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.
INTRO NOTES TO THE DECK & READING
January in Colorado might be my least favorite time of year to live here. Sure, we keep our lights up until after the Stock Show (a Denver tradition) but the air is dismissively cold and the wind is punishing even for the well-layered Coloradoan. I am still warming up my feet after bringing in the groceries forty minutes ago.
As some have pointed out in my Instagram feed, this time of winter is an unnatural time to be setting resolutions and preparing to grow something new. Our insistence on containing ourselves to narrow definitions of aspiration and success on the first day of a new year seems to be our undoing. I imagine that as more move toward earth-centric practices and reclaiming old wisdom, breaking ourselves of the unnatural expectations to completely change our lives on New Year’s Day will be both a welcome and a difficult task.
This week’s reading relies heavily on the element of water to get its point across, which I overwhelmingly interpreted as the sacral chakra. Instead of trying to force the earth, the water, and indeed those same elements within us, to awaken before they are ready is like trying to walk headfirst into a wind tunnel. After living near three natural wind tunnels in Chicago, trying desperately to get to class when I was already running late - fighting against nature comes at a cost to our stamina and the tidy plans we relied on. Instead of trying to force ourselves to go against nature, what happens if we lean into the cycles already at play?
Thank you for being here! Have a blessed and beautiful New Year ❤️🔥🙏💖
Where We Are This Week
Ace of Rainbows (Earth) - Maturity
Crown Chakra
We have reached a place of maturity - recognizing a deep interconnected truth of our physical selves. We now have the power to draw on the energy of the earth to power all our dreams. Take things one day at a time secure in the knowledge that we are children of earth, a manifestation of just another of her magnificent creations. When we choose to see ourselves as holy and thus worthy, it becomes easier to see the same in others. Maturity is realizing there is a place for all of us.
Messages from our Guides
The Master (R)
Solar Plexus Chakra
“Be more like the Doctor and less like the Master”.
No matter how much mastery we’ve achieved over ourselves, there is still this temptation to be a master over others, to control them with the shame, guilt, and greed that subjugated too many in this life and the past ones. Just like the madness-driven character of the Master in Doctor Who, the subjugation and control over others is always a way to soothe a pain that will drive us to the dead end of disappointment. Yet, even in the most hopeless situation, the Doctor always finds a way.
The way out of this is to make each moment a reflection of our highest selves - not our dominant, ego selves, but our altruistic, soul-connected self, a beautiful but distinct part of the larger whole. Just like the Doctor.
Messages from Lady Gaia/Mother Earth
Ace of Water (R) - Going with the Flow
Sacral Chakra
Note the natural cycles of water - the purity of its origins - oxygen and hydrogen - building blocks of life that we can find even in the icy dark of the solar system. Even in winter when the streams are frozen with layers of sharpened white ice, there is still a flow and a vibration to its ever-present energy. Just because we can’t see it doesn’t mean there isn’t more happening under the surface, life still moving along at its own pace. Use this as inspiration for the week, connecting to the water within each of us, the ebb and flow, and the constant vibration of emotion. We are truly made of star stuff - and so are the people we encounter every day - so start acting like it.
Messages from the Ancients
Five of Water (R) - Clinging to the Past
Heart Chakra
Take heart. The last remnants of the past sorrows and disappointments are coming to an end. Any misery we feel right now is just a shadow, a ghost of the presence that once haunted our every day. It’s familiar and thus carries its disparaging comfort - like a blanket given by an abusive caregiver that is the only reminder of a shred of love we once thought we knew. We have clung to it for so long that the only love that remains that we need to reclaim is the love and hope we poured into that slim fragment - it will restore us to wholeness to let go of those regrets and grief-filled memories. Hang in there - this harshness is shifting soon.
Messages from Our Future Selves
Two of Fire - Possibilities
Third Eye Chakra
Even if it feels like we’ve been stumbling around in the dark the past year has been preparing us to take flight. If we stop trying to compete with everyone whom we see soaring above us we can focus on finding the currents in our ideas and plans that make us come alive. When we find the right current, we’ll be flying too. Comparison just becomes an unnecessary burden to carry. Letting go of the expectation gives us room to truly soar higher and further than we could ever have imagined.
