For as long as I can remember, during even my darkest, saddest, loveliest, depressing or most challenging times-- the Universe has sent me gifts of hope.
Little signs, symbols, rays of meaning, hope, and magical communication from another place, belief system, or state of being-- most often seen as heaven.
A way of standing outside and apart from fear, sadness, grief, or depression and living (even for a moment) in hope and the promise of something--especially better days ahead.
For me, the most common is the sign signature known as 11:11. I can't even remember when it started but decades and decades ago. Possibly even during analog times but only seen and noticed as being remarkable during our digital beginnings.
When the digital sequence of 11:11 or 11/11 is noticed and appreciated as magical--every single day and often twice a day (a.m. and p.m) then you really expand your belief system as to what incredible and magical things happen.
The 11:11 digital time code phenomenon is the term generally used to describe the experience of noticing, seemingly by chance, the digits 11:11 on digital time pieces, time and temperature signs, and so on.
Some people report having had this experience so often that it begins to feel like it "means something". A number of ideas have emerged purporting to explain what it means to have this experience.
Some Wikipedia contributions at different times (including my own) so I'm expanding my ".. " just in case
"Numerologists believe that events linked to the time 11:11 appear more often than by chance or coincidence. This belief is related to the concept of synchronicity. Other authors believe it is an auspicious sign, and others that it signals a spirit presence.
There are many who believe that just like a computer, whose entire programing is based on just two digits "0" and "1", and increasingly complex variations of their patternings, that our own perceived reality made is also ordered by mathematical probabilities of numeric codes.
There are, in fact people who believe that human DNA, our genetic memory, is encoded to be triggered by digital codes at specific times and frequencies. And that these codes awaken the mind to the change and evolution of consciousness.
And so, to many, 11:11 is one of those codes, meaning activation of our DNA. A gateway to other possibilities or magical improbabilities.
In mathematics, 11 is a double digit. It is therefore considered a Master or Power Number. In Numerology, 11 represents impractical idealism, being visionary, having to do with intuition, revelation, and artistic and inventive genius. Eleven is considered the higher octave of the number two (1 + 1).
It carries psychic vibrations and has an equal balance of masculine and feminine properties. Because eleven contains many gifts such as psychic awareness and a keen sense of sensitivity, it also has negative effects such as treachery and betrayal from secret enemies."
For those of you who are superstitious (as I can be) many associate 11:11 with a wake-up code or an alarm as they see it on digit clocks and watches.
It can also be seen as a key to unlock the subconscious mind, our genetic encoded memories. Simply because 11:11 or derivatives of these numbers, 111 and 11, are digits that repeat in time and thus are symbolic and can be seen as a metaphor for reality or as patterns that repeat in time for us to experience.
The most interesting quote from wiki is "this can refer to the rise and fall of civilizations, our personal experiences and lessons, loops in time."
It doesn't matter how big or small your experience is. It's all yours and it's magical even if experienced by others in seemingly bigger or more frequent ways.
It you notice it and it touches or transforms your beliefs it's equally wonderful, useful and remarkable.
And "pennies from heaven"?
Not "just an old fashioned love song" but another amazing phenomena. For years spent in depression or pain or deepest grieving, I found them over and over every single day. Many, many signs and symbols that changed me in so many ways.
Initially, it was after the sudden death of two of the closest people in the world to me in one horrific accident, one of them a young child. I heard (in my mind) "feed the birds" from Mary Poppins and found a penny under a rock I moved to open the gate to get the birdseed to feed my best friend's beloved wild bird friends . I found pennies from then on. Outside, in streets, in stores, inside socks in the dryer, in stores...on and on and very, vety often in very strange and improbable places-stuck in moldings behind furniture, under bricks, rocks etc.that I moved. I literally filled a big big pot with them over the decades.
Rainbows we all see as magical and it's no accident we see them on the darkest of days as signs of hope and promise, Seeing a double rainbow or the other odd versions that I can't remember the names of, even more amazing.
I know @lynnventura finds pennies, she asked (in another thread but i started this one) if others find them for their stories.
@deetoo has been finding spider webs. I love those being her magical symbol now. Dee, I have my broomstick ready at all times for a "magical mystery ride", do you or anyone else care to join me?
I have a huge spiderweb at the corner of my front door right now. Everytime someone new comes in or out, i point it out and tell them I'm decorating for Halloween.
All magical, all meaningful, all so filled with fun even when your tears are more spontaneous than your smiles.
Keep on believing, hold the hope and the promise in your heart--especially during the darkest, deepest, or most challenging times.
It's all part of the whole, this weird and magical place called earth in this weird and magical place called life in our bizarrely complex state of being called em-bodi-ment in whatever the heck we are experiencing.
