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It’s the 15-year mark of the contract I made with myself (then by my maiden name) - committing to reading and doing the exercises found within Julia Cameron’s, The Artist’s Way. As someone who at the time identified as only an engineer and not as a creative person, reading and working through this book guided me back to myself. Rather than uncovering my creativity, I learned I was rediscovering it. It wasn’t lost, only hidden, and ready at any point of choosing, to reemerge. Of the many takeaways from The Artist’s Way, the concept of synchronicity remains strong. It’s described not as coincidence or luck, but as a “fortuitous intermeshing of events”, or “a thousand unseen helping hands”, or “an intelligent and responsive universe”, or “desire, ask, believe, receive.” I recently heard an adjacent perspective that these synchronous moments are our spirit guides’ way of getting our attention, and reminding us they’re close-by with support. While I sometimes feel the need to preface these moments as woo-woo when recounting them to others, internally they feel clear, strong, direct and very timely. These visible moments feel as if they bring out the magic of the invisible. While there’s undoubtedly a myriad of things we can take as signs and ascribe meaning to, these moments, if we’re brave enough to listen and watch for, create a clear personal stirring that’s hard to ignore or write off. Whether it’s animals showing up at our door, a long-lost friend reaching out, continually catching repeated numbers, a hummingbird hovering close-by, a poignant dream, a penny at our feet, a song on the radio, the perfect play of light and shadows… there will be signs.
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