Synchromysticism

" Synchromysticism:
The art of realizing meaningful coincidence in the seemingly mundane with mystical or esoteric significance."

- Jake Kotze

December 10, 2025

How to Celebrate December 10th, 2025?🥳🎉🍻

I see that today is ... or was ... 'National Lager Day', which falls during 'National Impaired Driving Prevention Month', so no driving today if like me you had a few beers.
Every December 10th
I finished off my last German beer today at lunch time, from a 3-pack I bought a few weeks back, which comes from the oldest still functioning brewery in the world, if you can believe what's written on the bottle, and his was my least favorite of the 3 different beers that came in the box with the glass.
I drank the other two during the previous weeks, not today, and they were good beers, unlike the one I drank today.
Every December
And no, I wasn't driving today, if you were wondering.
National Impaired
Driving
Prevention Month
And I didn't need a designated driver to drive me anywhere, as I was home all day reading, writing and streaming (watching Netflix that is).
I even had a nice cold Belgian beer in the fridge I had not tried before called Duvel, but at $9 a bottle from my local bottle shop  
It's like drinking two beers at once anyway at 2.2 standard drinks per bottle.
Last night/early evening I was drinking a few Rodenbach fruitage beers while reading 'Everyone this Christmas has a Secret'.
And while not everyone in my family has killed someone, I do have an ex-cousin-in-law who did kill someone while drink driving, and I would never want to be in his shoes with something like that following me to my grave.
Do the right thing if you are going to drink over Christmas.
Cheers.
My first and probably
last Espresso Martini

Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret?🎅🤶🎁🎄😶

I finished reading 'Everyone this Christmas has a Secret' yesterday, which is a whodunnit fiction crime thriller written by Australian author Benjamin Stevenson, whose first two books in the Ernest Cunningham series I just also finished reading this month -
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone and Everyone on This Train is a Suspect? 🚆🔍👀
Chronophobia and the #dailygrind/Rise & Grind?⏰🕕🕘🕔🕛😱
'Everyone this Christmas has a Secret' 
Usually the second
Thursday
in December
I see that tomorrow is 'Christmas Jumper Day' and in Australia (where I live) that would be as sane as wearing one of those around the streets of Singapore at this time of year, because over here it is the start of summer, not winter.
by the way:-) Benjamin starts the prologue of his Christmas book off with this statement below.
'Everyone this Christmas has a Secret' 
Australia experiences massive 50-degree
difference in first week of summer
Well, what do you snow know?
Snow in Australia in the first week 
of summer:-)
I've never been into these kinds of books before, but I took my son along to a 
Penguin Noir book talk featuring  Benjamin Stevenson and some other crime fiction authors I hadn't heard of before on the 1st of August 2024 at The Loft in West End Brisbane ... because I had never been to The Loft in West End, Brisbane before, so here was my excuse to check it out:-)
Just like a motive for a crime can be weak, so can a motive be for going to a book talk:-)
The Loft, West End, Brisbane
Benjamin Stevenson, far right
(not politically I hope;-)
To be honest I had no intention of buying a book that night (and I didn't) but they handed out a booklet on the night with each author's up-coming book cover printed in it with the release date and the first chapter of their books to read ... to get you hooked I suppose?
Ironically, I would have bought a copy of the above book on the night, if it was available, but it wasn't coming out until October 22nd that year.
The reason I would have bought one was that there was an advent calendar printed in the booklet that was obviously a page also in the book that had door 4 and door 24 as the last two doors, and my late father drove a Brisbane Yellow Cab with the number 424 plus he grew up in the suburb the book talk took place in that night.
I was hoping to get a copy of the book to read last Christmas but only bought a copy this year when I went to buy the last Dan Brown novel and saw a copy of the book on the counter.
The catch was that the book was part of a two for one offer where if I wanted to buy 
'Everyone this Christmas has a Secret' I had to buy his latest bank heist book, as well. 
Which I had no intere$t in buying at the time:-)
But I bought both books thinking that to me the 
bank heist book was the free one in this deal, not the other way round.
I'd gone to see the movie 'Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere' that day, and decided to see if the QBD Bookstore had the latest Dan Brown novel and walked out of the store with that novel, a bird book, a cat colouring-in book and two Benjamin Stevenson's novels, only to see that a crime had been committed in the shopping centre on my way back from the bookstore.
How to Celebrate National First Responders Day? 🚨🚑🚒🚓👮🤕
Probably, a stabbing was my guess, but I guess I will never know?
Life is way stranger than fiction, I reckon:-)
First full week of December (Sunday-Monday)
Oh, and a bit of a SPOILER ALERT if you are yet to read 'Everyone this Christmas has a Secret' ... one of the main suspects in the story has a handwashing fetish from being involved in the traumatic events in the first book of the series, and the week I read 'Everyone this Christmas has a Secret' just happened to be 'National Handwashing Awareness Week':-)
'Everyone this Christmas has a Secret' 
Nobody likes getting caught red-handed I guess?

Psychopaths, Narcissists, and the Monster Behind the Mask? 📕🎭🤡😱

This 'Jung in the World' podcast just dropped on my Apple Podcast playlist and it reminded me of my last post for some reason?-)
Every December 9th
How to Celebrate Weary Willie Day? 🎭🤡
More so because people like to hide behind metaphorical masks and put on a fake smile to impress and fool others rather than they are psychopaths, narcissists or even monsters.
And what is it with Jungians (I don't consider myself a Jungian by the way, as much as I like reading Jung's books) and monsters?
Who's The Monster?🎥📺🪞🧟🪩🎬