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17:22 / 04.04.07

I'm a bit freaked out because a minute ago I posted this in the earworm thread;

kinell. For some reason I call earworms ear bees, or did upthread, then when walking home a minute ago I got hit in the ear, by a bee, which is unusual. Then when I got home my SO told me a favourite band of ours from my hometown has a new album out, they're called The Bees, so we listened to a track Listening Man then, when walking back to work my mp3 player played me Stumbeline off their last album which then got stuck in my head.

Off to the coincidence thread in Temple I think. A bee hit me in the ear! What are the chances?

...then I literally came straight here to find this thread at the top of the pile, poked by XK to remark on a thread being bumped...

It's like the cartoon I found today by chance, on a website called XKCD dot com;

18:22 / 04.04.07

Here's one:

Two weeks ago I called my Mom to find out the exact time of my birth (for a horoscope, of course). She wasn't sure. Set the matter aside for the moment.

Monday I went to visit my Dad. Before I left he gave me an old cigar box filled with all of the cards he received when I was born. On top was a thirty-odd-year-old hospital form listing the exact time of my birth.

18:24 / 04.04.07

Oh -- and the time was 11:23 PM, or 23:23.

Woooo, scary . . .

18:50 / 04.04.07

Off to the coincidence thread in Temple I think. A bee hit me in the ear! What are the chances?

...then I literally came straight here to find this thread at the top of the pile, poked by XK to remark on a thread being bumped...

And I just came here while goofing off in the middle of writing a (fictional) story about killer bees being the real reason for Colony Collapse Disorder, a very real mysterious syndrome that could doom America's commercial farms, which are dependent on domesticated bees for pollination. Bees. All day bees.

18:55 / 04.04.07

A bee hit me in the ear! What are the chances?

I was going to say "it's not all that odd - I know a couple others who have experienced it" but then I realized that the only example I'm very sure of is of a friend of mine who belongs to Oxun being stung in the ear when she was going to go to an event after Oxun told her not to.

--Ember--

18:59 / 04.04.07

I've been stung in the ear by a hornet before, but never had a bee hit my ear before on the day when the Bees release a new album.
It's a bidet. I mean, a bee day.

Aha! I am Klarion

19:19 / 04.04.07

Okay, this isn't coincidence presay, but just really, really cool.

On sunday April 1, I found out I had won 10,000 dollars in the lottery (ultimately earned only 3,500 after a fifty fifty split with family members and taxes).

On wednesday, I spoke for all of 15 seconds to Grant Morrison on fanboy radio.

00:04 / 05.04.07

And I HEARD you!

07:50 / 05.04.07

I notice some strange stuff happening to me...

When I first started chatting to my bf, somehow I told him what brand of cigs he smokes (malboro lights) and told him his birthday (25th jan)..no idea how I knew, I just did.

He's a guitarist in a band, and one day at work I had on one of the tracks he played guitar on and at the moment he phoned me..weird.

If I call him, he always freaks out because he had the phone in his hand making a text to me.

We seem to do stuff like this all the time..He likes it but I think it scares him a little.

10:21 / 05.04.07

On sunday April 1, I found out I had won 10,000 dollars in the lottery

and it *wasn't* an April Fool's joke? That's crazy.

Aha! I am Klarion

04:33 / 06.04.07

The lotto thing gets even crazier...I had cast a sigil to win the lottery in the past but had given up on the whole idea of external, physical effects a while back (some of my sigils where I have said "I want to dream about such and such and such" have been very successful).

My mother, who is a politician, received a strange call while I was home for spring break. A man called from the seventh day adventus baptists called and said that he was praying for her and hung-up the phone. It seemed oddly sweet and creepy at the same time. On a lark and with a sense of sarcasm I said to my mother, "You should go play the lottery because...i don't know...Jesus is Magick or something. The christian good vibrations are just as good as any other."

