Deep Freeze

This is your card reading for Thursday, May 21st/15.  Your card is from 'The Enchanted Map' deck, authored by Colette Baron-Reid---I purchased this deck at her event, 'Messages From Spirit', that I attended on May 19th, in Calgary.  Your card, that literally bolted out of the deck, is 'Deep Freeze'.  I had Colette draw and sign a card for me at the book signing/photo session following the event (an awesome idea that my sister-in-law, Rita, came up with when we attended one of Colette's events together in Phoenix, AZ a few years ago)---this serves as a sort of 'mini-reading'.  If you look carefully at the card in the photo, you will see Colette's 'signature' in the upper right corner---yes---this is the card that she drew for me and that she gave me a brief message about!  I had gone through the very same procedure this morning to prep the deck for your reading that I always do, and I shuffled the deck thoroughly, so I find it beautifully synchronistic that this card presented for you today, as well!  I therefore trust that this message will resonate with those who come across it!  Colette's message for this card is:
"Everything has its season. Now is the time to put activity on hold while you rest...
The cold winter beckons you to slow down and put a 'freeze' on things that are not yet ready to bloom.  It's time for regeneration and hibernation.  Forgo ambitious activity.  A 'pregnant pause' allows ideas to gestate; projects to shift and change; and relationships to go through a dreamy state of being, not going anywhere---not needing to.
This is also a time to put all your arguments on ice.  Nothing beneficial will come away from any of them.  Self-care is the most important activity now...so reflect, read a good book, or get a massage.  Rest and dream."

My message for you today is this:
When Colette pulled this card for me, my friends and I couldn't help but laugh out loud at the accuracy of it!  I had, on our drive into Calgary, appreciated the loving support of my dear friends as I literally RANTED about the constant state of 'overwhelm' that I had been feeling over recent weeks as I juggled to keep multiple plates spinning in the air regarding circumstances in our family.  Add to that, that I have been feeling a very STRONG URGING to get on with some creative projects that are very close to my heart regarding my spiritual work, and well---that's why Colette intuited that I may be in need of some rest!  Yet, having the chance to rant (release the tension I was feeling) to my friends, and feeling their loving understanding and support without the need to 'fix' anything (because they can't---the circumstances just are what they are right now), shifted something in me, to the point that I felt the feeling of 'overwhelm' drop away.  I went from feeling overwhelmed and exhausted to shifting my perspective to just taking one step at a time, rather than running the whole race in my head before I even left the starting blocks!  I realized, as I told my story,  that I had been needlessly exhausting myself by placing pressure on myself to achieve everything at once, and that some of my 'projects' were actually in gestation.  I will have the time and opportunity to address the spiritual projects I am so excited about in the near future---the Universe knows all about Divine timing and so I need to relax and allow the 'ideas to gestate', as Colette says in her message.  Those projects are merely in a state of  'pregnant pause' right now, and that is okay...
I share this with you, to illustrate that 'rest' can mean a whole lot of things in our lives. Sometimes it simply means to shift our perspective or means of approaching the circumstances that life is presenting to us at the time.  Sometimes it means releasing the tension of the feeling of overwhelm in whatever way works for you (and taking the time to do so, even when your mind will tell you that you don't have the time---you really do!):  
taking a sea salt bath; laying for 10 minutes in the rejuvenating 'legs up the wall' yoga pose; 
going for a walk in a natural setting; having a Reiki treatment and/or massage; speaking with a loving, supportive friend... You get the idea...give yourself the gift within the chaos, of stepping out of the chaos momentarily, in order to rest and refuel---and allow yourself to be fully in the moment when you do so!  Rest in the knowing that you have 'time enough'...because in reality, you do!  It is only our overactive minds that would have us believe differently.  Hibernate...even if it must be a brief hibernation.  You will be all the more productive and positive when you gift yourself with this.  
Blessed be...