how to see signs, increase the frequency of synchronistic experiences, and use tarot as a sign-cipher

📚 Resources and Links:* Sign up for the North Node waitlist here* Inquire about 1:1 work with Michelle here* Holisticism Resources 4 u:* Ruthless Clarity — an 8-week email course designed to help you achieve crystal-clear certainty about your goals, desires, and energy allocation* How to Begin: A Project Planning Class — a 90-m on-demand class that teaches you exactly how to sketch a effervescent project plan that’ll fill you with glee and inspiration and instantly banish procrastination and overwhelm, so your brilliant ideas can finally come to life.* The Subconscious Audit — an 11-day diagnostic framework that helps you identify what’s holding you back and making you *feel* blocked. Because you’re never actually blocked* The New Age Playbook for Spellbinding, Can’t-Stop-Reading Copy — a 35-page downloadable workbook to take your writing from blah to bingeableThe first rule for creating the conditions for a most magical year is that you gotta look alive.Expanding your surface area for luck and magic is not a passive inheritance; it’s co-creative. You gotta but your big boy pants on and be accountable for your part in all this, while also keeping your ego in check and surrendering to the group project vibes of this whole endeavor. Operate in the faith that if you do your part with as much integrity as possible, your creative partner (god, source, universe, benevolent aliens, ancestors, unicorn spirit guides, whatever your belief is) will act that way, too. As above, so below, right?When I say look alive I’m being ridiculously literal. Use your eyeballs. Look and see.What are you looking for? Well, signs, of course.Are you looking or are you seeing (obnoxious but important!) As I was thinking about this episode, my list for why looking for signs is a high-leverage practice kept expanding. Sign-finding is one of those low-effort, high-return activities because its a non-boring way to practice paying attention.Like, you could meditate in silence for 20 minutes. Or, you could pretend you’re living in a life-sized version of an I Spy book … either way, you’re going to slow waaaaay down (clues are hard to spot when you’re sprinting through life). Slowing down forces you to clock what’s coming up, like:* sensations in your body,* thoughts, ideas, patterns in your mind* information in your physical environment that you might usually take for grantedNow, noticing “the signs” is sort of a daunting task. I’m getting overwhelm-schwitzy just thinking about it. Everything is a sign if you’re looking for signs, which seems like the worst version of confirmation bias and perhaps something that can send you into light levels of spiritual psychosis.We don’t want that. Which is why we’re turning to tarot and archetypes today to be our guides.Why this works no matter if you’re too “advanced” for tarot or if you’re a newborn baby when it comes to tarocchi You might be reading this like, Really, tarot? Doesn’t that feel a bit… remedial? Give us something COOL and ADVANCED! Something tricky!OK, yeah, I hear you. You might be o-v-e-r tarot, which is your right! (Maybe check out Zener cards, if you feel you’ve ascended beyond the humble tarot deck)But if you’ve graduated onto more esoteric methods like, say, black mirror scrying, I actually think this is the perfect time to blow the dust of ye olde tarot deck and look at the cards and their symbols with fresh eyes.And if you’ve yet to crack the spine on the Tarot for Dummies book that’s been camped on bedside table for the last seven months, great! You’re in the right place, too.Tarot is an incredible tool for accessing the unconscious mind because it is non-linguistic. Language is a somewhat modern technology. Cormac McCarthy explains it better than I can, but humans had thoughts and ideas for thousands of years before language developed. We can assume, then, that language developed as a cognitive