Balance

This is your daily card reading for Thursday, July 17th/14.  Your card today was drawn from the 'Divine Guidance' fractal art card deck, authored by Cheryl Lee Harnish.  Your card is the 'Balance' card, and Cheryl Lee's message for the card is this:
"Life is all about balance and this card is here to help you create more balance in all aspects of your life:  work and play, relationship time and alone time, social time and meditation time, physical activity and rest, giving and receiving, feminine energy and masculine energy. Balancing out each aspect of your life will enable you to give your energy to the world in a much more grounded and centered way."

My message for you today is this:
It has already been brought to your attention this week that the optimum is when masculine and feminine energy is in BALANCE.  Much of what many of us have been experiencing during the SHIFT that we are in, is the discomfort and sometimes chaos, that can occur when the status quo is morphing.  We HAD been, societally, firmly entrenched in masculine, competitive energy; and in seeking a more balanced way of being societally the pendulum is swinging toward a feminine, cooperative way of being.  As we move away from the 'I have to get what I need for me and mine, before it is all gone'; to the 'there is abundance enough for ALL and your having abundance does not take away from the abundance available to me and mine'; way of being, some of us struggle with promoting ourselves or with receiving abundance for what we consider to be 'an act of service'. Feminine, nurturing energy alone, without allowing ourselves to receive (masculine) is also unhealthy and out of balance. 
It is important to note that, neither masculine nor feminine energy in and of themselves are 'good' or 'bad'---both are necessary aspects of our experience here in the physical.  It is when one energy firmly overrides the other, resulting in a strong imbalance, that suffering of some sort occurs.  
Those who understand cosmic energy have been telling us that we are in strong energy of late, that COMPELS us to move forward on our Soul path. You are being reminded today that to do so effectively means to approach doing so in a BALANCED way.  Of course ACTION is necessary, but so is INACTION and time for reflection and contemplation, in order to be clear about the best possible action to take.  Make time to rejuvenate yourself through play and social activities.  Allow yourself to receive assistance in moving forward, just as you are giving of yourself in walking your Soul path.  Understand that family time can feel your Soul and give you the solid foundation you require in order to be 'out there' in the world serving in the way that you are meant to. It is BALANCE that we seek---it is when we are truly in balance that we experience PEACE, and that our lives flow with ease and grace.
Blessed be...