How to get Super Clear Guidance
My new home in the country is like a Castle, but instead of being surrounded by a moat, its access points are two narrow one-way lanes.
The first time we came to view the house we drove up the narrow twisty lane and I thought to myself.. ‘not a chance’. For context I’ve lived in London for the last ten years and haven’t driven at all during that time. Before that I drove on Australian roads, which are rarely one way, but if you are out in the sticks and on a dirt track, on the highly unlikely chance you’ll cross paths with another soul, there’s plenty of room to drive off the road and around one another. Here in Somerset though, the tracks are one way and have high hedges forming a wall on either side, if you meet someone, there is nowhere to go but forward or back.
The thought of this new road becoming my driveway was not a positive. But the space! After living in a 1.5 bedroom London flat with my partner who worked from home full time, wandering through this gorgeous 3 bedroom home felt like a dream. It had features I didn’t have the audacity to put on my wishlist; a jacuzzi bath, 3 bathrooms, a walk-in wardrobe!! The icing on the cake though, the thing that had us signing the lease in our heads, was when we went outside to admire the view and saw two deer placidly staring back at us from the field next door. I wanted to live where the deer live.
The lovely landlord who was showing us the property asked which lane we drove up, because one is very narrow and the other a little better. ‘The narrow one’, we said confidently. When we came back with the moving van next, we discovered our mistake. Scraping hedges on either side at every turn in the path I prayed we wouldn’t meet anyone else coming the other way, the first track had apparently been the ‘wide’ one.
It's now been almost six months since we moved and I’m still very acutely aware of the Moat that surrounds our castle. Road etiquette dictates that whomever is driving downhill should be the one to reverse if you meet, but often it is a case of who is most obliging and/or confident at reversing. The tracks each way are actually quite busy so you might think that in that six months I would have had many instances of stand offs in the lane, I’ve certainly been with my partner when he has. But as yet, I haven’t, I’ve only ever met cars at the passing point or the top of the lane.
I attribute this to the habit I’ve developed of asking my guides and the local helpers to please clear the path for me whenever I’m driving. I’ve also noticed really clear signs that I see to show confirmation that the path is clear ahead. A bird will swoop down and fly ahead of me up the lane, indicating ‘the path is clear, follow me!’ or I simply see a flash of wings in my mind, which means the same thing. The clarity of this guidance has really surprised me, I do consider myself an Intuitive person and Clairvoyance is my strongest sense (which is why these signs show up for me as images) but even I’ve been surprised with the regularity I see these signs and synchronicities and how clear the path ahead consistently is for me. There have also been times when I’ve felt the urge to pause at a point or been slowed by traffic before turning in and these times are when I’ve met the oncoming car at just the right point.
This clarity has been so strong, that I questioned my guides about it, ‘why do I see these signs so clearly and why do I feel so assisted in just this one area of my life?’ The implied question being ‘why don’t I feel this level of help in all areas of my life?’ The response I got back felt like first a revelation and then immediately very obvious; ‘Because you’re being very specific in your request and you’re invested and paying attention to the signs.’ Which feels a bit like being called out to be honest, because I think when I ask for help most often I don’t know what I actually want help with. I don’t know what my ideal outcome is, or what signs I would like for to know that things are moving in my favour. I’m just shouting ‘help’ into the void and hoping my guides will not only make a vision board for me but then make it come true as well. The analogy I see ( I told you – Clairvoyant) is a toddler having a meltdown on the supermarket floor. They don’t know what they want they just know that THEY WANT! Not a very successful strategy because if they were able to be clear and ask for the thing they actually desire, they would have a much better chance of actually getting it. That might be a slight exaggeration but there is definitely an element (or two) of truth there.
So, for now, this metaphorical moat that I swim several times a day, every day, is teaching me lessons. Its strengthening my trust in my Intuition but also teaching me to be specific when I ask for help, to think about where I want to feel supported and what outcomes I actually want, to look for signs and synchronicities that have meaning to me for reassurance and to know the help and the guidance can be really clear and quite astonishing, if I ask in the right way. Part of me worries that in writing this, I’m jinxing what is just actually a very lucky run, but I guess that just shows that I need to swim the moats a little more to fully trust how held and supported I am.