Tuesday, November 19, 2013
A Personal Oracle Puzzle: What Do These Three Things Have in Common?
A flat tire, a license plate and book. You wouldn't think they would be related, but in the context of these personal oracle stories, they share one key characteristic.
The Flat Tire
My friend Amelia thrived on the pressures of her job while
an editor for a large publishing house in New York City. Nothing, however, had
prepared her for the demands of her life as a new mother. Within the first few
months of her daughter Raven Faye’s birth, she began to have recurring dreams
of flat tires.
One day, when running errands with her infant daughter in
the family car, she felt the steering wheel tugging relentlessly to one side.
The left front tire was losing air fast. Her flat tire dreams had become
reality. She wondered what Spirit was trying to tell her. She had her “aha”
moment the day she and I were discussing how metaphoric experiences can offer
valuable guidance if we take the time to reflect on them.
“I get it!” she said. “I’m just ‘flat tired.’ ”
Once she deciphered her personal oracle message – the reoccurring
dreams and then actually having a flat tire – she realized what it was telling
her on a deeper level, and she started giving herself a break throughout the
day instead of pushing ahead so hard.
The License Plate
This mother was speeding along an open stretch of road, her
mind preoccupied with all she needed to get done before she picked her daughter
up at school when a license plate caught her attention. She touched the brake
and slowed down to get a closer look at the letters – GVT – and was pondering
the significance of the abbreviation for “government “when something else
caught here eye. It was a speed camera. Her heart skipped a beat, then she
realized the GVT license plate had slowed her down just enough to keep her from
getting a speeding ticket!
The Book
Terry was
struggling to get her bearings and regroup after her long-term love ended their
relationship. She had no clue of what to do next, so she put the lead on her
dog Sammy and headed straight to the park nearby where she planned to walk till
they dropped.
The two walked
and jogged and finally ended up sitting underneath one of her favorite trees.
Terry leaned back against the tree, closed her eyes and rested her hand on
Sammy’s back. She was deep in thought when something bounced off her head and
landed on the ground.
Startled, she
opened her eyes and there in front of her was a book.
What just
happened? Had someone tossed this book at her?
She looked up
into the tree; no one was there.
She stood up,
looked in every direction and even walked around the tree. Still no one.
She picked up
the book and read the title. God is No
Laughing Matter.
She recognized
the author, Julia Cameron, as someone who teaches people how to get unstuck.
Talk about a sign!
Terry and her friends never did figure out how it happened.
The best guess: someone tucked the book in between the branches of the tree
while they walked and planned to pick up later, then a breeze nudged it right
off onto Terry’s head.
What do the flat
tire, the license plate and the book have in common?
These synchronistic events may seem to be random, until we
look through the paradigm of personal oracles and we see that the universe was
responding to these women’s distinct and very specific needs.
Using the formula for how the universe operate , the flat
tire, the license plate and the book were all acting as delivery systems.
Need
+ delivery system + message = personal oracle
In her bestselling book, Everyday Oracles: Decoding the Divine
Messages That Are All Around Us, author Ann Bolinger-McQuade uses memorable
stories and photos to introduce the formula for how personal oracles work, then
teaches you how to recognize and decode yours. If you have personal
oracle experiences to share, please submit them to Ann through her website www.personaloracles.com She will respond personally. And while
you’re there, check out the cloud photos in the interactive “What Do You See
Section.” Have fun and exercise your psychic muscles. Who knows, you may
discover a personal oracle hiding in plain sight, just waiting to deliver a
special message to you.
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