On Intuition & Coincidences

The Intu­itive nudges us toward the Divine. Always. They are both parts of the whole, after all. And this is how you know you can trust it. Ask your­self, would I be closer to divin­ity? If the answer is yes, rest assured you’ve tapped that deep know­ing well.

Intu­ition presents itself in dif­fer­ent ways. Some­times those bits of flying-about Uni­verse that catch in our dreams, visions, mind eyes and hearts, are messy to process. Some­times it’s painful to hear. Some­times it’s the obvi­ous you were avoid­ing. Some­times it’s the inspi­ra­tion you were wait­ing for.

And some­times it’s the tears at the gro­cery store. Push­ing us toward flour, salt and water.

Some­times it’s the bleak­ness of midwinter.

That if we can look past, would unveil, through the spit­ting snow and bit­ing cold, a kind of life still in the trees.

Some­times it’s sweet­ness in an indul­gence. A sacred moment that we can pro­long for hours through ingenuity.

And some­times it’s a skill we have to invoke, by cre­at­ing a space and wait­ing for the light — which is easy to find if we stand very still, and are will­ing to get very, very close.

I have an intu­itive sense for magic-making and for see­ing pat­terns that unfold into the future, like an origami chain build­ing in one direc­tion, one moun­tain or val­ley at a time. But it’s not some­thing I can do on auto-pilot (at least, not yet). I have to slow down, lis­ten care­fully and get present to make it work. My coin­ci­dences start to pile up when I choose instead to bury my head as though  it doesn’t exist. Being intu­itive isn’t always fun. Mostly it’s not fun at all. And I would like to pre­tend I could live in igno­rant bliss of the future, of my path, of your path; of the pain I know we will both expe­ri­ence. But then I read cards for some­one who is des­per­ately cling­ing to that igno­rance, and I real­ize that it’s not bliss­ful at all.

What is most impor­tant for you to remem­ber is that you are NOT CRAZY for lis­ten­ing to the voice of your inner self. Your intu­itive sense is per­haps the most impor­tant sense you can develop. Like our other senses, it is how we nav­i­gate our lives. How we make deci­sions. How we expe­ri­ence the sacred (or mun­dane) of our everydays.

How do you expe­ri­ence yours?