Fast forward to sunday April 1, when we check the lotto ticket numbers on the internet before I am due to head up to college that afternoon. I was one number away from spliting a 40 million dollar cash prize (the glass is still half-full though...if not running over) As a habit, whenever I play the lottery (I do so rarely) I sign the back of the ticket. Because of this I had to stay home an extra day to cash the ticket.

06:05 / 09.04.07

Sorry for the pic but,

I just had one of my recurring zombie apocalypse dreams this morning. I click on the first thread in another forum I post in, and this picture pops up with the subtext "Brains...."

The Ghost of Tom Winter

11:23 / 09.04.07

You have recurring zombie apocalypse dreams too????

Mako is a hungry fish

11:48 / 09.04.07

I'd been thinking/testing my way through the use of a black hole visualization to draw and transform magical energies, however was beginning to hit a plateau. I went back about 20 pages into the Temple archieve and randomly came across the Quantum Physics and Magical Theory thread, which deserves a bump, which made me recall a weekly science podcast whose first topic for this week was "Looking at the secrets of Black Hole Energy."

Marginal gains are once again increasing.

13:42 / 09.04.07

I found a beautiful rosary on Saturday.

22:59 / 09.04.07

Reply to Ghost of Tom Winter...

they tend to pop up fairly regularly, once or twice every moth or so. I 've been having them since I hit puberty and started reading too much sci-fi for my own good. I used to be quite convinced that zombie apocalypse or a fallout-like world was going to happen any day. I still have that in a sense, muted somewhat, but it still comes back time and time again in my dreams. I've gotten better at fighting the zombies now*, although it unnerved me somewhat I might have been killing normal people as well.

*I used to always get bitten, and have to experience turning into one as well, or committing suicide beforehand.

The Ghost of Tom Winter

20:21 / 10.04.07

I used to have them all the time. It was kinda scary because I started getting paranoid like how you describe. Finally I had one where I became lucid, my brother was trying to attack me, I said "Enough!" and flew away. Since then I have had none. I just now realized that too.

That particular zombie dream was strang in that it played more like a cross between weird zombie tag (people kept going in and out of zombieness) and Super Mario Brothers (I was shooting zombies with those invincible stars). As opposed to running around finding shelter and killing zombies with a piece of plywood, I prefer the Mario Zombies.

20:43 / 10.04.07

As far as co-incidences go; both yesterday and today I have been in cars whose milometers were just about to tick over to a zero number (9,999.0 in on case and 999.0 in the second).

Which intrigues me more than it should.

20:01 / 12.04.07

Okay...

So Soul Retrieval is something we're studying in Seidhjallr right now. I've been working on it for several months m'self. Someone I know had a Soul Retrieval done for personal reasons related to recovery from a sexual assult, and may be asking me for help with further work in this area.

And a local womens-only circle is hosting a series of rituals for ... I think Persephone, Hera, and Hekate... to explore the recovery process for sexual abuse and assult survivors. I was interested in attending for the sake of observing the healing process, but as I'm (extremely thankfully) not a survivor of such, I wasn't going to go unless specifically invited by a survivor who wished my support.

And now there's a Temple thread on this topic.

On the one hand, the need for such is pretty danged prevalent. On the other hand, some of these pings are actually fairly close to me specifically. I think I should meditate with Freya as to whether I'm being prompted.

--Ember--

Aha! I am Klarion

04:08 / 15.04.07

(note: this post was copied from the Ultraculture One Thread)

I just my copy of Ultraculture One yesterday and have a really odd coincidence surrounding it. I was fliping through the book (literally, a very fast flipping of the pages was involved) and I hit on an article that catchs my eyes, the one about David Bowie, cause you know, it's about fucking david bowie (and oddly enough I had recieved Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me the previous day), and my eyes immediately catch on to a name I recognize: Gustav Grundgens.

