Recently I’ve been doing a lot of inner work with forgiveness- forgiving others but mostly forgiving myself.  This “work” involved journaling, art play, and EFT Tapping.  As I was nearing the end of all of this, I came across the image of the older woman looking into the younger woman’s eyes and I was immediately drawn to using it on a SoulCollage card to express visually how I was feeling inside about forgiving and being forgiven.

I am the one who looks into your eyes and only sees the best of you.  I am the one who looks with eyes of love.  I am the safe, wise, compassionate one who forgives because I love.  I am the one holding your precious head between my two hands.

I am the one standing with you against the eternal background of ocean.  We are watched over by Spirit.  I am the part of you who forgives easily.  I am the part of you who receives the blessing of forgiveness with open heart.

My gift to you is simply love.  I give you compassion.  I give you forgiveness.  I give you a vantage point from the future.  My gift to you is the freedom that comes from begin fully forgiven.

I want you to practice compassion and kindness towards yourself and others.  On a regular basis!  I want you to experience and receive kindness and compassion when it is offered to you. 

I want you to LOOK AT YOURSELF the way I am looking at you.

My wisdom for you today is this:  You are precious.  You are the one one of you that there is or ever will be.  Let go of EVERYTHING that weights you down- all fears, all guilts, all past mistakes… and look at yourself in the mirror the way that I am looking at you- with kindness, love, and true compassion.

I made this card completely intuitively and afterwards when I really LOOKED at it, I realized that I’d placed the woman in an open grave!  I felt a little uneasy about this, especially since I’ve done two rounds with Cancer.  But when I sat down and let her speak to me, I heard something surprising:

I am the one standing on an open grave.  I am the one blissfully savoring the moment. 

I am the one standing in a place marked for death but am surrounded by a multitude of growing things. 

My message for you today is this:  Everyone is marked by death.  There is a grave with everyone’s name on it.  But you’re not IN the grave yet!  Your time is NOW.  Savor THIS moment NOW. 

This moment = the only moment.

Ahh… the birth of a new card!

This past weekend I found the image of the railing/walkway at the retreat my brother John and I were leading.  I was really drawn to it so I cut it out of its background and then held it up against about 100 other backgrounds.  When I held it against this rainbow nebula image, my heart went “YES!”

But I was leading the retreat so I didn’t have time to glue it down.  When I got home on Sunday I took it out of my suitcase and laid it on my art table, noticing that the combination of the two images was still heart-stopping for me.

And guess what? I dreamed about those two images on Sunday night.  In my dream I heard a voice saying to me, “The name of this card is Into the Mystery.”  Aha!  I can’t even describe what it felt like, waking up with this image and info in my mind!

This week I’ve been combing through my other images and finally found this woman in white and voila!  My newest card is born!

So I’ve made it and it’s sitting on my altar where I see it often throughout my day.  It’s completely wondrous to me, this card.  I was sitting here today getting ready to do some journaling with it but the time doesn’t feel right for this Neter to speak so I’m holding off on that for a little while. It still feels really tender to me.

I will post some journaling with this when I feel the time is right.  In the meantime, maybe this Neter has something to say to YOU!

Who are you?

I am the one who is reading sacred, ancient texts.  I am the one who is male and female, old and young.  I am the one who is absorbed in the written text, the pages.  I am the one who holds the sacred script in my hands.  I am the one who reads to quench my hunger, my thirst, my need for spiritual knowledge and truths.

I am the one who reads against a backdrop of the nautilus- a powerful symbol of self-growth. 

My message for you today is this- continue to feed upon the wisdom that has been passed down to you in sacred books.  You have been veering away from this practice but do not stay away too long.  Daily reading of this kind will make a huge difference in your life and you will find your joy increasing as well.