Dear Reader,
Autumn informally arrived in Shetland a few days ago. Sunday, I think it was. I was thinking it; Louise said it out loud, and a taxi driver confirmed it for us.
None of us could put our finger on why we felt it. Maybe it was an extra chill in the air, or how the wind picked up… Perhaps it was the continued diminishing of daylight, or the way the clouds – steely looking – filled the sky.
We just knew.
In that same way, sometimes you just know when it’s time to take action or time to sit tight and show patience. It doesn’t matter how you know; you just do. At those times, it is important that you honor our knowing.
In fact, “clear knowing” or claircognizance, is often credited as being one of the four ways our intuition comes to us, along with sensing (clairsentience) seeing (clairvoyance) and hearing (clairaudience.) Oversimplification? Maybe, but these categories can be a great way to start becoming aware of how you experience your own guidance.
Claircognizance often works for me – I just know things – but it is not the way I mainly receive guidance. For me, clairsentience is primary; I feel things, sense them, experience them as flow or movement.
So when I say that I “just knew” that Autumn had arrived, there was also motion involved, a sense of flow – in the changing of light over the summer months, in the direction of the wind and the shifting consistency of cloud cover. All those signs helped me feel a shift, not just in the season, but of timing in my own life.
The time is right for something new. I just know it.
How about you, dear reader – what do you “just know?”
I honor your loving heart,
John
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