Find Your Truth in Patterns

We will find our infinite power within when we observe patterns in behavior, in systems, in nature. We gain wisdom, discernment, a sense of wonder, but most importantly, we find our truth.

Writer’s Note: In my nearly 20 years as a professional writer, this may be one of the most important essays I’ve written. It is from my heart to yours, written with love for all.

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The truth we seek is in the patterns we observe. Thus, the truth you seek is within you.

We often rely too much on others to define what is true for us. This is one of many ways we hand over our personal sovereignty to people or systems that seek to control.

Research from voter studies conducted in the 1940s and 50s called the Two-Step Flow Theory showed that people were more likely to trust and be influenced by discussions with opinion leaders (friends, family, coworkers, preachers and teachers) than by direct exposure to news or political messaging.

But these opinion leaders acted as filters of direct information. And if you consider the news as yet another filter of what is going on, then we are playing telephone with our lives far beyond how we vote.

Years ago, I realized that my truth was, in fact, a collection of other people’s and institutions’ truths.

I was talking to a dear friend during a cocreating session yesterday (what we call coworking because our work is not work but play) about measuring ourselves against some universal truth, some external standard. But when we look back over our shoulder, like really look at it, we ask ourselves why? Who created this standard of truth by which we conduct our lives?

It is time we all go within and ask ourselves these tough questions and look for patterns that reveal information we need to make important decisions. Because the world is changing and changing fast, and we are the ones creating what is to come next. Let’s make wise choices.

And I say these questions are tough because when we challenge the structures in our mind, which are based on external structures of societal conditioning that have existed for our entire lives, they begin to crumble.

While this may be liberating, it can also be devastating.

So we do it with kid gloves, as the expression goes, with delicate care. We observe these belief systems with love, not fear, which means with curiosity instead of judgment and cynicism. From this comes the greatest gift any human could have during confusing times — the gift of discernment.

Observing patterns in our world is how we gain wisdom.

Wisdom is not just knowledge—it is the sacred alchemy of experience, intuition and universal truth; it draws from the unseen fabric of information that connects all that is. Wisdom is the ability to witness patterns, to understand the deeper currents beneath the surface of life, and to respond with love rather than reaction.

Wisdom is the still, small voice that knows when to speak and when to listen, when to act and when to pause, when to roar and when to whisper. It is the patience to let things unfold, the discernment to recognize what is real and what is illusion, and the courage to walk the path of truth even when it is not easy.

Wisdom is the understanding that love is always the answer, but love does not always look soft—it can be fierce, boundaried and unyielding in its truth.

In today’s world, messages and energies are all over the place. What is inauthentic will find its way into your world by mimicking authenticity. Abusers will show up as kind and charismatic. Manipulators will show up as honest. People who seek to control you will preach freedom for all. Men in power will perpetuate racism by preaching equality through terms like “colorblindness” while simultaneously erasing our human birthright to civil rights.

The cool thing is, you get to decide what is true and beautiful and real. Nobody else gets to do that for you. How do you know if something is bad, you ask? Patterns will reveal that it is bad. It will feel bad in your body as something cold will feel cold. It sounds simple, but it can be that simple.

Look for patterns. Do they mean what they say and say what they mean? Do actions match words? Do they allow others the space to question them without defensive deflection and retaliation? Because, my love, all things in truth and real love can withstand questioning.

Observe how these observations feel in your body. Does your heart want to move away from the thing you are observing, or does it want to move toward it?

Your beautiful heart is constantly speaking to you, and your beautiful world is also always speaking to you through the synchronicity of patterns.

Observations of patterns can also create a sense of awe. Consistencies in nature can point to an oneness that can bring full-body chills to the observer. Patterns are the language of the universe, the fingerprints of wisdom left on time and experience. When we step back and observe them without judgment, we begin to see the blueprint of our lives.

For me, studying the patterns in the trees’ root systems and how they mirror their branches, the former reaching deep into the earth, the latter reaching toward the heavens, brought me to this place of jaw-dropping awe, for aren’t we humans doing the same? Aren’t we reaching into the earth as fully human while also spreading our arms into the heavens as equally and fully divine?

I remember how the entire image of the tree below the earth and above the ground parallels the universal truth: as above, so below.

As above, so below, as a universal principle, is a reflection of the divine patterning that exists across all levels of existence. It speaks to the interconnectedness of all things, the way the macrocosm and the microcosm mirror one another.

