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Synchronicities, Take 2: What About Signs that Seem to Lead You to a Dead End?

By Colette Baron-Reid [ 21 May 2010 | 2,632 views | 21 Comments ]

Synchronized swimmersA few weeks ago I wrote about synchronicities—those meaningful coincidences that your soul attracts into your life to help you grow and evolve. Thank you for all your amazing comments and stories about the Tap Into the Power of Synchronicity blog. I loved reading them! Many of you wrote that you were confused about how to interpret synchronicities. So, I thought I’d share my insight into a few of your examples so we can all further understand and take advantage of synchronistic events.

Let’s start with what happens when synchronicities seem to be leading you on one path, but then the outcome isn’t what it seems it was supposed to be? For example, Paula mentioned that she received all sorts of synchronicities pointing her towards a particular job, but didn’t end up getting the job in the end. Why would this happen?

Remember our soul attracts synchronicities to help us grow. Sometimes we’re meant to go through the experience in order to evolve, but not have the end result we expect. In fact, those very experiences often play a major role in preparing us for something better. Looking back on your life now, can you think of a time when something that didn’t work out played a key role in helping you grow into the person who had an even better job, relationship, opportunity, etc?

Rubber ballRelationships are another great example of this. Anne wrote me that she kept experiencing eerie coincidences with a particular guy. They went to kindergarten together, met eyes across the room at a school reunion, and then ran into each other 2 years later when they’d both randomly moved to the same small town on the other side of the country. With all the coincidences, it seemed destined. They started to date, but he was “the come here, go away” type you’ve probably heard me talk about on my radio show. At first, Anne thought the coincidences meant that he was “the one,” but now she can see that he was sent to her by Spirit as an ultimate wake up call. If she ever wanted a healthy relationship, she had to break this pattern of dating unhealthy men. Sometimes synchronicities happen to encourage you to take a look at yourself and old stories so you can move to a higher path.

Luke asked me about seeing the same car over and over. His ex drives a 1979 Buick LaSabre and now he sees the car everywhere. Does that mean she’s going to come back to him? I’ll bet we’ve all had times when we’ve met someone with a particular car we never noticed before only to then start seeing that car everywhere. Such synchronicities are usually just a sign of our limitless connection. Synchronicities are happening all the time. While some are like flashing signs directing you to on your path, others are mundane and help us keep aware.

How do you know which synchronicities to pay close attention to? Just like I’ve talked about with cledons, your sense will be heightened in a noticeably different way. It will feel like the truth amplified and in that moment you’ll just know. (For more extensive insight into this, please check out my book Messages From Spirit and The Cledon blog.)

Synchronicities call for you to trust your intuition and then let go. Spirit will reveal the answers to you in Divine appropriate timing.

Exercise:

puzzle2Make a list of the major synchronicities that have happened in your life. How did those events help you grow and become who you are today?

Think of times when the outcome was not what you expected. How did going through the experience help you on your path? Were there any red flags or intuitive hits that suggested you needed to step back and take a good look at a pattern or trigger?

Then think of times when the outcome was just what you expected. Did you experience an inner knowing? What helped you trust the synchronicity and move forward?

I’d also love for you to share some of these synchronistic experiences and new discoveries about them in the comment box so we can all learn from one another!

In love and service,
Colette

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21 Comments »

  • Kathleen
    Kathleen said:

    Hi Colette,

    This is just 1 of many synchronicities that I have personally experienced.
    I began my journey of enlightenment a few years ago. There was always that little voice in the back of my head kinda leading me. But this one I will not soon forget.

    Being a single mom I began to find peace listening to meditation cds.
    One particular cd would bring me on a journey to a beautiful place filled with rainbows,peacocks all sorts of exotic flowers and wonderous waterfalls…

    As I began to date again…I asked to meet a handsome wealthy Canadian man who would take me on a journey across the world. We would travel together and he would be my King and I would be his Queen.

