Dillard - Sacred signs and symbols: awaken to the messages & synchronicities that surround you

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Sacred Signs & Symbols: Awaken to the Messages & Synchronicities That Surround You 2017 by Sherrie Dillard.

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First e-book edition 2017

E-book ISBN: 9780738752143

Cover design: Ellen Lawson

Editing: Patti Frazee

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Dillard, Sherrie, author.

Title: Sacred signs and symbols : awaken to the messages & synchronicities

that surround you / Sherrie Dillard.

Description: First edition. | Woodbury : Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd, 2017. |

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017012905 (print) | LCCN 2017016962 (ebook) | ISBN

9780738752143 (ebook) | ISBN 9780738749686 (alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: ParapsychologyMiscellanea. | OccultismMiscellanea. |

Signs and symbols--Miscellanea. | SymbolismMiscellanea.

Classification: LCC BF1040 (ebook) | LCC BF1040 .D555 2017 (print) | DDC

133.3dc23

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Dedicated to my sister, Dawn Marie, and grandson, Henry William. Guiding sparks of love and light. Although your time among us was brief, your message endures and continues to transform.

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Thank you to the wonderful people at Llewellyn for keeping the door to new ideas, truths, and realities open for so many years and for so many of us here in the physical and spiritual worlds.

Special thank you to the creative and kind Angela Wixyou are always the best. Kathy Schneider for keeping the wheels turning. Patti Frazee for her hawklike vision. Kat Sanborn for spreading the news and all those who contributed their time and energy to getting this book out into the world.

Vast gratitude to the birds, the trees, and especially the nature deities who showed up and insisted that I pay attention to the signs and guided the development of this book. You all made it so much fun!

Contents

: You Are the Center of the Oracle

: Understanding The Signs That Surround You

: A Very Brief History of Signs

: How to Spot a Sign

: The Messengers

: Types of Signs

: Sign Mapping

: The Living Oracle

: Working with the Living Oracle

: Casting Methods

: Advanced Casting Methods

: Divination Methods

: Examples of Cast and Interpreted Oracles

: Living Oracle Glossary of Signs

: Types of Transportation

: Roads

: Road Signs and Business Signs

: Buildings

: Building and Home Construction

: Animals, Birds, Fish, and Insects

: Vegetation

: The Skies, Rain, Water, and Wind

: Numbers

: Colors

: Actions and Activity

: Smells and Sounds

: Miscellaneous Signs

Introduction

You Are the Center
of the Oracle

You are standing in the center of a very chatty universe that is ready to engage. Everything you encounter is a part of you and you are part of it. Even though you may at times feel separate and unknown in a vast and impersonal world, you are never as alone as you may think. No matter where you are and what you are doing, you are being guided and led. A loving and wise divine spiritual power and presence watches over and cares for you. One of the ways the spiritual realm seeks to guide, comfort, and inspire you is by sending you signs, messages, and synchronicities.

Do you ever find coins or feathers on your path and wonder if this is a message from someone or something? Does the same species of bird suspiciously come to your window a little too often for it to be simply a chance encounter? Do you wake at the same time night after night, then glance at the clock at this same time during the day? When facing a difficult choice, decision, or during a personal crisis, have you ever asked for a sign or message to guide and lead you? If any of these are true for you, you are not alone.

Since the beginning of time we have looked to an invisible presence and power to guide and comfort us through signs and messages. When you notice signs, you are pulled into the deeper mystery of life where you become aware that you are seen, known, and being guided.

Using Signs for Guidance

From a young age I have seen, felt, and communicated with spirit beings such as angels, people who have passed over to the other side, spirit guides, and ascended masters. They have communicated to me through feelings of love and comfort. I have heard their wise counsel through an inner voice and they have led me through signs and synchronicities. It is always a special treat to encounter one of their gifts. A feather, a synchroncity that seems almost impossible to be a coincidence, a seashell, or a visit from an owl are a few of the ways they get my attention.

I enjoy communicating with the sprit realm so much that I have made a professional career out of it. During my almost thirty years of being a professional intuitive and medium, I have frequently been asked what intuitive techniques I most often use to tune in to my personal concerns and questions. People are usually surprised when I tell them that I routinely ask for and look to signs and messages for guidance and to validate my intuitive impressions.

If you have ever tried to access intuitive guidance when you needed to make an important decision or in the midst of a personal crisis, you may have been frustrated by the result. Although we often look to our intuition to provide wise and timely insight, achieving the calm and receptive state that is needed to receive clear intuitive guidance can be difficult. Unfortunately, it often seems that when we most need the assuring voice of our intuition, our stress levels make it almost impossible to become quiet and meditative enough to receive inner guidance. The same is true when a loved one on the other side reaches out to connect with us. Our grief over their passing and the many other intense emotions that we often feel can create an energetic static that gets in the way of tuning in to their presence. Our intuitive awareness can seem to be blocked or absent and it becomes all too easy to mistake our desires, wishes, and hopes as intuitive information or to discount our intuitive impressions altogether.