Chapter 21

Actions and Activity

The actions and activities that you encounter while casting the Living Oracle can be important signs and messages. Pay attention to what is happening around you, and don’t discount its importance. Use your gut feelings and intuition to discern what actions and activities are significant.

Affectionate Couple

People walking hand-in-hand, kissing, or hugging is a sign of relationship harmony and increasing feelings of love and connection with others. It may also foretell a new partnership or love interest entering your life.

Arguing

Encountering people arguing can be a sign of conflict, disagreement, and the need to be more aware of your communication with others. It can also be a sign of repressed anger and inwardly focused feelings of discontent and conflict.

Boy Playing

Seeing a boy playing alone is a sign that growth is taking place in your life in ways that may not be obvious. There may be a current situation where you need to take action or be assertive. Confront issues head-on. Seeing a boy playing may also be a sign that there is a male in your life who may not be acting responsibly and is not dependable.

Car Problems

Seeing a broken-down car on the side of the road is a message to slow down and assess your mental, emotional, and physical well-being and health. There may be an unknown problem or issue that needs your attention.

Seeing someone changing a flat tire is a sign to reach out and allow another to assist you in some way. This may be a health practitioner or therapist of some kind; you are low on energy and need assistance.

Carrying Bags or Luggage

Encountering people who are carrying bags or luggage is a sign of feeling weighed down by responsibilities, worries, or fears. This is a message to lighten your load and let go of what is holding you back from moving forward.

Children Playing

Children playing can be a sign of happiness, innocence, and a message to adopt a carefree attitude. It may also be a message to reclaim an aspect of yourself from the past that may have been forgotten or left behind. This may be a personal truth, a belief in what is possible, or your innocence.

Dancing

Encountering people dancing is a sign to loosen up and release stress and tension in the body and feel joy. You do not need to dance, but do something that brings you pleasure. Dancing can also be a message to allow your spirit and heart to lead you. If you have been holding back or approaching life in a more logical and rational way, people dancing is a suggestion to let go, feel the joy of life, and trust your heart.

Delivery

Seeing a delivery being made is a sign of communication or action, or it may be a message that a gift is coming your way. The type of delivery may give you a clue as to the area of focus. (See Transportation.)

Directing Traffic

Police directing traffic is a sign that current conditions are out of our control. There is someone or something outside of yourself that is influencing your progress and what you are experiencing. Wait and be patient; this is only temporary. You may need the help of an expert or professional to sort things out.

Directions

Being asked for directions is a message to share your gifts with others. This may be something or in an area that you do not necessarily realize can be helpful or useful to others. This is a sign that others may need something from you, perhaps a skill, advice, or love.

Family with Baby Stroller

Seeing a family with a baby stroller is a sign of coming change that will bring with it a sense of renewal and rebirth. If present circumstances do not appear to be positive or if you have become frustrated by a lack of progress, seek out others who are supportive and can be helpful.

Girl Playing

A girl playing by herself is a message to be aware of your emotional vulnerability and to take care of yourself. Sometimes we want to trust and open up to others who may not be reliable. Share your feelings with those who are nurturing and safe.

Joggers

Encountering people running or jogging is a sign of steady movement toward a goal. You may need to work hard, be organized, and apply yourself. It might also be a message to take action in some area of your life where your fears have been holding you back.

If people are running or jogging in opposite directions it may be a sign that an inner conflict may need to be resolved in order to reach your goals. If you seem to be confused or not sure of what you want, look deeper, there may be unacknowledged feelings or desires.

Landscaping Crew

Encountering a crew of landscapers is a sign of managing and improving your personal desires and impulses. If large equipment is involved, it could be a message that you may need the assistance of others to transform and change.

Encountering landscapers installing a pool or adding a water feature or fountain is a message to work with the divine creative forces to express your authentic self and share it with others.

Person Holding Baby

Encountering someone holding a baby is a sign of a new idea, project, desire, or wish coming to fruition. However, what this is may not be initially obvious or seem significant. It is important to pay attention to the opportunities that come your way.

A woman holding a baby is a message that you need to nurture and support new creative ideas and possibilities. It may also indicate that there are others who need your emotional support.

A man holding a baby is a message to go forward with outer goals, aspirations, and ambitions. This may be a message that it is time to act on your dreams.

Moving Train

Encountering a train that is moving in the direction you are going is a sign of coming support and making progress.

If the train is moving in the opposite direction than you are moving, it is a sign that you are going against the current. You may have an uphill or difficult struggle ahead.

