By Jill Marie Chesrow from www.ElementsOfMastery.com


Today I was confronted with a question that I didn't have an answer to. 

It was about a topic that I had just been talking to my mentor about...a theme I have been playing out for the past several years, and one I am ready to let go of. 

I am aware of the purpose it has been serving in my life, the growth lessons I needed to learn and I am ready to move forward.  

Now BAM here I was, not two days later, being confronted with a very similar scenario and again not feeling like I had the right answer on what to do.  

The good news....I must surely be on an accelerated learning path for it to come so quickly.  The other news...I had no idea what to do.  

I am ready to hear the answer though so I decided to go on a Guidance Seeking Quest...

I am so blessed to live close to the Theosophical Society and enjoy the beautiful Sacred Space there, so I  got in my car and decided to go sit with Mother Mary and ask for some insight.

But she wasn't home!

Instead I found this sign :(

Then I noticed a stone path off to the side and I was sure I would find my answer there...so off I went.

But it was a dead end and led to nowhere... so I headed off to the Labyrinth to contemplate and find the answer there.

I started the journey with one foot in front of the other.

Part of the stones were covered in pebbles that hurt when I walked on them...but I was determined to find the answer so I kept walking.

But even after I went to the Center...completely surrendered, walked slowly back out of the Labyrinth, I still had no answer.  So off I went in search of the Buddha Meditation Garden.  Surely I would find the answer there.

I came across a secret entryway.  I thought I would find the Buddha Garden there.

Instead I saw a bunch of tangled branches.

Finally I emerged from the tangled secret trail and saw a lake surrounded by Willow Trees.  I knew I would find the answer there for sure.

I saw a bench and went to sit under the Willow Tree and listen to her Wisdom.

I sat for awhile but no answers came.  I decided to continue looking for the Buddha Garden.

On my journey I never found the Buddha Garden, what I came across instead was a Peace Pole which was so beautiful and the message was so powerful.
 
But still I had no answer to my questions so I headed home, hoping the answer would come soon.  

Dinner was cooked and eaten with the family but no answer came.

I decided  to pull three Oracle Cards trusting that the answer would be found there.  

And it was!  

Balance, Intention, and Free Will.  

The answer was within me all along.  Look to see if there is balance in the situation, go back to my intention, stop giving my power away, and own my power. 

I sat with the Wisdom for awhile.  Then I looked up the message of the Willow Tree.  

In the upright position Willow Tree says "Show your respect for all forms of life because this will help you to build a deep and lasting relationship with everything around you.  Spread harmony and understanding, and treat others in the way that you would like them to treat you."

In the reversed position Willow Tree says "A difficult person or situation is sounding a discordant note.  Do your best to understand other people's points of view, even if you don't agree with them.  You can lead by example, so show off your good nature."

Willow Tree message is from the deck, Using the Wisdom of Trees Oracle by Jane Struthers.  

So again I finally got my answer and it was perfect...Balance ~ Intention ~ Free Will 

With a little extra something from the Willow Tree and Jane Struthers, which was Icing on the cake!

I love this Amazing Universe :)

What do you do and where do you go to find answers to the questions that arise for you on your Earth Walk?

The Reading below if based on the Collective Energy from the Elements of Mastery Newsletter Subscriber List...though you may find the information beneficial as well.  To be included in the collective energy reading each month I invite you to become a Newsletter Subscriber yourself!  You can do so here  

                                              5 Card Cross of Truth Reading for July

Q:  What is most beneficial for this collective group to be aware of at this time?

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affection, and the truth of imagination.

~ Keats

A: The feeling realm and the element of water is going to be key this month.  Having an open heart on this Earth Journey is essential as we move forward toward living lives of greater joy and harmony.  

How are you when it comes to feeling your emotions and allowing yourself to feel fully what comes up for you?

 Or do you judge yourself and make yourself wrong?

 Do you stuff down your emotions?  

We all have coping mechanisms and I could say that there are healthy ones and unhealthy ones and that would be true...but when one's very survival feels like it is being threatened even an unhealthy coping mechanism helps one cope.  

So the question becomes...how can you have more healthy ones!  

Your Soul is telling you that it is time to Open your heart and allow yourself to FEEL more.  If you need extra support then reach out for it....but opening your Heart will be the greatest gift you can give yourself as you move into living life with PASSION and PURPOSE, whatever that looks like for you.  

