Codes Suppose you were trying to teach a toddler about numbers. Well, numbers are a foreign concept to them. However, if you show the toddler three apples and help him count them, 1 2 3, then draw the numbers and show the correlation, he would eventually understand. At first he would learn by rote. He would memorize that one thing can be represented as a line, two things as a curve with a line on the bottom, three things as a double-curled line, etc. Of course, you would already know that the same symbolism will ultimately help him understand money, accounting, algebra and physics. Your toddler would perhaps rather just eat one of the apples, but maybe he will like doodling the lines too. We often teach and learn complex topics in code. Sometimes representation is the only means we have for conveying information. Sometimes the code is the information. Most of us cannot share thoughts directly, so we have to use words to represent our thoughts. We don't always deal in tangible quantities, so we use mathematics, equations and symbols to relate concepts and ideas. We use color and shape in art to express what we cannot reduce into words or numbers. Our lives are full of codes, even for mundane activities on a daily basis. We deal in symbolism. The universe, our spirit guides, guardian angels, whomever, do the same thing. Perhaps it's not practical for them to sit down and write us a letter, but they will work to find a language which can convey their message and which we can recognize. For example, if you're a student of Tarot, then you would likely get messages that way. It's what you know. It's where your focus is. The Tarot deck is likely where you'd look for that sort of information anyway and its symbolism is something you're more apt to understand. The same is true for those who study Runes, the Qabalah, the Bible, Quantum Mechanics, and so on. I will say that the medium through which this information is conveyed is likely to be one of symbols more than hard science or concrete language. It's the same trouble we had when we wanted to send a message out into space to be found by unknown beings. Remember that golden disc we sent with Voyager? Considering the plethora of verbal languages here on Earth, we didn't dare bank on what language any extraterrestrials might speak, if indeed they do speak. So, we sent symbols. We also sent recorded messages in various Earth languages, but that was more a matter of courtesy and maybe even ego. What the scientists expect, if the messages carried by Voyager are ever found, is that the visual symbols will tell our ET friends who we are and where to find us. Of course, we can only guess that their methods of comprehension will be anything remotely like ours or that they would even have the visual and audio receptors available to receive our little call. It's the best we could come up with at the time. We have found it necessary to describe our understanding of the universe in symbols (graphical and numerical), so we can only hope that ET may do so as well. Back here on Earth, we've left many messages for ourselves. Written records such as scriptural accounts and so forth, may be useful as tools, but I think they may not be the best tools for communication with the collective oneness. Because of the ethereal and abstract nature of universal relationships, I would expect that more arcane methods would serve better. Furthermore, verbal or written language records are a fairly recent development and generally describe more specific historical events for narrow locations. Remember too that literacy was not the norm and news often traveled at a slow foot-pace. Our ancestors have been studying the world, the universe and our place in it for thousands of years. They weren't always recording events as much as finding ways to describe what they learned, to share this knowledge and even to forecast the future. Their records were often etched in stone or carved in wood or scratched in sand from teacher to pupil, one at a time. The language had to be simple, symbolic and was usually echoed from the sky and nature, our greatest teachers. These arcane arts are part of our legacy from our ancestors and maybe even ourselves in previous lifetimes. Countless written records have been lost and yet a few mystical forms of communication with the skies and our spiritual selves still remain, virtually unchanged for millenia. I have to respect a system of symbols that has survived thousands of years intact. Even the written records which survive often echo what these basic tools can tell us. My suspicion is that such surviving records would match more closely had they not been tampered with by governing powers and ecclesiastical zealots. Just my opinion. But even so, think about the Rumor game. If you put a handful of people in a room and start a tale with one person then have them each whisper it to the next, by the time the tale reaches the end of the line, it bears very little resemblance to the original. This has not happened with the arcane arts. Yes, the graphics may vary a little, the words have had variable spellings, but the general meanings and interpretations are amazingly consistent, even after millenia of having to use these tools in secret and transfer the 'rumors' one by one to millions to now. Pictographs, hieroglyphs, natural associations like gem and herb lore, characters like runes and zodiac symbols, and so on, were developed as a means to carry forward what the ancients learned. Yes, part of the reason for the simple appearance of these things may have been their underdeveloped language skills otherwise. But isn't that also a benefit? Doesn't it mean that a small set of characters, such as twenty-four runes, may in fact be all that's needed to get even a complex message? It certainly is if you include intuition and spiritual guidance in the interpretive mix. With these minimal characters and only a few ways of arranging them for reading, then couldn't most anyone learn how to convey a message or work at divination? I believe that has been the intent. Besides, once you learn these symbol languages and methods, you begin to understand that they can carry an infinite variety of meanings fitted to the seeker. In many cases, these workings are merely a way for us to listen more carefully to ourselves. If you receive vague signs but listen to your own inner voice, you can usually glean what message you need to hear. You have to set your ego aside. Don't listen for what you want to hear, listen for what you are trying to tell yourself, for what you know to be true. That's the real trick of it. After that, you proceed as your spirit leads you and remain open to the best of possibilities that present themselves. I am a student of Astrology, among other things, although I will admit that I've barely skimmed the surface of all the information available there. Still, I know the language of it. I know the symbols and their general meanings. I understand the relationships of planetary movement through the Wheel of the Zodiac, at least on a rudimentary level. Therefore, I am likely to get some of my information through that code. I also put great stock in sky watching. I love the night sky especially and though I could really use some training in Astronomy, I am totally enthralled with the beauty up there in the velvet night. So, my research is also enjoyable. One other thing about the coded messages which can be a little perturbing. They may require patience. Some things seem to never have a clear meaning. I make notes, then I have to trust that if it's an important message, clarification will come later. I also feel that we receive what we are capable of receiving. That is, perhaps we are not always being sent specific messages at specific times, but maybe some are there all the time. When we need them and we're searching, we'll understand them. (Codes)

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