors everyone on “the left” and traffics in conspiracy theories." So today we are dealing with a diet cola version of extremism. They draw the line at white nationalism. Aren't they swell? I am worried about my friends today.   https://www.adl.org/blog/free-speech-rally-planned-for-boston Here are two other articles you should read if you want to be well informed that don't have to do with the rally but are more about how these people get to this point and beyond. https://www.vox.com/identities/2016/11/15/13595508/racism-trump-research-study https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/8/18/16151924/radicalization-white-supremacists-nazis Understanding stuff makes me feel more in control and less anxious. Even if that control is not really anything more than a firm mental handle on what the fuck is going on. One of the worst things about all this is that we read the headlines and think "HOW THE FUCK IS THIS A THING" and that makes us anxious and depressed.
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For Tarot Reading First Timers

I have recently started reading cards for people outside of my close friend group, and have come across many people who are interested but have never had a reading before. Here are a few key pieces of information in regard to readings and how they work.

In a reading there is the reader, and the querent. The reader lays out the cards and tells the story that unfolds to the querent using a mixture of knowledge of the cards and intuition. The querent can tell you as much or as little as they would like to about themselves, though sometimes it helps the reader to see more clearly when a story is confirmed or expanded upon. I always disclose before hand that I am not psychic, and so the more you tell me about your situation, the better I will be able to decipher the meanings to you.

Some people fear that the cards will tell them something that they don't want to know or that if they get a certain card then they will be cursed by it, or not be able to change the outcome. This is mainly due to the common idea that the cards are only used by witches, and psychics like you see in the movies.The future however is not static, and so they cannot tell you what the future holds, but rather can help you identify patterns in your life that will guide you in your decisions moving forward. So to those that feel afraid of getting their cards read; it should be noted that the readings will never tell you information about you that you don't already innately know or show you something awful that you don't have the power to change. You control your life. The cards are just ink on paper.

The way in which it really works starts with you. The thing is- that we are usually so busy being caught up in our lives that we don't take the time to check in with ourselves. When you have your cards read, you are seeing your story laid out before you and your subconscious opens up, and spills the beans on things that you've stuck back there for however long; and often these are things that have been influencing your choices without your conscious awareness of them. So initially, that can really be a shocker! 

Once you get past the initial surprise of having a stranger tell you about your life by using cards with weird pictures on them, you will start to see the story, the cycle, and the patterns that come through in the reading. That's what it's all about. Identifying these things and considering your current path, you'll be given new choices in regard to moving forward. That's what it's all about. As the famous Carl Jung said:

"Until you make the unconscious- conscious; it will rule your life, and you will call it fate". 

Road Trip!

This past October I went on a road trip with my boyfriend and one of my best friends. We went to Asheville North Carolina for one night, and then down to Tampa for two nights for my cousin's wedding and lastly to New Orleans! Here are some neat pics from the trip.

A fiery three card spread

I read my own cards today, it was a quick three card spread. It was incredibly positive and exactly what I needed to see- that I am on the right track.

Three card spreads are used when you want to get an idea of where you are at and what is coming. I do this when I feel that I already have a good handle on things and just want to quickly check in on that feeling to be sure. For more complicated times and inquiries the longer spreads are better as they let you explore all possibilites and issues.

This reading was all wands. Wands are fire- and represent primal energy, the things that make us tick. It's the fire inside, fueling inspiration, creativity, determination and spirituality.

My cards were- in order: The Magician, the 8 of Wands, and the 2 of Wands.

Kicking things off with the Magician which is associated with the number 1 in the Major Arcana was a great start. It's the number of beginnings. I just moved in with my boyfriend so I'll assume it pertains to that. The Magician card holds all four suits of the Tarot on the table in front of him. These are to be used as tools to manifest your desires. It's a sign that now is a great time to act on achieving your goals, because you have all of the right things in order.

The next card was the 8 of Wands. This card works great with the Magician as it further signifies a great time to act on something. The wands are pointing forward, telling you to make your move!

 For me, I have felt like I was on the verge of great changes all year. It's now that I will want to make the leap. What it is that I want to leap into has to do with bettering myself and leaving old self-destructive habits behind for good.

Lastly the 2 of Wands as the final card shows planning and progress. The man in the card literally has the world in his hands. It's time to start planning, prioritizing and making solid decisions. When it is preceded by the Magician and the 8 of Wands this energy is solidly positive, and tells you that you will be successful in all that you do.

I've got a lot of projects to get started on!

