How Guides "Guide" You

“We do not create our destiny; we participate in its unfolding. Synchronicity works as a catalyst toward the working out of that destiny.”

~ David Richo

This was originally written as a newsletter on December 2, 2025, when we had 29 days until the end of the year.

We now have 16 days to New Year's Eve!

December 2, 2025

The countdown is on to the end of the year!

A Reflection

We are 29 days away from celebrating New Year's Eve of 2026. Gosh, that seems so outrageous to me. How did this year fly by so quickly? I looked back at my newsletters from last year and saw that I started the year with a new format. I watched how that slowly changed into a more simply managed style as the months went along. I observe how I went from talking about Mardis Gras and departed loved ones to the new administration having a Covid-like effect. I saw where I noted my Easy kitty's passing and how he showed up in a dream 40 days later, telling me he was home. He said he never went anywhere, just went for a long walk and a long nap. I marveled then that he did the same thing in real life, and disappeared for 40 days. My husband and I moved to a new town and at the local crystal store he found me a rock that is black and white. I can see Easy's face in it. I have the stone sitting on my coffee pot and say hi to him every morning. He hasn't been to this home. He didn't know it in his lifetime as Easy, yet just a few weeks ago, he was in my dream and was lounging on the back patio here. My kitty Poppy was sitting in the open doorway looking at him as if he has been here all along. Of course he has! I have had even more dreams of him being at the top of the stairs and just a day or so ago, I walked by the stairs and did a double take and had to walk back and look because I thought I saw him sitting on one of the middle steps. I like it when things like that happen. I like the unseen world becoming more visible and it never ceases to remind me that we live in a magical universe.

When I was in Fairhope in October I stayed with my friend, Marcia. Her kitty, Stella, had gone missing three weeks before. I dreaded pulling up to her home because I knew I would cry when I didn't see Stella waiting for me out front. Stella ALWAYS knew when I was coming. Marcia told me she would start sitting on my bed three days or more before I came to town. She often sent me pictures of Stella curled up there. Stella even knew to wait outside by the front door! She greeted me in the early mornings when I awoke and would tuck me in bed at night before retiring to Marcia's. This has been going on for nearly six years. Stella wasn't the easiest cat due to her feisty nature, yet we had a bond. I was always honored to be one of her chosen few. During those three weeks I checked in on Stella with my psychic sense. She showed me an owl had gotten her but that she was fighting her way back. I had hope and faith, just like I did when Easy left that long time. My first night there I was awakened in the middle of the night. I startled and sat up and saw a kitty curled up next to me where Stella would lay. But alas, it wasn't her in the physical and it was then I knew she was gone. The next day I heard her bell that would jingle when she ran to my room in the mornings. Aaaaahhh, that unseen world....

On a side note, Marcia knew immediately when I said I saw an owl. She said there have been way too many synchronicities to validate that. Even today Stella sends her owl signs whether it is playing words with friends, or visiting the local art museum. Owls are everywhere now for Marcia, I mean everywhere. It's practically daily. Stella has managed to shift a traumatic and sad story to one of magic and awe. I'd like to think she transitioned into an Owl and is now perched over Marcia's house as a winded guardian. Who knows? Maybe she is. She sure looked like one as a cat and it would be just like her. I'll have to "check in" on that and maybe include that update in another newsletter.

Looking over more of the newsletters I remembered setting up an office in Birmingham, then moving to Woodstock, Georgia, then closing my office in Birmingham, the drive was just too much one way. What should have taken 90 mins to two hours was consistently taking 4 to 5. I saw where I got to interview Tom T. Moore then got interviewed myself and appeared in two articles. I got invited to be the keynote speaker at the annual Grandmother's Gathering in Alabama. I even signed my first book contract. I got more consistent with my YouTube live show, though I did change the day and time often. That whole schedule thing for me is tough. I look at each day and consider when I can exercise, go run errands, be available for clients, host my live show, answer emails, take care of my kitties, go to the farmer's market, write, read, paint and more. Ha! I absolutely LOVE my life here on this planet and there is just so much I want to do! My Guides are constantly telling me to just go with the flow, be easy about things, and trust in the process. They often tell me to let go of efforting and allow myself to be guided in this dance. Right now I am planning January through March, and April too. I want to travel to see my mom. My mom is turning 87 in January and I haven't seen her in over a year. She recently announced that she is not going anywhere anymore where she has to pack a bag. I honestly can't blame her. It's easy staying home. Yet I want to see her in Virginia and spend time with my high school friends. I want to see my friends in Florida and Alabama. I'd love to see my friends in California, which clearly requires a bit more planning. 

