Yemanya ~ Golden Opportunity

AMAZING!!! Your card today dropped out of the 'Goddess Guidance' deck, authored by Doreen Virtue.  Your card is the 'Yemanya ~ Golden Opportunity' card.
I must share my personal 'story' about my experience with Yemanya recently.  If you follow my daily card reading and also my 'Blog & Events' page on this site, then you are aware that my husband and I were in Brazil this past February to visit our son and Brazilian daughter-in-law and our daughter and her Brazilian boyfriend.  Our son and daughter-in-law now reside in the coastal city of Vila Velha, and their home is a brief 5 minute walk from the beautiful ocean.  Our first visit to the beach, I was told about the Goddess of the Ocean, 'Yemanya' (pronounced Yeh-MAHN-jah).  In Brazil, they believe that this Goddess has the ability to wash away any negative energy you may be carrying and they pray to her for blessings and wishes fulfilled.  On New Years Eve, it is Brazilian tradition to jump 7 waves to indicate your desire to work with Yemanya; to give offerings of white flowers thrown into the waters; and to send a tiny boat out into the ocean to carry your wishes to Yemanya.  If the waves swallow your little boat, your wish has been granted; if it is washed up on shore, Yemanya has denied your request.  The people of Brazil don't only pray to Yemanya on New Years Eve, however...we witnessed many people at the beach standing in prayer either prior to entering the ocean, or once back on the beach, and we understood that they were in prayer to Yemanya.
So...I walked into the ocean as I  prayed to Yemanya to please wash away any energy I may be carrying that was not mine.  My family respected my desire to be alone in doing this so that I could be fully present...they remained on the beach, playing racquet ball or just relaxing and taking in the sunshine.  The color of the water was an incredible blue and I just stood in the ocean water, in prayer and gratitude for being there!  I had on my sunhat and my sunglasses because I had no intention of going underwater...but Yemanya held a different intention, it would seem!  This prairie girl is not accustomed to how powerful the waves of the ocean can be and before I knew it, I was not only underwater, but I was barraged by wave upon wave as I tried to get back to shore!  Although I really wasn't in peril, I WAS desperate to get back on land and out of the waves that kept knocking me down, pulling me back, and dispersing sand in places I would rather not mention!  I was sure that my loving family would rescue me, but it turns out that they were too busy laughing as they watched me crawling and clawing my way back to shore!  Whew!!!  When I finally made it back onto the beach, the comments were that Yemanya obviously felt that I needed a pretty thorough clearing!  Even though I may have felt that I was cleared, she kept pulling me back into the ocean to clear me some more and that they hadn't assisted me because they didn't want to interfere with my being 'cleared'! (Uhhuh...)  Not only that, but Yemanya took my brand new aviator sunglasses as an offering, because both my sunhat and sunglasses were washed off my head when I was hit by the first wave!  The sunhat eventually washed ashore, but not the sunglasses...they are now Yemanya's!  Yemanya is a powerful Goddess indeed...it took me a couple of days to rid myself of all that sand!!!!

Doreen's message for the 'Yemanya ~ Golden Opportunities' card is this:
"Important doors are opening for you right now.  Walk through them."
Doreen's message from Yemanya is this:
"Like the ocean, life moves in waves and tides.  Timing is everything so when an opportunity presents itself, you must dive in at that moment.  Everything that you've done to prepare yourself will accompany you.  Yet, if you hesitate or procrastinate, another opportunity will surely come along just as the tides wash in and out continuously.  Like the ocean, life is rich with variety and beauty.  Enjoy experiencing its various rhythms, and allow all doubts to be washed away."

My message for you today is this:
Ocean energy is cyclic and is closely associated with the cycles of the moon...it is no 'accident' or coincidence that this card presented for you on the day following the Full Moon last night.  I have often referenced the strong 'releasement' energy of Full Moons.  Full Moon energy is powerful energy in which to release that which no longer serves you so that you can move forward in the best possible way...to fully embrace the 'golden opportunities' that await you!  This past weekend was about releasement.  Allow Yemanya to further cleanse you of any negative energy or beliefs that you may still be carrying. She will facilitate clearing your energy and then your transitioning into allowing yourself to receive.  We begin this week with Yemanya stepping forward to grant your wishes and to support you in manifesting your desires.  Align yourself with Yamanya's powerful manifestation energy and trust in the timing of opportunities that unveil themselves to you.  Call upon Yemanya to help you to 'ride the waves' of opportunities and to move with the rhythm of the waves that seek to carry you toward your desired outcomes with ease and grace and JOY!
Blessed be...
Below is a photo I took of the Full Moon last evening...