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by Kris Franken

(Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal.)

Your purpose is so much more than your career or job; it's the way you are in the world, your natural state of being. The way you feel called to do certain types of work, collaborate with particular individuals, serve humanity, and inspire those around you is all an intuitive part of who you that you can access anytime.

Here are 11 ways to intuitively discover the purpose written in the light of your Soul.

1. Follow Your Joy
   Your Soul has come into your body in this life with a natural inclination for joy. Bliss is your natural state; when you follow what lifts your vibration into the realms of bliss and joy, you can be sure that you are listening to the pull of your purpose.Your purpose and career aren't meant to be draining or demanding; they're intended to be uplifting and fulfilling. And although there will be periods that challenge you along the way, when you're feeling satisfyingly deep joy from service and sharing your gifts, you know that you've been trusting the divine process and following your heart.
2. Listen to Love
   If you're not sure of your talents and gifts, listen to love. Love is the voice of your intuition that is aligned with the highest expression of your Soul. Love will show you how you best serve, help, create, transform, collaborate, and inspire.How do you love others? Perhaps it's through a long hug, kind words, compassionate energy, a watercolour painting, cooking a scrumptious meal, writing a poem, or practical, everyday ways. The way you love others is a reflection of how you serve the world and it matters. The world needs you to make mindful waves with an open and generous heart.
3. Sit in Stillness
   The blueprint that's etched into the fabric of your Soul cannot be felt or heard if you're rushing, hustling, or busy all the time. Make time for stillness. Create space for the wise whispers of your heart to guide you each day.This purposeful blueprint is a continuation of all your incarnations; you have been building on your talents for lifetimes! Your intuition has so much to share with you, but it doesn't use words, so it can't compete with the chaos of a cluttered mind. In stillness, you'll feel the knowing that's always present, always loving, always nudging you toward greatness.
4. Expect Miracles
   Miracles are unexpected consequences of living aligned with the flow of your own lifeforce. Your breath and interconnected spirit are connected to the One Spirit, and as you feel this and allow it to guide your life intuitively, miracles will happen at every turn.Your purpose will unfold miraculously if you give up judgments and expectations around what it should look like or what you think you must be doing. The more you hold onto specific desires that leave no room for the fullest expression of your highest purpose, the smaller the field you have to play in.
   Miracles yearn for space. Let go of your pre-planned life and open up to all that is meant for you. Let life surprise and delight you.
5. Learn How You Help
   Consider for a moment what your gift is to your community. What do others ask you for? How do you help others in a way that feels relatively easy, humbly fulfilling, and energetically abundant? The way you help others is a portal to knowing your purpose on a deep level.We all have natural gifts—our own sweet medicine—that feel genuine and freely available. These gifts have been curated and crafted by our Souls over many, many lifetimes to help others—and us—into the highest version of ourselves.
6. Show Up
   Knowing about your gifts is a blessing for you, showing up and putting them to good use is a blessing for humanity. The love, joy, peace, and service in our being will multiply when we give it to others unconditionally.Showing up isn't about hustling or marketing yourself in any way that feels uncomfortable or misaligned. It's about being available to intuitively serve in any way the Divine calls on you through those in your grassroots and/or online communities. The more you love and heal yourself, the more you surrender to the wise intuition within you, and the more you trust in the path of your Soul, the more joyfully available you will be to all those who need you.

   Each time you show up, expect an energy exchange that speaks of abundance in all areas of your life. Believe that you will always be taken care of, financially and otherwise, for that's exactly what the cosmos wishes for you, too.

