Strength

This is your card reading for Wednesday, September 9th/15.  Your card dropped out of the 'Life Purpose' card deck, authored by Doreen Virtue.  Your card is 'Strength', and Doreen's message for the card is this:
"Everything you've experienced in your life has made you strong and courageous...
You're stronger than you realize, according to this card.  Your career dreams require inner resolve and courage, and you've built those qualities from your life lessons.  Everything you've ever experienced has brought you to this moment, and you're more prepared than ever to start a new project and persevere to complete it.  
It's human nature to shy away from projects that are perceived to be difficult or that bring up fears of failure.  Nonetheless, these projects are calling your name.  Whether you're guided to write that book, change careers, return to school, start your own business, or present your artwork to the public, you have the strength to do so!
Which path do you think will lead to greater joy:  taking steps in the direction of your dream (even if you're unsure whether the dream is viable or whether you're taking the right steps to achieve it)...or endlessly procrastinating?  Which path will ultimately be more painful to experience:  risking defeat or humiliation by taking action...or playing it safe?"

My message for you today is this:
We are in the energy of taking action based upon what is important to us. I am in such gratitude for the way in which the UNIVERSE conspires in our favour when we strive to live our lives consciously...even in those times when it may appear otherwise from our limited perspective here in the physical.  Challenges that we have been faced with thus far in this intense year, have been bringing us personal clarity and have been pushing us toward self-determination, self-worth, self-empowerment, and SELF LOVE (as has been presented to you in previous readings this week)!  We are being brought to a place where we simply have no choice but to pursue what is Soul-driven for us.  We are finding it more and more difficult
to 'meld in' to circumstances and relationships that are no longer in resonance with who we are NOW.  Soul is urging us to allow it to take the lead as we navigate our way through this particular incarnation.  This DOES NOT mean that we will not continue to experience all that being human implies...we contracted to be here in physical form and so we will continue to be exposed to circumstances, situations and interactions that are part and parcel of that. What IS shifting and evolving, is that many are choosing to live their lives more CONSCIOUSLY, and so we are no longer engaged solely in 'survival mode', but rather seek to honour our soulful selves and to express that out into the world.  
As Panache Desai has often stated, "You are not broken...you don't need to be fixed...in the eyes of the Divine you are perfect, and always have been".   
The challenges that you have met in this lifetime have shown you that you ARE strong and courageous...and even if those challenges brought you to your knees, you are now standing.  Remember that...witness and acknowledge the strength and fortitude that have carried you through some trying times in your life.  See how those times have validated your belief in yourself and your potential.  Those experiences served you and were not 'mistakes', just as YOU are no mistake! 
I had to script and speak publicly in our community, my own parents' Memorial Services when they passed; because neither wished to have a traditional funeral.  Since then, anytime I have had to speak publicly, I say to myself, "If I could do THAT, then I can do THIS!"  Just as the clematis vine in the photo with your card today is determined to bloom---despite the cold weather we had recently, and the lateness of the season---so too can you choose to 'bloom' regardless of it seeming as though the circumstances may not be optimal for doing so.  As you strive to move forward in some facet of your life, look back to times when you surprised even yourself with your 'backbone' and your ability to survive what you believed previously that you could not. Use this knowledge to shore yourself up and to live your life ON PURPOSE...THAT is what we are all being encouraged to do. Be courageous...be authentic...shine your Light, as only you can!   
Blessed be...