Hey everyone,

It has been a long, busy but productive day. The weather in Yorkshire was very similar to my mood today- it was full of dull skies and rain. Spent the day sniffling whilst working. However, I managed to have a bit of self care in the evening which was nice.

Life is full of coincidences. I don’t know if I have said this before but I do not think I believe in coincidences any longer. Everything happens for a reason. After my late father’s death, life has been very different for me. I have had some crazy ‘coincidences’.

A coincidence is when two or more events happen at the same time in a way that seems connected or meaningful — but actually occurs by chance, not by any deliberate cause.

For example:

You think of an old friend, and they call you at that exact moment — that’s a coincidence.

In short, it’s an unexpected concurrence of events without an apparent causal link, though it often feels significant.

Philosophically, a coincidence sits at the crossroads between chance and meaning.

It’s an event that feels as though it carries purpose or connection, yet—by rational thought—has no clear cause linking its parts. Coincidences often make us pause because they touch something intuitive in us: the sense that the universe might be whispering, that patterns exist beyond our comprehension.

Some schools of thought see coincidence as mere randomness, a statistical inevitability in a vast and interconnected world. Others, especially in spiritual or metaphysical traditions, view it as synchronicity — a meaningful alignment between inner experience and outer events, as if reality itself briefly mirrors our inner state.

In essence, a coincidence can be seen in two ways:

• To the scientist, it is probability at play.
• To the poet or philosopher, it is mystery — a subtle hint that meaning may lie hidden in the fabric of chance.

Carl Jung’s concept of synchronicity takes the idea of coincidence and gives it psychological and spiritual depth.

Jung noticed that sometimes, events in the outer world seemed to echo a person’s inner state — not through cause and effect, but through meaning. He called this a “meaningful coincidence.”

For example:

• You dream of a rare animal, and the next day, someone shows you a photo of that exact creature.
• You’re reflecting deeply on loss, and then you receive a message from someone you haven’t spoken to since a bereavement.

These moments are not causally linked — one didn’t cause the other — yet they feel profoundly connected. Jung believed they reveal an underlying unity between mind and matter, where the inner world of thoughts and emotions briefly synchronises with the external world.

He called this principle acausal connecting, suggesting that life is not only governed by physical laws, but also by patterns of meaning that emerge at the right time — what he called “the falling together in time of events with similar meaning.”

Anyway, back to working on my deadline!

With love,

Amina x