I was so delighted that last week focused on the Divine Masculine. I was even more delighted to see that message echoed by so many other witches, psychics, and seers. With how vociferously I fight against patriarchy it might seem weird for me to be so excited about welcoming the divine masculine. But unlike the toxicity of patriarchy, the divine masculine shares power and doesn’t hoard it all for himself. And frankly, shared, collective power is what I love the most about how these messages connect.

The synchronicity itself is a sign that we are connecting more deeply with the divine within ourselves. For example, we might have found hints of manifested miracles lurking in the corners of our lives. Unexpected surprises gave us hope and energy when the world is threatening to steal those from us. When we remain open to the universe surprising us, when we show up with gratitude for the little signals that we’re our intuition was right, that reinforces our faith that literally anything is possible.

Enlightenment often shows itself when we are ready to reframe our experiences away from the narratives of suffering and loss, to find the kernels of wisdom and transformation that lay within. It doesn’t mean that we bypass the hard emotions, the intense injustices, or bewildering hopelessness. It means we sit with it, we witness it, we learn from it, we accept it, and choose to align ourselves so these experiences aren’t the source of harm to others.

We often forget how we are often our own worst enemies – often the narratives most difficult to let go of are those that highlight our guilt, shame, and failure. Enlightenment means that we no longer hang on to stories that remind us of our worst selves, but we find ways to humbly live our lives informed by the transparency of our own emotional truth. We recognize that hard emotions don’t have to stay rooted in our hearts, shutting out all the secure attachments that could grow there. Instead, we can reframe these experiences to add wisdom and compassion to our lives.

And that realization? That’s where we can finally activate the buried beacons that call in miracles. Our guilt and shame taught up that miracles are for “better people” than us. Trauma and adversity made us distrust our fellow humans or our own existence. If we can find it within ourselves to trust that relationship with the divine we are able to uncover the truth about our own souls, their language, and longings. The overthinking world makes us doubt the signs we see and we miss the miracles that have tried to show up. When we look through the educated and intuitive lens of enlightenment, we start to see that the miracles were these all along!

This deck, the Sacred Forest Oracle by Denise Linn is a beautiful gateway into the emotional beauty of our own hearts and souls. This deck is so reminiscent of what see when I examine my own calling, when I think of the ideal me and where she might reside. This enchanted forest of spirit helps us align our true selves to the rhythms of nature.

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Undercurrents & Final advice

Life is actually pretty fabulous when we allow it to be. But sometimes we shrink away from celebrating and honoring the successes that we’ve experienced to bring us here. One of the core tenants of motivational interviewing, a method I used to work with clients with multiple traumas in their history is to celebrate the small successes. Trauma weighs us down with all the reasons to say no, or to expect the worst. It steals our motivation to create a better life for ourselves, because “overcoming trauma” is no easy feat. And yet, when we look at the small successes that brought us to where we are, we find that we’re more powerful, blessed, and talented than we thought. Did we navigate an intense system to find the right therapist? That’s a success. Did we finally tell off our ex and set boundaries? Huge success! Did we actually show up? Fabulous! It might not seem like much to celebrate these successes, but they are the life force that invites even more success to bless us.

This is such a beautiful signal to end this week’s reading with: Miracles are on their way. All of our hard work has paid off and we’ve reached a magical space of manifested miracles. We are called to be patient, but vibrant with belief. Blessings that were promised to us are on the way but may look different than we expect. But just like we might not always find the expected pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, sometimes our blessings arrive in the people we encounter along the journey and the unlikely twists of fate that seemed impossible before. If we’re willing to surrender ourselves to the enlightenment process, we’ll find that we don’t need to control how the miracles show up, just to believe that we are ready to receive them.

Blessing

We prepare ourselves this solstice to embrace the miraculous gifts of the divine. We are grateful for the ways in which our own power can provide both safety and success. We believe that our wishes will come true if we activate our hearts to embrace the beauty within. By recognizing our inner strength and connecting to the bounty of the earth, may we know all things are possible.

I am with you always in love 💖

So may it be.

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