These Messages of Divine Love are weekly intuitive card readings offered to share strength & hope for those building a heart-centered world. Sharing messages from our collective guides, Mother Earth, the ancients watching over us with a quick peek into what our future selves want us to know and how my protectress, Mother Mary, can add love to get us through the week. Each message includes chakra themes that help center our energy. I will post any extras on Patreon (paid): Temple of the Rose Gold Heart. Your subscription here is always FREE.
INTRO NOTES TO THE DECK & READING
Thank you for your patience with this week’s reading. Today is the closest I get to a high holy day in my personal faith practice. Before I get to the reading, I wanted to share a slice of my history with you. I hope you always walk away from these readings feeling the earnestness of my motives and the sincerity of my love in these words. Thank you for the trust you have shown me over the years! 💖
On June 25, 1990, I saw something impossible...something that would make me believe in impossible things and impossible people for the rest of my life. I saw a cross disappear, piece by piece, snapping back into place in an instant. Repeating this pattern until finally all was clear and I saw a pair of outstretched hands, an outline of a figure between them, a hint of gold at the sleeves as the hands passed over the assembled crowd on Apparition Hill in Medjugorje that night.
That night was a special apparition for Ivan, one of the visionaries, who led a youth group that met there weekly. It also happened to be the anniversary of her first appearance to them. We had gone there in search of healing, an alleviation of burdens our family carried, but also in thanksgiving. And there we were that night on a rocky hill with thousands of people from all nationalities in backgrounds, kneeling on sharp crags of stone, pointed and dangerous even after pilgrims' sneakers had already polished the broadsides to smoothness.
Tears were streaming down my eyes, and my heart was full of confusion, disbelief, judgment, bliss, and purpose. For as long as I live I may never be able to fully capture the awe of that moment - the disembodied hands, the transparent outline of an image crafted before my eyes. At times I could swear it had only been thirty seconds, others it felt like I was enraptured for as long as five minutes, I cannot be sure. But as the image left in a cross of light made of the stars from the surrounding night sky, it was clear that my life would never be the same.
The Messages that night linked together with the imagery I experienced as translations flitted through the crowd. The words of the message barely scrapes the surface of what I try to live:
June 25, 1990
"Dear children, today I desire to thank you for all your sacrifices and for all your prayers. I am blessing you with My Special Motherly blessing. I invite you all to decide for God and from day to day to discover His will in prayer. I desire, dear children, to call all of you to a full conversion so that joy will be in your hearts. I am happy that you are here today in such great numbers. Thank you for having responded to my call."
- Given through Marija
June 25, 1990
"Dear children, your Mother invites you to joy. Your Mother asks you to begin to live tonight’s message [the monthly message given earlier to Marija]. Your Mother, again tonight, asks you to give me all your problems and all your hardships. Thank you, dear children, because we are going to continue to live in prayer everything that I say."
- Given through Ivan
Later I would learn through the visionaries the meaning of what I had seen, a specific blessing I was to share and embed in all that I do. While I would initially despair of the little old ladies who would try to bend me with Catholic judgment, I would later find true freedom in using my talents wherever they were needed. I would uncover talents I didn’t even know I had gifted to be in service at those precise moments. The transformations I have witnessed as a result of leaning into that yes have been enough to fill my heart with lifetimes’ worth of joy.
When we are fulfilling our purpose, we find a source of strength and resolve that practically generates itself. That’s when you know you’re in your calling, you can reach for a source outside your ego and knowledge, an intuitive knowing that feels right. In all those moments I could have become bitter and angry with my fate, but having access to a purpose helped me learn to to embrace and transmute instead. Where I could have been compliant and content, I have been subversive and driven.
While I have often served as a catalyst for healing, that doesn't come without its element of destruction and sacrifice, consequence, and hardship. I’ve had to learn to hold myself accountable to ensure I don’t let power become the goal. But there are positive consequences as well - not rewards, but promises made that kept our faith alive.
This week’s theme is about the fulfillment of those whispered wishes in the darkest moments when we thought our spirit might flicker out. "Here I am. Thy will be done" we croaked out in trust. And this week, with every blessing great and small, the universe replies with, "Thank you. We always believed in you.”
Now on to the reading…
Where We Are This Week
Into Me I See
Sacral Chakra
The messages this week acknowledge an uncomfortable truth: we have been feeling fairly vulnerable right now. Prickly with fear of what we see when we look on the inside. And then a presumption we’ve constructed about what people will think when they see that part of us. First, I want to assure you that you are not alone. We are facing uncomfortable mirrors that are simultaneously truthful and distorted. Second, that just like we can’t fully see our own ass without some help with angles, mirrors and cameras, we cannot fully see all aspects of ourselves with the same clarity. Now is a time to trust in the feedback of more than just yourself. If someone says that they wanna see all of you, trust them. Because when it is accepted with the integrity of a welcoming response that can melt even the hardest heart. It will take courage, but truly try to see yourself and allow yourself to BE seen with both integrity and honesty.
Messages from our Guides
Great and Full
Root Chakra
Our guides remind us that we already have several blessings that exist in our lives: our loved ones, our communities, and the small wins along the way. Is it everything? Is it ever?! But instead of stirring up our anxiety by listing off everything that isn't perfect (yet), why not start counting off the things that have been going right? Even noticing the tenacity of the flowers growing through the cracks in the pavement can start to fill your cup more than empty it.