Messages from Mother Mary
The Emperor - The Rebel
Root Chakra
The Emperor, the symbol of divine masculine energy shows up not as the holder of chains, but as the breaker of them. He pushes against the rigidity of rules that keep people contained. Because the divine masculine power is within all of us, it symbolizes the opportunity to radically examine our values and push against those who ostracise, diminish, or tame the wild growth of the heart. Mother Mary advises that the sooner we accept the death of our old sense of self the sooner we emerge into the leaders, the rebellious lovers that we were born to be. We have to pass through this portal of sadness, grief, and regret to reach the threshold of the world we are bridging. Every act of self-care, every act of preserving boundaries is an act of rebellion against systems that have tamed us for far too long. We are the leaders we’ve been looking for.
Extra Card
Knight of Water (R) - Trust
Sacral Chakra
It’s so hard to trust in times like these - especially trusting others. Especially on social media, it seems like the world is in a free fall into chaos, where every other person is wielding malice as a political scythe. The chasms that have opened between us all have created apprehension, a fear that one false move, one errant word will subject us to trauma and punishment. But when we trust in ourselves, our judgment, and our divine presence, those fears are less likely to touch us. Take a risk on yourself and realize that even if no one else is presenting as trustworthy, then at least trust yourself enough to discern that and navigate around it without succumbing to the chaos.
Undercurrent
The Wheel of Fortune (R) - Change
Third Eye Chakra
When we say the sorrows are coming to an end, it doesn’t mean they are gone forever or that there will never be hardship ever again, it’s that our ability to deal with adversities we face has prepared us to walk through any cycles with responsible optimism. So, even though “bad” things may happen, lean into the cycle because the momentum of our trust will spin the wheel back in our favor once again. None of us can stay down for long. Honor the cycles, the in, the out, the breath of divine balance, and ultimately we will see the happier times return.
Final Advice
Six of Fire - Success
Root Chakra
We are walking into 2024 triumphant in our cause, champions of adversity. Yes, we carry wounds, but that isn’t the most interesting about us anymore. What matters more is how many people we cared for along the way. This victory isn’t any one person, but all of ours collectively. It’s okay to carry that “survived 2023” trophy for a bit longer - it IS an accomplishment and you are right to celebrate it!~
PARTING WORDS FROM A GEEK EMPRESS
When I pulled these cards I was in the middle of a rewatch of the 13th Doctor and the recent Doctor Who holiday specials. While this deck normally is indifferent about reading reversed, I feel like every communication matters. To see a similar long beard on a wise man immediately brought to mind the Master’s turn as Rasputin at the end of the 13th Doctor’s journey. And who better to encapsulate the meaning than the dichotomy with this one-man show of toxic control?
The Master is driven by a need for revenge, competition, dominance, and especially a sadistic need to be the better of the Doctor. There are times when he and the Doctor are sympathetic to each other, but his methods are always about control, whereas the Doctor’s is more about improvised freedom. One exploits loopholes to contract and tighten, unleashing chaos and calling it liberation. The others exploit the loopholes to get as many people out as they can, riding the waves of chaos to liberation. Yet, both are made of the same star stuff (okay, mostly?)
We are also made of the same star stuff - we have the capacity, the possibility of leaning into our inner Master of Chaos energy, justifying it with vengeance, and righting wrongs done to us. Or we could lean into our inner Doctor of the Universe energy that brings healing in the most helpless of moments bearing the scars of loss.
So much is happening under the surface even in the dead of winter. Under the surface of our actions, our words, our magics, a current flows through us that unites all. What message are we sending with our actions? Are we working with the natural currents or against them? When the frost thaws and the ice around our hearts melts, which path will we end up choosing?
No matter what happens this week, remember I am with you always in love 💖
Living the Message
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