As a child in school, I remember being in complete wonder at the parallels of the tiny atom to our vast solar system, and the universe that existed within each cell of our body. Later, I would observe that the spirals in a galaxy resemble the spirals of a seashell or a rose and that these things are explained by mathematics in the Fibonacci sequence. Math is so objective, given that few argue the pattern 1+1=2, so when I started loving math as a young girl, it was because it had inarguably mapped the universal codes of all that is. And that is just what we can measure (for now).

The branching of a tree also mirrors the branching of the leaf’s veins and of our lungs. The cycles of the moon influence the tides, just as the rhythms of the universe influence our inner world. These repeating patterns—fractals, sacred geometry, divine order—reveal that creation follows the same blueprint, from the smallest atom to the vastness of the cosmos.

The Fibonacci sequence itself is simple yet profound: each number is the sum of the two preceding it (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21…). But what makes it truly awe-inspiring is how it appears everywhere in nature.

The spiral arrangement of petals on a flower
The curve of a nautilus shell
The swirling arms of galaxies
The seed pattern of a sunflower
The proportions of the human body

And yes, even in the composition of music.

Mozart, Beethoven and Bach often structured their pieces using these numbers intuitively, creating music that resonates deeply with our natural sense of balance. A standard octave in Western music has eight notes. The fifth note (the dominant) and the third note (the mediant) are crucial in harmony, both Fibonacci numbers.

And if you will allow me to get really weird, some say there are 13 dimensions to this universe which mirror these musical truths. If you want, patterns can take you that far.

This sequence reflects growth and harmony, a blueprint that nature follows to maximize efficiency and beauty. It is as if the universe itself breathes in this rhythm, whispering its secrets through spirals, branching patterns, musical harmony and divine symmetry.

When you observe these patterns, when you feel the resonance of them, it stirs something deep within you. It creates awe, a sense of wonder, because you are recognizing the language of all that exists written into all things.

This recognition raises your vibration because it aligns you with truth—the truth that nothing is random, that all is interconnected, that you are part of something infinitely vast yet intimately personal.

Noticing these patterns—whether in nature, music, mathematics or the human experience—awakens us to a deeper reality. It reminds us that we, too, are part of the great design, that we carry the same divine pattern within us.

To witness the harmony of the universe is to remember that we are not separate from it. That is the gift of awe. That is why it elevates us. Because in that moment, we see clearly: As above, so below. As within, so without: the atom, the cell, the solar system and the galaxy?

By observing these patterns, we glimpse the underlying intelligence of creation. It is not chaos—it is design. And this recognition, this sense of order hidden in the infinite, stirs awe within us. It reminds us that we, too, are part of this grand equation, shaped by the same unseen hands that sculpt the stars and the seashells alike.

The power of going within and observing patterns is that you don’t have to rely on external sources, on opinion leaders, priests, biblical texts, or obscured histories to access the library of ancient wisdom. It exists right in front of you, in patterns. It exists in your wisdom.

Scientific observations of crystal formations in water can show how unkind messaging can create a distorted pattern that is not a pattern, an amorphous blob, if you will, which shows how energy rooted in fear and not love, in dark and not light, creates inconsistencies in the water crystal formations. Where loving messages are spoken into the water, beautiful patterns like snowflakes form. The NYT bestselling book that illustrates these observations in Japan is called The Hidden Messages in Water by Masaru Emoto. I recommend.

Your body is mostly made of water. So is our planet. If something feels inconsistent or off, and you are in tune, you will feel it in your body. Trust yourself. Love your body for it speaks to you through these very human and very beautiful tools — our five senses. From there, you will begin to open up your other senses, which we call intuition. Then a whole universe of truth will start to flow through you.

In the book called “Awe” by Dacher Keltner, he researches and observes wonder: “Awe seems to orient us to devote ourselves to things outside of our individual selves. To sacrifice and serve. To see that the boundaries between our individual selves and others readily dissolve, that our true nature is collective. These qualities did not fit neatly within the hyperindividualistic, materialistic, survival-of-the-selfish genes view of human nature so prominent at the time.”

Using emotion science as a field guide, he attempted to define it: “Awe is the feeling of being in the presence of something vast that transcends your current understanding of the world.”

I hope this helps you find your truth, and that you will find that it is not so different from mine. Because you and I…we are designed from the same patterns and made of the same fabric. Separation is only an illusion.

With love,

Your sister in all that is,

Jocelyn