The Universe sends us messages in the form of signs and symbols daily. In reading and interpreting these messages, we gain the ability to communicate directly with the divine and receive feedback and guidance on our spiritual path.
Anything can be a message, including ordinary, everyday events like a lightbulb burning out or a pain in our body. Our cars, homes, people, and nature can hold messages. Even overhearing a snippet of conversation or turning on the radio to a line from a song can be a message.
While it’s true that anything can be a message, not everything is a message. If that were true, we would be overwhelmed by information. So, how do we know when to pay attention?
Here are three ways the Universe helps us discern the important messages:
1) Repetition. One lightbulb burning out is probably just a lightbulb burning out. But five lightbulbs burning out within a week in different light fixtures throughout the house may be a message that we’re keeping ourselves in the dark about something.
Sometimes the Universe uses a variety of messengers to deliver the message, but the underlying meaning remains the same. For example, three seemingly random happenings within a short span of time – a wheel almost coming off the car, an inner ear infection, and a trip to the chiropractor for back problems – may all be pointing to the need for balance.
2) Energy. The energy will also help us determine whether or not it’s a message. A kinesthetic sense in our body such as goosebumps or the hair on the back of our neck standing up may also alert us to pay attention. Some messages arrive carrying so much energy they’re impossible to ignore – such as when we’re woken out of a sound sleep to go look out the window to see a possum digging in the earth. Other times we might feel a “zing” of energy when we receive a message and realize it’s an answer to a query we’ve been posing to the Universe.
Some messages take the form of what Robert Moss calls “waking dreams” – those unusual happenings that feel so odd while they’re occurring that we know they must be a message. If we feel like something is a message, it probably is.
3) Interaction. When the circumstance somehow interacts with us, that’s another clue to a message. Sometimes this happens through timing – such as posing a question while waiting at a stoplight, then looking up and seeing the answer on a bumper sticker. The immediate response can signal a message.
Sometimes the messenger itself engages us directly. Imagine driving down a country lane. A hawk with a snake in its talons flying in front of the car may or may not be a message. But a hawk who flies in front of the car and then turns to look directly into your eyes probably carries a message for you.
The Universe wants us to see and understand, so it uses these methods to highlight the message. Once we receive the message and acknowledge it, then the Universe moves on and communicates with us about something else.
How about you? Do you have any stories or examples of times when the Universe used repetition, energy or interaction to make sure you received a message?
A four-hour class on the basics of “Reading Signs & Messages” will be held Sunday, October 3, 2010, at a private home outside of Prairie du Sac, WI. For more information, email debramorrill@yahoo.com or call 608-279-4319.
Congratulations on publishing your blog, Debra. You have good topics that are explained simply and clearly. I’m dealing with dripping faucets and toilets. Yesterday I discovered my fourth leak–when I turned on my kitchen faucet, it sprayed me in the stomach. Time for a plumber and some divination.
Steve, hmmm, sounds like a message coming through… 🙂 And thanks for the kind words.
WOW! this is a big one fo rme Deb. I’ve had so many of the kind of messages like you describe it’s uncanny. A hawk flew right in front of my window when I was going 60+ and looked right at me! I asked for a sign once and less then 5 minutes from my house saw a bumper sticker that said "say the rosary more" I was saying the rosary that morhing – I say it alot when I wake up and can’t go back to sleep. Another day, after an unbelievable psychic reading from an animal communicator, I asked for a sign (the reading was about my poodle Gingerr who had passed) again, not 5 minutes from my house, I was at a stop light and looked over and saw a giant white poodle in the passenger seat of the car next to me!!! I get repetitive license plates numbers and times on the clock almost daily 222, 333, 444, 555 888 999 and of course 11:11! I jad the hair on my left leg stand up twice during a physic gallery I attended a few weeks ago when two amazing things came thru just for me (a tingling sensation and goosebumps up my leg) never felt that before ever. I’m learning tea leaf reading ight now and triangles are in EVERY FREAKIN’ TEA CUP I DRINK!!!!!!!!! This means there is an energy block somewhere (ya think?) I could go on and on Deb, you are blowing my mind. It is OBVIOUS that I need to be studying with Y O U!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Patty, we can look at doing this class in Madison this winter. There are so many really fun activities around reading signs and messages. 🙂
AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Have you talked to Gene yet?
I’m leaving comment on your old blog post about discernment and picking up messages, because today I was surprised to have to different people send me e-mails they intended to be sent to someone else! Nothing was wrong or embarrassing about their e-mails mistakenly going to me but I couldn’t help but think, What’s up with that?
Hmmm, Fred. Mistaken identity? Misdirected communication? Mercury (which governs communication and travel) is retrograde right now, and glitches like this are more common. But I agree, two in one day is unusual, and may be the Universe getting your attention. 🙂