Interpreting Synchronicities from Spirit
September 13th, 2006 by Erin Pavlina
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In my previous blog entry, Signs From the Spirits, I discussed how deceased individuals will try to let you know they’re okay by sending you signs from beyond. But sometimes you get signs and synchronicities and you don’t know what it means. This happened to me recently and I want to share what I went through trying to track down the meaning of a reccuring synchronicity.
I put out the intention that I wanted to get better at communicating with the spirit world so I could serve my clients even better. I wrote down my intention, discussed it with my mastermind group, and expected to see the alpha reflection (the first sign from the universe that a request has been received.) Initially, I put out the intention that I would find someone who could train me, but my mastermind group felt that I wouldn’t necessarily need someone else’s training and that I should be open to just trusting my own guides and my own abilities and that I would eventually learn how to connect the way I wanted to. I wasn’t really happy with that because, frankly, I figured if I learned from someone who was already an accomplished medium that it would help me faster.
Shortly after setting out the intention to get better at connecting with the deceased, I started seeing recurring instances of 444. On the clock, on billboards, license plates, phone numbers, etc. The number combination 444 just kept coming up. I knew it was a sign and I knew it was related to my intention to connect better, but I didn’t know exactly how to interpret it.
So I started trying to figure it out logically. I had learned from Doreen Virtue at the I Can Do It Seminar last May that 444 referred to angels and angel connections. So I thought, “Hmm, maybe I’m supposed to hook up with Doreen and learn mediumship from her.” But I remembered that she’s not really a medium, so at first I thought that wasn’t right. But I went on to her website and discovered to my delight that she actually does teach a mediumship workshop that’s one week long! Score! Sign interpreted. Right? Uh, not quite.
In order to join her medium workshop she requires that you become a certified angel therapy practitioner. Oh. So I looked to see when that next workshop was and the next one was all sold out. The next one after that was available next Spring. The cost? $1777. Wow. Expensive. But… still… if I could graduate from that course then I would qualify to be in her medium workshop the next time she taught it. So next I looked at what hotel arrangements would be. $3,000 for the week. Whoa. Now it’s getting really expensive. That’s almost $5000 to get a certification I didn’t really want, just so I could get into a class a year from now. That didn’t seem right, but I really thought that’s what the spirits wanted me to do. I kept seeing the 444 references and was getting frustrated.
Next I thought maybe there is another famous medium teaching a course that will cost less. Sure enough, there were two. John Holland and James Van Praagh both teach medium courses. But I was blocked there too because both require a prerequisite workshop (expensive and far away), and neither one had a workshop coming up any time soon that I would qualify for. Why was the universe blocking me when I was trying so hard to do what it wanted?!
So I brought my problem to Steve. Here is roughly how that conversation went.
Me: I want to connect more often with deceased people and the universe keeps sending me the 444 sign. I thought it meant I was supposed to go work with Doreen Virtue, but I’m being really blocked from making that happen. Help me figure this out.
Steve: Why do you think 444 refers to Doreen?
Me: Because she’s the one who introduced me to those numbers at her seminar.
Steve: Well what do the numbers mean, according to her?
Me: Something about the angels being present, like they have a message for you when you see 444.
Steve: Oh, okay. Well then, maybe you just have a message from the angels that you need to pick up. Here, let’s tune in and see.
Me: Okay.
We tune in…
Steve: Ah, I’ve got it. When you do your meditation to connect with people for a reading, who do you call in to help you?
Erin: I ask to speak to their higher selves and their spirit guides and any deceased spirits that want to come through.
Steve: Do you ask for the angels’ help?
Erin: Er, um. No, actually I don’t.
Steve: Well you might want to try that next time you do a reading and see what happens.
I decided this was sage advice. The next time I did my meditation to prepare for a reading I included the angels in my request. It was like a floodgate opened! Not only did I get a better connection, I started connecting with deceased relatives way more often than I was before! I also received a new meditation from my guides that would help me reach a much higher plane (it seems so obvious in hindsight). My connection improved massively once I invited the angels to help me, and my mediumship skills have improved significantly.
I stopped seeing the 444 references once I interpreted the sign correctly, because they knew I’d received the message. And my mastermind group was right. I didn’t need someone else to train me. My own guides and angels helped me establish a better connection, and I know with more practice that it’s only going to get better.
