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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. Subscription is FREE.
Thank you, my friends, for the amazing support you've shown during this tumultuous year. We've had our ups and downs to be certain. But I hope in all of it, you've found some goodness in these pages, support for the battles we each are waging within. I hope you can shine with your full self knowing that there are avenues of spirit we all can access together.
With that said, I was honestly a bit disappointed in this week's reading. Using the Crow Tarot, which I resonate deeply with, I was surprised to see so many cards as harbingers of truth. We are each called to enter the temples of our source(s) of faith to pass through the initiations to a new reality. We cannot move forward without letting go of the saccharine attachments to the past. Many of us were called specifically to be bridges in this process - to help people cross from one way of being, based on separation and control, to one of integration and trust.
However, no matter how much we want this future, we cannot build it until we have a vision in mind of how it might actually work. We have to be willing to go through the looking glass to find our way. We are planting a garden together, but we need to throw out the rules of what we know to grow into our best selves.
Thank you for being here! Have a blessed and beautiful New Year ❤️🔥🙏💖
Where We Are This Week
King of Pentacles (R)
Solar Plexus Chakra
We've all worked for some terrible bosses. We know the type - the ones full of bluster, inflating their worth, relying on charisma and complicated math to fool people into believing they know what they are doing. Well, right now, we've been emitting some of that same energy. It's from the "fake it 'til you make it" crowd that thinks the appearance of success is enough to draw in actual success. In general, the energy of 2024 is telling us that we can't keep masking and putting up a facade and calling that an accomplishment. Instead, we've got to get down and dirty in the mud with our plans, opting for vulnerability and connection over distance and superficiality. We can't arrogantly go about our business; we need to be strategic and create a realistic plan for our lives.
Messages from our Guides
Ten of Wands (R)
Root Chakra
Simply put, at the start of this year, our guides are telling us that we're carrying way too much. How can we possibly hope to progress while we're balancing all the spears of self-hatred that have been bundled up with our dreams? You know the ones - the compromised values that caused us to acquiesce to accepting "just a job" over our true talents. Or the joylessness of hustle culture that made us commodify our passions. But the overwhelming sensation I have right now is this is about a codependent type of relationship. Like a choice to commit ourselves to someone because we were promised we'd "grow to love" all the red flag flaws that only a decade of therapy can fix. Or caring for someone who isn't motivated to address their problems, making us responsible for catering to their needs while ours wither away on the vine. We have to stop making ourselves responsible for fixing others otherwise, their lopsided burdens will only anchor us, taming our wild spirit into being who they need, rather than who we are. We all deserve the freedom to show up as our best selves. Break free of the burdens that confine you to an old version of yourself.
Messages from Lady Gaia/Mother Earth
Six of Pentacles
Heart Chakra
Mother Earth rings in the new year with a clear message - "provide what you have to others and what you need will be provided to you." There is a true reassurance here that when we share our abundance with others we end up drawing even more in to help ourselves. Make this year's theme one of sharing our time, talent, and treasure with those who need that from us. It’s only when we show up to share our abundance that we spiritually confirm for the universe that we are ready to welcome more of it. Hoarding only inspires paranoia & fear; whereas sharing becomes an affirmation of the blessings we already know we have. Where can you afford to give a little more of yourself to support the growth of others...especially those who are not like you?
Messages from the Ancients
The Star (R)
Throat Chakra
Sorrow and loss are a necessary part of life, but lately, we've been accidentally drowning our hope and joy along with our sorrows. While there is much to be hopeful for, perhaps we've spent so much time navel-gazing at our trauma that we've forgotten what it is that we're fighting for. Once we let go of the burdens described by the guides above, we can also let go of the competing cynical voices that have been interrupting our joy. We'll be able to truly listen to the voices of our ancestors, gaze at the same stars they did, and understand the mysteries of the earth's movement and cycles as they did. Retrieve the piece of your soul that got drowned by all our troubles - don't let your light exist only in history, but be an ever-present glow to all you do.
Messages from Our Future Selves
Five of Swords
Crown Chakra
I've never been a fan of these "competition" cards partly because I've spent so much of my life revising myself so I would never have to compete with anyone. Here the victory comes at a cost. Brothers fighting brothers, tearing each other down for what? For prestige? a title? Money? Oil? Religion? Our future selves warn that for all the victories we are plotting, there is a very real downside that will follow in our wake. For nations, like the United States or Israel, this is the bloody, human cost that their allegiance to war produces. For our relationships, this could be the biting criticism that makes people lose trust, because of an uncaring allegiance to "radical honesty". In our work lives, it's the insistence on climbing the corporate ladder, stepping on every ally in a quest to conquer the lab rat labyrinth that is capitalism. Before we act, we have to think through all the consequences - and be willing to live with the choice we make in visiting those consequences upon others for our own gain.
