Signs and Synchronicity

Today I want to talk about reading signs and their synchronicity.

As any of us move through our daily routines, we encounter a barrage of information in the form of stimuli from our environment. It comes in through all five of our senses to be processed by our brains. For most of us, the information is pretty mundane and goes unnoticed. The more time and effort one spends on the spiritual life, the more important these seemingly casual encounters become.

Think of yourself as the center of your own universe; this is actually one of Einstein's ideas. And to go further, for me, everything you encounter, EVERYTHING, is there as a message from the Divine to enable you to walk your path more effectively. But learning to listen to this barrage takes time and attention to detail. It also takes setting boundaries about when you will listen and to what so that you are not so inundated that you cannot function. It truly can overwhelm the human brain and cause serious mental illness. Many people I see on the street have been blown open to the spiritual world and cannot find their way back. I have been told finding the door to come back to sanity is almost impossible. I would agree. I feel like I came very near to losing my way and that only the constant love and care of a host of people enabled me to return to one foot in the spiritual, one foot in the physical world with a much deeper understanding and respect for both. 

So. Everyday.

GROUNDING. Feet on the ground, hands at your side. Visualize roots growing out the bottoms of your feet into Mother Earth. Choose somewhere inside there to anchor those roots. Doesn't matter where as long as it is deep. Too shallow and you pick up the craziness of the surface life. Now pull energy from Mother Earth up through those roots and nourish your body with it. Pull it up to the level of your heart. Visualize a figure 8, or an infinity sign, lying across your chest. Send that energy through that figure 8. Direct your attention skyward and pull down the Divine energy to the level of your heart. Add it to the figure 8 also. You are now nourishing your body from both Mother Earth and the Father Sky, meeting at your center. When you feel yourself settle in, this is when I start to pray. You may do as you are led to.

With grounding accomplished, I start to observe the signs that pass my way. My grounding is in a creek near my house. I listen to the birds and squirrels and bunnies as they direct me on which path to take home after my morning plunge. I move in the direction they point out, and if I feel unsure, I pause and ask for help. There is no hurry here. If I am in a hurry, I am just in the physical world and should not be reading signs. Doing so can spin me out of control. If there is a need for hurry, I need to ask the Universe to close the sign door until I can slow down. And once I'm back to my normal speed, which is slow, I ask the door to be opened again. Signs are no different from normal stimuli in our lives except that it's as if they are in bold letters or in italics. They stand out, calling our attention. Or they might still be mundane but appear so many times you have to get curious about why. For me, signs tend to appear before the real thing. And that's where synchronicity comes in.

If I am following my path, listening and moving in rythym with the Divine, signs come multiple times a day and are very synchronized. An example:

There is a woman that is coming into my personal life. I can identify that she has been moving closer for the last 3 years. I need this woman in my life to do the next part of the work I came here for. When I listen and walk my path, I see her moving nearer. When I step off my path, she moves away. Now, I rarely see this woman in actuality at this point, but I see symbols of her continually. Cars that are the same make or model or color of hers or driven by someone resembling her. The closer I am to my path, the more of these characteristics that appear together. Recently I have seen a person that is either her sister or her doppelgänger. Their appearance is uncannily the same. Today this doppelgänger was searching on her phone at the corner the squirrels had directed me to. For the first time, she was close enough to speak to. I, in my infinite suavity, managed to stutter out a "Good morning," before walking on to the corner to pause and think what to do next. I opted to cross the street and come home even though she was still on the corner inspecting her phone. For me, it was the most I could do today as I expect her entry into my life will change parts of it permanently. And I am finding my Medicine Woman's 30 year old admonition that change needs to happen slowly to be very true. If I stay on my path, the actual woman I'm to work with will appear in time or the doppelgänger will appear again to give me more practice with dialogue until the Universe is convinced I can handle a meeting without being a total ass. Either way is good.

Slow is good.

Gentle is good.

Breathing in the new is good and something I have to practice.

And I will.

Listen.