Wholeness & Inner Peace

This is your card reading for Tuesday, March 8th/16---the day of the Super New Moon and Total Solar Eclipse!  No wonder that TWO cards revealed themselves for you on this super-charged day!  Your cards flipped together out of 'The Crystal Ally' card deck, authored by Naisha Ahsian.  Your cards are 'Wholeness ~ Turquoise' and 'Inner Peace ~ Black Tourmaline'.  Naisha's message for the cards is this:
Wholeness ~ Turquoise:
"When Turquoise appears as your Ally, it calls you to seek the unity within.  What is the aspect of the situation that is most difficult for you?  This may be the very aspect that you need to recognize in yourself before you can understand how to release it from your experience.  Every situation and experience that arises in your life is meant to bring you closer to a sense of wholeness and unity with the Universe.  Each experience leads you to a new understanding of yourself and the talents, strengths and weaknesses that you have been given to complete your lifetime here.
Looking within your heart, you will see that everything you are at odds with in your environment is merely a reflection of an inner part of yourself that you have not acknowledged and integrated.  Turquoise is asking you to find that aspect of yourself with which you are having difficulty, and to accept and integrate it into your total self.
CHAKRA:  Throat through Soul Star
AFFIRMATION:  I accept and integrate all aspects of myself."
Inner Peace ~ Tourmaline
"When Tourmaline appears to you, you are being told that the answers you are seeking will appear when you stop living for the past or the future, and begin resonating with the vibration of Inner Peace.  It is in the moment that we create and live through joy.  By living in the current moment you are able to release the emotional patterns you created in the past, and create each moment as you wish it to be.
You will not find your answers in the future, and you will not find them in the play of the past. You will only truly discover yourself when you disconnect from the roles you may have created for yourself and those around you.  This can occur when you accept peace with yourself and the world.  Seize the moment and become like Tourmaline; emanating peace, joy, and healing.
CHAKRA:  Heart
AFFIRMATION:  I live and create in the moment."

My message for you today is this:
It has been said, that when someone triggers a strong response in you, it is because they are mirroring an aspect of yourself that you need to look at. I used to be very resistant to the concept that those who behaved poorly toward me in my life, and caused me pain, were there to mirror something within me.  I am far from perfect, but I am in no way a mean-spirited person, who would even consider acting out against another as has been done to me at certain times in my life.  I understand completely that we incarnated to experience the duality---the dark and Light and all the nuances therein---that this Earthly experience has to offer us.  Therefore, we are ALL made up of dark and Light. Yet, because I have experienced betrayal, for example, does not mean that that is a mirror of my propensity to betray another.  I am actually an extremely loyal person (sometimes to a fault), because I have experienced the deep pain of betrayal.  Yet, over the course of my life, and because of the times that I felt betrayed; I now understand that those experiences PUSHED me to a place of taking a stand for myself and to honour myself.  AHA!  Those people who inflicted the pain of betrayal upon me, WERE there to mirror something within myself that I was meant to take a look at, so that I could bring myself to wholeness.  Some of those people are no longer in my life.  Some have remained, and I have had to have the courage to voice my deepest feelings---so that what we now share is a deeper, more authentic relationship that enhances my life.  'Wholeness' means to recognize ALL aspects of yourself without self-judgment.  Spirit is always striving to bring you toward the best version of yourself---sometimes through experiences that challenge you to release those aspects that no longer serve you, in order to make room for those that now will.  During this Total Solar Eclipse today, the dark (the Moon) will encompass the light (the Sun). How perfect that this message presented for you on this day!  Embrace the energy of Turquoise to support and nurture you in the knowing that ALL that you experience has the potential to help you discover the totality of who you came here to be. 
The other message that has been presented for you on this gateway to the eclipse season is also so appropriate...Inner Peace.  While we are in the energy of seeking alignment, the only TRUE experience of complete alignment is in the MOMENT...in the NOW.  I know...you have heard that SO many times in recent years...be in the NOW.  Yet, there is a reason that this message has been repeated so frequently---because it is a very real way to achieve Inner Peace. You CAN experience peace, even in the face of turmoil.  The choice is yours.  Utilize the breath.  Choose to bear witness to the present moment.  Call upon Tourmaline to assist you with being in the moment.  
Elizabeth Peru of ElizabethPeru.com, in her Tip-Off Global Energy Forecast, offers us this exercise to align heart and head on this day of the Eclipse:
"Rub your palms together vigorously, until they heat up and tingle.
Release your hands and place your left hand about 4 inches from your forehead and your right hand about 4 inches away from your heart.  
Hold and when you are ready, bring your hands together in prayer positiion.
Feel the life force energy flow and warm you.
This is an instant head and heart balancing."
Such a wonderful, dynamic day energetically, that the Universe has on offer for us!
Blessed be...