Thank you angels!! And thank you Steve for helping me figure that out!
Are you receiving signs or getting synchronicities and you can’t figure out what they mean? Don’t stop investigating. If you’re being blocked using one interpretation, try changing your interpretation. Don’t assume, like I did, that you know exactly what they’re trying to get across. When you finally do figure it out, you’ll know it. The synchronicities will stop.
Note: Signs from deceased relatives like pictures tipping over, or always smelling their perfume when you enter your house, or clocks stopping… those are indications that they’re just trying to connect with you and let you know they’re okay. Those won’t stop when you figure it out, those will keep coming. I’m referring to synchronicities where you keep seeing the same thing over and over or experiencing the same thing over and over and you know that something out there is trying to tell you something.
Does anyone else have a similar experience to share? What was your synchronicity and how did you eventually figure out what it meant?
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September 13th, 2006 at 5:14 am
Amazing! It’s too bad that these messages have to be so cryptic!
A couple of months ago, I was doing a meditation and I got a *very firm* message that I should create my own Tarot deck. I thought that was very strange, and I wondered if the message was for real. I asked for some kind of indication or sign that the message was legitimate and not just a product of my overactive imagination. I was told that in three days I would get a sign, and the sign would take the form of “44A”.
Three days later nothing happened, except that I suddenly realized that 44 is twice the number of cards in the Tarot Major Arcana. Of course, that doesn’t explain the “A”. I also happened to see an eagle flying overhead that day (which is quite rare in these parts, and meaningful for me, as you know), but I couldn’t see how that had anything to do with “44A”.
Now I’m wondering if I misinterpreted it — maybe it was “444″ instead of “44A”. Extremely mysterious.
I’m thinking of making a Tarot deck anyway, just to see what happens. It would be fun to do, fun to blog about, and certainly couldn’t hurt anything.
September 13th, 2006 at 6:34 am
Erin, what do you think Angels “are”? I have trouble disentangling the term from religious ties. Do you think angels and demons are just a flowery personification of energies from the astral or other worlds?
September 13th, 2006 at 6:57 am
At first I was concerned about the religious ties, but they are of no matter. Angels are beings who don’t incarnate. They are representatives of Source, God, Spirit, the One, Consciousness, etc. They are at an extremely high vibration and they are beings of total love. They are ready, willing, and able to help us but we have to ask. They appear in many religious texts in various aspects. Everything I know about angels, though, I learned from Doreen Virtue. In her workshop I really felt their presence for the first time in my life.
September 13th, 2006 at 11:26 am
Interesting post!
Regarding synchronicities from Spirit, many years ago, I was recovering from a brain injury in Evanston, IL. I started getting all these signs about Seattle: my neighbors had moved from Seattle; if I ever (rarely) turned on the TV or radio it would be to a documentary on Mt. Rainier; my brother’s roommate moved to Seattle … you name it, Seattle was there. I got the message quite quickly that I needed to move to Seattle and the other part (from dreams) that I would meet my soul mate there and that meeting my soul mate was key to the rest of my healing … but my disability checks had stopped. I couldn’t work at the time, and I had no money to pay rent, let alone finance a cross country move!
Still, I committed to going, but then I received a date to move, and on top of everything else, it was earlier than my lease would end. In trying to suss out my own fantasies versus clear spiritual guidance, I prayed for a clear sign about the date. Immediately, I “knew” I would receive a workers comp settlement on my birthday. (No one expected me to get a settlement, and certainly not that soon.) I started telling everyone about my “birthday settlement,” and everyone tried to get me to relinquish such a bizarre expectation.
My birthday happened and no settlement, but I still felt certain b/c this was, after all, to be my unmistakeable sign. The day after my birthday, my worker’s comp lawyer called really early and said, “I had an interesting conversation with the other side late yesterday afternoon. They’ve decided to settle, and frankly, it’s for a lot more than I would ever have expected.” I made plans to move to Seattle by the specified date. The check from workers comp arrived literally the day before my flight and just in time to pay the movers. I met my (now) husband 3 weeks later. I met him on my parent’s wedding anniversary, the day after his birthday. He had planned to leave Seattle, and if I hadn’t gone at the specified time, we would have missed each other.
September 13th, 2006 at 5:30 pm
Wow, Laura! What a story!
September 13th, 2006 at 7:13 pm
‘Surprisingly’ I’ve had similar experiences!
