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✦  TODAY IN DREAM SIGNS
It has already started
Monday’s symbol, turned forward. The change you are waiting to make has begun without you.
THIS IS WHAT HAS CHANGED
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TODAY’S SYMBOL
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THURSDAY, 1 OCTOBER
Dear friend,
I asked for what I actually wanted at the hairdresser’s this morning, out loud, in a full sentence, and she said she had been waiting years for me to.
Years. She has been cutting it the way I nod at, all that time, while thinking I wanted something else, which I did.
Monday’s letter was about hair and whose hands were in it, and this is the forward half of that, which is the half I find harder to write.
Because the thing these dreams keep telling people is not that a change is coming, it is that one has been underway for a while and nobody has said so.
 
What has already changed
Hair is the useful symbol here because it grows whether or not you have decided anything, so by the time you notice a change you are already some months into it.
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How I look
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Something I have stopped doing
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Who I spend time with
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Nothing yet, I think
Tap the one that fits
People wait for a starting line that never comes, a Monday or a birthday or a moment when they feel ready, while the change has been going on quietly underneath for most of a year.
The dream shows up at the point where the change becomes visible to other people, which is usually a good while after it became true, and that is what makes it feel sudden.
You are not at the beginning of this, you are somewhere in the middle of it, and the only thing missing is you saying so.
“ You are not at the beginning of this, you are somewhere in the middle of it.
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What it is calling in
What comes next, if the letters are anything to go by, is other people catching up, so expect somebody to say you look different before you have told anybody anything.
Expect one person to be put out by it, as well, because a change in you means a change in the arrangement, and somebody has been enjoying the old arrangement.
Whether that counts as the world rearranging itself for you or just a hairdresser being pleased, I will leave to you, since this is the part where I usually hedge and I am going to go on doing it.
✦  BEFORE YOU GET OUT OF BED
Tap one to answer it
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What changed while I was not looking?
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Who has noticed already?
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What am I waiting to be allowed?
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Who will mind?
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What would I say if asked today?
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How long has this been true?
The last one tends to produce a longer number than people expect, and that number is the good news rather than the bad.
✦  CARRY THESE WITH YOU TODAY
It started without me noticing
I do not need a starting line
I can say it before anybody asks
Somebody minding is not a reason to stop
People are about to catch up
Tap the one you need
✦  WRITE BACK
Something about you has changed this year and one person has seen it while another has not, and I would like to know which is which.
TELL ME WHICH ONE
It is shorter at the back and I keep catching myself in windows, which is either vanity or evidence, and I am not going to decide before the weekend.
Sleep well,
Dream Signs
 
P.S. My daughter looked up from her cereal, considered me for a while, and said it was fine and that I should have done it ages ago. Tell me what has changed in you. Everybody knew but me.
✦  TONIGHT’S PRACTICE
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Write the date it started
Name the change you think is coming and work backwards to when it actually began. Put that date on the page before you sleep and see what the night does with it.
TELL ME THE DATE
✦  MANIFESTATION TIP
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Say it in the present tense
Tell one person what you want as something already underway rather than something you are hoping to begin. People offer help to a thing that is moving.
WHAT CAME BACK
Something happened after a dream? Tell me
 
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