The Ace of Cups is a card of overflowing energy, particularly in regards to love, relationships and creativity. This card encourages you to shine exactly as you are and allow all emotions and things that need to be expressed to flow. The Magician (Again…We had this card last week too) Reminds us that everything we need, we already have. There is a call to action here. There is this energy that needs to come out and come forward and the only person that can make what you want to happen is you. The Knight of Pentacles doubles down on the idea of putting in the work. If this is something you want, now is the time to put in the work and your efforts will be supported. The Knight of Pentacles is about the practical steps. Practical steps aren’t always fun but they are important. It has a message of, if you are going to do this, then do it the right way.
Manifestation Powers – Use your gifts and natural abilities to attract your desired outcome.
You’ve got the power! With this card, the angels remind you of your innate spiritual abilities. Perhaps you’ve been complaining about something or have been feeling like a victim under the influence of someone else’s will. This card is a reminder that you do have the power to change everything in your life by using your natural spiritual gifts or manifestation.
When you complain, you give away your power to others. Complaints are also negative affirmations that attract more of the same undesirable effects. The angels would like you to replace the old complaining habit with a healthier response of visualizing and intending your desired outcome.
The Dove – Spirit Speaks Through the Body
The body never lies. If we know how to listen, the body affirms for us when someone is telling the truth. Or the body affirms when the divine is communicating to us, not through words, but directly through the wisdom of the heart.
The symbol of the dove has been associated with the Holy Spirit, that intangible and yet visceral experience of being moved from within, of being inspired directly as if through the blood stream, as if our bones can speak, as if the heart itself is actually a receiver, or a radio, and spirit sometimes suddenly makes our connection to the divine radiantly clear.
The body receives messages directly from spirit if we’re open to perceiving what holy proximity we have to the divine. Sometimes it’s a surge of hope, like a deeper intake of air, an expansion of the rib cage. Sometimes it’s in a chill that races down the spine and makes all the tiny hairs on our forearms stand straight up. Sometimes it’s in an irregular heartbeat, as if the heart could communicate to us in Morse Code.
Mary Magdalene has been associated with the dove, as a symbol of the beloved and as an affirmation that it’s through the feminine within us all that we receive messages. This passage from the Song of Songs has always made me thing of Mary: “My dove, in the hidden places of the rocks, in the secret places of the cliffs, show me your form, and let me hear your voice.”
Mary in essence is the dove, because she could perceive Christ from within her, she could hear the language of her own hear, her own body. The dove reminds us to listen to the affirmations the body gives us, all throughout the day, about what’s true for us, about what resonates, and about how to be led from within.
The dove is about listening inwardly to those discrete sensations that can’t be validated from anyone outside of us, but that we just know, because we sense what’s true. And because we trust this beloved body. We trust what spirit tells us, miraculously, in the hidden places, the secret places of our own heart.
Soul-Voice Meditation: What is spirit communicating to me right now through my body?
I have unlimited power and claim my purpose. All I need is within me.
We’re each a vessel with an unlimited capacity to express our potential. Our highest purpose is always evolving, shaped by our desire to move beyond illusions of fear and into our true nature of love. Now is the time to fully realize your potential – it simply awaits your acceptance of it. This awareness growing inside of you is a result of the love you’ve consistently given yourself. As you dissolve feelings of doubt or defeat, step into this truth and sincerely believe in who you are. Know that the world needs your special gifts. Continue to strengthen your confidence, claim your ever-evolving purpose, and give yourself permission to feel your full range of feelings. All you need is within you.