Hidden Path

This is your card reading for Thursday, August 24th/17. Your card today literally soared out of the deck and across the room! Your card is from the 'Gaia Oracle' deck authored by Toni Carmine Salerno. Your card is 'Hidden Path' and Toni's message for the card is this:
"~The marriage of spirit and matter.~
You have travelled far in search of greater meaning and fulfillment, having made much progress and learning valuable lessons. You want to continue your journey, but the road seems to have come to an end. Where do you go to from here? The symbolic imagery on this card is set within a magical forest: it seems inviting, yet the way forward is not clear.
No physical path exists, however there is a way forward. Between the trees is a symbol for eternal life and to the right, a symbol for healing and protection. This card is inviting you to move forward spiritually and offers you healing and protection along the way Spirit and matter must now merge if true progress is to be made; your rational mind must align with your hear. When heart and mind are both focused on the same goal, great things are possible. This is true spiritual alchemy; all you work towards can now be achieved.
AFFIRMATION:
My heart and mind are in perfect alignment. My heart's desire and my thoughts are one. I am a spiritual being in a physical body. The journey ahead is filled with light. The light of my soul illuminates my path."

My message for you today is this:
How beautifully synchronistic!  Just yesterday I was talking to a client, who had come to me for an Akashic Records consultation, about striving to find balance in our lives regarding family and other commitments, and our spiritual work. We were discussing how it can be very difficult at times to fulfill all of the 'roles' we feel called upon to play in our lives. How do we incorporate our spiritual selves into the demands placed upon us in our everyday lives?
I appreciate how Toni reminds us in his message for this card that we are a spiritual being having a physical experience and that it is in finding how to marry the two that we truly move toward spiritual maturity and evolution.  In not so recent times, many of the spiritual leaders and mentors would tell us that we needed to deny our Ego...that our Ego was an aspect of ourselves that was detrimental to us and to our spiritual growth.  In fact, Wayne Dyer (who has been a wonderful spiritual mentor/teacher to a multitude of people, including myself) said in the past that EGO is an acronym for 'Edging God Out'. He had a better understanding of the role that Ego plays in our lives prior to his passing. With the accelerated collective spiritual maturation and growth that has been prevalent, these same spiritual leaders are understanding that our Ego is a necessary aspect of surviving our physical incarnation! Put simply...our Ego is not BAD, as it was often portrayed previously in spiritual circles. As Panache Desai has often stated, if we were to be entirely without Ego, we would be merely existing here in the physical (and requiring someone to provide all of our physical needs, such as food, water and shelter), and not fully participating in all that this physical experience is meant to be! Balance is the key here!  Allow your Ego to serve your spiritual self! As was also discussed with my client yesterday, she had recently acquired the understanding of the importance of promoting herself and the gifts she came here to share.  As she stated, why had she invested all of the many years and effort into developing her psychic gifts and abilities that she feels guided to share in service to others, if no one knew about her?  And so she has signed up for a social media course that will teach her how to use social media for self-promotion. You must use your mind to share your heart!  This is taking things to the next level of your spiritual evolution. This recent eclipse season has been urging us to take action steps toward authentically and courageously expressing ourselves out in the world. A balanced Ego, and the marrying of your mind and spirit, is necessary in this!!! I LOVE the affirmation that Toni has shared with us for your card today! It is a perfect focal point for how we need to move forward at this time.  
Blessed be...