what actually got you into spirituality? sharing my story

ok so I've been lurking here for a while and I keep seeing people mention how they got started and honestly I just want to hear more of those stories??

for me it was a breakup. not in a dramatic way lol, but like... I was really lost and a friend handed me a book about astrology and said 'read this, trust me.' I rolled my eyes SO hard.

but then I read my chart and I genuinely started crying because it described me in a way nobody had ever put into words

that was like 3 years ago and now I'm here reading tarot every morning and actually understanding myself way better than I did before

what was YOUR gateway? was it a person, a moment, a book? I love hearing how people found this stuff

mine was honestly embarrassing lol

I was really stressed during a job search that just would not end and my coworker kept talking about numerology. I kept brushing it off until she calculated my life path number and was like 'you're literally a 4, no wonder you're struggling with uncertainty'

I looked it up and... yeah. it was uncomfortably accurate

now I use it more as a framework for understanding myself than as a prediction thing and it's genuinely helped me so much

a tarot deck at a thrift store honestly. cost me $3 and I bought it as a joke gift for myself

pulled a card that night just messing around and it was the hermit. I had literally just told my therapist I needed to spend more time alone and reconnect with myself

couldn't explain that away. started reading everything I could find after that

I grew up religious but sort of drifted away from it in my 20s and felt this gap I couldn't name

found astrology through a podcast and it felt like the same kind of language — patterns, archetypes, meaning in things — but it fit ME better

honestly the spiritual community has given me back that sense of connection I thought I'd lost. so grateful I found it

these are so good, thank you for sharing!!

the thrift store tarot deck one got me lol. and I really relate to the 'filling a gap' thing — that's exactly what it felt like for me too

keep sharing if you want, I could read these all day

omg I love this thread so much

for me it was my grandma honestly. she always had these little rituals - burning incense before big decisions, keeping certain stones on her windowsill. I thought it was just... old lady stuff lol

but when she passed a few years ago I found myself going through her things and there was this worn-out numerology book with all her notes in the margins. like she'd been working through her life path number and writing little reflections next to each meaning

I started reading it just to feel close to her and then fell completely down the rabbit hole. calculated my own numbers and it just... clicked? like I finally had a framework for understanding why I am the way I am

now I use it more as a journaling prompt than anything else but it genuinely changed how I talk to myself. way kinder than before

ok this thread is everything, I've been wanting to share this for a while

for me it was a podcast lol. I was on a really long solo road trip and just grabbed whatever was in my feed, and somehow ended up on this episode about synchronicities and how to notice meaningful patterns in your everyday life

I was like 'ok this sounds made up' but then the host described this thing that happens where you think of someone right before they text you... and I started counting how often it actually happened to me and just... a lot. like, a LOT a lot

that cracked something open for me. I started reading about numerology after that and realized I'd been subconsciously noticing number patterns for years without a framework to make sense of them

now I keep a little notebook just for 'things I noticed' and honestly it's made me so much more present? like I'm actually paying attention to my life instead of just moving through it

the road trip was supposed to be about clearing my head after a stressful period and I ended up finding a whole new lens for everything lol

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