Have you ever rear-ended a car? You’re driving along, the car in front of yours stops—suddenly or without you noticing, and you realize you need to stop, too. So, you slam on the breaks, grip the steering wheel tightly, and hope…and pray…your car stops in time. Then…BOOM! You’ve gotten in an accident.
You could just chalk the event up to just an accident, or, if you are like me, you can try to figure out why it happened. What’s the lesson you are supposed to learn?
From a metaphysical standpoint, accidents are not just accidents. They occur to call your attention to something important. From this perspective, they are like wake-up calls from the Divine (Universe, God, Creator, or whatever you call the Source of All). Significant accidents, like serious car crashes, are potent warning signs. Minor accidents, such as fender benders, are less powerful messages but worth taking seriously all the same.
My Fender Bender
Last week, I drove home from the chiropractor while talking to one of my best friends using the car’s Bluetooth connection to my cell phone. The conversation concerned a critical aspect of my life. I sought clarity on a decision, but I had fear around making it. I was trying to plan my future post-decision, process my emotions, and figure out how to speak to those involved.
The road was straight, and there were lights and some traffic. My mind was not on the cars in front of me—at least not consciously.
As I drove, on my left, I noticed a house being renovated. A new fence had been erected, and it had an angular turn that enclosed one tree in the front yard and left another outside near the sidewalk. Both trees were surrounded by vertical lumber and metal fencing. The protected trees were an odd sight, and I got distracted and spent just a few seconds too long looking at them. When I looked forward, the cars in front of mine had stopped at a light.
You know the rest. Foot on the brakes. Too late… BOOM!
Luckily, no one was injured. I had a little bit of a stiff neck for a few days, which I expected. (I made a new chiropractor appointment.)
The cars weren’t even severely damaged. The young boy’s car had a few scratches on the license plate. My car’s license plate was hanging halfway off, and the plastic around one wheel well was loose.
Finding Meaning in an Accident
After giving the young man my insurance information, I got back in the car and called back my friend. (I’d hung up immediately after the accident occurred.) Together, we began to dissect the event.
Here’s what I identified as the issues leading up to the accident and the lessons I learned because of it:
1. Distraction
I was definitely distracted in that moment…no doubt about that. However, the situation I was dealing with was a big distraction and had been for a long, long time.
The message:
I was shown that I need to stay focused and keep my eyes on the road ahead—where I am going. I was looking to the side before the accident.
More than that, the decision I needed to make was causing me to focus on the future. I was not present and needed to be in the moment. In fact, the only way to create the future I desire is from the present moment.
2. Fear
I also was fearful. Therefore, I was focused on future negative potentialities—possible future scenarios that would prove challenging. These felt like obstacles in my path.
No wonder I found my path obstructed in a way that clearly hindered my ability to continue moving forward.
The message:
I was shown how my fear prevented me from creating what I desired or getting where I wanted to go. I needed to move into a place of trust and know that everything would work out for the highest good of all concerned.
Additionally, I needed to focus on the positive—what I wanted.
3. Control
Accidents often show us where we feel we have lost control. I definitely felt out of control in the unresolved situation and wanted to regain control.
The message:
Looking at the accident from this perspective, the lesson might be to stand in my power and take control. On the other hand, the message might be to give up control and trust that the Divine has my back.
4. Identity
My license plate, which is now taped onto the bumper, is my car’s identifier. It’s almost like its identity. My challenging situation could be resolved with a change in identity.
The message:
The message hidden in this accident might be to see myself differently. It also could be a reminder to start being who I want to be—even while I’m trying to resolve the situation. To change my identity.
It’s also possible that the message is to continue doing what I’m doing because it’s working. My old identity is hanging on with a few bent screws and tape. It will soon fall off.
Accidents and Your Body
The other day I tripped going up some steps when leaving the beach. I stubbed my toe and fell onto my hands and knees. I ended up with a scraped knee.
I could dissect that accident by looking at the symbolism of the body parts affected and find a message. For instance, I could easily see this minor accident telling me that I have resistance to taking steps forward and upward. And, again, I lack focus or am distracted.
Knee problems—including skinned knees—are related to the inability to bend, stubborn ego and pride, fear, and inflexibility. I already mentioned that I had been feeling afraid. I also was unwilling to bend to some extent.
The car accident gave me a stiff neck, which is usually related to (in)flexibility (again) and the ability to see what’s around me. (Think of owls who can turn their necks almost all the way around…) Neck problems also signify stubbornness and a refusal to see other sides of a question or situation. I could easily see these characteristics in my attitude toward the unresolved situation.
How to Find the Lesson in an Accident
You can see how this way of looking at accidents can take you down a rabbit hole. There’s tons of information on the Internet about the spiritual or metaphysical meaning behind types of accidents and physical issues.
So what do you do with all the potential meanings, insights, and lessons? Trust your intuition.
After you’ve done the research to find possible meanings or lessons, sit quietly. Take a few deep breaths and get centered. Then, think about each possible lesson or meaning.
