In many if my books I talk about symbols as I also do in this blog. But we are one step away of becoming paranoiac about the signs interpreting absolutely everything we stumble upon. So readers often ask me what is a sign and what isn’t. And I say that I cannot answer since my signs are not other peoples signs. It is an individual alphabet to talk to God.
So, instead of explaining the signs, I normally try to share my signs. So why don’t you try to share your signs?
I’m not saying it is an universal language that your signs can be imposed to others but you can give us examples of signs when these changed your life.
butterfly=metamorphose
Two years ago I dreamt of something and I wrote some notes about the dream, when I woke up, in a piece of paper. I didn’t look at it and I filed it. Now every part of the dream which is very specific is happening and I came accross the piece of paper the other day. I am scared that what I dreamt will happen. I don’t remember the whole dream just some things, and the facts that I wrote, and I don’t remember the end either.
Why? Is there any way to stop it?
Would it be a good end somewhere just I don’t remember it?
I believe that sometimes there are signs for us all who are willing to look at them close enough – this is very difficult to do nowadays. Our ancestors looked closely to what happened around them to know the time to start plant their farm; they depended on stars in setting direction while traveling, knew when the storm would come.
I sometimes analyze my dreams while sleeping and sometimes those dreams really speak up of something. I also sometimes have certain feelings before certain things, which affects me or the people I love, are going to happen.
Signs. I started paying attention to signs in November 2007. I was in bad shape after going through hard times, and that made me fragile enough to notice the signs. Many of them I got in dreams, powerful dreams that continued for some time, always bringing me forward in my personal development. I also experienced a week of signs. One of the most important ones gave me the comfort I needed to get through that week.
I was waiting for a late flight home, concentrating only on keeping my tears inside, it was late in the evening and my tiredness did not make me feel better, on the contrary. I felt overwhelmed by life, not sure whether I’d cope with the situation on hand or not. I just wanted to cry, even in the middle of the airport, because I could not see the love I needed so badly at that moment, feeling very alone.
Just as I was holding back my tears, I suddenly saw a friend of mine walking by with her daughter. I had no idea they were travelling, and therefore I was very surprised to see the two of them. The young daughter, at an age of about 18 months at that time, had hardly ever seen me and was usually very shy about looking at me, the stranger that I was. This late night, though, she ran towards me and wrapped her little arms around me, radiating all the love I needed at that point.
I knew it was a sign for me, I got the love I felt lacking and I knew all would be good in time.
I remarked when i see women are pregnant for example
in the family or the wife of a friend it means for me
a new start, my rebirth
A frog means to me inferioty
A swan means for proudness
Seagull=freedom
An open cage means a new door to more freedom
The past year it happened a few times to me that after a shower or a bath I found pencil pieces (like pieces from a pencil sharpener) in the bathtub. I love art but unfortanatley I’m not blessed with the talent of drawing so since I’m not in contact with pencils it seamed strange to me. Yesterday it happened again, I never paid a lot of attention to it but since yesterday I’m searching for the meaning of it. Is there someone who know the general meaning of it? or are there people who experienced it themselves? If I found out I will keep an update:-)
Kind regards
ann
I can’t run from the #’s 222! If it’s 12:22 ,2:22 a.m or 2:22 p.m. I’m seeing it; It showed up on the DVD player as I paused it 2:22, on statements 222, adresses 222 and now my cell phone 817-222-2012? I have the person name that called me from that (#)……
I am not sure if I should be calling it a sign,but I have come across such situations many times.On many instances I have been caught in a dilema and for days I have not been able to take a decision. For example when my husband proposed to me for marriage I was caught in a terrible dilema-I like him but feared that he might also betray me like my former boyfriend.I was suffering from a broken past and this made me very apprehensive of entering another relationship. At that time I prayed to god and asked for a sign to guide me in the right path.Incredibly,this happened and helped me to take the most important decision of my life.Even now I continue taking decisions based on signs whenever I am in a dilema.Trust me I have never gone wrong.
How can one differentiate a sign from an intention manifestation activity? I believe that a thought thrown out to the universe catches energy and manifest itself to a form depending on the strength of faith given to that thought.When I left the company I worked for 10 years, I didnt have anything inlined to do, no job to bounced into. And in that moment of my depression about starting all over again, not having the self esteem to support myself for anothr job, I had to find a way to inspire me, since I believe inspiration keeps us well. At one point I visualized my self getting married to a particular man, brown hair, blue eyes and my sign to find is he wears white shirt and blue jeans. three years later, I saw this guy in the new company I am working for and his physical look caught my eye. Telling myself, this is the man I will end up marrying, I went home and imagined and fantasized and prayed about this man. Three more years and it has been series of intention manifistation, he would wear white shirt and blue jeans, the small myna birds which is my sign from god that everything will be okey keeps appearing, But I never had the courage to approach this man. So what are the signs for? If signs are there to trigger us to act on something we badly want, what would give us courage to do what we have to do?…
Hello Charlene,
I often wonder too how to differentiate a Sign from an intention manifestation.
