Image via WikipediaIntuition is vital to our life. Unfortunately, many of us have been hypnotized to imagine that our intuition doesn’t exist. This makes as much sense as going through life blindfolded, which is what we do, when we don’t use our intuition. The more you trust and use your intuition, the more smoothly your life will flow. Our intuition is part of everything we so, and a signal that our intuition is working properly, is when synchronicity emerges into our life.
Often, when I am writing, I will get an impulse to pick up a certain book. There is no discernible reason why I should pick up this book, except the strong feeling that I should. Invariably, when I pick up the book, it refers to something that I am working on at the moment: something that is exactly appropriate to my work. In fact, I know that my work is going well, because synchronicity happens with such regularity.
No one really knows why and how Tarot works, but Carl Jung believed that it worked through synchronicity.
From Wikipedia:
Jung coined the word to describe what he called “temporally coincident occurrences of acausal events.” Jung variously described synchronicity as an “‘acausal connecting principle’” (i.e., a pattern of connection that cannot be explained by conventional, efficient causality), “meaningful coincidence” and “acausal parallelism”…
It was a principle that Jung felt gave conclusive evidence for his concepts of archetypes and the collective unconscious, in that it was descriptive of a governing dynamic that underlay the whole of human experience and history — social, emotional, psychological, and spiritual. Events that happen which appear at first to be coincidence, but are later found to be causally related are termed as “incoincident”.
Jung believed that many experiences perceived as coincidence were not merely due to chance but, instead, suggested the manifestation of parallel events or circumstances reflecting this governing dynamic.
One of Jung’s favourite quotes on synchronicity was from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll, in which the White Queen says to Alice: “It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards”.