Messages from Mother Mary
Seven of Swords (R)
Throat Chakra
Part of our struggle with the "fake it 'til you make it" advice is that it relies on faulty data at the heart of the narrative. See, nothing genuine has ever been born out of faking it. We can't put up a facade and expect something real to grow out of it. Instead, we have to show up, exactly as we are - completely aware of the role we play in our own lives to recognize the truth behind the stories. See, the seeds of success are often born out of something real and true happening within, a shift, a change in attitude. With leadership for example, my growth came not because I put on airs of superiority and certainty, but because I sought help in the times I was unsure of myself, owning the truth of my vulnerability and finding successes that couldn't be reported easily on a report metric. Look past the conventional wisdom and accepted narrative to find the truth behind our victories and thus gain a new layer to our authenticity.
Extra Card
Knight of Pentacles
Third Eye Chakra
Take this time to observe and embrace the role of darkness in your life. Over and Many of us spent 2023 in desperate need of a rescue party. Life got a little too real, a little too fast, and most of us needed someone far more responsible and "adult-y" to take the wheel at times. Sure, we made it through the year, but it wasn't unscathed. However, in 2024, the energy is that what we learned in that careening, white-knuckle, descent down the mountain without any brakes is that not only can we trust our instincts, but we can steer ourselves out of pretty much any mess. This energy will be VITAL to those around us who are going through similar things this year as they purge the nonsense ideas of separation and lack. You'll be able to construct a plan for your future rescues while teaching others how to help when life comes at them too hard and fast. Trust your knowledge and experience and start laying the foundations for a better road ahead.
Undercurrent
The Hermit (R)
Sacral Chakra
Escapism has been the dish du jour in these very real times that we're living in. The seduction of isolating ourselves from anything challenging, negative, or difficult has taken hold like no other. Even when people are seemingly engaged in discourse, they're often talking from the escapist assumptions of their righteousness. They change the meaning of words to better suit what they "feel" is true for them, drowning out any questions to the contrary. We are in danger of doing that for ourselves, getting so lost in the arrogance of our self-appointed superiority, that we miss out on the critical insight we gain when we are exposed to people, places, and cultures that are unfamiliar to us. Beware of those who sell enlightenment at the price of disconnection from the contrary parts of life.
Final Advice
The Empress
Crown Chakra
The good news in all of this is that we are primed for growth this year. We will be soaring through the year witnessing the fruits of our labor manifest into being. If we can take the assurance of our authenticity to heart, we will have a much easier time envisioning all the good that this year can bring us. We aren't here to repeat old lessons but to sow new seeds of growth. Be less strict about expectations and more generous about leaning into the process to witness our wild abundance come to life.
PARTING WORDS FROM A GEEK EMPRESS
I knew when I pulled these cards that I was feeling a very Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass vibe with the messages this week. The past year has been a haphazard initiation into what is possible. We've been ping-ponging between extremes of feeling powerful beyond measure, yet humbled by failure. Drink to become bigger and clumsier, eat to soothe the small and unworthy inside? We've had to wrestle with our helplessness, relying on people who have different agendas than us, and who use words with mirrored meanings, we still had to find our way when up is down and down is up. The past three years have felt like we're in a world where we're subject to unwritten rules of pure nonsense.
The temptation to screech "off with their head" when we encounter contrary information, and conflicting rules with other people, is so very strong - a reaction of our competitive, unrelentingly "fake it til you make it" selves that have to assert dominance out of self-preservation. Except all that's done is prune us into the nice, neat model of what's expected, denying the true, untamed nature of our natural growth. We've had to make ourselves small to inhabit the spaces we find ourselves in...make ourselves bigger to escape the ones we didn't choose.
What if...we were more strategic in cultivating spaces where we don't have to be anything but who we are? What if we were to plan our spiritual and social "gardens" around those who contribute to our growth, who form interdependent loops of support around our best selves and us around them? What if we were to choose to inhabit the spaces we are in, not as we're expected to be, but as we are? How might your 2024 be if you chose to grow into who you know you’ve always been meant to become?
No matter what happens this week, remember I am with you always in love 💖
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