Signs You’re on the Right Path to an Aligned Life and Career
A beautiful mountain in Kaua’i
Listen to your intuition.
I was at a juice bar at the base of a mountain on the island of Kaua’i, quite literally in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. I was at this juice shop for the second time on my five day trip to Kaua’i, when I noticed a man in shorts and sandals working behind the shack.
“Diana, ask him about the mountain,” my intuition urged me.
I stepped to the right of the shack, behind a little stand holding bananas, and asked, instinctively, deferentially, “Hello, excuse me, are you local to this area?” He replied that he was.
“Can you tell me about this mountain?” I asked.
Lean into the feeling.
As we stood there, at the base of the mountain, he quietly shared that the mountain is known to be a sacred energetic portal. “Are you with me?” he asked.
Yes, I was 100% with him. I shared with him that the night before, as I sat in our cabin up the road, I had felt such a strong energy - an energy that I had only felt one other time before in my life.
This was what had prompted me to ask him about the mountain.
Later, I read that the Dalai Lama is said to have made a visit to the area and referred to the mountain as a profoundly sacred place, describing it as a portal where souls enter the Earth.
It doesn’t always need to “make sense.”
“You do not choose this place. This place chooses you,” the man said to me, quietly.
He was absolutely right.
I have traveled extensively throughout my life, but had never been drawn to Hawaii until now. Inspired by a sticker on my bulletin board at home that read “Adventure starts where plans end,” I researched and booked only a hotel stay, a Jeep rental, and how to hike the Nā Pali Coast.
At the last minute, I had a feeling that I needed to cancel my hotel reservation. It just didn’t feel like “me.” A quick search on VRBO yielded a single listing in an area that, on Google maps, had no other accommodations. It was a tiny cabin on a family farm. An outdoor shower. Plumerias, hibiscus, and peace and quiet.
After several years of significant transition and growth, the promise of spending a few quiet days on a farm in the Pacific, to reflect and to breathe, seemed like perfection.
Trust yourself.
During the first few days on the island, I’d gotten the sense from speaking to others that the area where I was staying wasn’t exactly on the tourist trail. Now, when I google that area, the words that come up include “sketchy,” “rugged, untouched feeling” and “crime.”
And yet, there I was, in this local area at the base of a mountain, a sacred energetic portal associated with birth (or re-birth). I had landed on Kauai on the night of a full moon - and not just any moon, but a blue moon. And, my hostess and I shared the same name in English: Diana.
I felt so welcome. So grounded. So at peace.
Open your heart.
Sometimes we don’t need to look very far to find signs that we are on the righ tpath.
We simply need to slow down and to be open to them.
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