To Spiritalk and Stormgirl,
My sincere apologies for this, but..........
Please note that I am on this one occasion only going against my usual practice of requiring that a new thread should be started for October's reading request, but Mjean has personally asked me to do this through a private message after a mix-up last month with her subject heading. It just seemed easier than her having to repost her photograph(s), to instead simply add this new month's reading to your two existing September ones? I also noticed in passing that you have not yet received any responses, so hopefully the member will be kind enough to do this for all of us, once my reading has been given. Not surprisingly in the light of the fact that I believe that we are all drawing from the same source to obtain these insights, there is considerable overlap in what I am feeling with your own impressions.
To Mjean,
DOUBLE WOW!!!!!!!!
Your incredible inner strength and staying power when subjected to adverse circumstances which would probably either emotionally destroy a lesser person than yourself shines brightly through in both your photos.
Was that a V for Victory sign over negative personal/relationship circumstances which could potentially have lead to you building a permanent wall around your heart, with the misguided intention to prevent your feelings from getting hurt ever again? But to a large extent, it did not.
For far too long it is as though you had been very effectively and regularly used as a human doormat for him to wipe his feet upon, but with your remaining self confidence and self respect in danger of being lost forever you were finally able to reassert your right to be in control over your life and destiny.
In saying this I do not wish you to misinterpret the meaning of my words to be used as a basis for you feeling either ashamed, embarrassed or guilty because you were not able to do this sooner than you eventually did.
The unfair conditions to which you were subjected on an almost daily basis by this male person would have made any attempt by you to stand up for yourself positively dangerous. Until it was safe and economically viable for you to do so, any attempt to escape earlier than this would have been equal to a suicide mission.
In other words I am highly sensitive to what deplorable treatment you have survived at the hands of someone who claimed to love and care for you, and my respect and admiration for you being able to finally say in no uncertain terms to him through your words and actions that enough is more than enough, and that you do not deserve to be treated in this cruel and abusive manner, both know no bounds.
Whether or not you are currently working as a nurse or may have in the past, it is a case of healer first heal thyself, and it appears with this in mind that before you were born into this lifetime that your Higher Self made a decision that the difficult and painful lessons which would be necessary for you to bring this self healing about has put you on a path that few souls could survive, let alone rise above with such strength of conviction and and a belief in yourself that which would have severely tested the courage and patience of a saint.
Much of the worse is now behind you, but the experiences you have been through have only made you a stronger person within yourself as a direct result. I am not saying by any means that it will always be plain sailing and good weather for you from now on, or that there will be no further challenges waiting ahead of you in the medium to long term future, but for at least the next six months or so, your well deserved but long overdue opportunity for some R&R (rest and recreation) and spiritual regeneration and renewal has finally arrived.
What I found most striking in both your pictures was that up until now I had never realised that such a high degree of sensitivity and softness as you possess could exist side by side in almost complete harmony with an equal degree of strength and hardness, but your reading has set me right about this being more than possible in the same person. The strength and hardness were however critically required if you were going to get through this dark night of your soul with your self respect and sanity both still relatively intact.
Although you are presumably not also a cancer survivor yourself (or are you), some of the following page of inspiring spiritual quotations seem relevant to your situation as well.
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| Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amidst joy. |
Credits: Felicia Hemans
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| Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. |
Credits: William Channing, theologian
See more of these at the following web address. Now I am also beginning to understand why some cancer patients feel that having the disease has been one of the best things that could have ever happened to them. Up until now you may have thought they were mad for saying such seemingly ridiculous things, but such situations as theirs and your own must make many of us rethink about our position, and not be so quick in future to judge them as mentally unbalanced for saying this.
http://www.healingcancernaturally.com/inspirational-spiritual-quotes.html
Love, Light and Healing,
eye_of_tiger
