Cledons: Whispers of Guidance that may come from anywhere - or anyone
Grace Note: Sea of Miracles
Hello, Love.
For the last month or so, I’ve been re-reading Sea of Miracles with you. Chapter by chapter. If you’d like to join me, I’ve made a Chapter Index with all the posts in order - like a book.
In this post, a Grace Note about Cledons, a remarkable form of guidance that’s more common than we might think. So common in fact, that our ancestors in the Roman Empire were quite familiar with it.
Enjoy this brief reading -
We’ll have the next chapter for you on the weekend.
xxoo
Amy
Grace Note: Cledons
About a year before I began working with angel stories, I was sitting in a restaurant, writing in my journal. For weeks, I’d been searching for meaningful work—work where I could apply my way with words in service of helping and uplifting others.
I scribbled down a question: What is my soul’s true work?
A moment later, all sound fell away and the entire restaurant was silent. I looked up. People were moving around, plates were being delivered and picked up, but for one brief moment, in that strange silence, there was no sound.
I blinked. Across the room, a woman at another table leaned forward and told her friend, “You are an energy healer.”
The women were seated all the way across a packed dining room, yet I heard the words as if they’d been spoken directly into my ear. A moment later, the wall of sound returned.
So I’m an energy healer? I wrote in my journal.
From within, an unmistakeable response sounded: Yes.
According to author Colette Baron-Reid, the experience I had in the café was a cledon, “a message from Spirit that is innocently and unknowingly delivered to you by someone or something else.”
As Baron-Reid explains: “For our ancestors in the Roman Empire, it was common practice to pray to the gods for guidance and then go out into the world to get a message. People expected to get their insight from Apollo through day-to-day interactions; for example, they’d overhear a conversation between strangers at the local market, or a friend would unknowingly deliver a message over dinner.”
I’ve experienced several cledons since that day in the restaurant, and each time, I’m struck by the clarity of the sound, the intense certainty that accompanies it.
“It’s like ‘truth amplified,’” Baron-Reid says, “as if Spirit knows exactly what’s on your mind and addresses it.”
The Language You Already Speak
You do not have to earn the right to receive guidance. You do not have to wait until you’re “clear enough” or “good enough.” The truth is simpler:
You are already being guided—every day, in many ways.
What shifts everything is the noticing.
The turning of the head.
The “What if that meant something?” moment.
You may not realize it yet, but you are fluent in this language. You’ve always known how to speak it. You’re simply remembering now.
Related: You are not one of four ‘clairs’: you are a layered wholeness, multidimensional, infinite, expansive
Journaling Prompts
Of the four ways of reception (seeing, feeling, hearing, knowing), which one feels most natural to me?
Have I ever had a cledon experience—where someone unknowingly delivered a message meant just for me?
Where in my daily life might guidance already be showing up (music, nature, conversations)?
What messages have I been receiving lately—but maybe not trusting?
So I was reading some excerpts from your book online, and I came up with a question if I may? You wrote that realization came to you that there was an underlying greater presence, and that presence was God. I grew up with a wrathful and angry god who was punitive and judgemental and loved to punish people. Can you tell me more about the God that you feel was revealed to you? For I have long wanted to find a loving presence, but I cannot except the version of god that seems popular in the US today, that of a white male god who dominates. And who is of course, very male.