Resilience
Steadfastness
Purification of sorts, like a cleansing (through pine needles)
Over the past month or more I’ve been noticing pine trees everywhere. They keep popping into my awareness. I’ve been noticing them while driving and walking in places I’ve walked and driven numerous times before. I almost didn’t notice one while on a walk with my dog recently, but while looking down towards the ground I saw a pine cone directly in my path, and when I lifted my head to look around I noticed a tall pine tree growing on the side of a house only a few feet from me.
The pine trees have been talking to me. Calling me. It’s like that moment when something becomes more focused in your awareness, like a lens that was suddenly adjusted, and now you begin to see and notice what you didn’t before. A few times there have been moments when I’ve been thinking about something and then immediately noticed a pine tree at that exact same moment that I hadn’t noticed before, and I know it’s a form of communication, or confirmation that my thoughts are being heard.
The pine trees most prominent message for me has been steadfastness. Holding on through it all. To keep going and continuing to do what I’m doing. I’ve been trying to make changes in areas like the location I’m living in, and my career, and things haven’t been transitioning in the way or timing I would have hoped. It feels like for so long I’ve been chipping away at these things, chipping away daily little bits at a time with no big sign of progress, trusting that things will work out. Having faith and holding the belief that things will work out. Steadfastness. Continuing to keep working towards my goals. The pine trees are offering me their wisdom, support, and guidance.
This experience with the pines has served as a wonderful reminder that communication occurs in many different forms—if we are open to it.