You can sense your potential for creative or spiritual expansion (or both) at this time.  Pay attention to what you are feeling.  There is a wonderful unfoldment emerging for you.

 Can you see why it is so important to have an open heart?

In the helpful energy card we see that it is time to RELAX and stop trying to prove yourself to anybody or defend yourself to anybody.  You are YOU...no apologies...unless you are being a jerk of course.  But it is time to BE YOU without apology.

 Let in your Awesomeness.  Let in your Light, your True Essence.  

You do that by Opening your heart space and keeping it open as often as you can.  Sure it might close up at times when you feel afraid....but when you pay attention to what is coming up, face it in the present moment and allow it to be what it is, then having an open heart a majority of the time becomes easier and easier.

What shows up in the Obstacle area to be aware of?

• Holding your Emotions in
• Feeling emotionally overwhelmed
• Emotional spontaneity
• Overresponsibility

Can you see the theme showing up?

The advice suggested is:

1. Let your feelings out
2.  Allow others to support your emotional needs

So what does the final card suggest to bring it all together?

Well....it suggests you might get a really good opportunity to apply this information.  

It could be a past hurt or somebody might say something to you that hurts your feelings in the next few weeks.

Either way be sure to feel what comes up because that is the first step towards healing.  Just be present and willing to feel your emotions.

 You don't need to go digging around to bring up any old unresolved issues.  As long as you are present and aware of what you are feeling that will be the key!

If you have any questions about this reading please feel free to connect with me and I would be happy to clarity it for you :)

Three fabulous tools I recommend for having/keeping an Open Heart are:

HeartMath:  you can find more info here
Radical Forgiveness:  you can find more info here
The Emotion Code (I facilitate Emotion Code sessions and help remove Heart  Walls.)  However you can learn how to remove your own Heart Wall here

With Heart,

Jill Marie Chesrow

Q:  What is most beneficial for this collective group to be aware of at this time?

A:  We see the energy of well-being, replenishment and devotion.  While it is always important to be self-accepting and nurturing this is extra essential at this time.  Astrologically we are being given many opportunities to release and/or integrate "stuff" that no longer serves us.

We are often given this opportunity through our life journey and when we love and accept ourselves without judgment then it passes with much more ease.  It is when we move into resistance and judgment that it can feel awful.

As a more specific example of what that might look like for you:  

• Feeling overwhelmed 
• Feeling unable or unwilling to keep things going
• Feeling like you are dropping the ball
• Feeling ineffective at time/project management
• Succumbing to extremes

Instead of judging yourself or trying even harder could you:

1. Love and accept yourself for whatever you are feeling and experiencing?
2. Ask for help or delegate something?
3. If you are 'juggling" too much can you let something go for now?

As yourself these questions:

What is completing in your life?  

Is there anything that you have been attached to that you
know is done but you keep trying to make it work?  

Do some reflecting on that and see what comes up for you.

 I will speak for myself and say that Endings have always been hard for me.  I am personally letting go of a business that I LOVE ~ Inner Alignment Mandalas.  Because the energy vibration of that work is still very much alive within me...I am sad to let it go and tried to keep it going even after all the signs pointed to let it go...at least that expression of it.  For me...I got attached to the way that energy was being expressed.

What I was not looking at was the Truth of what was happening.  I was focusing on the parts and not the whole.

 When we can let go and trust ~ it opens up a whole new world of possibility.

It is time to engage in life fully without despairing in its dramas.  It is time to be at home within yourself and in the World.  It is far easier to do that when you aren't holing on to stuff that no longer serves you.

Potential obstacles to be aware of:

• Perfectionism
• Intolerance for physical imperfection
• Intolerance for emotional messiness

Sometimes we have to swim (or dip in our toes) in the swamp of self-pity and victimhood and really FEEL the emotions we have judged as wrong or bad.  The trick is to not stay there for any longer than is necessary.  Having a good support team of friends, family, or other positive life affirming support is key. Most of us have heard that it is the feeling that gets the healing and that is SOOOOOO True!

Thankfully you are awakened enough to know that that is a temporary state and we are always at choice.  As soon as you are ready...reach for that better feeling thought as Abraham - Hicks would say :)

Once you have moved through whatever comes up for you, you will notice a greater sense of well-being and relaxation in your life.  Know that it is time to let in that Universal Loving Energy that surrounds you at all times...that energy is in, through and as you....sometimes it just feels a wee bit further away than your own Core Essence.