For me, the only determining factor has been time, time tells, but I hope Paulo you can help us to see this a bit more clearer.
Love
C.
Really interesting, although I cannot help. I cannot tell the difference.
What would I do?
I would approach this man because I would consider this a sign.
Love and much light.
Adriana
i had this weird premonition or something. while on my way to work, i do my usual morning prayer on the bus. my thoughts are usually scattered so i usually stick to the routinary flow of praying before my mind would doze off. during the prayer time, my thoughts would really wander off. last sunday, i was thinking about diary writing. when i got to the office, did my usual coffee to start the day while reading the morning paper. then, on the front page (not the headline though), the topic on the lifestyle section was about diary writing and sometime during the day, i read on the net about the video footage of Anne Frank. then on Monday, i was again on my usual morning prayer. i was just thinking about my life and how i can turn it around. then i thought of a phrase like “smile, and the world smiles at you”. then, when i checked on facebook in the afternoon, i read somebody’s shout out as “laugh, and the world laughs with you.” that was when i thought that these are not just coincidence that what would cross my mind as a thought would be repeated to me as a message from other people. two days in a row!
then again yesterday, i was praying for rain (an almost impossible one because i am now living in the desert and it hasn’t rained for monthsss now). i was thinking that i miss the rain and how i enjoyed it when it would sometimes unexpectedly rains back in my home in the tropics. me and my friend call the sudden rain as “justice from heaven”.
then yesterday, i received an email saying something like “the rain from heaven falls on the just and the unjust”. coincidence again?
i dont know what this exactly means. but i have not excercised my psyche for quite some time now.
i can not excercise my mental powers or whatever coz its against me religion. but i hope i can put to good use whatever it is that’s happening in my mind.
my sign is my father’s death. my father’s death means i’m not suppose to be a doctor or scientist.
Hi everyone.
I get signs all the time and the most important ones I have to keep private to myself, but I began to notice them in 1990.
The very first one I noticed was on the 25th July 1990. I went for a walk with my boyfriend and we stopped outside a church. We were infront of the commemoration stone in the wall of the church telling us that the church was built on the 25th July 1878, and we both suddenly realised that the day was also the 25th July.
That is the first sign I remember experiencing in my life.
I had 3 on Friday the 27th March, but they are very personal.
All I will say is that the last one was about the coming of the Age of Aquarius – it told me that this dawn of a new age has arrived.
My only advice is BELIEVE IN YOUR SIGNS, BUT LET THEM HAPPEN – DON'T SPEND TOO MUCH ENERGY LOOKING FOR THEM. THEY WILL HAPPEN IF YOU FOLLOW YOUR HEART.
AND SIGNS ARE SIGNS – FORM NOT ESSENCE. LOOK FOR THE ESSENCE. ITS IN OUR HEARTS AND SOULS.
Karen xxxxxxxxxxxxx
As I see it, we have to develope the ability to discern what thing or event is a sign meant for us, and what is just a flight of our imagination. In working with meditation we can learn how to receive answers from our Higher Self. But even then, our imagination ,or ego, can trick us into thinking we have been given a sign.
What I can say is that it is something that takes much practice, and conscious effort to be able to determine when to leap and when to look
Signs are comforting in that they have always been there; disabling because they can almost appear “too good to be true.” Doubt and faith are fickle. It’s hard for me to know how much to write; I feel like I’m already writing too much. In any event, the signs were what lead me to this site – to watching this video. It took five years to come to this, and this may have hopefully been only just the beginning. When I was a child, I was in love with the outdoors. I would strain grass and plants and flowers and make perfumes and other concoctions. I was born Catholic and attended Catholic school but was convinced I was a seventh grade witch who was devoted to Wicca. My priest told me this was out of fear for the sins I had made, and turned me from that path during high school. I decided, out of sheer laziness, to attend the Community College instead of applying to Georgetown, where my father graduated. In an Intro. to Sociology class I sat next to a boy who had recently returned from teaching English in Ghana. I decided then I would volunteer. My assignment was in Cape Town, South Africa, at a children’s convalescent home. During a field trip away from our volunteer placements, I overheard two men with American accents talking about New Jersey. It caught my ear because we were listening to a lecture about penguins ending up on the southern tip of Africa and that was not apart of the discussion. I entered in and introduced myself. They were both old enough to be my grandfathers. As we got to talking, one of the gentlemen said he was an alumni of Georgetown University – one that takes interviewees for the college and helps decide their fate. Nevertheless he told me to look him up when I applied, and gave me 100 Rand to spend on souvenirs. Needless to say I felt something there, and was compelled instead to try to attend the University of Cape Town. I made a trip back that following March. (The experience had taken place in August) In March I fell in love all over again – to the point where I almost changed my flight to come back to the states. I very reluctantly decided against this, as my best friends had taken off work to pick me up from the airport. There were two flights I had to take to get home. On the first, I ended up being seated next to a professor from the University of Cape Town; he was traveling with the dean to give a presentation about geology. He was extremely