Little Synchronicities

I've always been a proponent and practitioner of synchromysticism, even before I had a word to affix to it; it ties in with my perception of magick as the art of probability enhancement and coincidence management. My ability in these arenas varies, largely dependent on my energy levels and where my attentions are focused, but sometimes it snaps back to the forefront of my consciousness in obvious and unsubtle ways. When it does, I know to attend to it, because that's when things happen.

Last month I started watching the new MCU series WandaVision on Disney+, and is often the way for me, it quickly shifted from diversion to a deep-dive into a minor obsession. Things like this invariably open channels of inquiry and imagination for me, and I've learned over a lifetime of Being Like This to just go wholeheartedly into it and see where it takes me. Along the way, connections are formed and, to quote Tolkien (I think), way leads on to way. And along the way, there are signposts. Synchronicities. That's how you know you're on the right path.

A week or so ago, already fully enwrapped in Wanda Maximoff's journey of owning and controlling her power, I was doing my weekly(ish) reading with my combo oracle deck, The Well-Worn Path/Hidden Path. The card that flipped up that morning was this one, the Fire card: 

A red-haired woman, dressed in red, with a spiral of fire-red energy emanating from the palms of her hands. Huh. That reminds me of something...

(Yes, I realize her jacket reads more purple than red in this photo, but work with me here)

A little synchronicity, enough to make me sit back and go "Huh. That's interesting." Around that same time, something happened that came as a sad surprise, the sort of thing that makes you contemplate concepts like Life and Death and Meaning and so forth. Because those themes were present in my current fandom focus, they wove easily into my observations of what happened (it was the sudden death of an older work colleague, if you're wondering). Then something else happened, and then something else happened, and at the end of that chain came a thing that made me understand that I was coming in to my own power, both magickal and mundane (assuming there's even a divide), on a new level. My card reading this morning amplified it, and today's passage from my favorite daily meditation book further clarified and sealed it.

Synchronicities. Coincidences combining, probabilities turning to actualities. This is why I do what I do, this is because I am who and what I am. The takeaway? Pay attention. There are always signposts along the way. What moves you, motivates you, inspires and inflames you, right now? No matter what it is, no matter how mundane or "silly" it seems, look at it, let it lead you down into the depths of your imagination and then see where you end up.