I love this video so much! I have been in the ‘everything is a sign’ space, trying to understand what the universe was telling me to wear today and which way I should drive to work. I was really unwell, anxious and confused. I didn’t know anything about witchcraft back then, but had a pretty intense religious upbringing. Letting all that go was a huge part of my healing journey, but now, as a skeptical witch myself, I really appreciate synchronicity. As you say, I find it fun. I definitely think of it as communication from my unconscious, but I love my unconscious. She is really loving and compassionate, so the synchronicities make me feel held and reinforce that I’m in alignment with myself and my core truth. I know of two friends who have both had hugely significant synchronous experiences that helped pull them out of depression. One told me it literally saved her life. So yeah, coincidence or not, I am glad our brains see these patterns and grab onto them in a way that can sometimes pull us back from the edge. Thank you for making this channel and putting all this effort into sharing your ideas and your practice. It’s super cool to find another witch like me! I look forward to watching more of your videos.

Fantastic video! I absolutely agree that though these things are random, the way they make us feel can still have a profound effect on our behaviors which ultimately guide our experience of reality.

I have these awesome "encounters" with music, when new songs with the perfect lyrics for my situation come up on radio/yt/playlist, that I like calling serendities. It's not as grave as "sign from universe" but also quite meaningful with a tender- playful touch.

"a bird shit on my car today what does this mean!?!?" LMAO, I love your video😂

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I see mirror hours and inverted hours like 3-4 times a day, and it's always different ones there's no consistency. At first I really tried to figure out the meaning of each one before realizing that none of it made sense with my situation unless I tried way to hard which made it feel made up anyway. I chose to see mirror numbers as a reassurance nod that I am doing ok, and the inverted numbers as a reminder to stay grounded and take care of my responsibilities when needed to avoid getting too much in my head. And there's the special 9:11 (911) which I started noticing shortly before I realized I was in a burnout which I now use to remind me of the warning signs to avoid burning out again and what my burn out taught me about what to do and what to avoid. I enjoyed giving my own meanings a lot more than following a random person's interpretation pretend to have the absolute truth. It allowed me to pick meanings that made sense in my own context and to phrase them in a way that doesn't make me anxious and doesn't make unrealistic promises either. It allowed me to pick messages that I actually need to hear, and that are healthy for me.

a few weeks back in a small town in the deep south i found a shiny Pentagram on the ground out side a fuel station. did not get it as a thought it would be better the small minded people to see something different from all ways seeing a cross.! it made my day! so yes there is magic it is in are minds at the cross rode with this crazy world! no spooky super natural etc. needed!

Hit the nail on the head - as usual! Love this. I used to be a fundamentalist Christian who believed in a lot of signs and wonders. Over the years as I left that behind, interestingly I have pretty much stopped seeing those sorts of mystical coincidences and signs because I realized it was confirmation bias and my pattern-recognition faculties kicking in, making me see connections that aren’t real. But recently I’ve had some moments of coincidences that were small but still felt significant to me - I realized it was just me seeing patterns but it still felt meaningful to me. Thank you for your excellent explanation of what is going on in our heads! But also how even skeptics (like me - also pantheist), agnostics and atheists can still find meaning in them. The idea that it may be my subconscious trying to communicate a message, that a random event is helping me understand or process something going on inside me is a really compelling and concrete way to understand what’s going on! I love your videos! I didn’t know a “skeptical witch” was a thing but that is what I have been doing since I started about 2 years ago without realizing it. Thanks for helping me put words to and better understand my own beliefs better! You’re also giving me some language to better articulate my beliefs/practices to others in my life! I appreciate your work a lot. I don’t know any others like me though personally. Any online communities you could recommend for me to check out to meet some like-minded folks? Cheers!

Finding you and this video is synchronicity!

I really like your idea that synchronicities are the unconscious trying to contact us. A lot of my spirituality ties into "parts therapy", where you identify and name parts of your self, and also create "resources": imagined figures you can turn to for help and advice. I've felt bad in the past that perhaps the voices of my "deities" are no different than the voices of my "parts" or my "resources"--that somehow that makes them not real. But what if the spirits/deities that some people identify as the source of synchronicities and other messages are not actually something DIFFERENT from the unconscious, but are simultaneously both? In that way, a message could come from the unconscious and still be, in some people's terms, a message from a spirit or a deity. ...It's hard sometimes to reconcile my skeptical side with my spiritual side, but your videos are really helping. Thank you for making this channel.

I really enjoyed this video! Thank you for all the thought put into this. I'm always torn by my sciency-loving side opposed to my self who is into cosmic research and knows that it's truly impossible to know what's really out there and what could be possible. So I enjoy keeping an open mind on both sides! I definitely believe some events are signs, but I definitely also believe sometimes it really just is coincidence. Thanks for this video!!

I experienced a psychotic episode 5 years ago where I saw signs everywhere and jumped to supernatural conclusions… I still have a tendency to see signs, but I just don’t give them as much attention. Recently, though, I attended a week long silent retreat and afterwards I decided to look up some KZfaq videos about synchronicity. That sent me down a rabbit hole because there are so many videos that talk about synchronicity vaguely and that jump to supernatural conclusions about it. A lot of popular videos about synchronicity will say make sure you pay attention to these signs! And I’m like, dang this seems to be the oppositional to the idea of looking inwardly towards trusting yourself. It’s basically hinting at the idea that you can’t trust just yourself, you need these external signs to be complete. Do You have any tips for not letting yourself be influenced by people who try to influence us to believe in supernatural conclusions?

