I had a serendipitous moment yesterday; a mini-spiritual revelation. It would be kind of cool if I could tell you it came while I was deep in a meditative trance, with incense burning and some kind of chant playing in the background. Actually, I was blowing bubbles in my own backyard. Something I do with stunning regularity.
First, some backstory. In my 'career life' I work with entrepreneurs & start-ups, which is very invigorating, but has some pitfalls. One big one: stability. I work in administration/operations which, sadly, like arts in schools, is the first to get the ax when money gets tight. Which is what happened about a month ago, my then employer told me they could no longer afford me. Whop-whop. I was BUMMED. Majorly bummed to be leaving such a fun job with great, funny, and intelligent people. But it was what it was, and I try to be a pretty glass half full gal. So once I had my cry, I started looking towards the future, and I was optimistic that not only would I find a new job, but it would be better than my last. The job boards seem ripe with possibilities, and I'm pretty awesome, so it was all going to work out.
Except it hasn't. yet.
Over a month later, and as of the time I'm writing (and now typing) this, I'm still unemployed. What's worse, no one has even wanted to interview me! The job boards are drying up and the little voice in the back of my head keeps trying to get louder and louder with it's negative talk. I'm trying to be patient. And besides the actual applications, I've been talking to the universe/angels/etc and asking for something awesome to come my way, but it just hasn't yet.
But I have been getting a similar message of late, when I use my oracle cards (or check in with those that do, {I love following Doreen Virtue on instagram!}) and when I check repeating numbers in my Angel numbers book, I'm consistently seeing the same message: Be patient. You've been heard. The solution is coming. etc. But gosh being patient and waiting for who knows what is just so hard!
Then yesterday, I was blowing bubbles. It was a perfectly blustery almost fall day, lovely weather, lovely temperature. But the bubbles just weren't performing like they usually do. Maybe I was spoiled by the recently retired bubble blower, but the bubbles I was blowing 'by hand' were just ok. Then before I could raise the wand to my face and blow another stream of bubbles, the wind picked up just right and blew the bubbles for me. And I don't know how else to describe them except to say they were perfect. The most perfectly round bubbles I ever saw. They were the size of melon's and they just floated out so perfectly.
So I tried it again. I held the bubble wand up in the air like I was hailing the Knight Bus and whooosh, along came a breeze, catching the wand just right, and again, perfectly beautiful bubbles. They floated all the way across the lawn before popping.
It seems silly, yes wind can make bubbles, yes bubbles are round, bu something about these bubbles was just so perfect that they literally took my breath away and left me with this sense of awe.
And then a thought popped in my head, call it a message, call it my subconscious, it the labeling doesn't matter:
I'm the bubble wand. It's my job to be high in the air (my highest self). Let the universe be the wind.
Yes I could take a b.s. job. I could settle. I could stress. But I shouldn't. Something good is coming and it's my job to wait for it. But not passively! That was perhaps the biggest part of the message. I'm not twiddling my thumbs or freaking out. I'm working constructively. I'm taking time to better myself, to start great habits (writing, yoga, etc) that will serve my soul. I need to be ready. In the air. Paying attention to my higher self.
Later i remembered a quote I had written down, literally the day before. Again it didn't come from a dusty tome or a spiritual guide. I was listening to Rob Lowe on an old episode of the Nerdist podcast. But he said a thing and I literally played it back three times and copied it down word for word on my phone:
"If you work hard, just for yourself, even if it doesn't pan out, it opens the door for the universe to bring you something unexpected."
THAT! Right? That is exactly where I want to be, working hard, being my best, bubble wand in the air. Same message, two different ways, two different days. That's the kind of thing that makes me literally talk out loud (LTOL?)
Ok Universe. I got it. Message Received.
