Bananas, bananas, and more bananas. I’m seeing them everywhere. On TV, watching the Property Brothers, Queer Eye and Atypical. On shirts. In the comics. In Ask Amy. They came up while I was working with a client and I could taste banana cream pie. Louis Prima was singing about bananas, great big bananas…
Spirit is trying to get my attention, but I can’t decipher the message. Do I need more tryptophan? Or am I acting a little bananas?
I’ve written before about developing a lexicon with your guides and angels. This is important so that they can send you messages that you can interpret quickly and easily. For me, monarch butterflies mean I need to make a significant change. Crows remind me to remember the magic in life. The number 777 means things are unfolding exactly as they should.
But bananas? They hardly seem like the most spiritual fruit.
It seems the joke is on me.
A few years ago, when monarch butterflies were coming to be like bananas are now, I also saw a car with a vanity license plate, BALCER. I saw it every time I left the house. Sometimes twice.
I finally googled it. Balcer is a form of Baltazar. Baltazar was one of the three magi who, according to legend, visited Jesus’s birth. A king. Like a monarch, like the butterfly. The Universe likes to hammer things home for me.
Why didn’t I think to google the spiritual meaning of bananas before? The scientific name for bananas is musa sapientum, which means…
Fruit of the wise men.
Just as monarch butterflies symbolize transformation, perhaps the banana message is about change as well. A reminder to be wise and to handle people gently so that I don’t bruise anyone’s heart. Or maybe a nudge in the other direction—to not be so fragile, so easily bruised myself.
We can gain great insight when we go within, when we meditate or spend time in quiet contemplation. Meditation strengthens our connection to the Divine. For as much as I wish I could spend all day meditating (who’s with me?), I came, we came, to have experiences in the outer world.
We can ask to receive messages from Sprit through all our senses, what are called the “clairs.”
- Clairvoyance is the gift of second sight
- Clairaudience is hearing messages
- Clairsentience is feeling, a strong empathy
- Clairalience is smell, like smelling the perfume of a dead loved one
- Clairgustance is taste, like that banana cream pie I mentioned
- Claircognizance is a clear knowing of things we have no practical knowledge of
And don’t forget the seventh sense, the sense of humor. Bananas, indeed.
