Some messages don’t arrive in words. Sometimes they show up as a whisper, a repeated number, a creature crossing your path, or a moment that feels far too meaningful to be coincidence. These “synchronicities”—as Carl Jung famously called them—appear when the soul is stirring, when something in your life is shifting, or when, in the quiet places of your heart, you’ve begun asking for guidance.

So let’s define ghosting. To me, it’s simply when someone you’ve been communicating with stops communicating. It happens for unknown reasons, though our minds usually fill in the blanks with assumptions. Sometimes there are clues, sometimes not.

We’ve all done it. Packed too much for a trip, convinced we’ll “need” six pairs of shoes, three jackets, and that extra curling iron — only to find ourselves dragging a suitcase that feels like it’s full of bricks down a cobblestone street.