Trust Where You’re Being Led

Trust Where You’re Being Led

I think I’m finally starting to understand what it actually means to trust the universe.

I used to think trusting the universe meant having some kind of certainty that everything was going to work out exactly as it should. Preferably with a giant flashing sign saying, “Yes, this way. You’re doing it right.”

Apparently the universe doesn’t provide road signs. Rude, really.

Instead, I think it gives us little threads. We follow one, then another, without necessarily knowing where any of them are going. Then every so often we turn around and realise they’ve somehow started weaving themselves together.

Yesterday was one of those moments for me.

I completed my Reiki Level One attunement, something I’d actually booked before any of the other things that have happened recently. Reiki was already its own path. I’d experienced it, felt drawn towards learning it myself and signed up.

Then, completely separately, I decided to spend my birthday at a spiritual retreat.
I went there alone, not knowing anybody, and while I was there I met someone who mentioned that she’d signed up for a Witch School.

Obviously my little witchy ears immediately pricked up.

It sounded right up my street, so she sent me the details. I went home, looked into it and signed up too.
One decision to spend my birthday doing something completely different had introduced me to someone who, without even realising it, had opened another little doorway for me.

So I started Witch School.

Reiki was still Reiki. Witch School was still Witch School. As far as I knew, these were two completely separate choices I’d made at different times.

Until yesterday.

I turned up for the Reiki course I’d already booked and discovered that my Reiki Master had actually trained alongside my High Priestess from Witch School.

Of all the people I could have ended up learning Reiki from.

And then the other lovely woman doing her Reiki Level One alongside me heard us talking about Witch School and is now going to join too.

At that point I was basically looking at the universe thinking, Okay. I’m paying attention now.

During our Reiki practice, we were asked to quietly ask what we should learn from the day.

So I did.

And the answer that came to me was incredibly simple

Trust the universe.
Well then.
Message received.

Because when I look back, none of this has been one carefully planned journey. I booked Reiki because I felt drawn to Reiki. I went to the retreat because something about it called to me. I met someone there who happened to introduce me to something else that felt right.

And now these completely separate threads are crossing.

Sometimes you don’t see the pattern until you look backwards.

Then last night brought another piece of it together.

I had a medium reading, and my mam came through.

Amongst everything she had to say, one thing has really stayed with me. She was happy with the people I’ve surrounded myself with, and she told me to hold them close.

That meant more to me than I can really put into words.

I’ve reached a point in my life where I’m surrounded by people who allow me to be completely myself. People who encourage the things that light me up, celebrate my happiness and don’t expect me to water myself down to make myself easier to understand.

Apparently my mam has been watching this new chapter unfold and has decided I’m basically Harry Potter now.

Honestly, fair.

There’s Witch School. Reiki. Crystals everywhere. Singing bowls. Herbs multiplying around the house. Enough candles to cause questions. At this point, I’m really only missing an owl.

But underneath the humour, knowing that my mam was happy with the people around me was incredibly special.

And I’m going to listen to her.

I’m going to hold them close.

Because maybe trusting the universe isn’t only about trusting where you’re being led.
Maybe it’s also about noticing who you’re being led towards.

I still don’t know exactly where all of this is going. I don’t know what Reiki will eventually become within Nova Rising Soul. I don’t know what I’ll discover through Witch School, who else I’ll meet or what completely unexpected doorway will open next.

And for once, I don’t need to know.

I don’t need the whole map before I take the next step.

I can just follow the little threads as they appear and every so often look back at how beautifully they’ve started weaving themselves together.

So that’s what I’m doing.

Learning. Exploring. Finding my people. Following what feels right and trusting the universe a little bit more every time.

Daily Affirmation

Nova x