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It was Carl Jung who first did any in-depth study into “meaningful coincidences” such as The Fireworks, which he termed “synchronicity.” Jung—also an advocate of astrology as a study of what he saw as the “archetypes” of our “collective unconscious”—was a proponent of the idea that, rather than a series of random events, each and every human life is actually the expression of a deeper cosmic order. He and Wolfgang Pauli, the Swiss-American pioneer of quantum physics, called this the Unus Mundus, from the Latin for “one world”—describing an underlying unified reality, from which everything emerges and to which everything returns (Source, the Universe, oneness consciousness … God, etc.)

Jung also believed that synchronicity, glimpses of this cosmic order in action, shifted a person’s egocentric conscious thinking (“we are all in this alone”) to that of a greater wholeness (“everything is connected”)—granting temporary access to the “absolute knowledge” that resides within us all. A.k.a. your intuition or “psychic” inner Voice!

Louise Androlia, a gifted intuitive herself, is also deeply invested in shifting the perception of “psychic” phenomena away from being a tool for “predicting” future events, and rather something that we all have access to, all the time, to be used for the highest good of both our human selves and of the collective. “The sixth sense is for us all,” she once told me. “In fact, we’re all very tuned in as kids. Having had an imaginary friend or pet as a child is a classic example of somebody just being very energetically sensitive. I think whether this carries on into adulthood depends on the rate we forget.” Or that it’s conditioned out of us by a society that decides it’s “weird.”

Remember what I said about tarot being like “Google for the soul”? It reminds me of a conversation I had with Brooklyn-based intuitive Lisa Rosman, who told me: “It’s our natural birthright to be able to tune in on deep levels to each other as well as what yogis call the ‘divine intelligence’ of the Universe. But the less we have to communicate on that level, the less we do.” Lisa went on to describe how she believes our reliance on modern devices—from computers to clocks—is partly to blame. “Rather than merely using cell phones or the Internet as shortcuts, we’ve been using them as a substitute to true communion with ourselves and each other. And yet in our dreams and disorders our deeper wisdom is still, always, clamoring to be heard.” Not to mention in the serendipitous synchronicities we kind of just know are there to tell us something, but which often get brushed off as “just coincidence.”