Tag: overcoming fear

  • Reconnecting with Your Dreams: Finding Hope in Uncertain Times

    Reconnecting with Your Dreams: Finding Hope in Uncertain Times

    The following is a direct transcript of the video.

    Welcome to this week’s card reading. This week, we’re using the deck The Keepers of the Light from Kyle Gray. And this week’s card is Isis, Magic ManifestingYour dreams, visions, and goals are becoming reality. Stay focused.

    I don’t know about you but staying focused on dreams, ideals, and visions…it’s feeling a little harder. It’s a little bit more challenging with all the realities of what is going on in the world and certainly—I’m in the U.S.—what is happening here in the U.S. So whether you’re in a place where things are feeling really kind of uncertain and the idea of holding on to some dream seems impossible or maybe you’re in a place where this is an opportunity to allow yourself to dream bigger and you’re feeling really excited about that.

    Let’s take this time together today to just be together. To notice what feels present and allow the message to resonate in the ways that you feel it. So there might be some resistance. There might be something that just hits in a way that brings up some sort of emotion. You may find your mind wandering. There is no right or wrong. Just notice. Don’t analyze. Don’t try to figure it out. You can journal afterward and process but for now just try to listen, be present, and notice what’s happening within as you listen to this message.

    So I just want to give a little reminder again. I’ve said this before but in various different decks there are things that are talked about in terms of—sometimes it will mention God, it will mention Spirit or different kinds of things like that. And I want to be clear that for my purpose here and my own personal experience in using card decks, I am not a religious person, and I don’t think of any of this in regard to any sort of religion or anything related to that. I just think of it in terms of the universe, Mother Nature, the earth, and good and bad in whatever way that could mean at any given time. So not good and bad in terms of heaven or hell, not certainly in terms of religion—none of that. So I just wanna be clear. So as you listen, if you are a religious person, then you can take it however you want to take it. If you’re not, just know that this is not my intention for that to be the case.

    So if it feels comfortable, just allow yourself to relax into whatever surface you’re on. So really just trying to allow your body to melt, allow your jaw to release, your shoulders, your hips, and just allow your body weight to sink into whatever surface you’re on. And maybe close your eyes, maybe put a hand over your heart or over your belly. Whatever feels like you’re being called to do right now, whatever you might need.

    ISIS

    Magic Manifesting – Your dreams, visions and goals are becoming reality. Stay focused.

    Isis is a strong, smart and focused Egyptian winged goddess. According to legend, she was able to move from darkness to light and between the underworld, heaven and earth. For that reason, whenever she comes to us she will help us move from the hell of own fear into the heaven of our own love. She was also able to revive her lover Osiris- not sure if I’m saying that right- from the dead, and this powerful allegorical story shows how she can help us revive an aspect of our life or a dream that we may have ‘killed off’ with fear or lack of self-belief. With her magical abilities, Isis will guide us to bring our dreams into reality.

    Extended message

    You are moving into a space where your dream reality is becoming your outward reality. This is an extremely powerful time, and it’s vital to keep focused on the highest good of all. You no longer want to relive your own history and/or feel unsupported. Acknowledging where you once were and how you have changed that situation around is a powerful focus of gratitude that will align you with universal abundance. Discipline and commitment are important now. Consider that you are moving between worlds when you daydream or create visions and bring life-enhancing ideas into reality. Magic is manifesting all around you – this is exciting!

    So just take a deep breath, let that energy move through.

    So I actually didn’t read this before reading it to you. And reading just the initial aspect—that your dreams, visions, and goals are becoming reality—knowing what’s happening in the world and with so many people in terms of struggle right now, I was curious and also quite hesitant about trying to just put that idea out there, that your dreams are manifesting and to stay focused. Because I think, for so many people, that’s kind of hard to do. But I have to say, as I read this, I thought, “Okay, I definitely can feel some resonance here.”

    And I think this part here—the idea of reviving an aspect of our life or a dream that we may have killed off with fear or lack of self-belief—I have no doubt that anybody watching this right now can relate. Probably about so many things in your life because of a lack of fear, because of a lack of self-belief…kind of allowing those dreams to fade away or maybe even forcing those dreams to the side. And I think, you know, this could happen for a lot of reasons, but I think right now, because we are just kind of trying to get through day to day, we do feel like any dream is something that has to be put aside or maybe will be unachievable at all. So that really resonated, and I know that I’m going to sit with that idea for a little bit and just notice what comes up. I might even get my journal out and journal a little bit about it.

    You no longer want to relive your own history and/or feel unsupported. It’s all about connection, right? I think this is always important—the idea of allowing ourselves to be supported. It’s such an important part of healing, and I think when there are difficult things going on in our own personal lives or certainly in the broader community and sociocultural experience, being able to recognize and connect to the shared experiences of fear, grief, and struggle so that we know that we’re not alone, so that we can feel the truth of that reality. It is so important.

