7 Soul-Signs: You’re Having a Spiritual Awakening!

Rachelle Millar
May 25
3 min read

Spiritual awakening is not a one-time light switch — it’s more like a series of thresholds. Sometimes subtle, sometimes soul-quaking. Often messy. But always sacred.

Here are 7 signs that you may be walking the path of awakening — not losing your way, but finally finding it.

1. Your Old Identity Begins to Crumble

As Richard Rohr says, “You have to go through a necessary suffering to find the Larger Self.” What once defined you — career, role, relationships, image — begins to fall away. It can feel terrifying, but this is the sacred unravelling. The false self is dying so the true self can emerge.

🌀 Psychosynthesis calls this the Crisis of the Emerging Self — the breakdown before the breakthrough.

2. You Start Asking Bigger Questions

“Who am I beyond my story?” “What is my purpose?” “Why am I here?”This is the beginning of what Ken Wilber calls the move from the egoic self to the transpersonal self — the shift from linear thinking to holistic, spiritual awareness.

The soul isn’t interested in surface answers anymore. It wants depth, truth, mystery.

3. You Experience a Pull Toward Silence, Nature, and Solitude

Jung taught that the soul speaks in images, symbols, and silence.Osho reminded us that the mind is noise, but the being is quiet.

Suddenly, busy social events drain you. You're drawn to trees, waves, the sky, and the space between words. This isn’t avoidance — it’s alignment. You’re learning to listen in a new way.

4. Emotions Become More Intense — But Also More Sacred

You feel grief you’ve buried for years. You cry more easily. You laugh from the belly. Emotions surge, but instead of resisting, you begin to witness. This is what Rohr would call “falling upward” — allowing your inner world to mature, deepen, and expand. You’re no longer afraid of feeling. You’re learning it’s how the soul speaks.

5. You’re Drawn to Spiritual Wisdom You Can’t Explain

You start reading about chakras, archetypes, mystics, energy, near-death experiences, astrology, angels, or light codes. You don’t “believe” it all — but your curiosity is alive.

Wayne Dyer called this the shift from ambition to meaning. You’re no longer looking to achieve something — you’re looking to become something deeper.

6. Synchronicities and Symbolism Begin to Show Up Everywhere

As Osho said, “When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.”You see repeated numbers, overhear conversations that speak directly to your soul, have dreams that feel more real than waking life.

The universe starts whispering — not outside you, but through you.

7. You Long to Live More Authentically

This is the soul’s crescendo.The life that once fit now chafes. The masks grow heavy.You want to speak your truth, honour your body, deepen your connections, and live a life that reflects your inner knowing.

Ken Wilber calls this the move toward Integral Consciousness — a stage where you no longer reject the world, but bring soul into every part of it.

You don’t want to escape life. You want to inhabit it.