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This week's mini oracle read is being tossed with the Alice in Wonderland Oracle deck.
The first card out in our Looking Glass Spread is the “Forgot Who You Are” card and this is all about realizing that everything that you thought you knew about yourself no longer truly defines you. For many of you it's like feelings, memories, and even repressed emotions, are bubbling and coming to the surface. For many of you, you're discovering who you are for the very first time and there's an almost hesitancy to reintroduce yourself and unleash this version of yourself onto the world. My team is calling it more of a "hang up” and they’re saying there's still a little more work that you need to do as there is still a need to hide yourself from others. I’m feeling this split in the collective, there’s some, who have this lack mindset going on here, and you're being called to ask yourself why you feel you aren't good enough? But there’s this other part of the collective that this is a first for you, and my team is saying that deep down in the very depths of your soul, you are saying “I truly like who I am”. And I'm getting those were not words that you have had the courage to say out loud in the past, but now it's almost like you aren’t quite ready to share this version of you with the world yet, you just want to keep it within you. And know I’m being drawn back to that quote: “Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?” And I hear many saying “Yes, I can remember now”.
This then takes us into our second card, "Choices". This card is asking you to take a look at what your "motivators" are in your life right now. What’s the driving force behind the choices that you are making in your life. Are your words and actions aligning? Or as my team calls it are you “walking the walking AND talking the talk”? For many of you, you've got this newfound momentum, you’re trying to make what you think are the “right moves”. My team is saying not to get caught up in the idea of what’s “right” by anyone else's standards. It’s important to keep building off this moment and not get stuck in the “in between” when it comes to these choices in your life. Many of you seem to get stuck in your head often and you talk yourself out of things or start worrying about things that are 8 miles down the road that haven't even happened yet. Stay focused on what’s in front you. Lead from your heart, do what lights up your soul.
The "Choices" card goes hand in hand with our next card, “A Moments Regret". This card represents what I call, "looking over your shoulder into the past”. It’s being shown to me as you're standing at a crossroads, and most people think of Crossroads as looking one Direction or the other. In my space I look at it as looking forwards or looking backwards over your shoulder at what you're leaving behind. This ties back to what was said with the choices card, that a lot of you are getting stuck in that "in between”. You're being asked to trust the process, to trust this transition, and stop looking backwards at what has already happened. You can't change what has already happened, it's time for you to move forward. You’ve learned what you needed to and now it's time to grow. This hesitation I’m picking up on is what I would describe as a “Shoulda Coulda Woulda” energy, and when I say that its wishing things were different than the reality of what is in front of you. It’s getting caught up or hung up again in that “in between” because you're wishing that things were different. You're being asked AGAIN, to not get hung up "in what could have been”, but instead to accept things "as they are" and to take action to move forward on your path. No more looking in the review with regret!
This transitions us into the next card which is the “Mortality card”. This card is all about realizing that none of us know how much time we truly have and calls on us to stay in the present moment. Like I mentioned in the previous cards, often we tend to get hung up on what could have been or how things could have worked, that we’re so busy looking down the road at all these “what ifs” or worst-case scenarios (which don’t often play out), that we miss what's right in front of us. You’re being asked to choose to be present in each moment in your life and not get caught up in the past OR in the future. You are also being called to realize that you have all of these opportunities in front of you every single day but it's when you get “heavy in your head” or caught up in your thoughts you lose the perspective to see what is unfolding right in front of you. Rather than thinking of how things might not work or shift that perspective to “I have nothing to lose and everything to gain”. The energy here is asking you to seize the moments in front of you each and every day!
This brings us to the last card in this week's spread and this is the “Wake Up” card. This is one of my favorite cards, as the energy here is literally asking you “what are you waiting for?” It’s reminding you that this is your “moment”, and the only thing standing in your way is your hesitancy and stagnation. It's time to release any doubt in your mind, this is your “trust fall”, your leap of faith moment. I just keep hearing “it's now or never” and there's this buildup of excitement. I’m being taken back to the first card in our reading, where you have remembered who you are now that you dropped all the masks and expectations of the world. You’re being called to take that courageous step forward and be unapologetically you.
It’s your move!