    I’m such a romantic…oh my…be careful what you wish for Kathleen..Ask and you shall recieve, seek and you shall find.

    Well find it I did. Couldn’t have been more precise and on target.
    Met a handsome,wealthy,canadian/american man.
    Whom I started to date…within 2 months took me to Hawaii to that magical place I dreamed of.

    Filled with exactly what I had been dreaming of. Waterfalls,peacocks,rainbows. Stars that were so bright they were almost touchable. Shooting comets…Anything I asked for while I was on that Island would come almost as if by magic…The synchronicities were at every turn.

    The only problem was…the man that I had “asked” for did not want me to be there? I felt lonely and confused as to why he brought me there for the entire month we were there…

    My lesson is always with me. Never forget who you are Kathleen

  • Kathleen Sienkiewicz
    Kathleen Sienkiewicz said:

    It’s minor, but quite noticeable. For a period of about a year, not a week would go by (sometimes it was daily) that I would get behind a car with a brake light out. Most times it was the left one, only a few times (4 or 5) it was the right light. I always wondered what that was a sign of (and yes, I did check my own lights :) It’s been a few weeks since that happened tho (maybe I got the message, whatever it was)

  • QiaJenae Hamilton
    QiaJenae Hamilton said:

    Colette!

    Just yesterday I was listening to the first cd in your 4 cd set called Messages from Spirit! Talk about synchronicity! LOL I needed to beef up on some terms, as one client wanted to know your definition of oracular, so I played it! Very cool, but the cledon info was there, as well, and I’m always sharing your story re the Oracle of Delphi, as where I do my street readings is off of a busy Arts & Crafts market place, so there is plenty of opportunity for people to receive cledons there. Thanks CBR, I believe I need to listen again, to the other 3 cds in this set! What a gift, and I can listen to them endlessly! I’ve downloaded them to the computer, too!

    Peace!
    Q

  • Mira
    Mira said:

    I have one that I don’t understand even though I have tried over and over. I keep meeting Michael’s since my seperation and divorce. I even had a dream of the Archangel Michael, many years before the divorce, that to this day I remember every detail (it’s been at least 7 years since that dream). I actually met a Michael soon after my seperation and developed strong feelings for, needless to say it didn’t work out. Now I know Michael is a popular name but this is actually driving me nuts to the point I am so tired of it because every where I turn there’s his name and even his last name which isn’t a common name. Which makes me wonder why it didn’t work out between us. A famous psychic even told me that I would marry a Michael, without even knowing my history of past relationships. Go figure! I guess I will know one day. I’ll take some insight if anyone has one. Thank you Colette! I enjoy reading your blogs!

  • Van Chong
    Van Chong said:

    I’m not sure if this can count as a synchronicity but it would be good to hear some insight from other people.

    Just last year I kept dreaming about an old manager that I had at an old job, it was about him having cancer in his Urethra, so I looked for him everywhere, asking friends. One day my friend said he was on facebook. I tried to tell him he needed to get checked out in case that was the reasoning for my dream. But we ended up dating. He had lost his grandmother a few years back and lost his job, and was seperated from his wife. He was down. The first time we reunited it was the feeling I’d never felt before, like everything was so good. Once we were walking and I said out load that good things come to people who wait and I had a tremendous feeling come over me, big chills, thought it was a feeling of him coming into my life at the right time. We were walking and I had the feeling of having a child with him when I saw a young boy. His grandmother that had passed’ name was Jean. I got a call from a customer where I didn’t hear their name and had them repeat it over and over again. Never heard from that customer Jean before and that was the only time.

    Anyway, we tried dating I felt like his energy was bringing me down and that I was always trying to make up for his sadness and he always felt that I was not on his side, yet he always wanted my reassurance when a situation came up he was unsure about. We stopped talking,but tried one more time recently, but I noticed he was still in his gloom (or so I thought). We haven’t talked but whenever things come up about dating I wonder if I was meant to be with him or if it was for me to learn not to compensate for other people. Thanks in advance for any thoughts.

