Synchromysticism

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

- Jake Kotze

November 11, 2024

Yuanfen (fateful coincidence)? ๐Ÿ˜‡

I had not heard of the Chinese term Yuanfen until I keyed up an Apple Podcast search last night for podcasts about "Synchronicity" and found the episode titled, 'Synchronicity: Medium Alicia’s Journey of Fate, Truth & Tattoos' at 'The Medium's Table' podcast.
"Yuรกn (traditional Chinese: ็ทฃ; simplified Chinese: ็ผ˜; pinyin: yuรกn; Pe̍h-ลe-jฤซ: iรขn) or Yuanfen (traditional Chinese: ็ทฃๅˆ†; simplified Chinese: ็ผ˜ๅˆ†; pinyin: yuรกnfรจn; Pe̍h-ลe-jฤซ: iรขn-hลซn), "fateful coincidence," is a concept in Chinese society describing good and bad chances and potential relationships. It can also be translated as "destiny, luck as conditioned by one's past", or "natural affinity among friends." It is comparable to the concept of karma in Buddhism, but yuanfen is interactive rather than individual. The driving forces and causes behind yuรกnfรจn are said to be actions done in previous incarnations."
""Affinity occasion" could be a good translation of yuรกnfรจn, as yuรกnfรจn depends on the probability, or chance, of meeting (or seeing) someone in the real world at any given time and place, and involves both persons feeling as if they have already known each other for a very long time, even though in reality, they have not."
Memoir of a Snail?๐ŸŽฅ✍๐ŸŒ๐ŸŽฌ๐Ÿฆ‰
I've had two tattoos done recently with a third one booked and with some rather yuanfen like things occurring relating to getting those tattoos being done.
So, maybe a 4th one is on the cards now?-)
The 2024 AFL Grand Final Line Up Sure Brings a Smile to My Face?๐Ÿ˜
Yesterday I went with my youngest son
(who is 30 now) to see 'The Moogai'.
And yes, that 39% Rotten Tomatoes rating is about right, but it was an interesting movie all the same, and probably a movie that I was fated to see yesterday.

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November 10, 2024

The Call of the Wild?๐Ÿ“•๐Ÿบ

Jack London's book 'The Call of the Wild' is one of the 1001 Books I'm told I should read before I die, but I'm not a dog person ... or I should say that I'm not a big dog person.
I'm a cat person, but to be fair, I'm not fond of big cats like lions and tigers, either.
I was tempted to skip
reading this book (but I listened to it on audio), as I had recently read 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' written by Arthur Conan Doyle, which I wrote about in this recent post -
I was sick of hearing and reading about dogs lately, both in fiction and in recent newspaper articles, such as these terrifying (to me) stories below. 
I've been going for walks with my youngest son around our neighbourhood and I told him how Dami Im was bit by a dog somewhere around the neighbourhood about 4 years ago, and I found the news story on the net to show him the damage the dog inflicted on her, and he told me," don't worry dad, I'll protect you if a dog comes at us."
I laughed at that and told him that I guess I don't have to outrun the dog to save myself, I'd just have to be able to outrun him:-P 
Australian singer Dami Im shares photos
of wounds after being attacked by dog
And I see that Dami was in the news again recently as her song 'Smile' made a comeback in modern pop culture this year:-)
'Joker: Folie ร  Deux' is Being Released on 'World Smile Day' 2024?๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿƒ
Dami was born in the Year of the Dragon like me, but Donald Trump was born in the Year of the Fire Dog, and that doesn't put a smile on my face:-(
Instead of a
Barbie POTUS America got a Joker 2 POTUS ... again:-)
I watched the Disney movie that was "based" on Jack London's novel of the same name and found it to be another WOKE joke of an adaption.

