I'm posting the following as an example of how the universe can speak to us through its greatest informational tool - nature itself.
The universe utterly respects free will and also the level of awareness we are all individually at right now. Because we are in 3D, unless asked for - or perhaps as a balancing force when required - she otherwise does not interfere with our choice to be here and all that entails - especially the collective ignorance around death. However our ancient forebears learned and owned the strong conviction that the universe will use its 3D tools to speak in signs and symbols and it is up to us to decide/know how to recognize and decipher them. They are always 'open' but we can take what measure of comfort and perspective that our reciprocal awareness will allow.
I say this because our family has just experienced such a moment - signs and symbols from the beyond into the here and now.
I wont use names as its not appropriate - but these are real beating hearts, not dry abstractions that I might make them into - not intentional. I want to keep this simple.
As briefly as I can, my wife's father died this time last year leaving his grieving widow. Despite the difficulties in their relationship she was utterly committed to him and never stopped saying how much she loved him. His passing was a struggle but she and my wife were by his side, and my wife in particular talked him through it and we hope and trust, into the light.
His widow was inconsolable.
For 2 weeks after, a single magpie haunted the garden of their house and would not leave. When his widow finished the immediate legacy of grief, it suddenly disappeared. However for a while after, everywhere my wife and 2 of her sisters drove, one or other kept seeing a single magpie often chattering at them and in unnatural proximity even for such a gregarious bird.
Come forward a near year now and his widow - who had advanced Alzheimer's, but was emotionally incredibly present, was eventually forced into a care home by the rest of the family (over my wife's strongest instincts). For the whole course of the previous year all she said was she wished to join him; it was too much to bear being without him and this went on in the home - she refused to sleep in the bed there without him and spent most of the night's walking the corridors looking for him.
Within weeks the COVID thing started and it began to play its role in an increased infection/death rate in the home.
A week ago she contracted 'something' and began to struggle.
In the past week my wife and I kept seeing a single magpie. Never two. Always one, popping up in the strangest of moments or places. One flew right across her car front almost hitting the window the day before yesterday.
The day before yesterday my wife and I went for a walk in the deepest oldest ancient forest left in our locality - and as we walked the path 3 single, pure white, tiny breast feathers from a bird lay one after the other on the path, maybe 10 feet apart. My wife took this as a sign of something from her mother.
Yesterday was our son's 18th birthday. My wife's mother had always been very sweet to him. It was a big day for us all. He has arrived at manhood after many a tribulation in the years before.
In the morning a single magpie arrived in our garden and squawked its head off. At approximately the same time at the house of one of her sister's, a single magpie tried desperately to fly in through the french doors and get into the kitchen - she actually had to fight it off with a broom! It was making an incredible racket and absolutely refused to leave the garden.
Mid afternoon our son's granny passed quietly away.
She chose his birthday, Easter week 2020; death and resurrection, birth and death, death and birth, to mark this moment and - we feel - forever connect to him and his 'coming of age' in these dark times.
Are we born and then die - or rather, do we die to our real home by coming here and then are we born again when we die...?
We have spoken her into the light. We have a great sense of peace. Our son - though in a state of some confusion about this day - also knows it is a strange gift going forward - a gift from his granny and the universe.
I have been very concerned for my wife for 30 years now as she has a visceral, terrible, all consuming fear of loss, loneliness and death - and especially of her mother. It truly overwhelms her. I really dreaded this day for her because if you had asked me a few years ago I would have said it would totally break her when her mother passed (they were incredibly closely bonded).
However the events above have helped her greatly. She is grieving but also miraculously joyful and calm. She believes that magpie was a sign from her Dad's spirit (a very accurate bird for him!) Birds have always been a symbol of the soul.
She now sees how the universe speaks to us - quietly and truthful through nature. And she has always deeply, deeply loved nature - something we share.
I regard this as a quietly miraculous event that I wanted to share with you all - truth in simplicity - and maybe share the comfort, the quiet joy of it all. And the sober thoughts.
So, never let us take our eyes off the natural world. It is calling to us all, all the time if we but choose to see with those clear eyes the DCM prayer requests.
We are all her children. She is capable of love for us all - if we but look for it with a open heart.
Thank you oh Divine Cosmic Mind. Thank you for my wife and for my son and for this great lady who has now gone where she needs and has chosen to be.
May she walk in those fields, with her 'magpie' husband and all her ancestors - who I believe greeted her into the light with joy and a great Irish welcome and then walked her home where she for now belongs.