These Messages of Divine Love are weekly intuitive card readings offered to share strength & hope for those building a heart-centered world. Sharing messages from our collective guides, Mother Earth, the ancients watching over us with a quick peek into what our future selves want us to know and how my protectress, Mother Mary, can add love to get us through the week. Each message includes chakra themes that help center our energy. Subscription is FREE.
INTRO NOTES TO THE DECK & READING
Debuting a brand new deck this week, the Modern Way Tarot, what it lacks in detail, it shares in color and simplicity. Because I have always been more focused on the big picture, it's always a good sign when I have several Major Arcana cards in a reading, specifically this kind of reading. The major cards don't disappoint this week - The Wheel of Fortune kicking off the energies and the Temperance and Lovers card. The High Priestess lives in the undercurrent this week, her head buried in the sand, excusing inequality and serving inhumanity with her faithless pursuit of riches.
The shift in the energy this week conjoins with a Full Moon in Leo, which magnifies our specific talents and offers us opportunities for recognition and reward for our hard work. But it also offers us a unique opportunity to collaborate with people who are starting projects to build a new earth. We are all mastering new crafts. Some of us, because the pandemic changed our tolerance for the old bullshit, are entering entirely new spaces, constructing whole new careers from scratch (like me!). Others have been thrust into new roles out of necessity and are trying to figure out what changes are needed. We are each acquiring new talents, drawing in new abilities to surround us in making our visions come to life.
With the Lovers card as well as the Two of Cups, we must find ways to be open to the connections we have with others. We will start seeing a new facet of others - one that is worth falling in love with - even platonically. It is these precious people who will turn the tide of luck, helping to ignite our hearts so we can better apply ourselves to sparking the heart of the rest of humanity next.
Where We Are This Week
Wheel of Fortune
Solar Plexus Chakra
There has been a major shift in the air. Even if you haven't felt that crackle of opportunity pulsing through your dreams or signals, there will be a definite change that is coming - one for the better. With a full moon this week, the advice is to shed all that you don't want to bring with you into the next round. Because what we choose to carry for the next part of our journey is what we will need to deal with in a more communal and community-connected way. I keep seeing a bunch of kids trying to get on a merry-go-round at the same time - those who are weighed down with backpacks of emotional clutter will get thrown off first. Position yourself well, letting go of what doesn't need to invade your future and you'll be off to a great start.
Messages from our Guides
Four of Wands (R)
Sacral Chakra
As someone who has this nostalgic connection to my hometown, even I have felt the truth of the phrase, "You can never go back home again." Each time I go back the town changes a little more as the titans of the town pass away and their children can never truly step into their shoes no matter how honorable their intentions. Likewise, we change. We become more than who we were...and less than as well. New cities and new adventures change us. So if things aren't quite feeling quite right in your families, settings or communities look at how you and they have changed, have shifted into new directions. Instead of trying to force it, try to embrace the ways you can appreciate your past, your home, and your origins with new eyes.
Messages from Lady Gaia/Mother Earth
Knight of Pentacles
Root Chakra
This isn't a woo-woo sign of being "warriors for Earth" as if she is helpless to our superiority and she couldn't just wipe us out with one well-timed tectonic shift. Instead, this is a message about consistency in our words and thoughts, but especially our deeds. This means grounding into the comparisons of what we proclaim is our ideal selves with the nitty gritty reality of how we act. Use the keen observational skills of the knight of pentacles to do a true assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of our connection with Mother Earth. We don't have to be perfect, but identify at least one way we could be truly honoring that relationship - to do our part to protect either her or the beings who rely on her without exceptions.
Messages from the Ancients
Temperance
Throat Chakra
The ancients want us to take a hint from the image of a spiritual alchemist - an angel who is trying to bring us the blessings we ask for. But it has to happen in its own time. We can choose to be either part of the solution or part of the problem. We can stack the deck against ourselves with the burdens of expectation, the demands of productivity or we can work with the process, using the blessings to build momentum for more. Using every failure as guidance toward the larger wisdom. Life is so intricate that if we try to force a result, we could find ourselves living on the darkest timeline, and our problems multiplied. Or instead of being the hero, we are the careful scientist, using our words and actions with care. The key is to trust in the timing that presents itself - just like the Wheel of Fortune. It is waiting for the right opportunity, to pour the right amount of ourselves into the situation, all while exercising trust in the process to achieve an unbelievable result.
Messages from Our Future Selves
Three of Pentacles
Crown Chakra
This is a long term influence, even though, by the time it's happened it will be so normal we won't even be aware of it. First, the things that we will be recognized for three years from now is not what we've been doing up until now. I'm seeing career shifts that take us away from the isolated structures of the past into more communal structures of the near future. Each of us is responsible for building a piece of that new world and we are going to be dramatically altering our paths soon to align with this. Don't worry if you don't know what it is because the teacher will present themselves, a community will emerge to support these skills and our value will come from how we made our community grow closer to the world we want to see. Be open to learning and connecting through collaborations and cooperatives.
