14/07/2025
This is how the universe whispers (and occasionally yells) at you.
Many people often say to me, "I keep asking the universe for signs and I never get anything."
Would you like my advice? Stop looking for a skywriter in the clouds or a talking animal. Spirit doesn't do big and bold Hollywood type of entrances. They prefer a more subtle approach. Things like a grandmother whispering your name from another room, usually when you are elbows deep in a sink of dirty dishes or shouting at the cat to stop scratching the lounge chair.
The universe is always communicating, often in clever and sometimes comical ways. The real question is are you actually listening? Or are you too busy talking over it with your own overthinking?
Case in point: One day I desperately needed a blue key tag for a set of house keys I just had cut. I kept telling myself, "Don't forget the key tag."
Naturally, I forgot said key tag. I drove across town grumbling and groaning to myself about my own mental incompetence. I reach my next destination and pull into the supermarket carpark, open the car door, and there, on the ground in front of me, like a gift from the spirit world itself, is a blue key tag. Exactly the type of key tag I had forgotten to buy.
Coincidence? Maybe. But in my world, that is a big spiritual mic drop.
Then there was the time I wanted to go to Canberra to visit the National Library of Australia to read historical archives about a woman in spirit named Marjorie Young (the person circled in the attached picture).
Flights to Canberra and back again were too expensive for me, so I gave up. A few weeks later, American Express sent me a "thanks for being you" gift for having an Amex card: a free return flight anywhere in Australia. Where did I go? You guessed it correctly: Canberra. And yes, Marjorie was waiting.
The spirit world really does love a heart-stopping entrance. They just use email promos now.
Spirit doesn't need you meditating in a cave, fasting on a mountain, or paying hundreds of dollars to have someone chant and bang drums next to your head at a weekend workshop. They will talk to you while you are in the shower, at Coles, or stuck in traffic on the way to work.
Your job isn't to chase signs like you are on some ghostly Easter egg hunt. Your job is to live, to be present, and to pay attention when something tugs at your awareness, taps your shoulder, or drops a blue plastic key tag at your feet.
Stop demanding. Stop analysing. Stop overthinking. You will miss the magic when you try to make it logical.
Signs aren't always grand or poetic. Sometimes they look like number plates, a repeating song in a playlist set on shuffle, or weird coincidences that make you pause and say, "Wait a minute here..."
That "wait a minute" thought is where spirit lives.
That is where love slips through.
That is where your people find you.
So breathe. Let go. Live your life. And if you get a nudge from spirit, just trust it.
Even if it's just about buying a blue key tag.
- Quintin