Walking under a bridge with a moving train on it is a positive sign that higher benevolent energies are guiding you. Release your personal desires and motivations and allow yourself to be led.

Person Sitting Alone

Seeing someone sitting alone is a sign of contemplation, introspection, solitude, and meditation. It may be a message that you need quiet and alone time. It may be time to go it alone.

Pregnant Woman

Encountering a pregnant woman is a message that a new opportunity, desire, relationship, goal, or project has recently come into your life or is about to. Be sure to nurture your creativity and be open to possibilities. Be patient; even if you do not see it coming, a new beginning is on its way.

Race, Running, Biking

Encountering a running or biking competition or other type of race is a sign that you may feel as if you are being tested or pushed to your limit in some area. It is a message that with strength of mind and heart you will succeed.

Road Being Paved

A road being paved is a positive sign of a new beginning unfolding and easy progress to come. It may also indicate that you may need to examine the path you are on and make improvements or pave a new way for yourself.

Roadwork

Encountering roadwork is a sign of an obstruction or hurdle impeding your current path. This is likely an external or outer force or situation that you may have to maneuver around. It also indicates that there are benevolent forces helping to resolve any obstacles.

Skateboard, Skates

Encountering children or adults on skateboards or skates is a sign of creativity and unconventionality. You are in a unique position of ease and expansion. Trust the momentum that you have achieved. This is a message that taking a risk will likely pay off in a positive way.

Ice Skates

Encountering others ice skating is a sign to be objective and careful. Not everything is what it may seem to be. This may also be a sign to open your heart and feel your feelings and emotions. If you have been feeling depressed or stuck, allow your feelings to surface.

Sports

Encountering people playing basketball, tennis, football, or another sport indicates friendly competition and group effort. It may be a sign to get in the game and participate in life. Now is not the time to stand by and wait. This is a message of jumping into a project or opportunity, or to make a choice and apply effort to making something work.

Stung by a Bee, Wasp, or Hornet

If you are stung by a bee, wasp, or hornet, this is a message to become aware of any inner frustration, pain, or anger. The sting is meant to bring it to the surface, where you can express and release it. In this way it is a bit of a gift. A sting may also be a sign that you will or already have had an encounter with a critical, selfish, or overly defensive person.

Street Begging

Encountering someone who is asking for money is a message to examine your self-worth and your thoughts, beliefs, and feelings surrounding money and generosity. It is always a good idea to express generosity when confronted with someone who is lacking or suffering. What we give others, we give to ourselves. When you encounter someone asking for money, your spirit guides and angels may be encouraging you to open your heart and express the law of abundance.

Street Vendor

A street vendor is a sign that your needs will be met in unexpected and unconventional ways. It is a message to let go of your expectations and be willing to receive goodness into your life, however it arrives.

If the street vendor is selling food, it is a sign to explore unconventional avenues for improving your health.

Traffic Accident

Witnessing a traffic accident is a sign of danger and a warning to be cautious. There are forces and influences that you may not suspect could be harmful. It may also be a sign to extend help to others.

Traffic Jam

A traffic jam is a sign of feeling stuck with no options and being prevented from moving forward by outer influences. It is a message to be patient and wait. This may also indicate that you may need to get out of the box and be original and creative.

Workers in a Public Space

Encountering a crew of workers in a public place is a sign that you may need help, guidance, and support from others to move forward in fulfilling your career goals and life purpose. It may indicate coming opportunities to influence others in a public forum. Workers may also be a sign to assist others in helping them to build their dreams.

Workers in a Sewer

Work being done underground or in a sewer is a sign that something in the past or something you have left behind needs to be revisited and let go of. This is a message that there are negative or toxic thoughts, feelings, and experiences that are influencing your current situation. You may need expert help in getting to the root source and releasing what is no longer serving your highest good.

Workers in a Subway

Workers in a subway or subway tunnel is a sign that others’ thoughts, feelings, and beliefs are influencing you on an unconscious level. Take your time in becoming more aware of what is right and good for you. As you do this, you make steady progress toward your goals.

Workers on a Telephone Pole

Work being done on cable or telephone poles is a sign of communication and the ability to understand and engage with others. This is a message that you have the innate ability to influence and impact others. It may be a message to reach out and expand your friendships or increase networking opportunities. If you have been wondering whether to contact someone, this is a yes sign.

Yard Work

People doing yard work, gardening, or farming is a message to take action and root out negativity and habits that are not supporting your higher aims and desires.

Seeing people mowing a lawn is a sign to take some time to organize your thoughts and feelings and decide on a course of action. Be aware of others’ expectations, but choose what ultimately is right for you.

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