Love you all. Please share even your smallest magical experience here:
@michele-b-here-in-the-forum
?Everywhere else I must someone, something else..hahahaha. Grabbing my broom, my pot of pennies, my baskets and baskets of heart rocks, and flying over her spider webs and down a brand new yellow brick road-- trying always to hold on to my hat and my smile ?
Here is a story that I don't often share, but it is relevant to this topic. It's a little long so bear with me.
In the early 1970s, my dear mother began saving Kennedy Half Dollars in a jar she kept under our kitchen sink. She always said that she was saving the coins for "something special."
In 1995, my father died suddenly and unexpectedly and soon after my mother was diagnosed with a rare neurological degenerative disease that is always fatal within a few years. We decided that it would be best for her to move to California, closer to me. While we were cleaning out her house for the move, the last thing she did was reach under her kitchen sink and pull out the jar of Kennedy half dollars.
She gave the jar to me and said, "save these to use for when you need something happy, and whenever you see Kennedy half dollars, think of me."
She died in 1999. About five months after she died, I fell into a deep depression. I missed her so much. One day, I was driving to the supermarket and I just started sobbing in my car. I got to the store, parked, and sat in my car for a while trying to compose myself. I opened the door, and there on the ground, right by my car was a Kennedy Half Dollar coin!
Of course, I immediately thought of my mother. :)
But, the story doesn't end there. You see, for the last 20 years, every time something major is about to happen to me or my kids, I receive a Kennedy half dollar from out of the blue.
Just a few examples (I can't list them all because there are too many!):
- My daughter needed major surgery when she was in high school and was in the ICU for two days afterwards. I took a break from sitting in her room and went to get something to eat in the hospital cafeteria and was given a Kennedy half dollar coin in change (my daughter also says that when she was coming out of anesthesia, she clearly saw my mother in the room, smiling at her)
- When I dropped both my daughter and son off for their freshmen years at their respective colleges, I received Kennedy half dollars in change on the day I dropped them off.
- I found a Kennedy half dollar in the parking lot of the hospital where I had just had a biopsy for suspected cancer (turned out to be a false alarm).
- Two days before my daughter's wedding, I received THREE Kennedy half dollars in change from three different stores on the same day!
I've also found and received Kennedy half dollars on vacations, when I bought a new car, and when I was struggling with personal decisions or filled with anxiety about some change coming.
Kennedy half dollars aren't rare coins, but their circulation is very limited compared to other coins. When was the last time you received one, or found one in a parking lot by your car?
I know it can just be coincidence that I've gotten so many of these coins right before big events in my and my kids' lives and at times when I'm feeling very anxious or depressed but I feel deep in my heart that my mother is sending them to me.
My mom always did things in big ways. Why send me pennies from heaven when she can send me Kennedy half dollar coins? :)
But anyhow, this brings me up to what happened yesterday. On Tuesday, I was feeling very overwhelmed by everything happening with Trump. I went out to my garden and did a half hour of meditation-slash-prayer and asked my mother if she could please put in a good word or two for the country.
Because I have arthritis, I can no longer carry a purse comfortably, so I've taken to just tucking a small pocket sized wallet into my jeans when I go out. I just cleaned out that little wallet a few weeks ago, and took out all of the change.
Anyhow, yesterday (Wednesday), I went to put that little wallet in my pants and felt something hard in it. I opened it up and there was a 1971 Kennedy half dollar coin!
I have no idea how it got into my wallet. I don't remember getting it in change since I cleaned out my wallet at the beginning of the month (I would have noticed getting it in change). I thought maybe my husband had put it in there as a surprise but he said he didn't.
This was the first time in 20 years that a Kennedy half dollar just appeared in my wallet inside my house with no explanation.
My mom usually sends them when she wants to let me know that she sees what is happening and is still with me. I'm not sure if this was a message from her about Trump and America, or if it was about something that's coming for me or my kids personally.
Or maybe, mom was just saying hello. :)
Oh, I also want to share something else weird that has been appearing in my life.
For the last six weeks, every where I go I am coming across wild bird feathers! I even found one in my car the other day. I'm not talking one or two feathers. I'm talking DOZENS of bird feathers from all sorts of birds, including owls, hawks, wild turkeys, and others.
Not sure what that means, but I've never found so many feathers in my life!
@michele-b-here-in-the-forum,
Thanks for directing us to the 11:11 topic. I'm loving these posts!
This is a reposting, from "Situation Unraveling ..." thread:
A few weeks ago I posted on this site about a large spider web that I discovered on our front porch. I saw the web immediately after I was feeling very despondent about T. I received the message that he and his minions would be caught in their own web of deceit.
