So - What’s With the Hearts?



A few years ago I started seeing hearts everywhere. Not just on the necklace I wore with three little silver hearts and not just dangling from my keychain.

Hearts exploded around the world: glass hearts in Venice; hearts on telephone poles in Amsterdam; chocolate hearts in Brussels. Little girls had hearts on their shirts and on the barrettes in their hair; their grandmothers had antique heart brooches and hearts were embroidered into their purses. Hearts adorned the storefronts of boutiques in SoHo and were graffitied on the bodegas of Spanish Harlem.

They were also in the clouds, in the trees, in the shadows, in flower petals, in cut strawberries. It seemed that nature was in alignment with the people. (Or was it the other way around?)

Once I started looking, I saw them everywhere.

The heart is our spiritual, emotional and moral core. The heart symbolizes love. And Life. Our world is stamped in this symbol. A symbol that represents, demonstrates, decorates.

I realized that looking for hearts made me smile; it was a small bit of happiness and I took it. As I traveled it evolved into a hobby – my own little sociological anthropological heart-ological study. Wherever I traveled, I saw them. Humans are obsessed with love and hearts brand it everywhere.

I turned my six-year-old son into looking for hearts. It made him look at life around us differently. He started to look more carefully at the trees, at the flower petals, at store windows, at signs. He wasn’t just passing life by – he was capturing every bit, relishing in the decorations all over our world. It seemed like such a happy thing.

One day maybe you will cut an apple open and notice the heart shaped formed by the pits. Maybe your phone cord will fall into the shape of a heart or you’ll see a heart with initials in it carved into a tree. Maybe you’ll smile. I say pass it on.

11 comments:

nolucino said...

This past January I also started seeing hearts everywhere. I have a horse barn and see them in many different forms out there. Horse manure, kitty litter, rocks, puddles, etc. I am desperate to know the meaning of this. My cat got hit by a car and killed in October, in January I got a heart shaped tatoo with a cat in the center and a few days later all of these hearts started appearing, I have photographed most of them. Very stange.

Anonymous said...

I have been seeing hearts sence I was prgnt with my son as he was also a suprize to us, He was concieved on or around Valentines Day and I thought nothing of it at that time as it was just some devine way of telling me the joy of life as we tried for children for aprox 7yrs till suprize my daughter whos three. I yet again see hearts everywhere and also take pictures of them. I see puddles as the children and myself are ill and pulling into the er parking lot, i see in a single grape tiny and small but none the less heart shaped, a yellow pepper as we do not buy as they are expensive but there it was I cut it open and it just stared at me as if i am to know what this means, heart light peering down from an opening in the cloud covered sky as if it were for me to see only and then closed as i was pohtographing it, oil stain in driveway heart shaped, i am looking now as i recently found a scab under my hair on my scalp peeled it and to my surprize heart blood on my finger now today a heart shape bruse on my knee? I have seen hearts cut into center of pickles, in grassy puddle at the playground. Let me just ask for some help figureing out the meaning my husband is fixed so no that is not itr i am not prgnt even though it would make me feel tremendous joy in my heart no that is not it, i would really just like some intervention and help to find out what is happening to me? Help or email me with your advice thank you and have a great day ~:)

Anonymous said...

im seeing heart everyday..... i dont know what this means, cant really find answers to this but, as i look and see that im not the only one thats having these, what seems to be so strange, HEART SHAPES, to just appear out of thin air. im actually thinking that maybe.. and please dnt quote me on this, that, our physical universe is trying to tell us something. like maybe we are really bless, or we are definitly loved. its definitly nothing bad. i recall my best heart symbol i seen on christmas day. i swear i literally walk outside and looked down and there was a PERFECT heart shape snowball right there. just for me. i cant explain to you how special i felt. hey, maybe thats it. it was letting me know im special.

Anonymous said...

For about 2 weeks i was seeing hearts everywhere ... a paint droped into perfect heart ... a burn on my hand peeled into heart . water on the floor a heart and so many others . .... i too took pics of them all . one day i came home and found my daughter .. she had hung herself weraring my pj bottoms with a heart on them .... I still see hearts everywhere .... i still wonder what the hell it means . is it a good sign or bad .????

Anonymous said...

It seems that we all have one thing in common. And that is that we have experienced pain. When I and my ex broke up, I blamed myself, and missed, and wept over her every day. I was in pain and would not live anymore, and just wanted to commit suicide. But somehow I did not, I felt that there was someone who looked after me, and in the process I started to see heart-shaped things wherever I went. And I still do <3

Anonymous said...

I have doing this for years. see heart shapes every where all day long. something inside says it means something special. i just dont know what. I love everything and everyone very deep. one day it will make sence. i have a feeling GOD made me this way for a reason. <3

Anonymous said...

I have been seeing heart shapes in everything lately for about two weeks...I pumped out some lotion to put on my face and looked at my hand it was a perfect heart of lotion...this morning I was brushing my teeth spit out a perfect heart shape into the sink...I'm kinda tripping out at this point.

Anonymous said...

Same here...I have been seeing hearts pretty much every day and often twice per day... for the last 5 months or so.
At first i saw a few a week and thought it was a funny coincidence, but now that it has increased to often 2 heart sightings per day,6-7 days a week, its so obvious and intentional the ways and the places i see them sometimes i just have to laugh.

As someone mentioned i share the pain factor here as i have been through a lot the last few years and dealt with a lot of feelings of loneliness and lack of love...

As a christian i tend to conclude this is Gods way of telling me he loves me cause he knows i need it...

still i find the phenomenon mind-boggling and wish there was more "research" or stories on this phenomenon.

<3

carly said...

I thought one or two were a coincidence but I have started seeing them everywhere - a fragment of cereal on the worktop in a heart shape, lotion, cuts, it only made me realise it wasn't just me when I dropped ketchup on my knee and my husband commented on the heart shape. I wish I'd photographed the first few but it will be my mission now - I just hope it's a good symbol - I haven't really had terrible pain in my life so am extremely lucky.

Unknown said...

Hearts have been appearing in my life
dozens of times in the most unusual
places. I know in my heart that it's
a sign from GOD above confirming to me now to lose hope and that he has
heard my prayers.

Adrianna

Anonymous said...

I been seeing hearts everywhere for a while now like rock shaped hearts found on the beach. Then I would see them everywhere in everything. I almost forgotten about it or see any meaning in it. Today though it was kind of a sign or something to find hearts in places not likely to find one. I spilled on my shirt and it was a heart shape stain on my white shirt. Thought nothing of it but then later I found a perfect heart shaped pickle in my sandwich. Who would ever find a heart pickle. All other pickles were round. So this prompt me to google it. I would love to find meaning in this if there is one.