Coming into Power

This is your card reading for Friday, September 11th/15.  Your card bolted out of the 'Gateway' oracle card deck, authored by Denise Linn.  Your card is 'Coming into Power', and Denise's message for the card is this:
"I step into my power boldly and confidently...
CARD MEANING:  You have been gathering your inner forces and are coming into your own strength.  Assume your power.  Accept the vibrant truth that all you need is already within you.  It is safe to own your deepest inner gifts. 
THE UNIVERSE WANTS YOU TO KNOW:  If you have given away your authority to someone or something else, now is your chance to reclaim it.  Pulling this card indicates that it is time to stand in your own light. If you are holding on to any beliefs that you won't be liked or will be rejected if you step into your potential, let them go!  The more you shine in your own radiance, the more others can see the glow of their own capability.  Your strength can heal others and bring light into the hearts of many."

My message for you today is this:
There are many Lightworkers who have kept themselves 'small' in the past, in order not to make others 'uncomfortable'...  We have been afraid to share our brilliance, in the fear that there will be those who will dim our Light, and that we will be hurt in the process.  Well, that has been part of the great shift that we have been in...coming to the understanding that we are MEANT to share our Light, and that doing so only inspires others to share theirs!   
Of course, you will encounter along the way, those who---in their own insecurity---may attempt to hold you back or drag you down.  The difference is now, that you will not allow that!  You have energetically evolved to a place where you can no longer tolerate such behavior and you will find that the relationships and situations that do not serve you in expressing your best self into the world are falling away.  What is challenging is when such people and situations present within your own 'community', where you believed that you were among those who held to the same values and beliefs that you do.  I have had this very circumstance present in my own life in the recent past, and it is sadly disappointing. Yet I recognize that where I once would have taken on the 'peacemaker' and 'people pleaser' role, I now choose to shift my focus, time and energy away from that which does not resonate with me; to stand in my own power; to honor MYSELF; and to shine my Light despite those who would seek to dim it!  It has been a long and arduous process to get to that place, of course, but it is the energies that we are in and the growth that we contracted to by choosing to be here on the Earth plane at this time.  We are moving away from the competitive paradigm to the cooperative paradigm, and while it is true that you will undoubtedly encounter those along the way who remain stuck in the competitive (despite declaring that they absolutely are not), choose to align with those who truly support one another and celebrate the Light that they witness in one another...who are not only supporting of you until they feel threatened by your brilliance.  You will intrinsically recognize those who are authentic in this, and will be repelled by those who are not---trust yourself in that.
As we move into the energies of the powerful New Moon in alliance with the partial Solar Eclipse this weekend, we are being supported in this time of new beginnings and in embracing our own SELF WORTH.
OWN who you are...  HONOUR yourself...  SHINE your Light... And in so doing, you inspire the same in others.
Blessed be...