Which one feels on target for your current situation? What message seems to hit home and feel right? Go with that.
You can recall past accidents and practice analyzing them. Remember what was going on at the time of the accident. Then research the metaphysical or spiritual meaning or lesson. See what hindsight makes clear about what you were meant to learn from that event.
Pay close attention to any little mishap. Every accident—large or small, significant or insignificant—can give you essential insights into yourself and your situation.
Take heed, and learn the lessons, and then put them to use. In other words, act on those messages. If you do, you’ll likely avoid more significant and severe accidents in the future.
Have you gotten a message or learned a lesson from an accident? Tell me in a comment below, and please share this post with a friend—maybe one who recently suffered an accident.
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I fell leaving someone’s house and bruised my tailbone pretty badly on October 28th. Yesterday on 11/11, I fell and fractured my foot. These two things have happened so close together and I was hurt pretty badly in both accidents, I’m trying to figure out the significance of these injuries.. the only thing I can think of is the universe telling me to slow down and take some time for myself.
Take a look at Louise Haye’s book, Heal Your Life. It says that feet are about moving forward and understanding self, life, and others. Left side is feminine and right side masculine energy. The tailbone (coccyx) is about being out of balance with yourself, holding on, blaming yourself, and sitting on old pain. Does that help?
I was in car accident January 1 2022. This year. The impact amputated last three of my fingers on dominant hand ( left)
That’s too bad, Brianna. But…what do fingers represent? The details of life. Knowing that, what does the loss of three fingers mean to you? On first look online, I found this about the #3: The number 3 has always held powerful symbolism. Think about good things coming in 3s, the birth-life-death cycle, the mind-body-soul connection, the 3 acts of a typical story.
Wherever the number 3 shows up in your life, it’s generally an omen of creativity, communication, optimism, and curiosity!
Find your meaning… And if you trust your intution, what does it say about why this happened?
I was in a car accident the other day me and my boyfriend he was driving home we noticed a sign that’s always been there but we never noticed until that day it said 7777 and the car in of us front tag said 666 then like 6 or 7 min later we wrecked writing this just made me realize the numbers matched the time it happened so I’m sure they where warning but I know it’s a deeper meaning I’m just confused especially because I always look at angle numbers as good signs maybe that’s the lesson trust my intuition more maybe idk thanks for this information
I really can’t move forward without understanding if this accident I went through had a deeper meaning or just bad weather?
I don’t believe in coincidences so I’m having hard time to pin what it’s all about!! So on Friday through out a snow of 10cm road, i was stuck in traffic for like 12 minutes (was bored so I was looking up king Arthur movie) as soon as the traffic cleared up I had turn left, no one was in front of me, after the turn there was a car driving so I ended up behind him with good distance between us, I’m driving maybe less 20km/h, he push the break to a full stop then single right and he didn’t turn. As soon as I saw the breaks I pushed just a little on mine as it was snowy but my car just kept going so I pushed even harder on the break and I kept sliding and about to hit the car in front. I go and try to avoid it by going a little to the left to continue going straight, and there my car slid in to incoming traffic where I saw an 18 wheeler truck about to crash into me in 2 seconds. I looked at the driver and just realized he won’t be able to stop I closed my eyes and everything went so fast. The truck has crashed my passenger corner side to the middle and made my car move 180. When we stopped I opened my eyes I found all air bags out and I took my first painful breath in then another and started coughing because one air bag popped and there was some kind of gas. I opened my car door up and take the seat belt off and bend forward the truck driver came and moved the hair out of my face to see if I’m ok I told him get me out of here, I stood in the street not really sure what happened but I’m shaking like crazy and with chest pain. I called my go to person to come help me without making any sense, some person showed up looking for business as he owns towing business I discovered later. He says have you called the cops I said I don’t know, the story goes on. am I supposed to let that go or is there really a deeper meaning here? If so the what is it? Give me so peace of mind
Consider the symbolism or what things related to the accident mean to you. Your car is symbolic of your body…Ask yourself what was going on in our life. I had my brakes go out one time, and I realized I was rushing around and needed to slow down or I would crash.
My car was parked and someone bumped it at the back and left. I was not there to witness it. What does this mean.
What does it mean to YOU?
I have been having niggling pain with sacral bone/joint and then I fell playing badminton on my right hip and have not my elbow and knee. I am left with a lot of pain in hip and it has happened when I need to do a lot of physical work (demolish a garage to build my studio)
Now I can barely walk! There is urgency to get the studio built as prices are rising and soon won’t be able to….builder must come as soon as…but now I can’t do the work…
Feel likes another obstacle to halt me living my dream!
Look up Louise Hay…either buy her book, Heal Your Life, or look online for the meaning associated with sacral join, hip, elbow, knee. Most joints are about moving forward, especially knee. Start talking to your body just before bed…command it to heal. It will listen.