  • Marcia
    Marcia said:

    Colette you are a remarkable woman! I have had things happen in my life that I didn’t understand. Now that I have had the chance to read about synchronicities, I understand why these things seem to be happening again. Synchronicities with my job, my mom, my sister and friends. I’m without a job again and back with my controlling mother. My sister is still trying to manipulate me. And I found out that just because someone smiles at you and treat you like a friend, that doesn’t mean that your their frend. I’m now asking for help again, and my cries and prayers are unheard. Some of this madness I’m going through hurt, but I know now it’s just a wake-up call. Now I’m sitting here and wondering if or when will I reach my goals and dreams. Are the goals and dreams I have set for myself the right ones? Right now I don’t have a job so I’ve had a lot of time to learn a lot about myself and others. Now I look at life with a different pair of eyes(a much simpler pair of eyes). Now I just need to learn to let go and let God. Thank you so much Colette!

  • Mystikka
    Mystikka said:

    Great blog! You know the story about a particular car popping up everywhere? I actually hear this scenario every now and then with clients. I have another take on it, in addition to what you mentioned. I believe that when we are fixated on a person, we notice things (for example, the make of the car that they drive popping up everywhere) that relate to the object of our fixation. The law of averages might mean that these cars will appear around us a few times a day, however we ordinarily would not pay attention if that particular car was not connected to someone we are energetically attached to. Our obsessions with people cause us to pay attention to things that remind us of them, and interpret those things as some kind of ‘mysterious and meaningful synchronicity,’ because we WANT TO BELIEVE that we are ‘meant to be’ with that person. We look at certain coincidences as an excuse to hold onto something when we do not feel ready to let go. I notice this a lot, and I do understand that not all synchronicities are an example of what I have just described. Just wanted to offer my humble two cents! ;-)

  • lynda Johnson
    lynda Johnson said:

    After my ex-husband and I divoorced, I was introduced to (my husband who I am married to now.) But I wasn’t ready for a relationship, so we kept drefting apart! Only to find ouselves together face to face in different places in different times! I was drawn to him but did not feel “worthy ” of him! After about 10 years of this, I finally was mature enough to accept the fact that he was the one who I was to be with the rest of my life and we were married!

  • Cyn
    Cyn said:

    The last two trips I took I had arranged for the Shuttle to take me to the airport. I was apprehensive about leaving as I was going by myself to the other coast. A few weeks before leaving on these trips I kept seeing the shuttle everywhere. When I came back home I haven’t seen a shuttle except maybe 2 times! Another recent issue is my change of thinking of a relationship. Now when I do the cards (collette)or just check my e-mails the topic of “relationships” is talked about.

  • Caitlin
    Caitlin said:

    HI there,

    First of all Colete I love your website and your cards! You inspire me.

    The first synchronsitic event which I realised was when I was 15 at the airport and walked into a newsagency to buy some reading. I was lead directly to The Celestine Prophecy, picked it up thinking I had heard about it somewhere, bought it, started reading it and finished it the next day! I even remember the man next to me on the plane saying,” that must be a good book”!!

    Funnily, that book is all about synchronicity and it was my first insight into energy and chakras.

    Since then life has given me so many meaningful co-incidences and I just learnt Reiki to use on myself and send to others.

    Recently, I moved from Australia to start anew in Paris. At 32 and committ-less I decided it was time to explore my French roots, see family and dive into the unknown. I also sensed it was time to see more of my Father who’s health was not great.

    AM so glad I followed my heart here because one month after I arrived, my Father died of a heart attack very suddenly. Such a shock and so sad. How lucky to have followed the signs to FRance and spend some special time with him before he moved on.

    Another sign, before I left I did some cards for myself and got Serenity, Healing and Enchantment.

    Well, there certainly has been a lot of crying and HEALING on this journey. I also discovered a reiki meet up group and my new Reiki teacher whose website has the word SERENITY in it.

    Now its just time for ENCHANTMENT!