7. Dance with Life
   If you're working relentlessly, expecting your diligence to provide you with an abundance of rewards, you're more likely to become burnt out than richly satisfied. While you absolutely need to show up, you also need to rest up. Have a dance break, take a trip to the markets, catch up with friends, tend to your garden, and otherwise surrender deeply enough to receive fully from the universe.If you're giving all the time, there's no space to receive. Time away from your computer or workspace will also amplify your creativity and provides the ultimate opening for insight—new and aligned inspiration—to find you.
8. Revel in Your Uniqueness
   There is no one else on earth with the same harmonious fusion of talents, gifts, wisdom, karma, and medicine. There is literally no one in the history of humankind who's got what you've got. Revel in your own kind of magic. Explore and express it, love and care for it. Learn to be inspired by others without following them on their path.This journey you're here to traverse is exclusively yours. Your uniqueness is what draws people to you. Bring your quirks to life in every way that your heart and Soul desire.
9. Expect Challenges
   The challenges you hold within yourself that have not been healed and released will show up in your life externally until you heal them. If you are dealing with self-judgment, you will feel the judgments of others until you make peace with yourself. If you feel unworthy, you will attract others who magnify this unworthy state of being until you feel completely worthy of all the abundance in the world.Welcome the challenges in your life as a gift for you to grow, heal trauma and karma, find yourself, and come home to the greatest version of you.
10. Learn to Pivot
    There are no mistakes or failure in discovering your purpose, only pivots. We all need to pivot when we come across an unexpected roadblock, be it the fallen branch of "failure," heavy clouds of confusion, or the prickly discomfort of someone else’s judgment or opinion.Roadblocks are not a sign you did something "wrong;" they are simply the universe's way of escorting you onto another path that is more aligned with your Soul. Learn to pivot in faith and grace onto a new way. Bless the blocks, embrace the ruins, hold your chin up, look to the stars, and begin again.
11. Trust the Process
    Without trust you may find it difficult to move forward. When self-doubt sneaks into your mind, come back to your heart. Your heart knows and loves all. Through your heartspace you have access to the eternal wisdom of your Soul and Highest Self.Trust that your Highest Self will always have your best interests at heart and that you can count on this expansive part of you to guide you toward the most exciting and blissful path. With deeper trust, your intuition will be clearer to recognize.

You hold the keys to your future and the gold of your gifts. Go within and trust what you intuitively feel to be the next step for you.

If you'd like to explore your intuition, instinct, and insight more deeply, you will find an abundance of spiritual rituals, scientific exploration, journal prompts, and much more in my book, The Call of Intuition: Learn to Recognize and Honor Your Intuition, Instinct and Insight.

Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal. Copyright Llewellyn Worldwide, 2020. All rights reserved.

My brother-in-law passed away in a tragic car accident. This morning at exactly four a.m., I woke up and opened my eyes and saw that my bedroom light was on. I live alone. (This light is a torch floor lamp; you have to turn the knob for it to turn on/off.) I felt like there was a presence in my room. I lay there for quite some time, unable to go back to sleep. Earlier in the evening, I was watching TV in my living room and saw what appeared to be a dark shadow moving in my bedroom, which is off to the right of my living room. Could this have been my brother-in-law trying to contact me? How can I be more in tune to the presence of departed family members?

Laura

Susyn:

These events could definitely have been signs from your brother-in-law. Since you noticed a dark shadow in your bedroom and then witnessed the floor light come on in the same room, these events appear to be connected. While this could have indicated the presence of any loved one who has passed over, you are wise to trust your sense that it was your brother-in-law, for typically, the first person we think of when something like this happens is the spirit who is trying to contact us.

To me, the most interesting aspect of this experience is how he showed himself in shadow and then managed to turn on the lamp. Perhaps he is trying to convey a message: that although he passed in a sudden, unexpected way that cast a dark shadow over the family, he now resides in the light. I encourage you to share this wonderful message with all those dear to him in case this is what he is trying to say.

Spirits sometimes reveal themselves to a third party instead of their immediate loved ones. It is most likely that he appeared to you instead of his spouse or other family members because those closest to him are still too emotionally distraught to hear or see him.

There are a number of ways you can connect with your brother-in-law. One of the most effective, satisfying methods would be to schedule a session with a psychic who specializes in channeling. If you choose this option, you will be able to receive direct messages from him and also ask questions as well. I highly recommend getting a reading so that you can interact with him as soon as possible.

You could also meditate to invite your brother-in-law in for a conversation, though if you choose this option, it could take a while before you are able to make direct contact. This method may also stir up some confusion if you have trouble deciphering the messages he is sending you.

When a loved one dies suddenly, it can take a while before they are able to interact with us on a regular basis. Typically it takes six weeks before they can communicate, longer if they have not moved into the light yet. Given the manner in which your brother-in-law appeared to you, I would say he has definitely adapted to the spirit world and is ready to communicate with you.

