Angel Tarot
By Doreen Virtue & Radleigh Valentine
Reading by Patricia Herlevi
This week I'm picking up on young adults and teens, even children who have extraordinary gifts working with the spirit realm, especially nature and animal spirits but have shut those abilities down through the intellectual process. I'm hearing the words, "intellectual repression," and these children and young adults have a difficult time conceiving of magic or enchantment. Some of them are afraid of magic due to religious upbringing or past lives where they were persecuted for magical gifts (this includes healing gifts). The cards for the week are: Page of Air, 4 of Air, 7 of Water, and Queen of Air. I include 3 feathers from a Stellar Jay and 1 quartz crystal to signify nature.
I am seeing an image of a young initiate around 12 or 13 years of age studying with a Medicine Man of a Southwest American tribe. I also see images of young girls sitting at the feet of a Medicine woman elder and learning the secrets of their tribe as they prepare for an initiation or just after completing the process. Now, I'm told these events happened during past lives, but ones closer to the time we currently reside. These gifts are currently clouded by wounds and other people's strong beliefs. Healing must take place now to unleash these gifts which the planet could badly use during this Shift.
Now, for those of you who are well beyond your youth, I'm reading the cards in one of two ways for you. Since this is a general reading and I am still picking up on individual energies, I hope that you will also read these cards for yourself and see what comes up personally for you. You are either a teacher of wisdom but over intellectualize spiritual understanding that you must absorb in your heart so you can release its full potential onto the planet. Or you are like the youth in that you have spiritual gifts that you over analyze and dismiss as "unreal" or "insanity" or you just don't want to deal with these gifts.
If you look at the first card, The Page of Air, it contains animal spirits on it. This means that you are ignoring animal omens and your connection with animals. Perhaps you are an animal or plant whisperer but since no one in your current family does this sort of thing, you feel ashamed of it. You long to be normal, but you're not because you have these gifts and the animal and plant kingdoms reach out to you. You are also sensitive in a world that doesn't recognize sensitive people. Since you long to fit in and get on with the usual program, you do your best to fit in and don't understand why your life never seems to work out the way you want it to. You have plenty of intellectual power but it does more harm to you than good.
The two cards in the middle, 4 of Air and 7 of Water are asking you to drop out of society for a brief time, a day or a week. Go on a spiritual retreat that teaches shamanism but use discernment because there are a lot of fake shamans out there teaching expensive workshops that could lead you astray. Also stay away from ingesting any plant substances unless this is your true calling. One, it's illegal if you're not aboriginal or indigenous, and two, you don't require this powerful medicine and in fact, you could blow your mind circuits which would not be a good thing. Pay attention to your dreams, both waking and sleeping dreams.
The other option is to study with a shaman to learn journeying as well as, learning how to play drums. You could go on a spiritual retreat in the natural world and use that time to connect to your animal spirits and other spirit guides. And if a retreat isn't possible then at least use this week to meditate or begin a meditation practice that involves nature. Make sure you ground yourself into the core of Mother Earth and ask the Archangels for shielding so you don't invite unwanted energies into your space and life. In the least, pick up a book such as Ted Andrews Animal Speak or even Animal Wise and read about animal spirits. The author offers suggestions of rituals and meditations in his books.
The final card, Queen of Air either suggests a teacher of spiritual secrets or refers back to a statement I made earlier about adults over analyzing spiritual experiences and not integrating spirit into their heart. I see this card as actually representing women who have suffered a great deal and learned to internalize or suppress their feminine nature. They act like men living in a man's world. These women are shut off from the Divine Feminine yet discuss spiritual feminism on an intellectual level. They are not walking their talk, but talking a lot. Yet, they still act like men, argue, debate, and chase after their desires not understanding the concept of reflection and attraction.
If this is referring to you, find the most feminine or even domestic women you know and hang around them this week. Go buy a frilly dress, even second hand at a thrift store. Wear a skirt, sit on the earth and ground yourself in Mother Earth or Gaia. Garden and cook foods from a garden or go meditate in the woods. Try to sing in your head voice and call on Mother Mary or another female Ascended Master for guidance. Read about goddesses, but allow yourself to feel emotions instead of memorizing the goddess' attributes. Nurture children or animals. That would bring deep healing to you now. I have one last image of women baking bread, not alone but with other women. Communities of women activities go well now.
This ends my reading for the week beginning July 27, 2015. If you would like a personal reading with me, I give in-person readings at the Book Fare Cafe in Bellingham, Washington every Thursday or by appointment. Sign up on the form on the right side of the blog. Have a magical week.
