Lacrimae lunae

As I've mentioned before, I've been rereading John Opsopaus's Guide to the Pythagorean Tarot these days. Yesterday I started the chapter on the Moon card. It begins with a description of Opsopaus's version of that trump, including this:

We are looking from the edge of a dark sea towards its shore, which is lit by the narrowest crescent of a young, pale yellow moon shining in the dark blue sky. Glowing tear drops (fifteen white, fifteen reddish) fall in three streams (five reddish and five white each) from the recumbent crescent, which is open to the upper left; its dark face is barely visible.

Here is detail of the card in question, showing the red and white teardrops.

Later the same day, I was teaching a beginning-level English class for children. Their textbook includes the following illustration.

Checking each student's book to make sure the accompanying exercise had been done correctly, I was surprised to see that one of the students had (for no apparent reason) used a red pen to color in exactly half of the white water drops in the picture, in the same alternating red-white pattern seen on Opsopaus's Moon card.

(As a further coincidence, in the textbook illustration, too, "we are looking from the edge of a dark sea towards its shore"; and the twin girls in the illustration echo the Moon card's theme of doubleness -- two mountains, two towers, two dogs, etc.)

I'm not sure whether to consider this just a striking coincidence or a case of unconscious telepathy. It's not the first time a student has written or drawn some improbable thing I had been thinking of.