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Emotional Boundaries

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I am the one who creates emotional boundaries.
I am the one who creates emotional boundaries.

 

I made this card in 2007, intentionally, to remind myself to create boundaries around myself emotionally.Ā  It took me a while to find just the right images though!

Who are you?

I am the one who can by happy and content and shining even though others around me are sad and miserable.Ā  I am the one who knows that I am separate from those around me.

I am the one who is in touch with the pulse of my own inner life, of my soul, at all times.Ā  I am the one who cares about the misery and sadness of others around me but who knows I don’t have to wear/breathe in/inhale/BECOME their misery and sadness in order to love them.

 

What do you have to give me?

I give you emotional boundaries… the knowing of where others end and you begin.Ā  I give you permissoin to feel JOY and to SHINE in spite of the unhappiness of others around you.

 

What do you want from me?

I want you to know that there is a difference between THEM and YOU.Ā  That you do not have to absorb the pain of others because you are separate from them.Ā  I want you to shine your inner light and to smile/laugh/let yourself FEEL GOOD even when there is sadness and drama around you.

 

Powerful

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I am the one who is powerful.
I am the one who is powerful.

 

I made this card YEARS ago and at the time it was speaking to me about power- good power, centered and balanced strength and power.

As the years have gone by, however, another meaning has come forth from this card.Ā  And believe it or not, I didn’t actually notice the larger hand in the background which is holding up the earth.

This Neter showed up today for me in my Every-Other-Daily-Reading and this is what it said to me:

I am the one who is powerful.Ā  I am the one who gets my strength and power from a place of balance and centeredness.

I am the one who can carry ANYthing because there is a Power greater than me doing the actual carrying.

What I have to say to you today is this- What are you struggling to carry right now? Name it.

Can you be still for a moment and see that Another Hand is already carrying it for you?

Ah!Ā  I love it when my cards ask ME questions in return!

Success from Defeat

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scsuccessI am the one who was measured and laid low by defeat and failure and now I am free and now I am successful and now I am no longer defeated.Ā  I am the one who survived and lived to tell the story of how difficult it was, before, and how easy it is, now.Ā  I am the one who raises my arms in triumph.

I am the one who was supported and guided by the Divine Ones on my journey from “there” to “here.”

My message for you today is this: it’s a journey, it’s always a journey.Ā  And there are still some places in your life where you are feeling defeated.Ā  What are those places, what is that place, where you currently experience defeat?Ā  Use the energy and power of the little girl on this card and find a way to bring yourself from defeat to triumph.

This was a new message for me, from this card- the bit about using the energy of the image of the little girl to bring failure/defeat to success.Ā  So I decided to ask the little girl a bit about herself. And this is what she said:

I am the one who is young and beautiful and dressed in party clothes, clothes of celebration.Ā  I am the one who is watching what takes place.Ā  I am the one whose magic is my innocence.Ā  I am the one whose magic is in my belief that wonderful things can and do happen, and often.

I am the one whose magic wishing dandelion is touching the defeated one’s leg.Ā 

I am the one who transforms the defeat into the triumph with my belief that all is well, that all is possible.

My message for you today is this: believe that your body will get back to its natural weight, and it will.Ā  It may sound naive and innocent, but in my words is wrapped the wisdom of the Universe.

 

Colorful Possibilities

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I am the one who relaxes against the backdrop of many bright colorful possibilities.
I am the one who relaxes against the backdrop of many bright colorful possibilities.

Who are you?

I am the one who lies here, relaxed and stretching luxuriously.Ā  I am the one who is wrapped in colorful rainbows.Ā  I am the one who balances on this downward incline. I am the one who keeps my balance.

I am the one who is flexible. I am the one who rests against the backdrop of rainbow-colored windows.Ā  I am the one who knows these windows are opening to me to colorful possibilities of what is next.

What do you have to say to me today?

My message for you today is this- rest, relax, stretch your body, do not neglect your body.Ā  Do not feel like you have to open every window and poke your head out to see what is on the other side. Ā These windows are all portals to possibilities that await you.Ā  You cannot open/see through them all at once.Ā  Take your time, rest, relax, let go of the striving, just be with the possibilities and all willĀ  be made clear in time.

 

 

Time in a Bottle

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I am the one who is running out of time. I am the one who knows that I donā€™t have all the time in the world.Ā  I am the one who is afraid that I canā€™t get everything done in time.

I am the one who has so much to do and to share with the world and not enough time to do it. I am the one who tries to capture time and save it, hoard it, hang on to it because I think I can control it better this way.

My message for you today is this: Pay attention to your relationship with time. You are hurting yourself with your attitude towards time. Time keeps ticking on, even if you hoard all of the clocks in the world into locked jars and cabinets.

 

This card is one that I made several years ago and it accurately reflects exactly how I feel about the passing of time.Ā  Sometimes I look at it and think that the large image of the woman in the top right corner might be the Keeper of Time, but whenever I read from it, I tap into the energy of the sadness of time passing. So here it came to me again, last week, in one of my daily readings, and after I had just gone on at length in my journal about how there is so much to get done, and how am I going to get it all done..etc. You know the drill!

I find great comfort in this card, even though it seems to remind me of my powerlessness in the face of Time.Ā  It helps me to remember that time is just a mental construct, and that as long as I keep myself in THIS moment, right now, that is all that matters.

And when I CAN do this… stay in the present moment…. then I find deep peace, and my worries and fears about getting everything done (or not done!) simply fade away.