Then last week during our vacation at the beach, I saw another spider web, shortly after hearing more distressing T**** news on MSNBC. Photos of that web are attached.
Maybe you had to be there, but I found this spider web magnificent – especially when I first saw it through the sunrise (second photo). To me it reinforced what I felt a few weeks ago about T., but more importantly, it signified the hope and faith of a new day. I hope it uplifts you as it did me.
I'll be curious to see if there are more spider web "messages" in my future! And @michele-b-here-in-the-forum -- I'd love to accompany you on a magical mystery ride -- I need to dust off my broom!
Oh Rosieheart! For sure it's your mom saying hello! OMG as I typed that I got dizzy...seriously...and flushed! wow.
My mom passed away suddenly in 1983, Feb 12, we buried her on Valentines day. I was 22 yrs old & devastated to say the least. I was pretty sad for most of the year. I used to go into my mother's dresser and touch her "unmentionables" as my dad called it. Her silk stocking pouch was beautiful and it was a gift from a relative. I used to examine those stockings and that pouch and sit on her bed as a way of connecting I guess. Months went by and it was December. I was sad to think of Christmas without her so I sat on her bed when i was home alone and cried out that I didn't know how i was going to afford to get my brother and my boyfriend new boots for Christmas because they needed them. I suddenly heard my mother say "look in my stocking pouch - there's a $100 for you!" I had goosebumps! (my dad never went in that pouch). I opened it up and there was a $100! (I know it was not there before!)
The same week she died, I felt her propel me to go to an interview with a company I worked at for 35 yrs. I actually walked an hour to the interview. I heard her tell me they would hire me (very large company that had her same initials lol) They did. She's been doing things like that for me ever since.
I am a believer.
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Love love love your Kennedy half dollar stories!
Amazing. Improbable and exactly how miracles and messages of communication beyond this world and this dimension of reality works!
Wow, great great example! Bless you for sharing ?
Yes. Yes. Yes. Feathers are awesome messages from spirit! When i find one i look up what the bird's symbolic meaning is from any animal spirit, animal totem or power animal site and there's always a message I receive that is right on.
The same with an animal sighting--a deer in the back yard, a raccoon on my deck, whatever. Bunnies, horses, pigs you name it, they come as messages and messengers to me. Yours are coming is abundance! Wonderful blessings and gateways to spirit. Wonderful!?
Awesome @@rosieheart!
PS i also find heart shaped rocks, at least one per outing. Of course I've learned to keep my eye out for them, increases my odds as well as my collection...another message about how this all works!
Also watch for feathers, pennies...but my gosh I'd love your half dollars (definitely a politcal message to me...go dems ..hahaha)
Or Tricia's $100 bills just as much ? well, ok. Probably love finding them more.
Big big big hugs on your loss of your mom. Know how it is, how deep it hits and how long it takes to not cry and yearn for a very, very long time. We really never get over close bonds of love and heart connection ?
Thanks for reposting your spider web tales and photos. So great and so symbolic really. Spiders and the ancient spider woman of native cultures weave the web of the world, are the keepers of our dreams and protectors from the darkness of our nightmares.
Look it all up...Spider woman as dream weaver etc. I love the stories and symbolism and keep the commonly seen woven dream weavers by our beds.
Here's a good starter site of spider's symbolic importance
Especially followed up by second link here
And I'll get my broom dusted off as well and we'll be off riding the moon beams of the celestial realms ⚡☄⚡
Ps i was missing my image pf my pennies from heaven penny pot but my link for adding an image in finally appeared here!
Why it was missing before is beyond me. The great trickster was having too much fun with me as usual. Ha!
I love this topic ! Without even being aware of the number 11, it suddenly became a constant occurrence in my life starting decades ago. It would appear as an important date- 11/11 or the birth of my son 1/11, or closing for our house on our 11th wedding anniversary etc.... All of our houses or apartments had the number 11 attached to them- 1111, 551 ( 5+5+1=11), etc.. Then recently our daughter and son-in-law wanted to purchase a house, but the bidding was starting the next week. In CA houses go for several hundreds of thousands of dollars over asking price typically. They had a budget and placed an offer. They asked to have the ability to counter the offers. The bidding started and they received 5 offers, then 8, then 11- that's when I knew they would get it ! But, it didn't stop there. The offer countered back with an 11 in it ( not typical ) and their house # 18338 (8+3=11). Pennies are always at my feet and I know my father is sending his love and presence. My granddaughters look for them and whenever we look at the clock to see 1:11 , 2:22 they say "Angels are here " Thank you for such a fun topic ! Blessing to everyone