It all started when I set out the following intentions:
- I would like my third eye to be fully functional. For the greater good of all. Make it so!
- I want to learn the Truth about God, the Universe and Life. For the greater good of all. Make it so!
- I would like to receive a clear sign, and further instructions from my spirit guide. For the greater good of all. Make it so!
(Not sure if this is the right way to set out intentions, but hey, I’ve got to start somewhere).
)
Next thing I know the number 42 is all over the place. It’s on my clock – 1.42pm, 2.42pm, and 5.42 pm. Not just once, but for days in a row. Sometimes it’s in the minutes, sometimes in the seconds, etc. Article on Tom Cruise (hey, he’s hard to avoid) and he’s 42. Something I need to order from the internet $42.99. Netball game 35-42. Page margin in Word 0.42 cm. And on, and on and on!
I also saw a few a 11:11’s after I read an article on it.
The number 42 for me is not just a number, and it’s not just the number from Douglas Adams’ book either. It has special meaning to me, as it played a crucial role in my life at some stage.
I haven’t really gotten to the point of receiving further instructions yet. I was going to do an email reading with Erin, but $60 USD ($90 NZD) is just a bit too much for me right now (I’m getting married next month).
)
One thing I was thinking of, was to start meditating.
Suggestions anyone?!?
September 13th, 2006 at 7:58 pm
I just found some of the random occurences of 42. I got them from asking the time while working in my command prompt at work. I’ve stored them as bitmaps as well.
Some examples are:
- 11:42.11.11
- 15.42.42.15
Some pretty unlikely occurences I thought…
September 13th, 2006 at 10:45 pm
After reading your latest blog entry, I was very surprised when I noticed this morning the writing time on MY blog entry of yesterday. Especially considering what I wrote about, and the fact that my blog is only a couple of days old.
I don’t know what to make of it but it touches me.
September 14th, 2006 at 5:20 am
I also see the numbers 11:11 on clocks every day almost. I usually make a wish, but I wonder if there’s more significance that I’m missing?
September 14th, 2006 at 11:16 am
In terms of numerology, 11 is a pretty powerful number, associated with many of the topics discussed on Erin’s blog, including the relationship between the spiritual and material world and bringing intuitive gifts into the world. Here’s a link about the 11 life path number. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were a lot of 11’s on this blog.
September 14th, 2006 at 11:17 am
oops! I forgot the link: http://www.starlightnumerology.com/lp-11.htm
September 15th, 2006 at 4:04 pm
Hi everyone, for the last 3 or 4 months I have been noticing while driving in my car, that there is a helicopter overhead…it has happened about 7 times now..right on top of me ….i know it has got to be a sign…but of what?
September 16th, 2006 at 12:17 am
@Erin:
You mentioning communicating with angels got me thinking. Have you ever heard of someone communicating directly with God?!? Or maybe some sort of revelation as to God’s plan/spirit/etc?!?
Or in other words – where’s all this going?
September 19th, 2006 at 10:35 pm
@Koek:
I’d recommend to everyone to go and pick up a copy of ‘Tomorrows God’ by Neale Donald Walsch.. better still, buy the audio book.
Neale is the author of the ‘Conversations with God’ series and if you want to know where all this is going, that book holds a lot of answers!!
If you want to look a little deeper, take a look into the history of Alistar Crowley and his trip to Egypt with his wife Rose resulting in the Book of the Law:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alistair_Crowley
..and succeeding that I’d suggest reading up on ‘the aeon of Maat’:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeon_(Thelema)
And if you want to dive even further into the future of the planet, get a copy of the following book and browse the other books linked to it on Amazon. Read the reviews too! Very enlightening…
http://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Future-Teachings-Prophetic-Hermetic/dp/1574780018/ref=pd_ecc_rvi_3/002-9007071-2528850?ie=UTF8
@Erin:
Great post!
I’ve encountered Angels many times over the past few months of exploring my spirituality. Doreen Virtue has some great books, one called ‘Angel Numbers 1-999′ so if anyone has a lot of repeating synchronicities with numbers my advice would be to get that book!
I was getting 333 on number plates, my new house number was 333, on books and on and on and on and when I bought her book it actually means that the Ascended Masters are with me, guiding me and answering my prayers.. which is always nice to know!