This is a coincidence because a class that I am currently taking (called Modern Promethean myth) is basically all about the the guy, with the last half of the class being devoted almost entirely to a study of him, his acting, the book "Memphisto" by Klaus Mann (which is a roman a clef about grundgens and his involvement with the nazis), and the film adaptation of the novel. Plus the professor takes for hours and hours about the guy.

Aha! I am Klarion

04:19 / 15.04.07

Semi-coincidence...just as I posted, that above post, I was listening to "the Best of Chris Isaak" album on rhapsody (partly because I had just watched Fire Walk with Me, yesterday) anyway, the song that came on as I posted my above post was a track called "Speak of the Devil."

Mako is a hungry fish

11:11 / 15.04.07

As far as co-incidences go; both yesterday and today I have been in cars whose milometers were just about to tick over to a zero number (9,999.0 in on case and 999.0 in the second).

Which intrigues me more than it should.

It's been awhile since I've driven a car (unfortunately) however one of the more interesting things about the experience was that, more often than not, I'd only look at the odometer when a seemingly meaningful number was about to occur, such as a palendrome like 55 055, numerical sequence such as 123 456, or large base ten value such as 40 000. It's possible that I only recalled the significant times and forgot about all the other times, however I was aware of this possibility at the time and so I think this cancels it out to some degree.

17:18 / 18.04.07

This afternoon my Inner Voice told me "Mist, cross the street, walk on the other side of the road!". Just as I was going "What for? I´d rather no...", a bird shat right on the pavement in front of me. Coincidence? Maybe, but it made me cross the road and walk on the other sidewalk.

And a couple of years ago, one evening my girlfriend told me she´d like Absinth, but it had to be Bohemian Absinth. When I came to visit her the next day, a truck from Bohemia stood maybe 20m away from her window, advertising Absinth on its side. I told her, she rushed down and caught the driver just in time to buy a bottle.

18:13 / 18.04.07

Neither of these things should have shocked me, and both were instigated by me, but it still rang a bell because they happened the same day:

I was reading the prosody book my therapist reccommended to me, The Ode Less Travelled. He used the first stanza of Poe's The Raven as an example of successful octameter. Shiny. I like that poem, and I've borrowed it's meter and rhyme scheme more than once.

Much later, I started to watch a CSI episode that was recorded on our TiVo. It started with a raven flying out over very blue land, and birders discovered it had an eyeball in it's beak. Grissom quoted the first stanza of Poe's The Raven. I laughed at the mis-quote, and then my boyfriend asked me to help take out the trash, so the show went on hold, and I never got back to it.

I don't actually think this one is highly significant, per se, but it got my attention. It's all terribly Odinic in style, so I thought I'd note it here.

--Ember--

07:04 / 19.04.07

Well, just reading around the events of the Virgina Tech massacre, and I noticed "Ismael Ax".

Which was weird, because I dreamed those words once. They where part of a spell to get rid of bad magic.

I'm sure theres no link, but it gave me a pause when I noticed.

07:13 / 19.04.07

I was heading home from a show last night and remembered my friends had invited me to a bar, so I started heading over there. I was listening to a Sublime compilation I had made as I called my friend to make sure everyone was over there. As the phone is ringing Bradley's voice comes through on the song Don't Push:

"because the bars are always open, and the time is always right, and if God's good word goes unspoken then the music goes all night"

Being from Long Beach, I cover a lot of Sublime songs, but none more than that one.

Then, today, I'm researching madness in literature and learn about Knut Hamsun's book Hunger. I hadn't even heard of him until today. An hour later I am talking to a friend and she brings up the exact book.

A lot of my synchronicites appear to me as messages from my heroes on the other side....little tidbits of guidance or encouragement. This has been going on awhile.

