Flexible

This is your card reading for Friday, May 27th/16.  Your card twirled out of the 'Wisdom of the Oracle' card deck, authored by Colette Baron-Reid.  Your card is 'Flexible' and Colette's message for the card is this:
"ESSENTIAL MEANINGS: Teachability; open-mindedness; being adaptable without compromising what's most important.
THE ORACLE'S MESSAGE:  A tree's roots are solidly planted in the ground, yet it's branches can bend in a hurricane...whereas a rigid structure, like a building, would come crashing down.  Consider how the remains supple and secure when everything around it may be in shambles.  This is how YOU need to be now:  willing to learn new things, teachable, malleable, yet firmly grounded in who you are.  Common sense is important but so is an open mind.  Stay curious; stay open.  Stay aware. At this time, others will be more flexible with you, too.
PROSPERITY MESSAGE:  Even when you have a clear vision of how you're going to manifest something--what it will look like, who will share in it, and what will then be available to you--you still need to relax and open up to other possibilities.  Spirit may have much better plans for you.  It could be a job you hadn't thought of, a new source of money, or some other opportunity that eluded your imagination.  Be flexible and remind yourself: This, or something better, manifests for me now. Then be willing to bend a little.  Enjoy the miraculous results."

My message for you is this:
Many of your messages recently have alluded to your consciously striving to be an authentic expression of yourself, while relaxing into and embracing the knowing that Spirit often has a greater plan for us than we do for ourselves!  So...plan away...just know that your best laid plans may be 'tweeked' and 'upgraded' by Spirit! Ha!  Remain firmly rooted in your beliefs and values and what you truly believe in; but allow yourself to bend with the prevailing winds of change, situations and opportunities that present to you.  
I shared the 'ducks in a row' photo and quote with you the other day.  Another standing phrase that I am often heard to say these past couple of years during a fast-paced and quick-changing period of my life is: "I am a leaf on the wind!"  This little 'mantra' came about because my personality is such that I like to have my 'ducks in a row'.  When my daughter was a teenager and she would see that my anxiety was rising because I didn't have a handle on something, she would say to me, "Be the wind, Mom", meaning that I should relax and go with the flow, because in truth you can't possible control everything.  Well...at one particularly frenetic time in my life when it seemed that things were changing at lightning speed, and my daughter found it 'wise' to share her 'Be the wind' advice with me, I retorted with "I'll be the wind alright...I'll be a tornado!!!"  To which my daughter's husband calmly then said: "Maybe instead, Maja (which is what he calls me for 'Mom') you should try to be a LEAF ON THE WIND".  And so was birthed my mantra. 
When I have voiced, on occasion, my mantra "I am a leaf on the wind" to a dear friend, she has replied, "No you're not, my friend, but I know you're trying!"  Haha!  Yes, I am learning.
The point is, at times when you are feeling as though the winds of change are blowing a little too hard, remember that you are firmly rooted and ground yourself into that knowing. To attempt to remain rigid and unbending is counter-productive.  Spirit has an omniscient viewpoint and so sometimes we need to just trust, allow and believe that all is happening for our greater good.  The key here is to be unyielding in standing in your personal Truth, while being flexible in how that may play out for you.  None of my ducks were in the pond of my speaking publicly at a major spiritual event this fall; yet once this opportunity was presented to me, I knew intuitively that I must do it, even as I am not sure exactly 'why'.  And so it is with you.  
Blessed be...