There has been a pattern in my life of hiding myself, the truth of who I am. I walled up my heart and adorned myself with a multitude of masks. For a while it served me well and helped me navigate life during challenging times.

Spirit constantly whispered that my path was to be the road less traveled and so many times I refused to listen. I locked myself away, the little girl in the attic room watching the world from afar. Nobody knew my true self and she was lonely.

I pretended to live in a world that was foreign to me. I was miserable and all of life felt grey. My intuitive creative spirit, art, and writing all hidden in books becasuse I was too afraid for people to see, for people to judge, to expose my fragile truths to the world.

I made a decsion less than a month ago to take a business class for intuitive professionals. We are in our second week and I’ve made more progress in five days than I have in the last twenty-five years. So when I asked the Oracle Deck and my guides for the first reading to start my professional work as an intuitive alchemist I was not suprised that it was vulnerability.

I know that the world feels uncertain right now, like we are in a stormy sea without a lifeboat. The storm will pass, it always does. We need to be firm yet flexible to move with the crests of the waves. We need to trust the support that is present to help us until the storm passes. We need to be vulnerable and couragous to reach out for guidance to bolster us thorugh the turbulence.

The first step is always the scariest and then once you have your sea legs you learn to move with the rhythm of the waves instead of fighting against them. I trust that that I will make it through to the other side where the skies are clear and I just have to be patient and ride out the darkness of the unknown.

Often times it is the scariest moments that hold the deepest wisdom. Let your thoughts settle and clarity will emerge from the fog. Know that it is the small steps that make the most difference. Open your heart and the magic of love will find you.