Making sense of your Mixed Messages
I was recently listening to a podcast, where the hosts talk a lot about "mixed messages", and how much they love them - the moments you expect one thing and something else shows up, a person who looks one way and acts another, the surprise of remarkable food in the most basic place (you know the spots without a menu or even a permanent premesis are always the best).
But when it comes to your Intuition - to finding guidance from within - mixed messages, unclear messages, or no messages at all are in fact, the worst.
And here's what makes it so difficult: the moments you need clarity most, when there's more pressure to choose, to succeed, to progress, are the moments it can feel least accessible.
So this week I want to break down a few things that might help you access what is already within you, especially when it feels hardest.
When you're stressed, anxious, or afraid - that's your sign to slow down and create space. A frantic mind becomes loud and demanding. A calm, collected, focused one can receive and interpret intuitive information. A racing or closed heart pulls focus away from higher truth. Tense muscles and a clenched jaw slow the flow of energy that carries your answers. Your meditation practice (or the beginning of one) might be all you need right now to hear again.
If you're afraid of the answer, or believe it's not what you want to hear, you may stop yourself from receiving it. I've seen it over and over again - the answers were crystal clear, but couldn't be seen through a fixed idea of how things were "supposed" to go, or a misunderstanding of what the path was calling for. Allowing yourself to receive higher truth makes everything easier in the long run, because the path becomes clearer and more direct. When you surrender what "has to be," you create space for what Is. There is deep power in the letting go. It's worth asking yourself: what ideas or identities could I set aside to make room for a higher perspective? (Pro tip: what you're afraid of isn't true. So listening to your fears is a waste of time and energy - unless you're listening in order to resolve them. Resolve the fear = Less fear, clearer Intuition, more truth.)
You may be expecting your intuitive guidance to shout, or deliver 23 unmistakable signs. That can happen, but it may take time, or effort. What I've been shown, repeatedly, is that when you're Present, the signs and synchronicities reveal themselves. If you're distracted, leaning on unhealthy coping mechanisms, dampening your feelings, pushing against yourself, you're not allowing yourself to be present with what is. And it's from what is that change becomes possible. That doesn't happen until you settle, open your eyes and mind, and notice what's already there for you. Often the 23 signs have come and gone. You simply weren't open and present enough to witness them.
We're at a beautiful moment - a New Moon today, a major astrological transit, the Barbault Basket this weekend - where we can create something new for ourselves, and navigate there through our intuitive senses into greater potential and possibility. This week, dream a little bigger. Assume the Universe leans towards love. I'd love to hear what you're intuitively building right now (hit reply!).
Blessings for great expansion, clear Intuition, and deep trust in yourself.
- Jennifer
P.S. This week is also carrying us energetically towards Eclipse Season, which begins soon. I'm delighted that so many of you have already claimed your place in the Eclipse Package - only 5 spaces remain. If you've been feeling the pull, this is your moment to reach out. Questions welcome, always
