Beautiful Uncaging
Today, Spirit recognizes the amount of work that we have been doing to uncage ourselves, specifically our hearts, and encourages us to continue this vital process.
As we awaken, we begin to look with a more honest perspective at our thought and behavior patterns. We are then repeatedly encouraged to release and let go of that which no longer serves us. However, sometimes it is challenging to see the ways in which we have erected bars around our own hearts and our own lives.
We cannot see what we cannot see until we see it - and then we cannot unsee it.
This work takes patience, compassion, and commitment. It is not easy. Spirit comes forth today to let us know that they see the work we are doing and they know it is often challenging. They are here to support us in each step of our journeys. We will be given opportunity after opportunity to recognize our thought and behavior patterns and shift them to come into alignment with our authentic selves. This will continue to transform our entire lives and the way we show up in the world.
We are again reminded that it is not our job to figure out the how’s of life. Our job is to figure out the wow’s and focus on those, leaving the how’s up to Spirit. This is one of the most natural places to get stuck as the first question our brain asks is: How are we going to do that? How is that going to happen? How do I make that happen? Such questions obviate our partnership with Spirit.
In addition, we often create prisons for ourselves with our fears, judgments, and self-criticisms. This can be further exacerbated when we engage in distractions, addictions, and overworking. We also undermine ourselves with inconsistency and lack of commitment. All of these are part of the intellectual (and physical) prison that our ego finds more comfortable than the unknown.
We can also create prisons for our hearts out of shame and guilt. These emotions undercut our sovereignty and lead us to act out of obligation and remorse. They do not serve us and are learned emotional responses, beliefs, and behaviors we picked up from those around us.
As part of our path, we are asked to continually do a self-inventory with rigorous honesty and neutrality. This process assists us in uncovering when we are out of our authenticity and out of alignment. At first, it can be a difficult and even tedious process; however, as we learn that each thing we discover sets us free and is a natural part of being a human being, we begin to become the objective scientist in our own life who finds each new discovery FASCINATING.
When we take an honest look at our behavior, hold ourselves properly accountable, and make amends where appropriate, we shift our focus from our ego to our hearts. This allows us to free ourselves from ours and other’s narratives and to engage with life from a place of choice. It enables us to release self-sabotaging behaviors, break free from co-dependency, and embrace a right-sized sense of personal power.
All of this allows us to love ourselves more and to love others more from an authentic place. It also opens us up to greater and greater alignment with our higher selves and Spirit. This allows us to step into a beautiful dynamic where we are the source of safety, trust, and balance in our lives that allows us to soar to all new levels and experiences by allowing our hearts to open.
Take the time to meditate with this card today and ask yourself how this is showing up in your life. Is it time to do an inventory? Are you willing to look at situations from different perspectives? Are you willing to set aside your narrative and look at the situation as an objective scientist? What is revealed to you in this process?
You are loved, you are worthy, you are deserving, and you are not alone. This process will neither break you, nor turn you into an automoton; it will set you FREE.
You hold the key to unlock your heart.
And, so it is Beloveds; and, so it is❣️
