A coincidence is a striking overlap between events for which a causal connection hasn’t been established.
You think of someone and they call. A phrase appears twice on a day when it matters to you. The timing can feel extraordinary.
Meaningful to you doesn’t have to mean arranged for you.
The event may bring a memory close or make a question harder to ignore. That personal meaning deserves attention without having to prove that the universe sent instructions.
What did you notice? What did it remind you of? What action would still make sense without treating the coincidence as a guarantee?
You can enjoy the surprise. You can also keep your judgement. Curiosity doesn’t become less interesting when it leaves room for chance.
Synchronicity introduces Jung’s particular idea about meaningful coincidence. Meaning-making looks at how an event acquires significance in your own experience.
The International Association for Analytical Psychology’s Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle explains the Jungian concept. Read it as an account of that theory, not as proof that every remarkable timing reveals an external plan.