December 2006 Energy Reading
Staff Writer: Theresa Chaze
December will be a turning point for many of us. It will be a time of great healing and growth, as we allow ourselves to release old negative patterns. Physically, emotional, and spiritually, we will be shedding old skins and old challenges to face the calendar New Year with new prospects. The past few months we have been peeling back the layers of the old dead parts of ourselves. It has been painful and many tears have been shed. But like the snake freeing itself from a skin it has out grown or the butterfly that is fighting its way free of the cocoon, it has been necessary to reveal our inner strength, not to the world but to ourselves. It is the time we have come to see ourselves not through our own eyes, but through those of others.
The energy we are carrying forward from the past is the King of Cups. Strong emotions and temptations are carried forward as we are challenge to find a new way of carrying out the business of life. No longer will the old behaviors function. They will not satisfy nor will they be effective. It is a time of emotional change as we look to wiser souls to find new answers to old questions. Yet the external search will be balanced by the inner one as we find comfort inside ourselves. Time alone will no longer be considered a punishment, but a blessing we give ourselves as we take a break from the frantic energy around us. We will find brief moments of peace strung together to give us perspective and grounding. The more proficient we become at centering ourselves, the easier it will be to find safe port no matter what kind of storm rages around us. It will be these flashes that will give us the strength to keep within our centers and to keep moving forward.
December is represented by the Page of Wands. It will be all of our responsibilities to speak the truth and to stand for each other. No longer will we be lone voices in the darkness asking for spiritual awakening and wisdom; as the energy vibration level continues to increase in frequency and power, more individuals are awakened as are their spiritual gifts. Those who were blessed with minor psychic gifts suddenly find they are no longer minor, but active blessings that they can and will use at will. In addition, to the spiritual, many will find their voices and the ability to use them. No longer will they be silenced by fear and the manipulations by others. For as their eyes have opened and they have begun to see just how much ground they have given away in the name of fear. The first reaction will be guilt and anger, leading to an over-reaction. Yet this could be as self-defeating as doing nothing. It’s only by examining each situation and by coming to a just end result that individuals will grow past the negative behaviors. If we give in to the revenge mentality of tit for tat, then the dark side wins and the light in all of us will be diminished.
The energy coming out of December is the Ace of cups. A new emotional strength will radiate from our hearts that will give us a new positive attitude that will reflect upward to our souls and downward into our physical bodies. It will start with cleansing on all levels as we remove the toxins from our lives. Whether they be people, situations or behaviors, they will suddenly disappear from our lives. Those who wish to move forward only have to ask with their hearts for the healing to begin. Be very careful not to ask for specifics, but for the methods and the end results. Claim what is yours, but remember the free will of others. Having an open heart, means accepting others’ challenges as theirs and refusing to take on the responsibility for their decisions. By simply accepting not as a by-stander but as being of light, we see people for who they are, not as we wish them to be. In doing so, we accept ourselves and open our own doors to new energy.
The challenge each of us will face will be the Devil. In many ways, this card is of materialism and the material world. But in this case, it is our darker side that will be our greatest challenge–our fear, anger, ignorance, self-hatred–all that keeps us from seeing the light of our soul and that which shines from others. It is only by embracing and owning it that we can find the true source and heal through it. Owning it doesn’t mean giving it to it, but admitting we it is an issue. It is only by understanding what triggers the response that we learn how to change our behavior. Once we recognize it and admit is part of who we are, the behavior looses power over us and we can grow through it.