Artemis ~ Protection

This is your card reading for Friday, November 25th/16.  Your card today dropped out of the 'Awakening of the Divine' oracle deck, authored by Velva Dawn Silver-Hughes.  Each card in this deck is aligned with a goddess and an accompanying crystal.  Your card today is the goddess 'Artemis ~ Protection'.  Velva Dawn's message for the card is this:
"Artemis ~ Protection
Crystal: Arrowhead Black Obsidian
Do you feel others aren't honouring your boundaries?  Are you planning on traveling and could use that extra support?  Are you going through a situation in your life where you could use that extra support to make that move?  Are you in a toxic relationship or marriage?  Are you very empathetic and are feeling every lower energy around you? Do your children need extra protection?  Do you not feel safe in your home?
Artemis is a Greek goddess who carries a bow and arrow at her side, waiting to protect herself and her loved ones.  She's a warrior spirit inside and out, ready to defend the ones she loves.
You may have drawn this card a you are in a toxic relationship in your life.  This could be an intimate relationship, a marriage, a friendship, family or a co-worker.  Artemis is stepping forward to assist you in protection so that you can gain clarity on what you need to do in order to maintain healthy boundaries in this relationship.  Is it time for you to leave this relationship? Is your karma healed with this person? Close your eyes and ask Artemis to give you a clear sign.  If you feel a sense of expansion within your body when you ask these questions the answer is most likely 'yes', and it's time for you to close this door and await the miracles that will present themselves to you.
Are you an empath?  Do you pick up what everyone else in a crowd is feeling?  Do you have anxiety?  The first thing you can do when you feel a pain in your body or a sensation that appears when you are in a large group of people is to ask your body, 'is this my pain or my sensation?'  If you hear an internal 'yes' then that's your affirmation that there is something that you need to release within yourself.  But if you hear an internal 'no' then you can send that energy back to the person in the crowd with love and light, and usually the pain or sensation will leave your body immediately upon recognition that it's not yours. 
You can also call upon Artemis to protect your auric field when you are going to be going into a space where there are other people and you will feel her strong energy expanding around your auric field.
If you are going to be traveling you can call upon Artemis to energetically be by your side with her bow and arrow expanding your auric field and keeping you safe from energetic pollution as you move through airports and travel to your destination with safety and support.
Affirmation:  I am a powerful, wise, loving person who creates healthy boundaries in my life."

My message for you today is this:
What I am getting for you today is that Artemis has stepped forward to assist you in feeling empowered in standing in your own brilliance...  Many of us have a history of keeping ourselves 'small' and of being reticent to shine our Light, in fear that others will then strive to dim it...and that we will be hurt in the process.  You have grown to a place where you now understand that it is in sharing ALL that you came here to be that you illuminate the world, and also inspire others to do the same for themselves.  Yet...understanding this is not the same as enacting it.  You have been wounded in the past by the words and actions of others and so there is still a part of you that is fearful to fully share your Light with the world. Yes...you have learned and incorporated strategies and techniques that serve you in taking care of yourself energetically.  You are being reminded of this today.  When others judge you, it says more about them than it does about you.  Allow the energies of the goddess Artemis to surround you in that knowing.  Be your own greatest advocate, but also know that you are so supported in being the fullest expression of who you are!  
Blessed be...