Solar Glow Meditations

There’s a new household member around the SolarGlow house. Meet Orly!

Spirit started telling me about Orly about a year before we got him. We lost our previous dogs – Patch the Great Dane and Bear the Bernese Mountain Dog about two years before Orly came to us. I’ve had dogs most of my life and love having them around, so I knew we’d have another eventually. One night in 2025, I had a dream with details from spirit about what dog was meant to be ours. I received the name of a city (that’s not too far from us), the date December 11th, and a red collar.

Well, it’s not December yet and the collar color we got from the litter was the gray collared boy. I had bought a red collar because of the dream and had put in the request for the red boy, but we ultimately did not get final say in which pup we ended up with. It does leave me a little confused about the messaging I got. There’s two ways I can look at the information. The first is that free will happened and things shifted from the original dream I had. Over the course of a year, that’s more than likely to happen, especially when some decisions around this feel minor in the grand scheme of life.

The second is that whatever is meant to play out isn’t over yet. I took the dream to mean that December 11th was the day we were meant to pick up our new puppy… but maybe it’s significant in some other way? Spirit is notoriously bad at translating dates. Our calendars are made up and they change with seconds being added, leap years, and so on. Perhaps I was the one meant to put the red collar on him? Maybe the red collar was symbolism for getting a Bernese Mountain dog because we had a red collar for Bear too? I’d certainly love to know, but will I ever really know? I don’t know.

I’m sharing all of this because even spirit confuses me too. I love getting information from the dowsing rods and having that yes or no come through so clearly. But even the dowsing rod information and questions we get can have so much nuance and additional context to be added to them. Life is ever fluid and changing too, so what might have been true yesterday, might not be true tomorrow. But for today, I’m thankful to have a puppy to snuggle and grateful Orly is home with us.

What do you think when things play out differently than spirit led you to know? Do you have a furry friend at home? How did they come into your life? Let me know in the comments below!