Love

This is your card reading for Thursday, November 19th/15.  Your card today skipped out of 'The Spirit Messages' oracle card deck, authored by John Holland, whom I had the good fortune of taking in a pre-conference workshop with at Celebrate Your Life in Phoenix in early November.  Your card today is 'Love', and John's message for the card is this:
"Love is the foundation of your existence, and you're just as worthy of RECEIVING as you are of GIVING love and compassion.  While love can be a beautiful emotion, it is equally a form of energy that propels you through life.  
We're reaching out to you at this important time in the hope that you'll discover new and meaningful ways of nurturing and loving yourself.  Love is energy, and that beautiful force is also part of you.  To experience and feel the power of love in one's lifetime can be one of the most beautiful, significant, and life-changing events that your soul can acknowledge and receive.  Yet, love is so much more than being able to say that you've loved another person.
Love is not meant to be a fixed destination; it's about the journey.  It's the process of becoming the person you were meant to be---a person living and loving from the heart and soul.  You ARE love, and you ARE worthy of love!  Now is the perfect time to weed out the people and situations that are not empowering you, and surround yourself with those who can gently encourage you to be all that you can be!
Start your journey by letting the energy of LOVE enter your heart and your life.  By doing so, it will allow you to receive and give love, and to radiate as the pure soul that you truly are."

My message for you today is this:
I so appreciate how John reframes the way in which we look at the word LOVE in his message for this card!  He speaks not only to 'feeling' love but advises that love itself is an energy!  The spiritual mentors and leaders of today are taking us to the next level of understanding regarding LOVE and all of the other emotions that we experience here in our physical being.  Panache Desai describes emotions as 'energy in motion'.  Emotions, such as love, fear, anger, joy, etc. are all vibrational energy. Panache also advises us that there are no 'good' or 'bad' emotions---these emotions are simply energy---it is how we choose to ACT on these emotions that matters.  To simply deny so-called 'bad emotions' such as jealousy or resentment, causes them to become what Panache terms as 'densities' in our being.  He advises that we allow ourselves to acknowledge and experience these emotions as they arise and to then just allow them to flow through us, rather than to attempt to deny or squash them down.  This does not mean that you need to take immediate physical action based on that emotion!  Merely acknowledge within yourself that that particular person or situation annoyed or upset you, and then take CONSCIOUS action, rather than merely be REACTIONARY.  Panache also says that emotions are guideposts to help us navigate our way through our lives.  We are not meant to reside in the energy of love continuously throughout our entire physical experience---we are here to experience the myriad of emotions that are available to us and to learn and grow through this.  Yet, LOVE is always sought as the vibration we seek and reach for, and that is a good thing, for it is truly the core of our being!  At the Soul level, we are LOVE.   
The vibration of LOVE is the highest vibration.  SOURCE or the DIVINE or CREATOR or GOD---or any way in which you choose to 'label' it, is UNCONDITIONAL LOVE energy.  
In this physical experience, we are blessed to experience unconditional LOVE energy through our relationship with the Divine; but also in many interpersonal relationships such as with our parents, our children, dear friends, and even our pets.  I was in the deepest appreciation for this perspective that Neale Donald Walsch shared with us in his presentation that I attended at the Celebrate Your Life conference:  
"You can withdraw your approval without withdrawing your love. Unconditional love does not mean approving unconditionally someone's behavior."
This stated so eloquently what I have experienced in this lifetime within a few of my close relationships.  I have been pushed in this lifetime to love some people from afar, who were once integral to my life, and that is okay. I have come to the place where I am grateful for the learnings and for the love.  Yet, Neale also advised that we can DECIDE to be the fullest expresssion of unconditional love, and this includes love for ourselves...advocating what John Holland also shares in his message above. 
See LOVE from this expanded perspective that has been presented for you today.  We are maturing spiritually at such an accelerated rate at this time of great shift,  that our perspectives and understandings ARE constantly developing and unfurling---opening us to greater levels of awareness.  As the Beatles sang, "All you need is love,"---yet we are coming to deeper and more complex understanding of what 'love' means...
Blessed be...