Collective Messages

We are seeing at this time so much resistance to change. Times can feel unsettling as we struggle to make sense of the world around us. Sometimes it feels like we are moving backwards, or maybe we are in fact traveling reverse. The truth is, everything is cyclic, things come together only to fall apart again to be continued in a cyclic nature.

This is where we struggle, when we resist the natural cycles of nature.

I personally have been feeling a lot of fear, frustration, sadness and anger when I look out into the world around us; humanity and how we treat one another other. I see the divides and it causes so much dis-ease in my heart.

When times feel heavy, I turn to my Tarot deck. I love connecting in with my higher Self through meditation and finding the answers I desperately seek outside of myself. The Tarot is a reminder that all is already within you.

Strength Reversed

I came to my mat this morning and the first card I pulled was the Reversed Strength card. The Reversed Strength represents inner strength, low energy, depression and raw emotions, you know, the one’s we so desperately try not to feel! The card asks use to check in with our confidence; are we being overly confident and maybe even cocky, or do we need more self- confidence? Are we lacking and feeling insecure or pessimistic? The advice is to reconnect with your inner power. Remember who you are, you are a Divine Being, a Soul in a human body having a human experience. Recalibrate your energy and come back to your center,

What we see on the outside is a reflection of what is going on on the inside. All the triggers I am feeling outside of myself are invitations to go within, to reclaim my center and to know that all things are cyclic. Yes, we are experiencing challenging times and we can change those times, but it starts with us on an individual. level.

The King Of Swords

The next card I pulled was the King of Swords. This card brings the message of mental clarity, truth, authority, and the power of the intellect. Our brains are truly magnificent organs and we can tap into some fascinating potential if used properly. Think of it as a muscle, you have so much potential in your arm muscles but you have to work them out. Meditation and mindfulness is like the workout for your brain!

The message of The King of Swords is to face fear in the eyes. Stare it down, find confidence and strength and watch things shift. We cannot keep putting bandaid over bandaid over our problems, but we can take serious action and that action starts with your intention. What is your true intention in everything that you do? Get in the habit of asking yourself “why am I doing that?” “why am I saying that?" become the observer without any judgment. Be the investigator of your own mind.

I found myself obsessively cleaning this week, not that my house didn’t need it, but I was constantly cleaning something rather than taking moments of rest. I started to investigate and ask myself why I felt the need to be cleaning, what was showing up for me? I found that I was feeling out of control and worried about my kids, worried about all kids, feeling for all parents, and the world. I was feeling helpless and so I turned to keeping that energy “busy” rather than sitting with it. I was literally trying to burn myself out all day so that when night came I could flop into bed and not think about or feel the raw emotions.

In the King of Swords, he wears a blue tunic that represents his connection to Spirituality and his desire to keep learning more. He is open to his intuition and has a balance between the mind and the heart. He is a reminder that we all need to rule and govern ourselves from a place of authority and respect and to keep our emotions balanced and possibly even detached a bit at times. This is a slippery slope though because I do firmly believe that emotions, especially chaos motivates the soul and it’s important to feel them without attaching to them.

I can’t help but wonder if we are in a very pivotal moment in society and in the world as a whole. The “battle’ between light and dark has never seemed more apparent and in our faces. Change starts with us, on a cellular level. Be the change you want to see in the world and others will follow your lead. Remember what we do to one, we do to all. If you hurt one (or yourself), you hurt all of us. If you love yourself, you love all of us. We are not separate and that is the message that the ancient Yogis and Gurus and even Jesus himself spread. We are not separate and we have to start acting that way, the first step is starts with you.

The Queen of Pentacles

The last card I pulled was The Queen of Pentacles. As I shuffled my deck I was asking “what is the outcome of this”? “What happens from here?”

The message she brings is of the nurturer, practicality, she is the provider and the homemaker, the working parent. Pentacles represent wealth, success, money and in the card she is lovingly holding it in her arms, she knows that in order to truly be successful and powerful, you must come from the heart. She also represents Gaia or Mother Earth energy. We are all children of the earth, God was not a single parent, we have that balance of mothering, creator energy as well as the strong, protecting father. I think if each one of us can hold that intention in our hearts, to come from the Divine Parents of masculine and feminine energy; to be powerful and truthful, strong, smart and also kind, nurturing, respectful and soft. To protect, advocate for, care, love and nurture not only ourselves, but others as well we will enter the peaceful part of our cycle.

The Healing

I invite you to tap into maternal energy, regardless of who or what you identify as. We are all made up of masculine and feminine energy and need to have acceptance and a healthy relationship with both. Tap into your feminine energy today, explore it, heal whatever wounds arise and know that when you heal yourself, you take part in healing the collective.

All my love,

Amanda