    Sine my Dad’s death it has been quite a rollercoaster but a very empowering time, though still very up and down.

    For the past few weeks, I have been seeing people with canes and walking aids every DAY. I could estimate at least 50 people maybe more, since it first began and it happens more than once a day. The synchroncity here for me is perhaps a sign to take one step at a time in moving forward and not put so much presssure on myself to move at a fast pace. Just like these people who can not walk un aided, if they let go of their cane they won’t start running straight away but take a gradual process towards standing on their own two feet. Perhaps the universe is saying, slow down but also don’t be afraid to move forward one step at a time, the universe is supporting me.

    So, hope to follow more signs towards more love and light in the near future!

    Love to all xxx

  • samantha
    samantha said:

    what you think the outcome is going to be. is a reasoning almost like free will your choices makes your outcome not a force thats uncontrollable or out of your hands. thats when questions should be asked cioncidences things that really just happen to me like wow!its a cioncidence i opened this phone book to find a heart docter number on this page consequinces come from thought processes like this. because were on a whim and dont prepare for the outcome

  • Rebecca
    Rebecca said:

    I believe I experienced synchronicity at my writing group. I applied to a school in Southern California and have been wondering if I’m on the right path. I really have a strong desire to move to SoCal (focusing on manifesting everything I need to get me there) when my lease is up in June (one month away) and two of the people at the meeting were from SoCal. They were from areas that I’ve been looking at, and the one member is very familiar with the school I’d like to attend. Plus, male member has a name that seems to appear in my life more and more. Perhaps it is the name of my spirit guide or maybe this guy will help me with my career in some way :-) Who knows…I’ll meditate and listen to the message I receive.

  • Charity
    Charity said:

    I notice synchronicigy happening in my life lately with a lady friend that I had met early last year in the Trader Joes market and we clicked right away and had a soul connection as well, but althougth we exchanged numbers we never really talked on the phone or had a lunch meeting to further our conversations, we always without a doubt find ourselves at the same location (Trader Joes) probably at the same time. It is always inspiring and we’re always able to help each other with differnet situations in our life. When ever I need confirmation with the decisions in my life she shows up and tells me what I need to hear and what the best steps to take. So trusting that that is spirit talking through her, I will take the words spoken to me and go to the next step I need to take. Although I don’t know how I help her really…, she really makes it easier for me and I thank God for her! I thank God for all the angels in my life, including you Colette you don’t know how much you help me in body and in spirit you work with me as well! God Bless you!!

  • Anne
    Anne said:

    I was living in Munich and looking for a place to escape to for a 3-week vacation. I wanted to get away from it all and think about the next steps to take in my life. After 2 years in Germany, I was thinking about going back to the US.
    A friend came to mind that had been to Bali. I talked about Bali with a coworker and turns out, he had spent a month there the year before. Bali just wouldn’t get out of my mind. I went alone, spent 3 weeks on this amazing island and loved it. I heard 3 different stories of how couples had met their partner on the island and gotten married. I laughed it off. I was not in the market for a husband – I was there to contemplate moving back home!
    And through a number of synchronistic events, (my bus broke down, I missed my boat – literally- and was seated on the next bus next to a Canadian guy who was to have dinner with some German guy he had met 2 weeks previously…) I met my husband. Our 10th wedding anniversary is coming up in October.
    So I haven’t moved back to the US (yet) but something better came my way.
    Thanks Collette for your insights! I get inspired by reading your entries. Keep it up!
    And to all of you who are looking for a fantastic trip to a magical country and perhaps are looking for a marriage partner – I can recommend Bali!