September 20th, 2006 at 8:32 pm
Thanks Matt – I’ve written down the titles you gave me.
I find this fascinating. Are they the angels from the bible?
Same with Jesus. How much truth do we have about Him in the bible?!? Is it all made up, based on actual events, or all true?!?
Tricky question, I know.
September 20th, 2006 at 9:21 pm
@Boris: Helicopters allow you to move in all directions, up, down, to the sides, hovering, etc. They have a strong vibration, and flying them requires total “presence.” It’s dynamic and complicated, yet exhilarating when it all comes together.
There is also something pilots practice called “auto-rotation to the ground,” which is essentially practice for engine failure. You can actually learn to land a helicopter safely without any power, just using air currents and total responsiveness to the helicopter. This skill has saved many, many pilots’ lives and is a key one to learn for getting a helicopter license.
Since you’re noticing the helicopter when you’re in a car, maybe it’s a sign of how many more dimensions are REALLY at your fingertips, as well as a sign to have faith–that when you’re experiencing more dimensions, control and higher sight you can learn to “fly and land safely” even when you totally run out of your own power.
September 20th, 2006 at 11:23 pm
@Koek
Have you ever studied the Kabbalah? http://www.kabbalah.com
Kabbalah taps into an ancient wisdom which stems from the great Egyption dynasties. Jesus was a Kabbalist! As were many other important historical figures. Sir Isaac Newton was exposed to Kabbalah and his copy of ‘Kabbalah Denudata’ or Kabbalah Unveiled is on display at Cambridge University.
Here’s an analogy I was taught at the Kabbalah Centre:
Think of a game of baseball with all the world renowned players; Babe Ruth, Willie Mays… but in this game none of the players no the rules.
Without an understanding of the rules, talent means absolutely nothing, no matter what game we play. Without the rules, there is fighting, arguing, some people make up their own rules, frustration and chaos are everywhere!
On the other hand, an awareness of the rules produces immediate order. Chaos comes to a screeching halt.
Suddenly, everyone knows what to do, what’s expected of them, and how to play the game. Their talents can now blossom. Greatness can fully actualise as they begin to evolve their raw abilities through a series of orderly and well-structured situations that serve to bring out the best in them.
All of which brings us to a game a lot older than the game of baseball. It also happens to be a lot older than basketball, hockey, the Olympics, or any other game for that matter. It’s called the Game of Life — and the rule book to this very challenging game was actually recorded in an ancient manuscript some 2000 years ago. It is called “The Zohar”, the definitive body of knowledge on Kabbalah; a mystical canon containing all the spiritual laws governing the oldest game in the cosmos.
….
I was led to the Kabbalah Centre through many synchronicities, I paid for and downloaded some of the online world lectures and listened to three of them (each an hour long) on the first day. Kabbalah gives you tools that you can apply to your life to make your life more fulfilled.
And the proof is in the pudding. It really does work! These past few months have been by far the best months of my life and I have absolute certainty that things will continue getting better and better, there is no limit to the amount of fulfillment you can attain!
September 21st, 2006 at 2:55 pm
Wow, thanks Matt. That actually makes a lot of sense.
I’ll go read up on that as well!
September 21st, 2006 at 8:19 pm
Check this out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabbalah
Picked up some very interesting new insights…
@Matt:
Is this book any good do you know?
http://store.kabbalah.com/product_info.php?products_id=244
September 22nd, 2006 at 6:30 am
@Koek:
It sure is! I own a copy and intend to buy many more to pass on to friends..
September 28th, 2006 at 9:07 pm
Another synchronicity! I have been seeing number 44 for 2-3 months now. In fact it followed the butterfly synchronicity. First I started seeing butterflies and one day a butterfly actually came into my room and stayed there for more than 24 hours. See this link for more info: http://synchronicityandsaturn.blogspot.com/2006/05/butterfly-synchronicity-another-sign.html.
From the butterfly synchronicities I concluded that a difficult change was waiting for me and then I started seeing number 44, and the difficult phase started right after my birthday in August.
Read the following links in the sequence that are given below:
http://synchronicityandsaturn.blogspot.com/2006/06/synchronicity-am-i-making-it-up.html
http://synchronicityandsaturn.blogspot.com/2006/09/transformation-and-synchronicities.html
http://synchronicityandsaturn.blogspot.com/2006/09/44-and-sai-baba-synchronicities.html
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