My Friends are Seriously Beautiful

While I was at Cosm, my friend Jonny's girlfriend who I had just met was talking with me about how, the last time I was there I had made a promise to myself during the New Year's Intentions Ceremony- to start taking photography more seriously. She asked me what I like to take pictures of. I answered; my friends. They are all so exceptionally beautiful! Here are some of my favorite pictures taken of my favorite people this year. In order from top to bottom: Rosalie at Cosm, Kryssi dressed as a mermaid for Halloween, Monika, Steve and I, Rosalie again, Brandon, Katrina, Monika, James in California, James at Cosm, Monika- Joe- and Rosalie on the train.

Cosm

For my birthday, this year and last year as well- I celebrated by taking a little trip to Cosm, The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors in New York state. It's Alex Grey's property which he uses as a sort of bed and breakfast- but it's also much more than that. Cosm is a place where great minds, artists, and musicians come together. They hold something called Art Church on Sundays, along with many different art related events, classes, full moon gatherings, and solstice/equinox parties. I love the space, the art, the people. It inspires me. My long time friend Jonny works for the Greys, which is cool because I get to learn about the art and meet people in a way that I would not otherwise be able to on my own. Here are some of the pictures I took while I was there.

A Synchronistic Birthday Gift

On the eve of my 31st birthday last night I was half heartedly flipping through a photo album when I pulled out this card. It was a post card re-purposed as a birthday card that my friend Danielle had given me on my 16th birthday. Danielle was a very special light in my life, a teacher, familiar, and friend. She passed away two years ago. It was a wonderful reminder of all that is- to find her birthday wishes on my birthday.

Thank you Danielle.

The Gestalt Method

As a Tarot Card reader who is always reading and never has my own cards read; I like to turn the table on my friends and ask them for a reading once I am done with theirs. This is often met with a look of complete terror as they exclaim that they don’t know the meanings of the cards. I tell them not to worry, and teach them to use a little trick called the Gestalt method. This is when you simply look at the cards and use the archetypes and symbols to explain what you think the card means.

Gestalt psychology proposes a unique perspective on human perception. According to Gestalt psychologists, we don't just see the world, we actively interpret what we see, depending on what we are expecting to see. A famous French author, Anaïs Nin, who was not a psychologist, framed that idea in an interesting way: 'We do not see the world as it is; we see it as we are.'

Here is a link to a great explanation of The Gestalt Method that I used when I was still learning:

 http://www.tarotpassages.com/heartof.htm

Just memorizing the “meanings” of the cards from books is not going to make you a better reader. No two readers read the same card in exactly the same way. No one is going to yell “FRAUD” in your face if you don’t read a card the same way that they do. There are so many different decks, and so many different views on each card’s meaning out there. Every author of every book explains each card a little differently. While it is helpful to know basics like suits, numbers, and key words for each card; these things are only guiding factors to help you figure things out in your own way.

For beginners, The Gestalt Method will strengthen what you learn along the way and make your readings better.  Once you get past the initial fear of getting it wrong, you realize how easy it is to get it right!

The Emperor

Today I recorded a podcast with my friend Rebecca Muir. It's called Everyday Seeker: http://www.everydayseeker.net/

It's a fabulous podcast, with lots of cool episodes each with a different topic relating to all things mystical, enlightening, and healthy. 

During the conversation, we randomly used the Emperor as an example of archetypes- The Emperor being that of a "father" archetype. Rebecca related him to a story of an overly controlling man from her past. Domineering, in control and unwavering. When I think of the emperor I think of structure and dependability; holding oneself accountable, ect. Later At the end of the podcast we pulled a card and made an intention to really meditate on it's meaning and find a way to apply it to our selves that would serve us in a positive way. Sure enough, a synchronicity was set in motion from our earlier conversation about The Emperor; and it was this card that we pulled. 

The Emperor is one that I haven't really spent much time with. He is the father of the deck. With his stern face, armor, and his stone throne adorned with the heads of rams he can be quite the commanding figure.

He represents:

• FATHERING
• STRUCTURE
• AUTHORITY
• REGULATION

How he relates to me in my life currently is specific to his emphasis on structure. I feel that this card is asking me to start creating order out of the chaos. Start making lists, applying reason, organizing, and coordinating. Becoming an adultier adult if you will. 

There are a lot of plans that I have been meaning to set into motion in regard to my health and mental well being that I have been slacking on. It's time to get started on those plans and make them stick. I need to create some habits, routines, and systems that will get me out of this rut I have been in. It's lingered too long. 

The Universe Communicating with Itself

Why do the cards work the way that they do and why do they do it so well? This is a question I have asked over and over again when a reading was just a little too spot on, sometimes to the point of being a bit spooky! I started researching this long ago and found that the answers were far more intriguing than I could have imagined! The way that I understand it and the truth that speaks to me all starts with the psychologist Carl Jung.

