Today, we'll be talking about signs from the universe. In the audio below, I’ll explore how to receive messages from the universe by picking your own sign. It's one of my favorite manifestation practices and also one of the simplest, and it can help you see how the universe is constantly guiding you. Listen to today’s exercise below.

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I would love to hear what your sign is, and any other reflections you have from this exercise! If you feel compelled, please share with me on Instagram (@empress.entrepreneur) or email at hi@kateflynn.co

The audio exercise is transcribed below:

Hello beautiful souls! Today we're going to be talking about signs from the universe. This is something that I believe is foundational to any manifestation practice, whether you are a total newbie or you've been doing this for a while. It's super simple. It's super fun. And it really just gives you that mindset that the universe has your back. And it reminds you often that the universe is guiding you. 

I first learned about this through Gabby Bernstein. I think a lot of teachers practice this in some form or another. First of all, what is a sign? Let's talk about what it is, what it could be. A sign is basically something that you pick. It can literally be anything.It could be something that's symbolic to you already, it could be like the first thing you see when you open your eyes and you decide that's the sign you want to pick. It really doesn't matter how you pick your sign. But it's something that you say, “hey, this is my sign in universe. I want you to show this to me when I'm headed in the right direction or when I need some guidance.”

Just some examples. My signs change all the time, but the season of life that I'm in right now, I have two signs: one's a butterfly, one's a dragonfly. Historic signs for me. One time my sign was a mountain, so that didn't just mean I would have to see like an actual mountain. It could mean I saw mountains on the TV, or I remember seeing mountains on a beer can once and being like, “Oh, okay, there's my sign.” Mountains in a kid's book. It could be really anywhere. Really you can pick anything from your sign. The key is do not overthink it if you don't already have one and something hasn't already jumped to mind. Don't get perfectionisty about it, or it's going to defeat the whole purpose. If you don't have a sign… you're having trouble thinking of one… when this little recording from me is over, turn on a song that puts you in a good vibe place, just something mellow, close your eyes, and whatever comes to your mind during that two, three minutes that you're listening to the song… something in there will speak to you. That should be your sign. Go with it. You can always change it. 

Okay, so number one pick a sign number. Two is look for the sign. Keep your eyes open. Keep open minded of where you might see it. You will be surprised at how often you start to see your sign when you're really open to seeing it more often. I'm going to give you an example of a recent time that my sign really just spoke to me in a big way. One of my current signs is the butterfly. It also happens to be my husband's. Past couple months, I've been in a really good headspace. I'm seeing butterflies all the time, like crazy amounts of butterflies. That's just a continuous reminder, like butterfly, butterfly. I'm seeing them multiple times a day. And that's just keeping me in a good headspace. However, there was a decision that my husband and I had to make about two months ago. A bigger decision we had to make, like life decision. And we weren't sure what to do, we were kind of confused. We went to a butterfly preserve, or like a butterfly… exhibit at the natural history museum.  We literally went into a bunch of butterflies, but what was crazy about it was one after another just kept coming and landing and sitting on my husband. I think throughout the course of the five minutes we were in there, he had like ten different butterflies just land on him. They were like gravitating towards him. Nobody else. We were in a party of six. They weren't coming towards anybody else. We walked out of that, we were  on such a high, like, “oh my gosh, we're going the right direction. We're making the right choices.” You can see how the signs... Can either speak to you a little, you know, little reminders throughout the day. The five butterflies I see every day is just little pings from the universe reminding me of good things. But then they can also come in these bigger, more magnetic ways. Based on when you need it and when the universe is trying to send you a signal. That's the exercise.

It's my favorite one. Simple, easy, fun. I'd love to know what your sign is, if you already have it, or what sign you pick, if you're just picking it now. Can't wait to hear what your sign is, and then also I would love to hear about when you see the sign. I would love to know about those experiences as well, and how that makes you feel. I promise it'll make you feel so, so good.