With Heart,

Jill Marie

Insight From The Heart
Here is what is most beneficial for us to be aware of at this time as we move through the month of May.  Take what resonates with you and leave the rest behind.  The reading is based on the collective energy of those on this Newsletter list.  Feel free to share it with others as it may be beneficial for them as well but it will hold more impact for those who's energy helped bring it forward.

While you may have many dreams and goals that you are excited to explore and get more clarity on , you may be feeling a bit overwhelmed and like you want to just take a wee bit of a rest.  This can be showing up as procrastination and randomness in your actions.  There is a good chance you are judging yourself and you blame it on low self-esteem or inability to manifest your desires.  You want to pay attention but the inability to focus is frustrating.  An element of boredom may feel like it is creeping in as well.  

This seeming inability to focus on the details is actually a good thing!  How could that be you might wonder as it is so frustrating?  This is an excellent time to take a time out.  Rest a bit.  Something is ready to expand in your life so if you are working on something and having a super hard time focusing on the details that's okay and a sign that it is shifting and evolving into something different but it just ins't fully ripe yet.  Take three days or more and let it come more into focus on it's own and then the inspired ideas and clarity will begin to flow again.  

Over thinking and over intellectualizing, and holding onto the old ideas is the obstacle to overcome.  This is where allowing yourself to take a time out will be very helpful.  And if you don't and keep pushing you may find yourself having to do things over again anyway.  You may find the way you were moving towards wasn't going to work in the long run.  

Your success is closer than you think and you have the inner strength required to make it.  Perverseness is the key and with courage and determination your triumphant moment is waiting for you.  Before that though... you are asked to take a pause and have a bit of a rest before moving forward.  

Be still and listen for the next action steps to take and emerge well rested with a renewed focus.  

Welcome!  So excited to be sharing this space with you ;)  As part of my Newsletter I have an area where I share Insights From The Heart.  I do a Reading based on the collective energy of the group and share it with those on the list.  I thought I might share it here as well so those on the Newsletter list can find it more easily and refer back to it for reflection if desired.  

If you aren't on the Newsletter list you are welcome to read it as you may gain insight from it as well but you will benefit the most from being part of the collective energy when the readings are initiated.  Again you can be part of that by signing up for the Newsletter here.

Here is the Message from April 19, 2014

Insight From The Heart

Each Newsletter I do a Reading based on the Collective Energy of this newsletter list.  Take what resonates with you and leave the rest behind.

Q:  What is for your Highest and Greatest good to be aware of at this time?

A:  This is a time for Freedom...Inner freedom and throwing off self-imposed restrictions that you have put on yourself or allowed others to put on you.  It is time for liberation from internalized or externalized oppression.

Ask yourself these questions and reflect on them in your journal or during your contemplation time.

Where in your life have you been feeling bound or enslaved, and what can set you free?

What negative trait or traits that you may have has recently come into your awareness?  Are you loving and accepting yourself without judgement while at the same time recognizing  that it no longer serves you?

What fears do you notice in your life that used to get in the way and now you just look at them and say...I see you, but I'm doing it anyway?  Is there still any part of that fear that holds you back and seems to keep you stuck?

In what ways do you still sabotage your own success and well-being?

This is a time to entertain the possibilities in life and get clearer on which one or two feels like a full body YES. Then decide that it will be your primary focus for the next 30 days.  Take the inspired action steps that you receive.

For many creative people, they tend to scatter their energy and it is time to get more clarity.  See what happens after those 30 days.  

This is your time now to follow your heart's desire.  Do you need to release anything in the past to move forward?  Is there anybody or anything that may need forgiveness or that you need to make amends with?  Know that you can do this symbolically, you don't need to actually contact that person, place or thing.  If it is a person and they have passed on you can still do this exercise.  It may seem very simple...but it is very powerful.

Hand-write a letter to them.  Tell them how you really feel.  If you wronged them say you are sorry.  If they wronged you,  consider telling them that you forgive them.  Not that you condone their actions but that you understand that hurt people hurt and that while their behavior is not okay,  that you understand that they did the best they could with where they were at in their life.  You can keep the letter around for awhile or tear it up or burn it in a sacred fire ceremony.

If that doesn't help you fully release that energy,  I suggest looking into Radical Forgiveness or something similar.   It will be far easier for you to step into your Mastery when you have forgiven others, or yourself , for any trespasses against you.

This is your time now!  Move into the Joy that is calling you forward :)

With Heart,

Jill Marie Chesrow