Trusting the Universe’s Guidance When You’re Unsure of the Way

A spiritual journey of continuous learning and discovery

Since the beginning of this year, I became aware of certain numerical sequences that appeared regularly. I had no idea what they were and have never heard of such things due to my religious upbringing. Any belief or acceptance outside of the faith was sin or occult.

When I made a major decision to turn my back on everything I thought to be true, I learned to pay attention to the more subtle and creative ways the non-physical realm connects with me and discovered that life’s possibilities are far greater than I had known.

Recurrences of numbers became so frequent that I no longer push it aside as happenstance. Unlike languages, numbers have universal meanings. Earlier this year, I kept seeing the number 222 that led to a series of events. It took me a while to decode. When I found out what it meant and how it related to me, the signs stopped.

I relate that story here.

Of late, the number 444 kept appearing. I knew this was a message of which I should take heed, but I just didn’t know what it was. In the past, signs would continue to show up for me until I cracked the code and discover the message. Then like 222, it would stop appearing.

I’m walking through a period of transition in my life right now where a lot of changes are taking place all at once. I don’t have the clarity of mind to chase after breadcrumbs. I decided to trust the Universe to reveal whatever it is I needed to know in divine time and bid my angels and guides for support.

Every time I see the repeated numbers, I reminded myself that all is well. I’ll close my eyes to connect to the calm and confidence at the moment, then I’ll let it go until I see it again the next time, and I’ll do the same thing. I allow divine guidance to come through naturally. It’s obvious that I don’t know what I don’t know.

Recently in a conversation with Marcus on the topic of curation, I was telling him since I first started writing for Medium in September last year, I’ve only had one of my stories make it past the curation bots. The notice came via email. Since then, it has been crickets. I was never curious or have any desire to join the Medium rat race because I was pretty contented, enjoying my writing, and happy to have readers continually turning up to read my stories.

When Marcus informed me that Medium chose my latest piece for further distribution, disbelief spread across my face. First, I wasn’t expecting it and second, I wondered, why now?

“Go check your stats.”

I have to be honest, I didn’t know where to look. But there’s no way I’m going to tell him that. Pretending to be professional, I went on a quick tour, clicked on a few links, and finally landed on an opaque label with a tiny green dot behind it that says: Distributed. So this is what it meant!

I excitedly replied to him. “Saw it!”

Although curation remains a hot topic on Medium, it didn’t occur to me to check the stats page regularly because I thought I would surely receive an email notification on any updates. I already have tons of notifications from Medium, so why would this be different? Besides, that would be tedious and it wasn’t a big deal anyway.

Now that I know what the tiny green dot represents, out of curiosity, I scrolled over some of my old articles and saw that several of them have that same opaque label.

As an excellent mentor who cares about my success and keeps me in check, Marcus requested a compilation of the curated stories. I was astounded to find 24 chosen pieces sitting quietly in my stats page since earlier this year that I knew nothing about. I was thrilled.

That was how I discovered a box full of goodies that night.

Looking back now, the pieces of the puzzle joined. The occurrences of repeated numbers I’m receiving are the angels trying to get my attention. I find it humorous that while everyone was all hyped over their stories getting the deserved further distribution, I was ignorantly sitting on the much-coveted reward that was brewing quietly in the background.

Will this experience change the way I look at Medium and my writing journey? Not really. As far as I’m concerned, I’ll continue to do what I’ve been doing all this while — write and improve.

The biggest lesson I’m walking away with this experience is the connection we have with the Universe. Synchronicities are meaningful coincidences that occur to provide guidance either for directions or fulfillment relevant to our journey in life. It’s at the core of our human experience. Many times I felt alone in my quest not knowing what to do next, and then I experience spiritual connections without even realizing it — a thought, a strange encounter, signs, messages, or people showing up that appear to have no apparent reason.

Many of these experiences are difficult to articulate. I can read about them and listen to stories from others but until I have a personal experience, information means nothing. The experience is the connection.

These are breadcrumbs along my path that help me on my journey. I’m learning to tune in and to become more sensitive to the signs and messages that connect me to the Divine and allowing it to navigate my life.

I know this is hardly the end of my journey. The number-sequence 444 has stopped since. However, in the past few weeks, I’ve been having a strange energetic feel flowing throughout my body. It’s as though I’m sensing a visitation or someone is watching over me, not in a scary way but in a protective manner.

I have no idea what it’s all about at the moment. I guess I’ll have to wait and see what comes next, and when I decode the mystery, I’ll have another story to tell at another time. Who knows what excitement is waiting for me next around the corner.

Editor’s Note

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