ssuz - LOVE your atavar!
Signs, signs, everywhere there's signs! (That's an old song, and a belief of mine as well.)
I'm with Wendy Tall One, the appearance of something out of place in the natural world that addresses my immediately preceeding thought---which happens quite frequently---serves as a guide to me.
I often set up altars, not always on purpose, but because this is my nature (which amused my husband mightily when he first identified the tendency...with pleasure). Now, I can look around the house and see little shrines of special intentions, a candle, a statue, and a letter grouped that represent my letting go of the contents of the letter and leave the outcome to the universe. These things and more, are the "practices" of my beliefs. When we are open (but grounded) the info arrives at an amazing rate. You sort it out with your heart.