There is a person that I have some unfinished business, he is a male I am a female. He is a taxi driver and I used to call him whenever I needed a ride, and slowly we started to develop feelings for each other. Than suddenly everything stopped, like he was afraid of his feelings and started to avoid me, and ignoring me, and after a while I did the same. That happened two years ago and since than there is some sort of tension between us, whenever we see each other we try to act indifferent but when I’m not looking he stares, there are lots of synchronities as well like seeing each other in different places and so on.
Today as I was walking he was in the car and not too far from me had an accident, he wasn t harmed, he collided with someone on a bicycle, the man fell but wasn t badly injured. Could this have some significance?
Well, he should be looking into the spiritual meaning of car accidents. But could it be he was distracted because he saw you? Possibly…
The bigger question, Eve, is how long you are willing to allow this situation to continue as it is? If you don’t reach out to him and discuss the tension…and your feelings for each other…what will the relationships–and your life–be like in anther two years? Are you willing to have it be like that…or would you like it to be different?
Someone has to be courageous enough to repair the relationship and see if it has potential beyond where it is now. Do you really want to continue waiting for him to be the one?
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Hi Nina
I’ve been having a run of bad luck with bodily accidents lately. Definitely feel like the universe is screaming at me.
First one: had an accident on my foot, sliced it open and can’t feel two of my toes. Left side. Finally started to feel better and was getting excited about moving forward and on from it all. Second one: had a really bad fall in the shower and hit my ribs and shoulder on the cabinet. Broke skin, very bruised. Sore right side. Talked to my body, willed it to heal, fasted, slowed down and started to feel better. As soon as I decided to get up and change my sheets because I’d been bed ridden for days because of the shower incident.. well third one… I feel down my stairs on my tailbone which is all bruised and now I’m back to been in bed for at least another day.
Its just getting frustrating. (This is all coinciding with a divorce) I want to move on and have all these plans but keep having these accidents which are leaving me immobile. And can’t figure out if I’m been told to move on with my new projects with zero fear or to stay in the same thing I’m doing now because it’s like I’m not allowed to move on or something.
Three months with a moon boot Definitely gave me enough time to process emotional grief and loss so I feel like I’ve learnt that I needed to process that. The rest… argh I don’t know.
Hi Lou. I’m sorry you’ve experienced all these physical and painful setbacks.I believe the key is in your words: I WANT to move on…
First, when you tell the Universe you want something, it keeps you in lack. So you can’t move on.
Second, and I think more importantly, you likely have some deep-seated subconscious thoughts about NOT moving on. Try uncovering them…that might free you up to move forward with ease. And that’s the affirmation I’d use along with visualization of yourself moving forward easily.
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Just had an accident sometime before and I was searching for the same. I got bike accident because the guy came wrong way. People nearby didn’t even care of I was ok or not. Guy who hit was worried and also late for his delivery. This is the 1st time I am facing road accident.
I may have to learn lot from this. Hope you can shed some lights on this incident. Thanks
I immediately think of a few questions for you to ponder: when in your life have you been “hit” by something/someone going the wrong way? Is there something you need to see that you aren’t seeing? When in your life have you felt that others didn’t care if you were okay or not? When in your life or how often do you feel that people don’t have time for you? Hope answering those questions sheds some light on the accident.
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A friend just recently went to a Aya ceremony and while driving up the driveway back home, he accidentally hit a dog, ending the life of the sweet baby. I was there & immediately had a feeling that the universe is trying to get his attention. Trying to tell him to pay attention to those he loves and is surrounded by. We all live together in a communal environment.
He mentioned he hit a bird earlier that same day. I truly believe the universe is trying to get him to stop distracting himself (tv, gaming, online/social media, focusing on others instead of himself, etc). I’m just trying to find the best way to convey this to him in a way that he will understand….but at the same time, perhaps it’s not for me to say, but something he must come to understand on his own…?
It’s something I’ve noticed for a while now, him actively using things to distract himself from the things he has going on in his life…physically. He was diagnosed with lung cancer, heart disease and diabetes. He refuses treatment, understandable, but he also refuses to discuss it. Choosing to make jokes (laughter is great medicine but only when one is honest with oneself about how they feel about their mortality.). It’s understandable that he is doing this, it’s a scary situation, but he swears he’s ok with it and has no fear, and he’s ready to go. But from the outside looking in, he’s not…he is just trying to make it look that way.
Maybe the animal deaths are the Universe or even his conscious or unconscious mind trying to help him deal with death.
I had donated blood just before Christmas and had a bad fear of blood and needles. A few days later I was leaving work and saw a wrecked car like the one I drive walking to my car. I was curious what had happened I was afraid someone may have been hurt or bloodied. I looked inside and closed the door. I had to walk past this car going to work for a week after. It has stuck in my mind and I’m ready to move on.
Thank you so much for posting this. It was exactly what I was supposed to read in a moment of stress and anxiety. You have helped me to process my situation and come to clear lessons using my intuition and now I am in a calm state of mind.
That’s amazing!