Now that this has happened, you may start to notice other signs that are obviously coming from your brother-in-law. You may frequently hear his favorite song, an aroma that is specific to him, or begin to have dreams in which he plays a key role. Since it seems he is ready and reaching out, you may want to encourage your sister to try and connect with him if you feel she is ready for that sort of experience.

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Oceania:

I'm sorry for your family's loss. Your brother-in-law's passing is a poignant reminder of the fragile, precious nature of our lives here on Earth.

If the soul consists of energy, it seems reasonable that it might either accidentally or purposely short-circuit an electromagnetic field and communicate with us via a light or some other electronic appliance. Either you had a visit from your brother-in-law, or you need an electrician to check the wiring in your home!

Author/illustrator Nick Bantock writes children's books for adults, most notably Griffin and Sabine in which you can remove the correspondence of the characters from envelopes. His books are large and colorful, jam-packed with original artwork, and contain delightful, intriguing supernatural stories.

In The Venetian's Wife, a 15th-century explorer is struck dead by lightning, leaving his disembodied soul trapped in electricity. After 600 years or so, he begins to travel through telephone lines and learns to send email from the other side. You might enjoy this magical tale of a spirit who creatively communicates through electricity!

I once woke up in the middle of the night and noticed that a light was on downstairs. I got up to investigate, and upon reaching the staircase, saw my dead stepfather standing at the bottom, looking up at me. No words were exchanged but I clearly understood he had come to make peace. (He died in the midst of unresolved family conflict.)

I believe he appeared to ME because I was the most spiritual, intuitive member of our family of skeptics. I believe your brother-in-law chose you for the same reason. You intuitively sensed it was him. Your question and visit to Kajama indicates that you are paying attention to the spiritual side of life! Like me, you weren't frightened by this experience. That you couldn't fall back to sleep following such an exciting, extraordinary event seems normal to me.

You can be more in tune with departed loved ones by thinking of them, talking to them, putting up photos and sharing memories of them with friends or in a bereavement support group. One thing is for sure: the passing of your brother-in-law is a reminder of how quickly a loved one can exit from our lives.

Please share this experience with those family members receptive to hearing about it. Also, in addition to reconnecting with the departed, spend quality time with the living. By playing games, discussing interesting questions, sharing and listening from your heart and exchanging hugs and other expressions of affection, you can turn your brother-in-law's passing into something positive for the family.

Astrea:

Many times in life we hear, "You will always have what you NEED, but not necessarily what you WANT." Your spirit must have needed to experience the feeling of leaving your human body, and the suggestion in the next chapter of Sylvia Brown's book was all it took to get you there.

Even though you hadn't read it yet, your SOUL recognized the title of that chapter as something it had been seeking, and your soul, knowing that you had that reference to read after your experience, got with it and out you went!

While I don't usually recommend her books, Sylvia Brown has a wide reaching and powerful effect on lots of people. A Gemini like you would be able to relate easily to her writing and put it to good use. Synchronicity - you gotta love it!

I like your description of "getting caught." That's exactly what it feels like, isn't it? One minute you're free and hovering above the room, and the next minute, ZAP! back down into your corporeal form you go!

As a little kid, I loved that "feeling of return." With practice, most of the time we can control that event, but sometimes, when our physical ears hear a distracting noise or something else occurs to knock us back into reality, back we go. With practice you will be able to control your return better.

I find it interesting that you were visiting your mother-in-law and not someone in your own genetic family. Evidently, you and your husband got married for reasons that are even deeper than love. His family's interest in "psychic stuff" will nurture your children in such matters and help them to grow into their own abilities.

You'll never have to be concerned that when your daughter visits them, she'll be discouraged from exploring her own psychic life and power. My parents encouraged me to develop my psychic senses in a time when it wasn't nice to even discuss such things in public. Heck, it's STILL not considered a great topic at the dinner table in some families!

Your kids will get to talk about it ALL and ask questions and read and study. This is going to give them such an edge in life! Talk with your husband about how you want to present this to your kiddos, so that you are united in your approach and ready to tell them their experiences are all natural and okay.

A word or two of warning: Geminis often have difficulty staying grounded in REAL LIFE. Don't get so strung out on your ASTRAL life that you neglect what you're doing here on Earth.

You are at the beginning of a long journey to learn where your power really lies. Try to be patient with this process and take your time.