The universe works in magickal ways

Can you hear me now? I am confident that the Universe said that while laughing. The answer is YES, I can hear you now.  I had gotten clear messages around taking more down time for myself and giving myself permission to take more time to be introspective about my business however, I didn’t listen. While I meditate daily and also have meditation through movement 6 days a week,I knew that I needed large blocks of time to sit with the business and be open to what the universe has to show me. 

One thing that I can tell you is that when I do not listen to the universe I get the lesson anyways. This has happened multiple times in my life and while one would think that I would have learned by now,  I guess I like things the hard way sometimes. Which is even more for me to be introspective about!

The night before oral surgery I had a deep knowing that something was not going to be quite right. I had made the choice to stay awake for the procedure and to only have local pain medication. The oral surgeon was amazingly calm and gentle even when things got complicated during surgery. 

Long story short, I had complications postoperatively also. I got the down time and large blocks of time, 9 days to be exact. It wasn’t until the words came out of my mouth, “why is this happening”, that I realized exactly what was happening. This was a gift of time and silence that the universe had given me. I accepted it as soon as I recognized it and embraced it. Not only did I get the gift of time, I also got the gift of clarity on where I wanted to go with my business. The universe works in magickal ways! 

I can't "see" it

The crash of a glass breaking on the floor is easy to recognize. Even from downstairs I knew exactly what happened before going up. I had given my son a small bowl of cashews in a tiny glass bowl. It was something that I had done many times and he had not dropped one yet. 

I was lucky enough to get upstairs in time to see his face. His eyes were huge and he said “I am so sorry, I did not mean to do that”. 

I laughed and said “of course you didn’t baby, just hold still”. 

I cleaned up the broken glass, or so I thought. The next day I was walking barefoot through the house and must have stepped on a small shard of glass. It started as a “pinch” and as the day progressed it got more and more sharp. He was over for dinner and while it was cooking I asked if he would see if he could get the glass out. He looked and looked and couldn’t see it. He used a light and a needle and opened the site up a bit, however he still couldn’t see it. 

After dinner, I asked him to just take the needle and open up the whole area, I knew it was there. He agreed and started by looking, however he couldn’t see it. I knew my body and I trusted it. I also trusted that he could find it even if he couldn’t see it yet. Eventually, he just started slowly pulling the needle through the wound site. All of the sudden there was resistance to the flow of the needle. The next round of the needle through my skin he caught the same resistance and then suddenly flow of the needle again and he said “I got it”. 

“I could feel it before I ever saw it” he said. “I knew it was there even without seeing it”. The next morning I was watching the sunrise and got thinking about how much my piece of glass was like spirituality. Sometimes, you can feel something even if you can not see it. Sometimes, you can sense something even if you can not see it. Sometimes, you can know something even if you can not see it. 

If you find yourself in a situation where you “know” something, you “sense” something or you “feel” something but you can’t “see” it take a deep breath, relax your energy and trust that it is there even if you can’t “see” it yet.

Sailing away

Sometimes in life we find ourselves being weighed down. It can feel like an anchor keeping your boat hovering in one particular location on the vast ocean, stagnant, for lack of better description. Much like a boat with an anchor down, from the shore things may look calm and peaceful with the boat, however the reality is that the anchor is fighting the flow of the universe. 

When you really stop and think about it, a boat that is held still in flowing water is fairly unnatural. Things that are immersed in the ocean are meant to shift and move underneath the immense power of the ocean. Yet, if you stay anchored for long enough you start to normalize it, expect it, and embrace it. 

Often, we don’t even recognize how anchored or tied we can be. What if, that very anchor that we think is providing us stability and peace is really just limiting our ability to shift, flow and see what the ocean has to offer us? What if, releasing our anchor resulted in freedom of movement and growth? What if, releasing our anchor brought us to a new view that was far more beautiful than the one we had been seeing. What if, we were meant to release control and trust that the ocean would support us? What if, we could never move forward if we had to hold onto the resistance of our anchor? What if….. you just cut the tie with that which hold you down, holds you back, holds you stagnant? 

The question is, what is your anchor? Can you even see it through the water anymore?