Eternal Love

This is your card reading for Wednesday, May 11th/16 (my brother, who passed in 1997, would have been 53 years old today <3).  Your card sprung out of a beautiful new deck I purchased last weekend---'Gaia Oracle ~ Guidance, Affirmations, Transformation', authored by Toni Carmine Salerno.  Your card is 'Eternal Love' and Toni's message for the card is this:
"~Happiness, Harmony, Fulfillment~
Something is resolved soon.  A new page is turned as a concern you have dissolves and gives way to a period of sunshine.  A time to relax and enjoy life, free of the worry and doubt that have cast a grey shadow over your life for the past few weeks.  During the coming month or so, try to spend some time in nature.  Allow yourself to reconnect with Gaia's nurturing and healing power.  Immerse and surround yourself in her natural beauty for she will help you restore your balance, harmonize your energy centers and replenish your body, mind and spirit. It may be difficult for you to switch off at first, but after a few days, as your thoughts slow down, you will settle into a new and more relaxed rhythm. Make the most of this opportunity while you can.
AFFIRMATION:
I am physically and emotionally connected
to the healing power
of Mother Earth
I surround myself with her beauty
and feel a deep sense of peace
I am free of worry
Each day I grow stronger
and more relaxed
My life is in perfect balance"

My message for you today is this:
The word 'Gaia', which may also be spelt 'Gaea', is a Greek word meaning 'Goddess of the Earth.  Mother Earth is often referred to as Gaia.
Balance is, and has been, a key word for us of late.  Spending time in Nature is a wonderful way to help bring balance into our lives, and to 'ground' ourselves, energetically.  I KNOW that my 'walk in the coulee' on our farm is about A LOT more than physical exercise, although that is an important component for my overall health also.  It is, for me, a 'walking meditation' and an important de-stressor.  I have often 'sorted my way through things' while out on my walk, without consciously setting out to do so.  In truth, at times in my life, I have literally sobbed my way through my walk; allowing grief and hurt to move through me, and feeling the nurturing of Nature embracing me and my pain.  I actually began taking my walks in the coulee after the tragedy of my younger brother's sudden passing in 1997.  He and I had grown up together on this land, and as I walked through the coulee, memories of time spent with he and my Dad riding horses; and other childhood memories would rise up to meet me.  Interesting that this message is coming forward on his birthday...there are no coincidences, I believe...only synchronicities. I am always in gratitude that I live where I do---I LOVE where I live---and that it affords me the opportunity to spend time alone in Nature as a means to seek out balance in my life.  
Your message today is to know that something in your life that has been causing you anxiety is moving toward resolution.  Relax into that. Align yourself with the energy of RECEIVING.  Open yourself to being a receptacle for the good that is currently on it's way to you.  How do you do this?  Focus upon what you want, rather than upon what you don't want, and make room for it. Surrender into it.  Don't try to script it. Trust that the Universe is conspiring in your favour.  Spend time in Nature, even if that means simply placing your bare feet upon the grass; or bringing a potted plant into your space that is alive and growing; or holding or wearing a crystal whose energies support you in feeling balanced and grounded (such as Petrified Wood), as crystal energy is absolutely a gift to us from Mother Earth.  Let the sun shine upon your face---and if you live in south/central Alberta you may be allowing the snowflakes to fall upon your face tomorrow, as it's been forecasted!!!  
Mother Earth is a living Being and has much to offer us in teaching us about balance.  Her love is eternal, like that of any Mother.  
Blessed be...