  • Leonarda
    Leonarda said:

    My first memorable major synchronistic event occurred a few years ago. I had been married for 8 years and terribly miserable. I felt stuck, like I didn’t have the choice to leave the marriage. In a word, I was extremely co- dependent.
    I was strongly guided to exercise, so I joined a gym. There I met a man that I had a powerful connection with. It was mostly non verbal. I had dreams and visions relating to him. But the most amazing synchronicity was that unbeknown to me he was a close family friend of my sister for many years in the past but hadn’t seen him for some time. She lost contact with him and always wondered about the strong connection she had with him. As I began to explain to her my intense attraction to this man she told ME who he was even before I had mentioned his name. We both shared the same connection to this man at different times of our lives. Definitely past life karma. So of course we both felt that I was destined to be with him , that he was “the one”. The connection I had blew me away so much I separated from my husband. Something I would not have done without such an experience.
    The outcome was not as I thought. He was not “the one” BUT definitely, without a doubt the catalyst for my growth. He was the bridge across the water. This was his purpose in my life.
    I didn’t see this at the time as the synchronicities continued even after my separation. I struggled with this so much so that it made me doubt that the universe was on my side here. I thought “how can spirit be so mean? Why show me something so clearly and then not deliver? Was it tricking me? Did spirit like playing these cruel games?”
    After months and months of struggle I slowly began to transcend the dark hole of doubting spirit and started to see with more of an eagle eye.

    Now almost 4 years later I can see the situation so much more clearly and am grateful for the lesson. And I now know that even though this man and I are soul mates we are not to be partnered in this life time. I accept that and am at peace with this.

  • helen
    helen said:

    after an argument i had not heard from my boyfriend for over 4 months-we hadnt broken up- he just vanished. i spent that time doing a lot of soul searching and reassessing if i wanted the relationship. a week after he got back in touch with me, i was at a funeral held at a very large cemetery ground, so large it has names of its own streeets and lanes. the driver of the car i was a passenger in, stopped the car to check if we were driving in the right direction of the actual burial site. i happened to look up and in front of us was a single street pole that indicated “fourth street” to the left and “gardenia avenue” to the right. -fourth street was where my boyfriend use to live and gardenia avenue was where he had moved to during his absence from me. what are the chances of being confronted by a sign like this?- he had moved several suburbs and here in front of me in a cemetry the two streets combined at one point. at that moment i heard spirit say to me-”you have a choice, you dont have to be with him, either way you will be ok, but it is your choice” !!!!!!!! its hard to explain cledons to someone suffice to say you will know when you experience one. colette does emphasize receptivity and passivity in receiving one and i think that’s the best way to describe the moments leading up to a cledon.

  • Susan
    Susan said:

    Hi Colette,

    I had an experience last fall where I believe I was lead to act and I was given exactly what I needed at the time. Last August, I was in a very serious car crash which totaled three cars – including mine. We all walked away with minor injuries and I thank God every day for that. The insurance company gave 5 days rental car during which time I neeeded to aquire a new car. I had just paid off my car and was preparing to lose my job due to a merger. I figured I needed another 17K to replace my car. I was not prepared to go out and purchase a new car under these circumstances. To give me a little more time to determine what to do, my parents offered to loan me one of their cars. Once the car was delivered to me, for some reason, the first thing I looked at was the odometer. This is odd because I never pay attention to mileage and would have a difficult time telling you how many miles were on the car that crashed. I recognized the the odometer would be turning over to 77777 while I was driving it and I immediately \knew\ that this was significant. As I drove the car for the next couple of months, I kept track of the mileage. As the time approached, I \knew\ I had to do something. Once it was clear where I would be when it turned over, it was pretty apparent what I should do. Interesting…..it happened to turn within 1/2 mile from my favorite place to fuel my car on my way back from a weekend trip to visit my parents. On occasion, I have purchsed lottery tickets and I usually purchase one ticket for whichever lottery I play. This evening, I had this feeling I should by 3 tickets for a particular lotto……so I did.I didn’t ask for them in any certain way – I knew it would be given how they were supposed to be given. I also purchased 1 ticket each for 3 other lottos at the same time. I drove away and 1/2 mile down the highway the car turned over to 77777. I had this great feeling come over me. The whole next week I was so busy at work that I forgot to check the tickets. The following weekend, on my way into work I stopped to get coffee and as I pulled the money out of my purse, the tickets came out as well. I checked the tickets and the very last ticket came up \Winner – claim at lottery office\. Ends up, this was one of the group of 3 tickets which I had the strong feeling about and the amount was for $26,000. After deducting the 32.5% taxes, the amount I won was $17.5 – just what I had determined I needed to get the new car. Wow! It’s hard to explain the feelings I had during this experience but I just \knew\ what I had to do. I can’t tell you I knew I would win the lottery that night but I had strong feelings all along about the 77777 and that I needed to do something when it happened. I just followed my instincts as to what to do once I was it was happening. Had my parents not loaned me their car, I would not have been lead down this path. I am so blessed and grateful!

