Do you believe the universe tries to tell us things

A string of negative events isn’t necessarily a nudge in a different direction, although it can be. You can read the ‘universe’ (by which I mean everything around us) but it’s not always so simple as ‘go this way, go that’. If you follow astrology - and I don’t just mean star signs - it’s said you can go through entire long cycles of difficulty because of certain planetary transits. For example Saturn or Pluto impacting your chart. It’s not necessarily a case of ‘well I’ll do this other thing instead’ abd assume things will go better. Sometimes life is difficult and there’s no instant solution. If you feel called to make changes in your life, do what feels right, but I wouldn’t count on ‘the universe’ to tell you what that is.

Nope. Things aren’t going well. Your brain is like, enough of this shit, time to move home - it’ll make things easier. You can decide whether or not that’s the option you want to peruse.

Of course not.

No, the universe is not that fussed about our lives. I think maybe what you’re describing is just your own gut instinct.

Ha ha, ok. I hope that's true of all the other credulous seeming people on the thread too.

It's the same as saying no leprechauns or fairies exist. Just because more people believe in God than in those things does not make it any more rational to believe in it.

Indeed I was. I even said so!

If you were so great at psychology you’d have been able to spot that poster was blatantly ripping the piss.

That lottery post was the big give away.

100%. Listen to the signs

So are our universe friends anti semitic then? Cos they didn’t guide 6 million Jews to escape the hooocaust.. Presumably they don’t like women either, as they’ve let an awful lot of shit happen to women over the millennia. Ditto gay people. They must’ve been pretty racist in the 1800s as that was a lot of African slaves they failed to help too.

In fact, they mainly seem to have liked men born into privileged positions as these are the people who seem to have got the best deal throughout history, so I guess the universe must have helped by guiding them to the best positions. And the universe must really like men who have leading roles in running empires as they’ve always done really well.

Funny how so many people seem to like the Universe when it’s so out of step with modern values!

With all these philosophies, I always think, does it work if you are a very poor person living on a rubbish dump or only for someone in the first world? If it's the latter then I can't give it any credence. The Secret for instance. Created by a middle class white American woman.
Thinking that there may be benign forces at work pushing you in a direction does pass that test.

you will find signs where you look for them.
your gut is the best compass

Speaking as someone with OCD, if my gut was my compass I'd never leave the sodding house.

Religious people always seem to declare that God's plan for them involves the very path they intended to take anyway. I think it's the same with people who believe in the universe sending messages.

Our brains have near infinite capacity to recognise patterns where none exists.

More generally people need a better education in basic statistics and psychology. There's nothing difficult about understanding enough to see chance and coincidence for what it is.

On lottery numbers, if enough people play, selecting random numbers, chances are someone is going to choose correctly. They won't know in advance that they are correct (whatever they or anyone else happens to believe) but they will win.

Whereas what @FinalCeleryScheme seems to be saying is 'but how did they know in advance?'. They didn't, they guessed like everyone else. Then they were lucky. If they had special powers of foresight they'd win every week.

The thing I'd be thinking about OP is whether your current run of sad and bad experiences is a blip, or something longer-lasting. Plus, are you looking at 'home' through rose-tinted specs, seeing the grass as greener etc.

For example, are the schools there, that your DC would get into, really better suited to their needs? Would they take advantage of the opportunities offered, or does part of the problem lie with them? Might you go through a whole lot of disruption moving back and find they're in no better a position?

Maybe your universe friends could tell you how percentages work...

I've been doing my family tree now and have had two massive coincidences. Also I'm in Ancestry FB groups and such coincidences are two a penny. A house on a hill that someone passes every day and admires- turns out his Gran grew up in it. Choosing to go to Uni in some far-off city only to find that your family was originally from that city. That kind of thing. One of my ' massives' was finding my dad's parents' address from the 1921 census (so before he was born,) in a city we didn't know they'd lived in. It was the exact same house that I found for my mum and she tried to buy nearly 100 years later, to be near me. Her ILs' old house.
I think it's some sort of genetic remembrance for places. So off-topic, but just to show that we don't understand everything in the universe!

Thank you. I was just being purposely silly to make a point.

I find it depressing that so many adults can’t understand chance and look for meaning and a ‘guiding hand’ in what is just the law of probability playing out in our lives.

Explaining the choice of winning numbers by believing that the late, much-loved Granny Deidre’s house number came up because she’s watching over us…

I don't think that this run of bad things happening in your life is a sign to move back home. But I do strongly believe in intuition and listening to your gut. I've made many a decision based on my 'gut' and I've never been wrong

I don't think it's about whether "the Universe" cares or not, but even physicists acknowledge that the tiniest components can behave in ways we don't understand. The most brilliant scientific minds have spent inordinate amounts of time and money trying to figure out the how and why of our existence. Without that we'd still be living in the stone age. For some reason we are wired to attach values of "good" or "evil" to things and to seek meaning. That in itself is a fascinating thing to explore.

Yes. I do think quite often that things happen for a reason. Not always, but often. Certainly The Universe seems to be placing Trump for a second term, with all that will follow on from that...

OP - pray for guidance!

They don't. It is chance. If it's more than that you have to then ask why them? Why not someone more deserving, in need?

That's the problem at the heart of all of this...for everyone who says they were blessed when they had a miraculous near miss, or fortunate encounter does that mean those involved in accidents or sad about living alone because they haven't met "the one" are being punished? Have bad karma or are not pleasing God? After 9/11 there were hundreds of stories about people who should have been on one of the planes, or should have been at work but were late, ill, had a dentist appointment or something and thank God or angels for saving them. What the hell does that mean for those who were on the planes or at their desks?

Yes, coincidence. Just random chance. I was 300 miles from home yesterday and bumped into someone who lives on the next street. So? If you think these things are more than that, it implies there's some meaning ..what is the meaning behind you visiting that street? Had you not done so, would you have turned down the tenancy? Or just popped a mile up the road to suss it out? Why would God / the universe actually care about your house move?

Our universe friends know, they watch, they listen.

They try to help, to guide so I 1000% believe they try to tell us things!

Ok but of all the houses anywhere I could have gone to collect something anywhere in any town, it just happened to be right next door to the place I was going to be offered a few weeks later?