Messenger of Emotion

I trust that you enjoyed your September long weekend, despite the rain and even SNOW that some experienced here in south/central Alberta!  This is your card reading for Tuesday, September 8th/15.  Your card zoomed out of the 'Guardian Angels Tarot' deck, authored by Doreen Virtue and Radleigh Valentine.  Your card is 'Messenger of Emotion', and Doreen and Radleigh's message for the card is this:
"SITUATIONS:  This is the beginning of an emotional experience that could grow into something deeper.  You may receive a letter, a call, or a text or e-mail conveying feelings that you hadn't realized were developing.  A friend or colleague may provide you with information that generates an emotional response from you.  It's safe to let your feelings show!  Sparks of intuition give you insight into a situation.
PEOPLE:  A very gentle and loving person who has only the kindest of intentions. Someone who wants to open his or her heart to others, but feels shy or uncertain about doing so.  An avid daydreamer.  An intuitive youth.  Romantic but inexperienced.  Artistic and sensitive.
ADDITIONAL MEANINGS OF THIS CARD:  Invitations to events.  Giving or receiving an apology.  Revelatory sleeping dreams."

My message for you today is this:
Emotions will be running high this week as we head into the New Moon with a partial Solar Eclipse, and are also experiencing the shadow of Mercury Retrograde.  How you deal with your own emotions, as well as the emotions of those around you, is truly a choice.  You can choose to employ your amped up intuitive abilities and OBSERVE (notice I am not asking you to DENY) strong emotions that arise; then take guided action from that deep-seated place of knowing.  Or, you can simply choose to be reactive.  The point in bringing these choices to your attention is that we have been seriously purging and clearing away old ways of being and patterns of behavior that are no longer in alignment with who we are NOW. Perhaps those patterns served you at a certain point in your life, but that is no longer the case, and so we have been PUSHED and PRODDED by situations and people to recognize and acknowledge those patterns; and then to realize how they are not supportive in our lives any longer.  You DO NOT have to react to another's angst, for example, nor do you need to make it your own.  Those of us who are highly sensitive used to feel that to be supportive meant to 'share in another's burden', so to speak.  We are learning that to have empathy for another does not imply that you need TAKE ON their pain, but rather, bear loving witness to it; acknowledge it; and support them in discovering their own strength within it.  
You may very well experience strong LOVE in situations that you encounter today, also. Part of our journey over these last months, and particularly in August, was in developing our sense of SELF LOVE, and self worth.  When we embody SELF LOVE, we invite and attract TRUE love into our life experience, as well.  Love may very well be expressed to you today and your heart may swell with profound love for another. Receive and give love with an open heart and allow yourself to be vulnerable in both giving and receiving. The colloquialism, 'It is easier to give than to receive', didn't come about by accident.  If someone pays you a compliment; or surprises you with a gift of their time; or even the gift of apology---receive with an open heart! 
Employ the strong energies and the strong emotions that may very well arise today from a conscious perspective.  Choose to react from a conscious place, rather than to be reactive.
Understand that you are progressing your Soul in a beautiful way through all that you have experienced in the intensity that has been 2015.  Do not fear strong emotion, as we have been taught to do in the past---utilize the energy that it provides in propelling you forward on your Soul path.  Panache Desai states that emotion is simply 'energy in motion'.  Allow the emotions and the energies of the day to assist you and to further direct you. 
Blessed be...