    So whatever may have resonated or not, I hope that you do allow yourself to consider the dreams that maybe you have put off, pushed to the side, not allowed yourself maybe to dream, and consider the possibility of opening to allowing opportunity and space. For maybe even just parts of those dreams, those hopes even to come to life.

    I’d love to hear what came up for you. Share in the comments.

    Thanks so much for spending this time with me.

  • Roar with Love: Embracing Your Power and Truth

    Roar with Love: Embracing Your Power and Truth

    The following is a direct transcript of the video.

    Welcome to this week’s message. It comes from the Rumi Oracle, Alanna Fairchild. And the message this week is “The Courage of Your Love”. This really is such a beautiful deck and it’s not getting into focus very well there. But it is a beautiful deck and just let yourself take it in. What do you notice as you look at this?

    So as you listen, if it feels comfortable for you to do so, if it’s available to you, maybe you close your eyes and allow yourself to really get comfortable and relax into whatever surface you’re on. Maybe put one hand over your heart and another hand over your belly or over your thighs letting them rest.

    The Courage of Your Love

    Love is without reason.

    Rationality is like a cane.

    Judgment needs a cane because it is blind.

    When love arrives, thought dies in its shadow.

    Love is the sunrise, while thought is only a flashing light.

    -Rumi

    So maybe even just let yourself take that in and what does it mean to you? Does it feel like it means anything to you?

    The path of freeing the heart from the effects of a fearful mind is an initiation into great power. So many lapses will happen before the heart grows strong enough to overpower old patterns and surrender without condition or equivocation. When it is ready to surrender in such a way, the heart is free and allowed to simply be. Even the mind then, finally freed from shackles and joyfully submitting to love, declares, “Let love be, in whatever way it shall be. I can bear it. I shall take refuge in it. I shall not turn away from it. I am that love!”

    You are an ancient one with a heart older than the mountains. You are being asked to free yourself from the too-small loves of the youthful heart and come to understand and accept the wisdom of your mature heart. Your mature heart is not cured with hardness or detachment, but with compassion and tenacious devotion to the cause that is most real and matters most – the quest for life of the human soul.

    Your ancient heart loves the soul and will roar like the lion of love at the wolves that would casually devour it. So trust in the courage of your heart. You are not cruel. You are not hard. You are not careless. You are passion personified. You are the lion of love. So allow yourself to be the lion, not the lamb. Stand true in your own heart. Cause trouble, make noise, be proud and be mighty. Then rest, after all after all that savage divinity, rest and restore, for day after day you shall claim your holy lands and refuse to give them up to less noble creatures. Though you survey their manipulations and attempts to claim power with compassion, you do not underestimate them or relax your vigilance. You shall not allow, for even a moment, that falsehood be vigilance. You shall not allow, for even a moment, that falsehood be accepted as truth in your heart.

    This oracle comes with particular guidance for you. You are not to give into less than you are worth, or to the shaming stories of others of our culture that would cast your regal lion nature into the falsehood of beliefs that you have no choice or power. You are not to give into the idea that you are victim and cannot free yourself from your suffering, or that you are less than any other. These are lies. These are petty deceptions so unworthy of you. Do not believe them. Roar at them until the weak glue holding them together melts under the fire of your holy breath, and they lie dismembered and powerless at your feet. Then intend that those bits and pieces in decay are lovingly returned to the Earth Mother through whom they can be used to fertilize new life.

    This oracle comes with another message for you. You have a challenge before you (or that you are now moving through), but you have what is necessary to succeed and overcome it. No matter how long it has endured, or how big you have built that challenge up to be in your mind, no matter how unsolvable the issue appears to be, there is and shall be a victory beyond it, and it is imminent. This oracle has come to you to let you know you are empowered to succeed, you have what is required within to do it, and that the time for your victory is drawing near.

    So do not give up. Instead, do the sacred honouring ritual as needed, and when you feel so inclined, open your mouth and roar love from the very depths of your being. Create a sound of truth for yourself. In that sound you will hear the mightiest one of all roaring along with you, saying, “Yes love, I am with you, and together we claim divine victory! So we roar! how we roar!”

    And just let yourself take this in. Let the energy move within, throughout, and just notice what is present. What are you feeling? Where has your mind gone? Do you notice sensations in your body? Was there anything that stood out to you that brought up a feeling, maybe a feeling of resistance or maybe a feeling of emotion?

    Let yourself just sit with this for a few moments. Even when this ends, just allow yourself to sit, to let it float through your body and notice where it moves, where it tends to hang out a little bit. And maybe afterward, get your journal out And just write whatever feels present for you.

    Thank you so much for joining me. Wishing you a beautiful week ahead filled with courage and love.