This beautiful card was created by Stacey Demarco and is a part of her Queen of the Moon Oracle Deck. My thoughts below are inspired by the card, the description in her deck booklet, and also the energy and channeled message from my initial reading at the beginning of the year that came through for September.
As many of us are navigating really challenging cycles, this month’s reminder is a potent one.
Where can we be inviting in more SELF LOVE?
What does SELF LOVE mean for you?
What does it look like?
September is a big month. A month of harvest. Of another seasonal and cyclical shift. An Equinox point. Also, in the Jewish traditions, September is wrapping up the end of a calendar year and beginning a new one. A complex time of in-between spaces, transitions and holding paradox energy.
It can be easy for our inner critic’s volume to increase when we are in transition, or when there is a lot going on and/or we are having a harder time. The not-enough/not-doing-enough feeling can show up and take over. We may even find that we compare ourselves to others. The shame or guilt that arises from these kinds of thoughts makes it challenging to feel good about ourselves.
When we prioritize SELF LOVE and focusing on ourselves, the energy within immediately shifts.
There is a softer, more tender way to meet what is unfolding. Compassion for our self and our past choices and mistakes, emotions, and experiences is key here.
What ways are you caring for your body, your mind, your energy, your spirit these days? Are you taking care of your basic needs?
Are you offering kindness and compassion to yourself when you tune in and uncover some messy bits?
Where in your life are you prioritizing your self? What areas might need a little more attention and care?
This time is providing an opportunity to be in a review of the ways we are showing up (or not showing up) for ourselves.
What is getting in the way of fully loving your self?
Your SELF LOVE is needed for any changes you want to see in your life.
Are there things you are listening to that contribute to a negative view of yourself? (people in your life, media that you are watching/listening to, etc). What you surround yourself with, has a huge impact on how you feel about your self.
This month is calling for radical SELF LOVE.
Loving ourselves deeply from within.
Radical SELF LOVE when we are in our triggers, uncovering shadows, repeating patterns or experiencing pain.
Radical SELF LOVE in moments of excellence, health, joy and magic.
It is time to embrace and welcome to the surface those parts of ourselves we have feared, shunned, turned away, ignored. The parts of us that don’t feel enough. All the parts and our complexities get to be honored and included.
Let unconditional love be the foundation of your empowerment this month.
SELF LOVE requires patience. Patience with our selves, our inner landscapes and the natural cyclic process.
SELF LOVE requires slowing down to be with ourselves. To know ourselves deeply on all layers, so that we can make choices that best align with what is needed.
Intimately listening to our wisdom within so we can move forward rooted in our center towards what the mystery has in store for us.
May you deeply listen to your own knowing this month.
May your heart be open to receive.
May you drench yourself in the sweetness and tenderness of SELF LOVE.