genuine and gave me his card, telling me that he had friends in admissions and would lend me a helping hand. Back in New Jersey, I met a boy and dropped everything to go and be with him. I rediscovered a love for film and acting that I had had since I was a child, but was diminished by my father’s love for medicine and things of reason. No more than a week afterwards, my boyfriend’s friend Eric and Eric’s father came to stay the night with us as they were passing through the south. His father, turns out, has not only a SAG card but studied with Mike Nichols. He also told me if I ever needed anything, he was a phone call away. These signs and experiences – basically I think God telling me anything is indeed possible as long as you CHOOSE – made my head spin. It was at this time I decided to re-read the Alchemist. I had read every one of your books and they all moved me. I had the latest one, Brida, but was waiting to devour it because I did not know when another story would come out. As I’m telling this to my boyfriend, my heart is telling me to read it anyway – there was something that I needed to take away from it. Immediately. So I read the book in a day. I can’t even describe the feelings and energies it evoked. I had a spiritual healer, she was one of my mother’s best friends, she was incredibly gifted. Said I was too, and in time it would come full circle. I never listened to her much because she said smoking marijuana would be a downfall for me and as a teenager I refused to believe that. She passed away and I no longer get to speak to her of the wonderful things that are past lives, etc. I went on the internet to look for Paulo Coelho. Anything I could get my eyes on – especially having to do with the Traditions of the Sun and the Moon. I came across this, and an advertisement for your new book! Which I had no idea had been released. The signs were and are everywhere. Now I sit dumbfounded – but mystified – but all that has happened up until this point – I have twenty one years, the same amount that Brida had beginning her search. I’m not sure where to go from here. In the same, I am exactly sure where to go from here.
Even in escaping the “responsibility” of writing this, the signs keep bringing me back.
i can relate to your experience.
i was also born and raised Catholic. i also came to a point of practicing wiccan but had to stop it because i was told that witchcraft is contradicting my traditional religion.
my favorite book is The Alchemist and i just finished reading Brida.
i also met someone who believes that my third eye is open.
lately, i have been receiving signs as well.
for now i am so confused about the relation of my religion to the wiccan art.
unfortunately, i have not yet met my “teacher” who can guide me through the confusion i am in.
hi everybody,as i didn’t come here since some weeks?,well i see many letters,new people,this is a good new!!
Lina.L
The connection with all things hey? A good sign.
Yesterday, I was on another trainride to the city I study in. I haven’t really been looking out of the train window lately because I have used this time on the train to polish my classes that I have to prepare for the children (speech therapy).
Yesterday, I did.
And I got three signs:
First sign: there was a field made by a man, to grow some plants. But since the spring just started and the snow has just melted (and at some places still is melting), the field was only pure dirt. And from the melted snow and from the rains there had appeared a water puddle, in the middle of the field. In the middle of the water puddle there was a perfect white swan swimming and cleaning itself with its little “ugly” swan-ducklings (3 of them?), who, in the future, will also grow into perfect white swans. Beautiful and graceful.
Second sign: also another field (some minutes later), and on that field a pair of swamp-cranes. Gray coloured, another graceful creatures.
Third sign: Another deer, who was again scared of the train-noises and jumped between the trees to hide. And actually, before I saw the deer, I was hoping for one, since I hadn’t seen any… seems silly, but I was uncontrollably happy when I saw one. And BTW. I was glad to have seen the deer, because since the snow is melted it’s a bit more hard to spot and notice them – they are brown and the nature has not yet waken yet, so it is brownish also. But since the deer was moving, it was easy… (I bet some are thinking why do I go on with the deer talk, it’s just silly. Well, I just love nature and animals – since I was a child, really. That’s my odd-spot.)
So, the past fears of losing the signs was empty fears.
I feel a little silly, but thankful to have learned the lesson.
Thank You.
Liina L.
the Valkyries was a sign. a sign that your the one who must know the miracle: the ribble.
Treu symboles are not the product of our conscious-ego!
The problem starts when we try to consciously creat/see symboles!
Here, our consiouse starts to trick us to see and hear what it wishes to see and hear and all goes wrong…
Treu symbols have the charactarestic of being numinous, that is why they are hard to be realized and for lots of people hard to be believed..
It takes to activate our other organs of comprehension (rather than logic alone) to able to see and understand symboles..
Sometime, when I think about signs I remember this movie, “Evan Almighty”, and especially the conversation between “God” (Morgan Freeman) and Evan’s wife:
“God: Let me ask you something. If someone prays for patience, you think God gives them patience? Or does he give them the opportunity to be patient? If he prayed for courage, does God give him courage, or does he give him opportunities to be courageous? If someone prayed for the family to be closer, do you think God zaps them with warm fuzzy feelings, or does he give them opportunities to love each other?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkf-J9TjGPc&feature=related
I can only pray that we can always be aware of the chances that our God gives us to grow up and follow our path… signs.
Love and have you all a wonderful Monday,
Rossana