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This week's mini read for 9/25/2023-10/1/2023 was thrown with the Heal Yourself Oracle deck and the overall message is about the tough lessons we’ve been learning and accepting the “call to action”, because when you know better you do better!
The first card out in our spread is the “Selling Out” card which embodies the energy of the prostitute archetype. Don’t leave yet, just because of the stigma that word tends to carry! You have recently come face to face with the shadow aspect of this archetype! This has been a bit of a “gut punch” is what I’m hearing as you’ve been addressing spaces and relationships that have compromised your integrity. You’ve faced hard truths about the role manipulation has played in your life, both from yourself and from others. I’m getting the image of someone having a hard time “facing themselves in the mirror”, as you’ve realized all the things that you “sacrificed” for what you thought was the greater good. You realized your morals, your standards, and even your creative energy became bargaining chips that you utilized to attempt to move forward on your path. But as with any archetype, there is a dark and a light side, and since this card is in a past position, I feel this is what we are in the process of or very recently transitioning away from. You took the first step, which was to bring awareness to this. The first step in any kind of growth is awareness, because if you aren’t aware, you won’t know how to fix it. In my space, it's what I refer to as “know better do better", and the lighter side of the prostitute archetype is all about strength, self-confidence, and integrity. She calls us to leave behind toxic spaces, people, and behavior, because authenticity never requires you to manipulate others to gain favor or support. Now that you have called yourself out and held yourself accountable, it's time to start taking action in your life to move out of those spaces and relationships. If being who you truly are bothers someone, that’s a "them problem”, not a "you problem”.
This brings us to our second card in this week’s spread, the “Courage” card. Facing our shadows is never an easy feat, but now that you are armed with your new realizations, what are you going to do with them? This card represents taking action in your life and is asking you to STOP investing your energy in limitations, dysfunction, and lack mindset. Every obstacle and challenge in our life brings with it a lesson and a blessing if we are willing to see it. I’m hearing that you need to check your foundation, as its time to make a bold step forward, but it requires that you be firmly rooted in self-trust and self-confidence. Again, we have a similar message as our first card, be who you TRULY are. You are being called to find your courage, at its very depths in your soul and stand your ground, stand in your convictions. Now is the time to start saying what you truly mean, to speak your truth, regardless of if someone else likes it or not.
This transitions right into the “Say What You Mean” card. I’m hearing “What are you afraid of?”, and I’m getting the energy that you’re someone who, maybe in the past responded in ways to “keep the peace”. Why are you afraid to be honest? This card again is asking us to go within and take a look at how we communicate with ourselves because that’s where truthful, honest communication originates from. Why do you silence yourself? Or why do you feel you need to explain yourself in every situation. I’m being told to remind you that “No is a complete sentence”. As we harness our true sacred power, which originates in the sacral chakra, it then makes its way through our heart space and into our throat chakra. It’s time for you to clear your throat, speak your peace when you need to, and to no longer silence yourself to make others comfortable. What you have to say matters and now is not the time to be making yourself “small” for any reason.
Our final card out this week is the “Phoenix Rising” card. As you continue to walk through the shadows and balance out both the light and dark aspects of yourself, it can feel like everything is falling apart around you. It can feel like people are “against” you, because as you transform into this new version of yourself, you are no longer tolerating, and accepting things that you did in the past. This makes others uncomfortable who no longer have power over you like they once did. “The more you choose yourself, the more is revealed.” I’m hearing “sometimes you have to walk through the fire”. Although fire can be destructive, it is also cleansing and purifying. The fire you are walking through is simply the old cycles and patterns in your life coming to an end, they are burning down around. You have made the decision to release yourself from the self-imposed shackles that you had been bound by, and it's through letting go of what no longer serves us, that the “death” of a cycle is completed and the “rebirth” is able to begin. I’m hearing “it's time to walk the walk, not just talk the talk”. You’ve made the choice in your mind, now it's time to bring it into your physical world. Whatever last little bit of hesitation or fear that you are holding on to must be let go of in order for this cycle to complete.
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