November 9, 2024

Approximately 40 Primates Escaped from the Alpha Genesis Primate Research Center Wednesday Night?๐Ÿ™ˆ๐Ÿ™‰๐Ÿ™Š๐Ÿ’๐Ÿต

Well, that really
synchromystically ties into my post from last Thursday (Australian Time) -
2025 is the Year of the Snake by the way, just like 2001 was -
Hey Jake, Wasn't 2001 The Year of the Snake?๐Ÿ✈

Joseph Conrad Passed Away 100 Years Ago This Year?✍๐Ÿ–ค๐Ÿ’˜

I only realized after reading Joseph Conrad's novel 'Heart of Darkness' and watching 'Apocalypse Now' and the doco about the making of the movie called 'Hearts of Darkness', that Conrad died 100 years ago this year.
(3 December 1857 3 August 1924)
The 3 books of Conrad's I were told to read ... before I die, were 
'Heart of Darkness''Nostromo' and 'The Secret Agent'.
I did read 'Heart of Darkness', but couldn't be bothered to read 'Nostromo' or 'The Secret Agent', although I did watch the BBC TV series and the 1996 movie based on that book recently, and like the movie version better.
I have since donated my copy of 
'Heart of Darkness' to a street library when it was dark ironically.
And that was the same day I gave my Dave Grohl book away to a street (fighting?) library, which I wrote about here -
What's the Best Street Library to Place a Biography About a Member of the Foo Fighters in?๐ŸฅŠ๐Ÿ“–๐Ÿ“š

November 8, 2024

MAGA Rituals, Synchromysticism and the Moon?๐ŸŒ๐ŸŒŽ๐ŸŒ๐ŸŒ‘๐ŸŒ“๐ŸŒ

Looks like
Jake picked the wrong movie to focus on when it came to the November 5th election -
I thought that it was weird that on my
Australian 2024 calendar that a new moon falls on the 1st of November and December and the last day of the year of 2024.
MAGA/GAGA rituals?-)
And I thought I had
a collectable worth keeping before November 5th:-(

Now Anxiety is back with a vengeance it seems
Trump as a Phoenix rising from the ashes?-)
Looks Like The World is in For Another Bad Sequel/Romance? ๐ŸŒ๐ŸŒŽ๐ŸŒ๐Ÿคก๐Ÿ’˜

November 7, 2024

Trump Was First Elected in the Year of the Monkey and His Latest Term as a President Should Come to an End in the Same Chinese Astrological Year ... if He Lives That Long? ๐Ÿ™ˆ๐Ÿ™‰๐Ÿ™Š๐Ÿ’๐Ÿต

Trump is a Fire Dog taking the American Presidency over in the Year of the Wood Snake (well 9 days before The Year of the Snake officially starts) and his presidency should come to an end a few weeks before the Year of the Monkey ends, which ironically for me that Monkey Year will start on Australia Day 2028:-)
That's if I have my maths right?
Let's not forget that the Twin Towers came down in the Year of Metal Snake.
Bowie died just before the start of the Year of the Monkey in the Year of the Goat:-)
It seems that the world is still cursed by Trump;-)
You sicken us’: Aussie billionaire Andrew ‘Twiggy
Forrest’s child Sophia slams US
Forrest/Trump?-)
I read a recent poll where 75% of Australians can't stand Trump, and I must admit that I'm one of them and kind of side with Sophia (even though I cringe at that woke They/Them PC BS, but still try to respect "Their" gender belief system by referring to "Them" by "Their" given name, rather than by a sexual pronoun).
Sorry, but to me a "They" or a "Them" is a group of people, not an individual, so I'll try to compromise by trying not to use a sexual pronoun and call the person by "Their" preferred "given name" as long as "They" haven't changed it to "They" or "Them".
Hey, I'm a Boomer and some things are just too hard for me to get my head around in these PC times, but at least I'm willing to meet halfway in our BS, which I'm sure a lot of Trump voters wouldn't. 
You'll have to blame my schooling for my belief system:-)
Apple/Sophia?-)
The Apple as a Symbol of Forbidden/Secret Knowledge? ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ
I should also mention that I got home from work and heard a tap, tap, tap coming from one shoe as I walked across my living room floor tiles.
And on examination found I had stepped on a monkey faced earring somewhere that day.
I'm glad that I was wearing shoes at the time:-)
Or I'd have been hurting like a Democrat right now:-)