Messages from Mother Mary
The Lovers
Heart Chakra
The Mother Mary card crosses over the center card to point the way from our emotional past (the ancients) to our promised future. Here, the way the card showed up, was an angel pouring one cup into the other, a union, followed by another angel producing the divine union between masculine & feminine forces. Remembering that not all unions are men + women, but rather a balance of the dualities within, Mary shows us that our future is built of a union of choice. In all situations when we choose to be in alignment with love, in alignment with seeing the inherent value of each who walk this earth, then we are laying the very foundations of a new world.
Undercurrent
Undercurrent
Third Eye Chakra
Beware of those who infuse their biases into the products they sell as magic. For example, to only talk about divine masculine and feminine as strictly male and female stereotypes betrays an alignment with heteronormative alignments with patriarchy or gender essentialism. Yet, when we leave open the idea of multiple forms of gender expression and attraction in any individual throughout their lifetime(s) we start to repair and reset so more of humanity feels included. Beware of those who still apply a black-and-white division of evil vs. good to all aspects of life. We are meant to see beyond the dualistic patterns and hard lines of the narrow boxes and see the potential that lies in the spaces in between.
Final Advice
Two of Cups
Heart Chakra
In the work I've done I have witnessed change happen from the dark, intimate tears in a shared bed to the rattle of loose bolts taking apart old systems one small step at a time. Change doesn't happen in a vacuum simply because we wish it to be so. It happens because we reached out, we cared, and we chose to believe in one another through impossible odds. The kind of soul-shifting change we need to see in the world won't happen because we have a leader who steps up and unites everyone, it will be because we are finally seen through the eyes of another. Seen and not rejected. Seen and still worth fighting for. Seen and accepted as worthy of freedom and joy. Seen and understood...if even for this moment. This is what it is to be the hands of love in the world - to hold on to someone in their deepest moments and simply choose to see them.
PARTING WORDS FROM A GEEK EMPRESS
I write this during a global strike for a ceasefire to help the Palestinian people. It feels crass to try to explain this reading without bringing up the core truth that is behind this - This is our moment to show we are serious about building a world based on Love. More than anything, the energy of this week has the potential to turn the tide toward the changes that can sweep through and rattle us awake from these collective illusions of colonized control and socio-political dominance. It is only in the earth-shattering revelations that the people in control worked so hard to seize power only to be tripping over their helplessness when confronted with the world's problems. Despite the enormity of their power, all we see are leaders with a live wire of trigger-happy big-boy rage demonstrating their utter lack of genocidal, extinction-level impulse control. Is that the future we want?
I have been a mediator, a lobbyist, a leadership trainer, a nonprofit founder, and an advocate for survivors. I am friends with lawmakers, sex workers, educators, elders, community shakers, and relationship makers. In my experience, a leader who is serious about peace shows up with a basket of solutions, not clenched fists. They aren't afraid to hear difficult truths or face the mirror offered by their opposition. They are ready with objective talking points yet, still listen to the feedback of those who have contrasting conclusions and other evidence to consider. They don't distort facts but illuminate insight. They don't puff up their chest and harumph until they get their way. Even Churchill who is widely regarded as an example of “good leadership” made disastrous calls when his ego was in the way.
No, good leaders know they have to give in addition to receiving. They also know that mutual accountability is the foundation of every long-lasting partnership. But since mutual accountability requires both trust and transparency, integrity and insight - it is too "soft" to be considered by the more machismo-centric, bravado-powered, boxed-in image of the "bold & daring leader". The most effective leaders I've known aren't those who stubbornly drive themselves off a cliff, but those who are fluid, responsive, and adaptive to a changing world.
I’ve been watching a lot in the past week about Princess Diana. Much has been said about her “soft power” way of getting things done. She spoke to the heart without the hard lines of control, but the curved potential of true connection. To embrace that in our world is scary - to be out of control, embracing emotion, open with the heart. Changing to that kind of world is intimidating to most because it means letting go of this image that we've propped up as "success" and "winning". What if our measurement of winning wasn't how much land or enemies they bombed to "secure our people's safety" but how many lives were unburdened and enriched by our policies? What if our idea of progress isn't one built from domination over a land of scarcity, but one of coordinated stewardship over a landscape of abundance?
This is what I'm hoping to help people do this year - embrace the soft power that releases the heart from its illusions and repressions. As more hearts are unburied by the emotion that is emerging from the darkened corners of warfare, we see that it’s in the tears, the presence, the ingenuity, and the dignity of resilience where resistance is truly born. But it starts with our actions in the here and now - and our alignment to the principles we say we believe in - like love, truth, justice, and community.
No matter what happens this week, remember I am with you always in love 💖
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