So great that you mentioned Tanya Luhrmann! I loved her book Persuasion of the Witch's Craft :) Personally I tend to shift between seeing synchronicities as signs from the universe or uniquely as my intuition manifesting. I guess my belief in the magical is fluid and can change depending on the day! :) In any case I find them as you rightly explained to be so useful and powerful. For example, whenever I now get anxious about my post-doctoral opportunities and whether I would like to stay in academia or not. I just tell myself that the universe has until now guided me to find paths that suit me, so I trust it to send me signs along the way that will help me :)

Thank you sweety pie for the Video.

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Feed the algorithm gods. Something you didn't touch on was how you can actually anchor synchronicities to special meanings as a means of a personal reminder. For example for me 11 is the number of the god Hades who is special to me. When I see the number 11 it reminds me of his virtues and to try to be just, and to try to offer good advice when asked, and that sometimes darkness is more honest than light. Or the number 3 which I associate with Ares the god of Peace. Or the number 6 which I associate with Prometheus. Then there is 4 which I associate with Brigid. There is also Frigga which I associate with Friday, Luna which I associate with Monday. Each reminds me of different things they embody.

Okay... let me first say that I've been a practicing "witch", Hexe, or whatever you want to label it, for more than 40 years. I'm also an amature artist, writer, sculptor/wood carver as well. I am and always have been very good with my hands, and creating things. ...and I got started in the whole magic/mental manipulation thing through meditation, which I was introduced to through a martial arts class when I was 14 or so. ...and I have had MANY incidences of "synchronicity" in my life, most of which turned out t be directly connected with something I had or would do... More or less a "signpost" that something was at work other than just my own mind. Let me tell you about a recent event, and see what you think: I've been working on writing a story these past few weeks that involves witchcraft, science, and all the usual day-to-day things. Part of this story involves someone being turned into a fish and being deposited into a lake for a very long time before they were restored to human form. Since this story takes place during a roadtrip from Texas to Panama, I chose the Incan culture for this aspect of the story, but after a while, wondered if I needed to go to an older culture, such as the Mayans or Aztecs... so I began researching exactly when and how long the Incas were around. I finally decided that 800 years in a lake was more than long enough, and stuck with my original intentions. Fast forward to last night: I took a break from writing and decided to catch up on a couple of the TV shows I tend to watch. Being an old comic book fan, I chose the latest episode of "Stargirl". halfway through the episode, my jaw dropped, when a teacher in the background of a scene was going over the Incan empire, and the dates I had just looked up a couple of days before. Does that mean anything? I don't know... maybe the universe is simply showing its approval for my choice... ...and maybe it doesn't mean a damn thing. lol One way or the other, it seems pretty strange to me that references to the Incas and their empire would come up in a TV show that wasn't a documentary of some kind. Anyway, it's just one more in a lifetime of such occurrences for me.

With one breath, with one flow You will know Synchronicity A sleep trance, a dream dance A shared romance Synchronicity A connecting principle Linked to the invisible Almost imperceptible Something inexpressible Science insusceptible Logic so inflexible Causally connectible Yet nothing is invincible If we share this nightmare Then we can dream Spiritus mundi If you act, as you think The missing link Synchronicity We know you, they know me Extrasensory Synchronicity A connecting principle Linked to the invisible Almost imperceptible Something inexpressible Science insusceptible Logic so inflexible Causally connectible Yet nothing is invincible We know you, they know me Extrasensory Synchronicity A star fall, a phone call It joins all Synchronicity A connecting principle Linked to the invisible Almost imperceptible Something inexpressible Science insusceptible Logic so inflexible Causally connectible Yet nothing is invincible It's so deep, it's so wide You're inside Synchronicity Effect without a cause Sub-atomic laws, scientific pause Synchronicity Synchronicity Synchronicity Synchronicity Synchronicity Synchronicity Synchronicity Synchronicity Synchronicity Synchronicity...

I guess what I struggle to reconcile is seeing these experiences as special or meaningful when rationally I know they are not. You mentioned feeling a special way when your shower was glitching and wind blew over your plant, and I just wonder how I can feel that, when like you I would be able to see it rationally? In what way did it improve the experience for you? I also struggle with existentialism and the thought of there being no point, purpose or future beyond this existence. I do not believe in any religious interpretation of "afterlife", but I do find it curious that I have now leaned hard into "There's nothing", despite not necessarily having evidence to support that, aside from my disbelief in organized religion? Does that make sense? I "practice" witchcraft, but sometimes it just makes me feel silly or like i'm "playing". It's a bit sad to me, because I was very imaginative as a child and a heavy "magical thinker", but after my two undergrads and medical school I just struggle to connect to anything outside of rational. I went to witchcraft because it was more ecclectic and self-guided, but I would like to connect with something spiritually.

Also...did you mean they provide subjective meaning or the perception of objective one? because I would argue they do not provide objective meaning