Life doesn’t stop sending signs just when we’re lost, it whispers directions to us softly with a feather, a clock that stops, or a number you see again and again. Signs don’t speak in words, they speak through time and symbols. As we uncover these remnants, we are reminded of how we can glimpse traces of our ancestors and piece together what may have been trying to get our attention through signals already around us.
So, now that we’re thinking about it a little, how can we start honing in on these ‘markers’? Let’s make it a treasure hunt and begin to dig up the clues from what’s around us. This is what archeologists do, just on a more rigorous basis. They select a site, select a location to excavate, prepare for going about the ‘dig,’ and then go to the site and begin, making notes of each remnant uncovered.
You can go about your ’dig’ similarly too. Pick a time to start, relax and allow your mind to wander a bit, and then slowly ‘see’ what starts coming into your mind. If nothing comes at first, that’s okay, still sit a bit longer because if you start clearing a space, in time your mind will become more relaxed and open. If you find yourself distracted or sidelined suddenly by something you see or something floating through your mind, try to remember it, then when you end the relaxation time, write down what you saw, what you imagined, what you felt. Throughout the day observe if you note any similar signs or things that seem familiar or feel kind of’ like what you felt or saw while relaxed. Write that down too. Then the next day, do it again. You don’t need to take a long time each time you do it, just make sure you write down anything that you remember each time. It is key to write everything down because there may be items or thoughts that have recurred on other occasions that are now surfacing so that you can notice them.
After a week, take a look at what you wrote down. You may or may not see anything that stands out to you just yet, keep doing this for a few weeks and review your findings. Like an archeologist, you’ve begun your dig! As you collect your findings you can then decide if any of what you’ve read is starting to resonate a bit with your dreams, your hobbies, or habits ? Did anything you wrote down remind you of something you dream of or of some era in history?
I’m personally not a big believer in reincarnation, mainly because I surely don’t know if it could really happen, but I do believe that aspects of history and our cultural heritage still resonate in our genes. We may simply find ourselves gravitating to certain times in history attractive to us, or maybe daydream of places we have always wanted to travel to…and it is possible, if we get our ancestry records, we may find we actually had some ancestors that lived in those areas. Even if you don’t find any documentation, that doesn’t mean they weren’t real, only that there is no evidence of them at this point—and you may never have hard evidence, but, like discoveries archeologists make all the time, you can continue digging and as science keeps making inroads, so can you.
As you start looking at things from a slightly different perspective, you will start noticing more signs, emblems, symbols. You’ll start listening to stories and begin hearing them from new perspectives, so stay receptive, curious, and open! In time you may realize that certain things have always been unnoticed consciously by you, but were just under your radar. In fact, you may have had favorite things for years and seldom thought about why, like a lucky number, a charm, a lucky shirt. As you collect the notes you made, you may start to see recurring symbols, dream sequences, or even recurring thoughts of things that happened long ago. There may not be specific things that initially come to mind, but persist in making your notes, then reviewing them. Single out what seems to regularly occur.
