Happy Monday, August 12th everyone. Today the message is from Wasp and while it may appear to be a difficult message, I hope you will glean some insight into how Wasp can guide you forward to living your best life.
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Here’s to new opportunities and growth!
XO,
Barbara
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Cards used for this week’s general reading: The Wisdom of the Oracle and Spirit Animal Oracle by Colette Baron-Reid
I wanted to share my personal animal card for August with you. At the beginning of the year, I sat down and pulled a card for each month to be my guide.
I continue to be inspired by how the animal for that month has provided helpful insight, reflects what I need to pay attention to, and gently nudges me in the right direction.
Scarab Beetle Spirit – Magic Works through You
How often I can forget that the real magic is within me. All I have to do is believe in it (in me!) and pay attention to the inner whispers that call to me.
This leads to my feeling optimistic and hopeful for being in the world in a way that fits me the most authentically.
I’ve definitely been feeling excited about potential creative projects that have been lurking within me as I’ve been bringing them to surface and writing about them in my journal.
The magic begins by first acknowledging them to myself so that they can then begin to percolate and gain momentum.
Speaking of creative projects I’m happy to say I heard from my editor yesterday. I will have the edits for my third memoir, I’m Fine Just the Way I Am by end of the week.
But the best part of the email? She said she loves it!
I’m eagerly anticipating the magic she imbued into my book and looking forward to going through the manuscript again to shape it into another new phase of its being.
Xo,
Barbara
Card from Spirit Animal Oracle by Colette Baron-Reid
It’s intriguing that this sweet rabbit keeps showing up on my front stoop lately. I can walk right up to the full glass door and we look eye-to-eye at each other and she doesn’t run away.
I know it’s the season of bunnies as I’ve been seeing them everywhere! Just this morning on my walk I saw two bigger bunnies and three little ones. There isn’t a day that I don’t see at least one baby bunny – or perhaps they are more like teenagers, as they are a bit bigger than a baby would be. But whew, it seems those adult rabbits have been busy, busy, busy!
But animals, some of my greatest teachers, I can’t help but pause and wonder if there is something this particular bunny is reflecting for me.
In early January of this year, I sat down one morning and pulled a Spirit Animal Oracle card for each month of the year. I took a picture of all the cards together. It hangs on my bulletin board by the table where I do my (almost) daily card pulls.
At the beginning of each month, I print out a copy of that particular animal card for the month and place it on an adjacent table where I can see it every day.
I then study the card and journal what insight comes to me. Then I turn to the guidebook to see if there is anything that resonates from what the author wrote. If there is I journal from that prompt for deeper insight and guidance. After I’m done with that, I then turn to some books I have about animals and read more about that particular animal to see what I can glean that may link it to anything I’m going through in my life at the time.
At the end of each month, if I remember, and sometimes during the month, I stop to think about how that particular animal and their teaching may be playing out in my life at that time.
For the month of July, my animal card is Rabbit. It’s interesting that this being the time of year you see them more often that I also pulled Rabbit and not some other animal.
Now sometimes animals are just there presenting themselves for no other reason which I feel is important to acknowledge.
And I know the rabbit that shows up on my front porch loves the Impatient plant as I’ve caught her chewing it a few times.
But yet, when I saw her again this morning it had me going back to a message from the author of the Spirit Animal Oracle that talks about vulnerability and to act as if everything will be okay, and that soon you will see that you are indeed okay. This is indeed a space I’m in right now with something I’m pondering.
I also thought about that rabbit. She too was vulnerable sitting there on my stoop looking at me and no doubt her heart beating fast. Was I friend or foe?
I did kindly ask her to please stop eating my Impatient, but yet she returns and we find ourselves looking at each other through the glass. I assure her she is safe and okay with me and she reflecting that I am okay and safe with who I am.
XO,
Barbara
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