I'm a dyed-in-the-wool skeptic. I don't believe in anything for no reason. I'm willing to believe some pretty crazy shit if there's evidence for it (quantum mechanics for example), but I don't believe in magic or spirits or anything like that. But ...
Every once in a while, shit happens. Maybe it's just coincidence but a part of me still wants to believe. Here's one of those things.
I've started playing a few games of chess using the Chess With Friends app (okiwi if you're keen), and a week or two ago I started playing against someone with the word "syzygy" in their handle. "Hmm, thinks I, that's familiar but I don't remember what it means. Must look it up", and never did.
Then yesterday, just after playing a move against this person, I picked up the book I've been reading (a short story collection), and the next story up is "It wasn't Syzygy".
Now, this book is one that's been on my bookshelf for many years, and I've read it before - once only, and I was in my 20's. I'm 50 now.
So either that's just a weird coincidence with the word "syzygy" - or maybe, just maybe, some part of my brain whispered to me when I was looking through my bookshelf for something to read last week, and said "pick that one" - connecting something I'd read and forgotten long ago with a recent occurrence. This is the one I want to be true, because it hints at hidden realms within our minds. But maybe I'm seeing a pattern where there isn't one.
Or maybe it was magic. But I doubt it.