personal oracles ;

 
In the first half of Thursday's show, spiritual teacher Ann Bolinger-McQuade shared how to identify the signs and signals which she calls personal oracles that can guide us along life's journeys. Such oracles can be a kind of personal intuition or telepathic warning, she commented. For example, a woman named Rhonda was out walking her dog, when a hummingbird flew in front of her face, and she got a strong sense of danger and decided to head home. Upon her return, she found a telephone message from her neighbor alerting her that some mad dogs were in the neighborhood and had attacked some livestock and killed their pet. "The universe sends us these messages in ways that we can interpret them, and ways that resonate with us personally," she remarked.

She suggested writing down or making note of when you get a feeling or intuition to do something or not, and then seeing how the outcome plays out. This will help make you more aware of personal oracles, which can come in five different categories-- conduits, mirrors, synchronicities, signs & symbols, and "invisible moving sidewalks." The last category, she explained, is when you step into an action without even realizing it, and arrive at a new destination or decision. Signs & symbols refer to an object such as a rock or cloud, shaped in a certain way that you might interpret uniquely. For instance, there is a boulder in Taos that she thinks looks like a tortoise and when she sees it, it reminds her to slow down. "There's all kinds of things hidden like that for all of us, all the time," she added. For more, check out this video trailer for her book, Personal Ora