Have you ever compared yourself to your vehicle? Your body is your vehicle on earth that takes you where you want to go. Car trouble can tell us what we are thinking and feeling at any given moment and give clues as to how to help to come into "alignment."

Years ago, Louise Hay put together a little manual to show how illnesses are a symbol for what we have been thinking and feeling, and how they ultimately manifest within the body and the life. She knew that we manifest these symptoms in the body only after they have been lingering in the mind and heart for a while. The physical cause is but a mirror of the distress in the soul. And since it is our energy manifesting, it also expands to symbolize what is happening in our life, too.

My most recent situation involving a car was rather drastic, but not life-threatening. I had just pulled out onto the street, my car purring along when, with no warning light or anything, she sputtered and chugged and just lost power. I could turn it over, but could not get it to catch. The thing was making an awful racket when I started it. Come to find out the engine is blown and not worth replacing. I only had the car 6 months. What does this mean?

For me it was about resistance to going forward in life. It also was about the energy of the car itself, as we always attract a reflection of our own energy. Another aspect involved releasing a long-standing need to hang on to the old energy, avoiding waste at any cost. Do you see what I just said? Avoid waste at any cost. How strange to express it that way. Watch how you describe a situation. The words and phrases you use will tell you a lot about yourself and your issues.

In an interesting twist of events, it looks like I am going to be driving a 2006 Camry that has been recently inherited by my wife. She can't drive it right now because she still has a new lease car and cant get out of it right now. I really wanted that other car, but I learned a great lesson in trust. I need to not push so hard and to allow the Universe to bring me what I desire, even if it is not exactly what I am wanting, because as Kwan Yin and the Masters say, Spirit always has a better plan.

I have another older car that is giving me problems, too. This one is starting to downshift at strange times causing me to slow down. So the question is, why is my energy creating situations where I have to slow down or stop completely? This problem is in the transmission. A transmission is a message being sent. Am I getting the message? It is also an uneven translation of spiritual or physical energy, as the gears in the trannie upstep or downstep energy.

A flat tire: are you getting the support you need? A blowout: anger about not being supported. Tire falls off completely? Your support system (or trust in Spirit) is coming apart through neglect and may be life-threatening. Tires may also be seen as a trust factor. Although we depend on them, they are rather fragile, and we take advantage of that trust sometimes, forgetting to give thanks for the support that Spirit gives us in our life so that we have a smooth ride.

If your car gets hit, this is strong energy. It's a wake-up call. You can use symbols for the car as Louise Hay and others use them for the body. A hit in front indicates fears of the future, the back is unsettled feelings about the past, the sides are the present, and each side represents male or female energy. The right side is masculine and shows us pushing too hard with the energy pushing back on itself. The left side is the feminine and shows us neglecting to nurture ourselves or allowing ourselves to be impacted too strongly by others.

If your car is pulling to the side, notice which side. When you see which side is pulling, focus your attention on the other side, as that is the side that was weak and actually is causing the opposite side to pull. Then get yourself aligned while you align your car too.

Fixing your car along with yourself is an important action. Fixing the car's malfunction helps to free you from being subconsciously reminded of a certain issue in your life. Something else may reoccur though if you don't take some time to check your energy, your intentions and your fears, and do a little inner work on that.

These are my interpretations, but they may be a good staring point. Just like dream symbols, car symbols can mean different things to different people. Our individual situations are unique in their expression and need to be interpreted by the person experiencing them.