When you read the Tarot cards for the first time, you are looking at various images that seem vaguely familiar. Aside from not knowing what they "mean" you can still recognize a lot of the main characters. Your subconscious opens up when viewing the images on the cards. This is not by chance, but by design. While I researched why this is,  I kept coming across references to the psychologist Carl Jung; one of the most famous psychologists in history- next to his frenemy Sigmund Freud. Jung founded analytical psychiatry, and while he was not an expert on the Tarot himself, it is hard not to find a respectable article on Tarot without the mention of Carl Jung. This is because The Collective Unconscious, Archetypes, Symbols, and Synchronicity are all Jungian ideas that come into play when we talk about how the cards work.

Each of the images on the cards are loaded with things called Archetypes, and symbols. Jung described archetypes as a universal and recurring image, pattern, or motif representing a typical human experience. Symbols he described as being the best possible expression for something essentially unknown. They replace the need for written words. Some examples of archetypes are: mother, father, crone, free spirit, hero, and lover. A simple example of a symbol would be the crescent shape which we often recognize as the moon.

Wikipedia’s Archetype page defines an archetype as ‘a universally understood term or pattern of behavior, a prototype upon which others are copied, patterned or emulated.’ The same page tells us that in Psychology, an archetype is a ‘model of a person, personality, or behavior’. So an example of an archetype in the cards is the Empress. She is the archetypal "mother". Everyone knows what a mother is, and when you think about the words associated with a mother, they are all closely related to the meaning of the card.

Jung came to his conclusions about archetypes and symbols after studying the explanations of dreams and hallucinations in psychotic patients. He found that many of the things that they described were the same or similar to the symbols and archetypes in myths, stories and legends from all over the world. These were things that these patients did not, or could not have known about.

 According to Jung, archetypes are:‘innate universal psychic dispositions that form the substrate from which the basic symbols or representations of unconscious experience emerge. The archetype is a tendency to form such representations of a motif – representations that can vary a great deal in detail without losing their basic pattern… they are indeed an instinctive trend.’

In regard to where archetypes and symbols come from, Jung refers to "The Collective Unconscious". He theorized, that a pool of knowledge exists in every person and connects us all. Jung believed that we all innately know the secrets of the universe and that each and every one of us can access the Collective Unconscious for information or inspiration. We are all- also continuously contributing to its growing pool of knowledge and memories.

Next we are going to jump over to synchronicity. The word "synchronicity" was created by Jung to describe "meaningful coincedences". These are the random events in life that seem to be related in a meaningful way, even though there is no natural connection. For example, you are thinking of someone you have not talked to in long time, and suddenly out of nowhere- they call you on the phone. Has something like this ever happened to you?

In his book on the subject- Synchronicity: An Acasual Connecting Principle he wrote-

"...it is impossible, with our present resources, to explain ESP, or the fact of meaningful coincidence, as a phenomenon of energy. This makes an end of the causal explanation as well, for "effect" cannot be understood as anything except a phenomenon of energy. Therefore it cannot be a question of cause and effect, but of a falling together in time, a kind of simultaneity. Because of this quality of simultaneity, I have picked on the term "synchronicity" to designate a hypothetical factor equal in rank to causality as a principle of explanation."

Jung thought; and I agree- that when a synchronicity occurs, it happens because you are attracting  events into your life as a way to get place emphasis on something that you need to be made consciously aware of... in order to grow. Watch out for the patterns of synchronicity in your life. You can consider what the synchronicity is trying to tell you, and use it to guide you. The more aware you become of it, the more in tune you are with yourself and the source of "all that is" or as Jung would call it "Unus Mundus".

"Unus Mundus" was greatly inspired by physics. After Jung and his friend Albert Eisenstein talked many times about Einstein's theory of relativity, he had an idea. He then partnered with yet another physicist; Wolfgang Pauli to build the theory of Unus Mundus"; which in Latin means "one world". It  is the concept of an underlying unified reality from which everything emerges and to which everything returns.

Archetypes and symbols then, would be an expression of Unus Mundus. We know them through the collective unconscious. Synchronicity is made possible by Unus Mundus; in that it would mean that both the observer (you) and the phenomenon (synchronicity) ultimately stem from the same source....!

By using Tarot, we are basically opening up windows to the collective unconscious through the archetypes and symbols on each card. The cards fall in a way that will apply to you because you chose them. Your reading is like a synchronicity life hack. You make synchronicity happen instead of letting it happen to you. Instead of tying together random events you have laid these cards out before you and read them like a story.

So in closing, you can use the cards to find the patterns in your life that are worth paying attention to. Learn and grow from the information that you receive from them. You gain understanding of yourself, and make choices that will ultimately result in a better you. An easy way to choose a  higher frequency.

You are part of the universe and the universe, is communicating with itself.

Katrina In Red

Monika Magik

Rosalie Reading Tarot Cards