Self-Talk

This is your card reading for Monday, November 23rd/15.  Your card flipped over in the deck to reveal itself, as I shuffled the 'Divine Guidance' fractal art deck, authored by Cheryl Lee Harnish.  Your card is 'Self-Talk', and Cheryl Lee's message for the card is this:
"This is a high energy card and it is directly related to how you are treating yourself!  Note how the teeth inside the mouth point inward in the image.  Your guides are telling you that it's time to work on being kinder to yourself.  It is important that you become aware of your self-judgments and inner dialog.  It's time to start consciously talking to yourself as if you were your best friend---using kindness and compassion.  You do this for others, now it is time to do it for yourself."

My message for you today is this:
If you follow my readings, you have ascertained by now that I do not believe in 'coincidence'---but in 'synchronicity'!  I strongly believe that synchronistic events and experiences are one means by which the Divine guides and communicates with us here on this physical plane.  As always, when I am doing a card reading for you, after setting my intention, I intuitively choose a card deck from my multitude of decks (I am finding that I no longer 'resonate' with some of the decks that I previously did, and I am seldom drawn to them---is anyone else finding that, also?). I fan the deck over my heart chakra and ask for the message of the day to be revealed for the greater good.  Then, as I shuffle, a card (sometimes two) reveals itself.  I take a picture of the card in whatever way I feel guided to--I sometimes stage the card in a few different ways and then choose the photo that 'feels right' to post with the reading.  
Why am I sharing all of this with you?  Today, when I staged the 'Self-Talk' card, I took the photo of the card with a Cinnabar Quartz crystal sphere that is on the desk of my office.  I am blessed to have a large variety of crystals in my home, and while I love them all, and value the energy they infuse my home with, I don't 'know' definitively what the energetic properties of each crystal are, necessarily.  After typing up Cheryl Lee's message for this card above, and having taken the photo of it with the Cinnabar Quartz, I was guided to look up the metaphysical properties of this beautiful crystal---and then I understood exactly 'why' I had been guided to take the photo of the 'Self-Talk' card with it! When we trust and just 'go with it', the Divine will communicate with us in just this way... 
Here's what I found on 'The Magic of Crystals.com' regarding Cinnabar Quartz:
"...Cinnabar Quartz works with the emotional energy body and will help you to let go of deeply held resentments, disappointments, and/or fear.  It can support you in reviewing the choices of your life without judgment or avoidance.  You recognize that everything is continually shifting energy and that it can be manipulated and changed.
Since Cinnabar stimulates the Root and Reproductive Energy Centers and aligns them with the Third Eye it supports stronger intuitive insight and the ability to imagine potential futures while grounding a person with a sense of reality..."
Synchronistically, this crystal perfectly supports the message of the fractal art 'Self-Talk' card for you today.  Employ the energy within this fractal art card, in unison with the energy of the Cinnabar Quartz crystal; to support you in striving to CONSCIOUSLY 'speak' to yourself in kindness and compassion today!  Understand that the words you use internally and externally about yourself hold power.  Let go of residual self-judgment and self-criticism. Understand that your time here is a journey, and bless the lessons you have learned and will continue to learn along the way.  Express LOVE toward yourself today and then bear witness to how that 'colors' the way that you perceive your potential and possibility for moving into the future in a Soulful way.  Louise Hay has long promoted the 'mirror work' that she has found to be transformational in her life, in which you simply look into the mirror, into your own eyes (which are the window to the Soul), and say aloud, "I love you...I REALLY love you..."  Quite honestly, it may feel uncomfortable to begin with---we are not used to expressing self-love in this way and have been taught culturally that to do so is 'wrong' and 'egoic'.  Yet, in order to be a true expression of LOVE to others, you must first hold love for yourself.  So, I encourage you today to take a few moments to employ this beautiful exercise in self-talk that Louise Hay shares with us.  In fact, I encourage you to do so from this day forward.  It only takes but a moment of your day, and can impact your day in amazing ways.  
Blessed be...