Messages from Lady Gaia/Mother Earth
Call of the Muse
Throat Chakra
There is a truth waiting to be (re)discovered within. Perhaps a long-dormant talent or a somatic memory that can ease your mind lurks in the silence of your heart. Whatever it is, be open to the spirit of the muse which shows up viscerally this week to lead us back to ourselves. In particular, I feel there is a limiting belief that will get shattered in the process - in a mostly graceful way. Let the muse unlock your self-expression again.
Messages from the Ancients
Body & Soul
Root Chakra
While we're in the process of filling our cups so to speak, this is a good time to tend to the needs of the body as an expression of the soul. Last week we were shown the big picture where we needed to confront some difficult patterns. This week, we’re being drawn back inward, to the most basic of our needs. Likely, our mortal lineage has done a poor job of modeling the right ways to take care of ourselves. Sacrificing sleep for work, dieting to achieve an aesthetic weight. To lead the world we want to, we're having to learn new patterns, like carving out time to meditate or prioritizing going to the doctor. Take it from someone who deals with chronic joint pain, our bodies are not disposable. Caring for them is an act of caring for our souls...and modeling to future generations to be kinder to themselves than we were taught to be. If we want a world that prioritizes, we have to start living it ourselves.
Messages from Our Future Selves
A Grand Symphony
Heart Chakra
We are headed toward an era where all of us will start to fit in together more harmoniously. Where we have learned the chords of the same song and are starting to work together to create a masterpiece, a movement of love. I know I was born for a certain role, to be a connector, a bridge over the chasm of duality threatening to tear us apart. My goal is to get as many people through to a more loving world before this old one fully dies away. Your role is different but related - perhaps you're a healer ensuring everyone is well enough to walk the path. The next person reading this might be a navigator plotting a course through dense uncertainty. Someone else is a builder, constructing new ways for our society to rise together. Others are telling our stories through narratives that can unite us. If we believe this future is possible, and attune ourselves to the chords of our togetherness, what we create will be more beautiful than any could imagine.
Messages from Mother Mary
The Storyteller
Solar Plexus Chakra
The messages continue to encourage us to tell our story, but here, with this card, Mother Mary suggests we engage with our solar plexus energy in doing so. Telling our story isn't just a matter of word choice, it's a matter of having the courage to face the internal truth and put words to it. Combined with the vulnerability we might be feeling at the start of this week, we're invited to lean into exposing the delicate threads of truth in both word and mindset. How has your story led you to this moment of purpose? Do you see the grand design? Are you willing to create the next chapter yourself instead of letting circumstances dictate your fate? If we are brave enough, we have the power to be the author of our own future.
Extra Card
The Rose’s Kiss
Sacral Chakra
Lest we take ourselves too seriously this week with too much navel-gazing, we're encouraged to just live a little. This is the last week of pride, the summer sigh after the solstice before we roll headlong into fire/tornado/rodeo/con/patriot season (at least out west where I live). It's time to just let go and enjoy life a little. As difficult as that is with all the suffering around us, we need to fill our cup with the sensations of goodness - the charred smells of a BBQ, the fluttering of a ladybug choosing to land next to you, the velvet touch of a rose against the skin, the squish of dirt between your toes, the kiss of lovers exchanging a promise. This is what life is for, what the fight really means. Savor life and let it crack you open with bliss.
Undercurrent
Endless Possibilities
Third Eye Chakra
I've already disclosed that I believe in impossible things - so let that be a clue as to where I'm going with this - the future is not written yet. There are still an endless number of possibilities awaiting us. Every day is made of choices, big and small, that can lead us to the destinations we want. But remain open and aware of the glittering signals that appear on the path. For sometimes, we get too focused on what we believe we want, that we abandon the roads to the things that would truly fulfill us. Sometimes that dream come true is on the path we least expected. It is in the adventures of possibility that we find our certainty after all.
Final Advice
Waking the Lion
Crown Chakra
In Collette Baron-Reid's deck, this would be a solar plexus card, but in the context of this reading, it is too strong, too bright, too fabulously fierce to be anything but a crown chakra card. We are awakening to our purpose and trust me when I say that it brings out the fierce fighter in you. Gone are the days of people pleasing and cutting ourselves down to fit in. Each of us stands at the starting gate, about to experience the raw edge of a new channel of power in our systems. There is no going back in the genie bottle now that our glow is so visible in the world and accessible at our fingertips.
PARTING WORDS FROM A GEEK EMPRESS
Friends, it is not an easy thing, to have a calling. It's sometimes arduous and confusing, often lonely and isolating. What others think is right will have you running the other way. And what your heart tells you are right will often repulse people or put a target on your back.
But my god, when you find it, when you find that thin, faint song of hope that only you can hear, it fills the soul with such overwhelming love, such interconnected gratitude that it's impossible to ignore. It will tap its tune in the corners of our hearts over and over, a beating, pulsing truth.
One of my favorite storylines in Doctor Who is Doctor/Donna. Holding the power of the time vortex is too much for any human, so dangerous that Donna's memory had to be locked down - the joy of her purpose leaking out in small ways, always withholding her potential just a little bit should she tear herself apart with the power. And yet...it is exactly that kind of power that is needed for this moment, one that feels uncertain or too raw to wield. One that beats at the back of the brain, like a puzzle piece that just needs to be turned the right way for it all to click.
It is this energy we are being asked to unleash in this moment for the good of humanity. Do not be afraid of how brightly you glow, just keep collecting blessings in every dewdrop that you find and drink heartily of life - for these are the promises delivered for our dedication and trust in every moment we draw the miracle of breath.
I believe in you, my friends. Please reach out if I can support you on this journey.
No matter what this week brings know that I am with you, always, in love 💖