Trusting the current

This month I’ve been doing Gabby Bernstein’s manifesting challenge, and on Day 8 we were invited to choose a sign — something specific that would let us know we’re on the right track.

The sign I chose was a river.

Almost immediately, it started appearing everywhere. Billy Joel’s River of Dreams came on. Then Sarah McLachlan’s “I wish I had a river I could skate away on.” I pulled a Planetary Wave card that read, “You’re being called to trust the current of your own river and to answer the call deep within,” followed by, “Like two rivers that meet and remember they’re made of the same things, you’re not alone in your calling.” I dreamt about the word river, and about rivers themselves. I learned that pink dolphins live in the Amazon and Orinoco river basins. And then today, at Mandy's for lunch, there it was again — a painting of rivers behind the cash register.

Standing in line to place our orders, I told my friend and mentor Susan about the river sign. She smiled and said, River is actually the perfect analogy for you. Rivers, she reminded me, are multi-path by nature. They persist. They adapt. They don’t force — they find their way through. They flow around obstacles, quietly reshaping the landscape as they move toward something larger than themselves.

It made me wonder how often we confuse effort with alignment, and how often we’re trying to dam, redirect, or control what might already know exactly where it’s going.

Reflection for you:​
Where in your life might you be invited to trust the current instead of pushing upstream?
What signs are quietly showing up for you, if you slow down enough to notice?

With gratitude for the river and all it’s teaching me,
Tamara