The Ghost of Tom Winter

11:38 / 19.04.07

So I've been researching stuff for a paper on Voodoo and Catholicism. I've been reading Voodoo in Haiti by Alfred Metraux as one of my primary sources. Ever since I've started reading it I've been noticing all sorts of things pertaining to Voodoo. After grabbing some lunch and reading a chapter in mentioned book I saw a man wearing a t-shirt from Haiti, he looked at me and nodded. Conversations mention Voodoo in passing, the awfulness on Ultraculture, a play I saw written by my anthropology teacher dealt in part with Southern American Voodoo.
My girlfriend and I had an argument about the Prosperity movement in Christianity. I argued that materialism is a flawed notion to base a sect of religion on, and argued instead on the focus of 'here and now'.
Then I started hearing people say things about Voodoo's emphasis on here and now.
Then I was reading the Voodoo book at a coffee shop where I noticed some interesting pictures of Jazz people. I thought them very intriguing. Later a man approached me and asked if I liked the art inside the store. I said yes and he revealed that he painted them. What followed was a very interesting conversation about art and the focus of depth and being in the now. He said something that was exactly what I tried to say the previous day "people make things, things don't make people."
Those are necessarily related to the voodoo part, but coincidental nonetheless. I'm riding this out and just purchased Maya Deran's Divine Horsemen.
Although I half seriously asked my girlfriend if she’d still go out with me if I was into Voodoo, she said no, not sure how serious she was though. We’ll see how this turns out.

The Ghost of Tom Winter

12:17 / 19.04.07

Oh, I also had a dream about some lady giving a "free voodoo ritual" and was told by some guy to join in.

14:09 / 19.04.07

Although I half seriously asked my girlfriend if she’d still go out with me if I was into Voodoo, she said no, not sure how serious she was though. We’ll see how this turns out.

really? I guess I'm asking why your religious practice would alter the relationship to that degree?

(I'm living in a bubble, aren't I...)

The Ghost of Tom Winter

14:59 / 19.04.07

I guess I'm asking why your religious practice would alter the relationship to that degree?

Not sure if it would or not. She's always had a problem with me getting into 'magic'. I figured it's in part due to her previous boyfriend getting into Golden Dawn stuff and then having a fallout in the relationship.
Over the years though I think she's a little more accustomed to out of the norm things. Although I think she still believes things like Wicca, Chaos Magic, or working with a tradition that isn't part of your culture is silly (these being arguments we had about a year ago).
Lately it hasn’t really come up. So who knows.

00:08 / 20.04.07

weird enough, the only Tool song I can play on my pc right now, is "the grudge". And there seemed a lot of grudge towards around the whole Epop-affaire. The whole thing seems way too coincidental on several levels. Personal and forum-wise.

No harm of meanness intended with this post, it just seemed very coincidental...

14:56 / 22.04.07

Another one for the bees...

Driving down to Whitby yesterday with Mrs V, we were playing a classical album in the car. Flight of the Bumblebee comes on...and we go past a sign for the Bumblebee Inn.

Gendudehashadenough

23:07 / 24.04.07

Strangeness.

I'm re-skimming Orwell's Burmese Days while listening to National Public Radio on my personal stereo. The program is a general one going over several terrorist attacks in Asia during the last few years and I'm not really paying attention to it, but have it on for the background sound/noise.

Just as the main character describes the religious makeup of Burma and says "Burma has a large population of Moslems" one of the guests on the NPR show utters the exact same sentence only replaces Burma w/ Bengal. The synch made me flail me legs from the position they were in, almost hitting the gentleman sitting adjacent to me.

An explaination didn't seem right (as I blabber on in my head what I would, had I, say to the guy) causing me to just get up and walk out, but not before I turn off the radio.

23:10 / 24.04.07

Driving down to Whitby yesterday

I just read Alice in Sunderland, and learned all kinds of things about Whitby while reading about Bryan Talbot's coincidences.

Madman in the ruins.

20:26 / 25.04.07

I'm moving house and my rent is going up 30 quid a month, And this month in work we had a pay rise of £45 a month before tax, so about 30 a month after tax.

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