  • Ming
    Ming said:

    I’ve actually read this post several times. I was trying to wrap my brain around the word synchronicities. I just went through an experience where even in a vision down the road I saw a certain event to be true. It was so real, I could feel it. It truly gave me joy and found that it would be a great stepping stone. However within a few days it was gone. I was left wondering huh? The interesting thing is when I look deep within I believed I felt it going away. Usually in something like this I was start crying and fall apart. I was able to just take a step back and write down all the good things it brought and realized just as you said, it helped me evolve and now something IS better around the corner. Thanks Colette for helping me figure this one out!

  • Alma Vivien
    Alma Vivien said:

    OMG, Colette, I LOVE this blog because usually, Im a total master at figure out my synch’s but seriously, there are so many darn pieces to my relationship puzzle, I think Parker Bros. lost count of the pieces!! LOL!! I’m still kind of confused right now but after reading this, I feel like my mind can clear up a bit of what I’m struggling with. Can you write a blog on synchronicities that involve soulmates. For example, myself and the person I really want to be with have a very strange cycle of events that are so synchronitious(if that’s a word) that one would think that he and I are twins!

    My darling you are a gem and a half! ;)

    xoxo Keep the wisdom coming!

    Love,

    Alma

  • Peggy DaValt
    Peggy DaValt said:

    Colette -

    Thank you so much for your work and discussion about synchronicities. I find that they appear quite frequently at times and at other times they do not. I believe that you are correct when you say, what ever we’re trying to attract often matches up with the number of coincidences or synchroncities that we see.

    One of my biggest synchronicities, I blogged about personally and rather than write it here, I share the link with you and others if they’d like to read it.

    http://gorsetr.blogspot.com/2008/12/december-17-watershed-and-time-to.html

    Another vivid synchronicity that I had was last year. My dad, who I was with when he passed, and as I am learning after he’s been gone, was a believer in the spiritual realm. He was an avid reader of Edgar Cayce and my mom said they took me to his research facility in Virginia Beach when I was a child. Anyway, my dad’s birthday is May 4, 1929. On May 4, 2009, my house phone rang at about 5:29 a.m. This is very unusual because most people call my cell directly. When I got to the phone, it said, “private caller.” I went back to bed. Later that day, I checked the list of calls and the call did come in on May 4, (5/4) at 5:29 a.m. (Dad was born in May of 1929). I am convinced that he called on his b-day to let me know he was around….plus because he had Alzheimer’s at his death, I’m sure he never knew my cell phone number, but would have remembered my house phone.

    It’s little things like this that give me the strong sense that spirit is connected everywhere…in every way on our journey we call life.

    Peggy :)

  • Denise
    Denise said:

    After doing much work on realizing why I attract the type of man that I do and even after I starting attracting new types of men, the universe sent me a man that I thought for sure was the one because I hadn’t felt this strongly for a man ever or so I thought. After seeing him for a bit, I started to realize that I was attracted to him for the same old reasons and thought I could now “fix” him. This taught me many lessons… I was able to see how far I had come in my own growth because after being with him for a short time I felt so uncomfortable and I was also able to see how letting go can feel so good. I realize it’s completely possible to love someone and let go of them at the same time.

    Thanks Colette! Love you!
    Denise

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