For the next 29 days I'll be working on my book revisions, planning my next year, having sessions with clients, enjoying all that I can of the holidays in this new sweet town I am in. I get to participate in two more circles and offer my services in a group setting. I am so excited to share with such special people in this format. Every group setting is different based on who is attending and these are two deeply wise and spiritual groups, so there is no telling what the Guides and Masters will bring forth. I am so honored to share in these connections. I reflect on this year and anticipate the remainder of it. I am eager about the opportunities that I have yet to line up with. My book has a proposed publication date for the end of February of 2026, yet I am leary about that deadline. Knowing how I write best and looking at my availability, I think my book might line up with my birthday. How fitting would that be? I'll be 60 next year! 60!! Wow! That seems remarkable, and yet divinely and perfectly timed with my first book. Turning 60, for anyone, places me in my second Saturn Return. Just like at age 30 (give orb take a couple of years before and after), this time brings great change. Saturn pushes us out of our comfort zones. It shoves and says, "hey, go take care of this, learn this about yourself, see what you're made of and capable of". Saturn refuses to let us play small and wants us to expand, be seen, do our personal work. Saturn holds us accountable and if we are living in a way that is not honoring ourselves, it will shake things up so that we do. It's kind of wild that my first book would be coming out at this time. I'm ready though! At least I think I am. My Guides assure me that I am and that it is all in divine orchestration. I trust them. They have guided me well thus far. 

I didn't intend to reflect on the year today. I certainly didn't intend to share what feels more like a journal entry; however, I am glad I did. I am glad I get to share it with you. I am grateful that you're even interested to hear my reflections! I'd love to hear yours to be honest. Can you take some time to reflect back on your year? The highs and lows, the travels, conversations, and times you were really seen? Can you think about the next 29 days and ringing in the New year? Can you be present in this moment and allow yourself to feel through the journey of 2025 and the anticipation for 2026?

I had a dream last night that I was trying to lead a meditation class like I used to at Lotus Bluum or at Soul Shine Yoga in Fairhope. In the dream I told everyone to lay down. Then I told them I forgot my singing bowl but I had the tones on my phone I could use. A girl interrupted me and started using her own singing bowl letting me know she had one. Then three people sat up and started saying prayers. I told them to lie back down as I would say the prayer soon. They refused and insisted they say the prayer out loud. Others were sitting up and laying back down, unsure of what to do. The girl kept gonging and they three kept reciting a prayer. I asked them if they wanted me to lead the meditation or not. No one replied. Chaos had ensued. I got frustrated and just walked out. I had two more dreams after that left me feeling anxious when I woke up. The second one was me setting up snacks in a break room during an event and no one was helping me with any sense of what to do. The third one I was out in public without any clothing. Everyone knows this means being seen for who you really are, nothing to hide here. In each dream I walked off into something new. Even in the unclothed dream I got into a private elevator that was intended to shield me, yet I grabbed a jacket and the elevator ascended. I have been thinking about these dreams all day today. It came to me to understand that my old ways of being a spiritual leader or guide are changing and that more of me is emerging for the world to see. I left rooms no longer meant for me to be in and moved towards spaces unknown. 

I share ALL of this because I want to demonstrate how guidance can come to you too. Your Guides are guiding you the same way.  Watch for the stories to come together. There are NO coincidences, only divine synchronicities. Everything you experience is a part of a message somewhere, somehow and someway. You too are in a beautiful dance with the Universe and your Spirit Guides know exactly the steps, twirls, dips and spins you want to take. Let them guide you....

You have 29 days until 2026 and 2025 will be no more. And if you're thinking good riddance, well, you have time to shift that attitude. Let 2025 go out with love and appreciation for the person you became today because of what you have experienced, or even endured. How did 2025 change you? shape you? What did this year wake up in you or allow you to let go of? Who are you becoming more of that wasn't a strong part of you ringing in the New Year on January1, 2025? Where are your Guides taking you? What is waiting for you to line up with? 

I didn't write all of this to suggest you schedule a session with me, yet, you can. And we can connect with your personal Guides and ask them whatever you want. It may be a WTF Guides kind of session or it might be I need permission please, or reassurance or clarity and support or what to do next. Either way, I encourage you to take some quiet time and reflect, appreciate and dream.

As always, 

Expect magical things, 

Betsey

“Synchronicity is an ever present reality for those who have eyes to see.”

~ Carl Jung