Seven of Fire

This is your card reading for Monday, March 30th/15.  Your card today dropped out of the 'Angel Tarot Cards' deck, authored by Doreen Virtue and Radleigh Valentine.  Your card is the minor arcana card, 'Seven of Fire', and Doreen and Radleigh's message for the card is this:
"Defend your beliefs and decisions. Stand your ground!  Choose your battles wisely...
Stand your ground and don't back down.  You might need to defend your beliefs or decisions, and you will be successful.  It's important to assert yourself and go for what you want.  There's strength in adversity, and you've got what it takes.  Stand up for your convictions!
Stay alert and vigilant. Don't drop your guard just because you're in the right.  Others may envy what you possess.
ADDITIONAL MEANINGS OF THIS CARD:  Choosing your battles wisely.  Learning to say no.  Self-confidence. Courage. Challenging those in power.  Perseverance."

My message for you today is this:
I am getting that, as we move forward, we are being encouraged to LOVINGLY ASSERT ourselves from a place of SELF-EMPOWERMENT.  So many of us had long held to the pattern of withholding our true nature and in playing the role that we felt that others needed us to play.  The current energy is lovingly pushing us toward expressing our authentic selves, and this begins with being true to ourselves!   Your past behavior may have been to undermine your true feelings and beliefs in order to make those around you more comfortable; and also to ensure that you were not attacked or threatened by the opinions and beliefs of others.  I know that that was a deeply engrained pattern for me---I saw it as a means to protect myself and my husband and children from judgment and ridicule.  Funny thing is that neither my husband or my children ever expected me to hide my 'psychic self' away...doing so was rooted in my own fears...not theirs!  Do not wait until you have reached the 'boiling point' to stand your ground about what is important to you---then, you will come from a defensive position that is combative, rather than self-empowered and assured.  You are being urged to stand firmly in your own power and to completely own who you are, from a place of self-love and also love of others.  REMEMBER:  True self-empowerment NEVER disempowers another.  To stand firmly in your power means to HONOUR yourself.  Self-confidence is all about understanding who you are and fully expressing that from a loving place.  Take affirmative action, and lovingly stand up for yourself.  You've no doubt heard the old idiom: 'You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar'.  It is far more effective to take your stand from the energy of self-love than from a point of attack.  THAT is what the Universe is encouraging you to move toward in this shift from the masculine paradigm that we have been living as a collective; toward the feminine paradigm that encourages cooperation rather than competition.  
Blessed be...