A cat fan here too.
The following may or may not make sense.
One view is that awareness if that is the word goes or can with opening extend far beyond yes/no life decisions.
The starting point is perhaps the matter of intuition versus intellect versus mind state.
Most of us if we're centred and open enough to 'hear' receive prompts all of the time regarding everyday life matters and decisions and lots more.
Get the work done or live long enough

(essentially the progressive release of fear and neediness and the true assumption of ever more responsibility for the self - leading to opening/improving levels of equanimity) and when/as we're ready/if we are so equipped the higher connection may very slowly and carefully up the ante on feeding intuitive insight. Conversely our intuition and wider seeing closes down with ever more egotistical focus.
For some 'higher' guidance means multi density networking - we likely won't be conscious of it happening but it may come potentially from across and beyond the veil/incarnational densities.
There's lots that we won't be made aware of for reasons to do with free will, the greater good and so on - and lots more that even if we were we wouldn't be able to process or make sense of.
Continuing work can lead to our being brought into contact with information and insight which can if we're open enough massively expand our view of the nature of the total reality. With sufficient widening of our view the higher realities may by indirect means come to seem very real - to the point that physical life may at times (we must retain grounding too - so 3D will in life always be our primary framework) be felt to be only one aspect of our existence.
It may eventually even come to feel as though we ultimately create the reality we experience - that the perception of our existing in a fixed and objective reality may seem highly questionable. We can make life hard or much easier for ourselves...
The temptation is to unthinkingly expect on demand conscious awareness of what is happening - voices, visuals, clear intellectual understanding etc. This isn't necessarily how it happens. We're wired to perceive within the everyday 3D reality. Conventional perception of this sort seems normally to be a translation of what is going on into terms we understand - but it's not necessarily the whole picture. Much of our knowing/awareness and the wider creative processes seem to just manifest without intellectual or other conscious process. Stuff can at times with after the fact analysis be seen to make sense, but it's often too a matter of trust.
Intellectual and other forms of striving after experience are likely counterproductive.
'Path' in many ways seems to be about working steadily and with commitment - while setting aside all expectation. There can in retrospect be breakthroughs but for most it seems to happen very gradually. We're well minded - great care seems to be taken to not feed us anything that we can't handle or assimilate...
Meditation and related self work tools are important, but it's important to avoid getting sucked into belief systems...
This path
Brings Light
Makes space to see
Mind’s chatter eased
The view makes clear.
This path
Brings calm
Relieves the angst
Wakes Love that knows
And sight renewed.
But sight
Brings pain
When all that’s seen
Seems wrong to mind
Brings only fear.
But sight
Brings Light
Shows beauty too
Makes all so right
So very clear.
So life
Goes on
Midst fear and joy
Whilst day by day
The onion’s peeled…