A friend of mine emailed to tell me that she discovered a baby fawn curled up in her backyard. She lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. It is definitely an unusual experience to have. Since Susan is a very Spiritual person, I know that she will see this event as a message from the natural world.
The significance of what the fawn means to her is her call. No one else should interpret her experience because we are all unique individuals. Each of us sees life through our own lens. For example, a hunter would interpret this event one way, an artist would interpret it another way. This theory also applies to dream interpretation.
One does not need to consult a book or anyone else to do this. All you need to do is ask yourself what a fawn means to you. If nothing comes to you at first, go back in time, perhaps meaning will come from your childhood. Then, see if you are able to ascertain where your answer came from, your logical mind or from your heart. It is possible that you may receive two different answers.
Sometimes when I take a walk and am deep in thought, I will come across unusual items. One time, I found a pair of broken sunglasses in my path. The message I received from them was an invitation to look at something with a new perspective. I would have applied it to whatever I had been thinking about, when I found the sunglasses.
Years ago, when I was on a vacation in Maine, I went for a long walk on a dirt road. I had been wrestling with the conflicting messages I was receiving from the physical world and the spiritual world. As I walked deep in thought, I almost stepped on something in front of me. I looked down and saw a forked branch. In that moment, I knew I was being invited to make a choice. I picked it up and saw that one side of the fork had another little branch. That was the side that represented the Spiritual world. The extra branch meant that I would experience more growth and that there would be more options available to me, if I chose this path. These things resonated with me deeply.
And so on August 10, 1996, on a dirt road in the middle of Maine, I made the decision to honor the messages that come from the Spiritual World more than the messages that come from the physical world. I’ve been finding that Spirit’s wisdom has much more depth and meaning than what the insane outer world has to say. And if one continues to follow their guidance it will lead you to peace, healing and the joy of being in community.
The messages that come from the material world seem to be rooted in many shallow things like the ego, competition, keeping up appearances, accumulating vast amounts of material goods that most people don’t actually need and other things that ultimately do not lead to happiness or health.
I think Christopher Moorhead of Asheville, North Carolina summed it all up very nicely in his YouTube video about the tiny house he built. He said: “I’m a guy who got sick of working a job he didn’t love anymore, to pay for a house that he didn’t need, to fill it with crap that was useless, to impress people he didn’t even like.” Think about it.
There is so much more to life than the rat race everybody seems to accept as normal. Step out of the box and risk doing what you really want to do. When you get to the end of your life, you will probably be extremely glad you did.