“What’s going to happen with this relationship?”

“What’s going to happen with the election?”

“Should I take this job?”

Clients come to me with questions like this. I’ve started telling people up front, before we even start “I’m not psychic. The guides aren’t psychics. We don’t predict the future.”

I do it myself all the time though.

Every morning I sit and have conversations with my spirit guides. Sometimes I ask them about cosmological stuff (how does this work? How does energy work? How does money work?). But most often I ask them about personal stuff “Is X going to work out? What’s going to happen with Q?”

The Guides give different versions of the same response:

“We don’t predict the future.”

Not “can’t”, but “don’t”.

One time, after I insisted, they answered me about a future thing that I really wanted.

“Yes it’ll happen” they said (on about my tenth ask).

It didn’t happen.

I cried and said “BUT YOU SAID IT WOULD”.

“We don’t predict the future.”

Of course, I push it.

“Why? Really, why? What happened when you said it was going to happen?” (I asked this with a straight face, hyper-aware of the fact that I’d seriously asked the same question ten times in a row until I heard the answer I wanted. Now that I think back, I might have even just made up the answer in the moment– I wanted the future to happen in a specific way so badly that I was trying to make it happen. I’d granted the Guides the power of omniscience and control over what happens. Weirdly, annoyingly, that’s not how it works.)

They proceeded to show me something about energy from their perspective: the unfolding of the universe in a tapestry of potential, possibility, probability. It was too complex for me to fully understand; FAR too complex for me to attempt to describe in words. But within this, they showed me how fluid the future is. How, especially if your life is in transition in some way or another, or the world is in transition, there is no future set in stone, just a series of possibilities, becoming probabilities, gathering momentum in different directions.

“There is no predetermination, there is only alignment.”

I sat quietly for a moment digesting this. Thinking about my assumptions about the world. There are some things I think of as ‘meant to be’. I read romance novels for goodness sake, there are things I think of as fated. I like thinking of the world that way. The idea of predetermination feels safe– like, you can’t fuck up if something’s going to happen anyway. Like there’s a large hand guiding the movement of things, and we’re safe within its grasp. I say as much to the Guides, and they explain it to me in detail. Something that’s changed my worldview entirely, and has helped me in a thousand small ways since understanding this. I’ll do my best to explain it here.

Predetermination is a cop-out. A surrender of our own authority to something larger than ourselves. In a way, it’s us saying “I don’t get to choose”. I have an example, perhaps embarrassing, but an example anyway. Have you ever had so many synchronicities with a person that you start to wonder if there’s something deeper going on? Maybe give extra meaning to the situation? I’ve had crushes on people I had synchronicities with, not because I actually fancied them, but because I thought they were being given to me because of the synchronicity. I have been in love with the idea of fate handing me something, not actually with what was being handed to me. Predetermination gives the power of choice to a higher authority. Cosmic buck-passing. You don’t HAVE to choose, because the universe has chosen for you. Look at all these signs! This must be it!

The key here, the Guides explained, is authority. If you’re giving the authority in your life up to a higher power of any kind, you’re not actually fully inhabiting your own life. It doesn’t matter what you believe (I know that plenty of people here are quite religious)– this isn’t a dismantling of there being a higher power– it’s a dismantling of the idea that the higher power chooses for you, instead of you choosing for you.

Fate. Predetermination. This is external motivation for choosing.

“But”, I said, “it does feel like some things, events, people, situations, are drawn together. Almost as if there are underlying factors beyond our control." I asked about relationships (see above about being a romantic): I know SO many people who’ve met someone and known. Whether it’s for a week, a month, 50 years, there’s a knowing that precedes the connection. "What is that if not fate?”

“That is not fate, that is alignment. This entire world, this entire universe, runs on alignment. It is a force that precedes all other forces. It is how energy itself works: energy is drawn together based on the force that is alignment. Alignment is based on likeness– think about how water forms together with itself. In this way, that which is aligned is alike, and is already a part of the other.

That which is aligned for you is ALREADY a part of you, is not separate from you. You only hold it apart from yourself with your own worldviews, beliefs, thoughts, habits, etc.

“How is that different from predetermination then?”

“Predetermination is the idea that an external force is moving things together. Alignment is an internal force. Alignment simply IS. When you align with your own heart-path (which is simply the feeling of you recognizing something and WANTING it), it is not something outside you moving you to do so. The more you come into alignment, the more this alignment becomes physical-- this happens through you releasing the mechanisms that hold you separate from it. When you are aligned with another person, it simply is– you do not need to do anything, make anything happen. You can get in the way of it, but you can’t ‘make it happen’ because it is already energetically together.” (they then showed me a few of my closest friendships, where I have seen a person and KNOWN they were one of mine. A foregone conclusion; it was like simply picking up where we’d left off.).

What is aligned from you cannot be separate from you. There are many things in alignment with you– you get to choose which direction to move in. Things can come into and out of alignment. The less attached you are to outcome, to forcing things, the more fluid you can remain. The more fluid you are, the more you stay in that alignment.

When it comes to the future, the future is fluid, because you have choice, and because from every moment, the possibilities shift based on those choices.

I thought about what I liked about the idea of fate: the safety. The knowing. I ask them to predict the future, because I want to feel safe, secure, in control. Fate is physical world certainty– that’s deeply reassuring, in a world where everything feels as though its in flux. Alignment, however, is energetic certainty. It’s a different thing. It requires a different kind of trust. It requires moving forwards based on a feeling, rather than knowing. Alignment still leaves the future unknown and uncontrollable, but the connection itself is known and controllable.

“Dammit.” I said to the Guides. “I want to know. I want to be in control because I want to feel safe, and I want certainty, because my life is just a massive question mark right now.”

They do the energetic equivalent of ruffling my hair.

“That’s not the path you chose. You didn’t come here to know, you came to create something new. You came here to learn to remember who you are, which is your larger self, which is us. You came here to step into the unknown and to remember. And to have fun. There is no fun in predictability. There is fun in seeing how the universal unfolding can delight you. If we were to tell you the future, you’d just make us your authority. You’d never learn to choose for yourself. You’d never need to learn trust energy over matter. You’d never need to learn to trust alignment, because you’d have no reason to.

But we will tell you this much. The more you learn to trust it, the more beautiful it becomes. The more easily it unfolds in a direction that will delight you. All is well, and all is unfolding in the most delightful, magical way. For you. For us. For everyone.”

Big hugs,

Rebecca

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