“Now is the time to make sense of your life. Understanding yourself and others around you is an integral part of you.” Your Angel’s Message: Your current situation requires some understanding. It’s time to examine this and your reactions to it in depth. It’s crucial that you know all the hard facts about this before you may any rash decisions. There is more to what is happening around you now than meets the eye. Something around you is hidden and needs to come out. When it does, you need to treat this with understanding.
This card can also mean that it’s necessary for you to understand yourself. It’s only through doing this that you can be the best possible version of yourself. Understanding who you are is perhaps the most important foundation that enables you to build strong, healthy and lasting relationships with the people around you. Ask God and the angels to give you the gift of understanding. What You Should Do: Take time to figure out who you truly are deep down. Be ready to be understanding of others. Look at all aspects of every situation you’re involved in and don’t be too hasty to judge others. We all have our own lives and our own specific realities. Try to put yourself in the shoes of others. Understanding is key to all relationships. Your Affirmation: “I ask God and the angels to help bring me an understanding of both myself and my life.”
the artist writes with wings transfixed with light and alchemy that casts a spell upon the soul
and animates its bloom its radiance…
J in the mountains 6/6/21
It’s the birthday of poet Maxine Kumin, born in Philadelphia (1925). She was a good student and wrote poetry from the time she was a young girl, but she was equally interested in swimming, and even trained to become an Olympic swimmer as a teenager. When she was 18 Kumin was offered a job with Billy Rose’s Aquacade, a famous traveling dance-and-swimming show, but her father considered the spectacle too risqué and refused to give his permission. He did approve of her academic talents, so she went to Radcliffe and studied literature and history. She had continued to write poetry and she showed her poems to one of her young professors, Wallace Stegner, who at the time was still an unknown novelist. Stegner handed them back with a note in red pencil, “Say it with flowers, but, for God’s sake, don’t try to write poems.” She was so hurt that she didn’t even try to write another poem for many years.
In the meantime she got a master’s degree in comparative literature, met and married an Army engineer, and moved to the suburbs where she concentrated on raising her children. During her third pregnancy she was feeling restless, and she happened upon a book called Writing Light Verse, which cost $3.95. She decided that if she hadn’t published anything by the time her child was born she would give up forever. She was six months pregnant when The Christian Science Monitor accepted one of her poems and paid her $5 for it. It was just four lines long; it read: “There never blows so red the rose / so sound the round tomato, / as March’s catalogues disclose / and yearly I fall prey to.” She began publishing light verse in magazines like Ladies’ Home Journal and The Saturday Evening Post. The Post required Kumin’s husband to send a letter from his employer certifying that her poem was original, since, she later said, “Women, along with people of color, were still thought to be intellectually inferior, mere appendages in the world of belles lettres.”
She was happy enough writing light verse, although she wished she knew some other poets. In 1957 she enrolled in a local poetry-writing workshop. One of her classmates was the poet Anne Sexton and the two women became close friends and writing peers — they eventually installed separate phone lines in each of their homes so that they could be in constant communication. Very slowly Kumin began to have poems accepted that were not just light verse. She said, “Until the Women’s Movement, it was commonplace to be told by an editor that he’d like to publish more of my poems, but he’d already published one by a woman that month.”
Her professor at the poetry workshop recommended her for a position at Tufts, where he taught, and so she began a long career as a teacher and mentor. As a teacher she often asked her students to memorize 30 to 40 lines of poetry a week so that they grew familiar with the sound of poetry. She said:
“The other reason, as I tell their often stunned faces, is to give them an internal library to draw on when they are taken political prisoner. For many, this is an unthinkable concept; they simply do not believe in anything fervently enough to go to jail for it.”
Her books include Up Country (1972), The Long Approach (1985), Where I Live (2010), and And Short the Season (2014).
Kumin died in 2014. She was 88.
“Trust in yourself. Believe in the special and beautiful person you are.” Your Angel’s Message: Child of God, the angelic realm asks that you believe in yourself. Lose the worries that impeded you from enjoying full faith with their help and guidance. You’ve been hurt and disappointed in the past. Your angels are aware of everything you’ve been through and want you to know that you can trust in them and in yourself.
“Trust in yourself. Believe in the special and beautiful person you are.” Your Angel’s Message: Child of God, the angelic realm asks that you believe in yourself. Lose the worries that impeded you from enjoying full faith with their help and guidance. You’ve been hurt and disappointed in the past. Your angels are aware of everything you’ve been through and want you to know that you can trust in them and in yourself.
“Try to set aside some of your monthly income for yourself alone. This enables you to invest in yourself and in your future.” Your Angel’s Message: One secret of abundance that any people don’t realise is that paying yourself first is a wonderful way to take care of yourself. Of course, your other obligations are important. You need to pay the bills. You also have a debt to yourself too. If you can try to save a small portion of every wage. Keep this money in a savings account to only ever be touched when you truly need it for your future.
You may be horrified at the concept of investing in yourself. Surely that relates to your ego. The answer to this is absolutely not. When you pay yourself, you’re recognizing your own self-worth. You are acknowledging that you deserve abundance, peace and prosperity within your life. This is so good for your general energy! Treat yourself the same way you’d treat anyone else that you love. The rewards will be great! What You Should Do: So, with all of the above in mind, it’s time to take care of you and your future. It’s time to treat yourself with the same generosity you would extend to someone you love. If you can, try to regularly save around ten percent of your income or just what you can afford.
And if you promise to tithe some of your winnings, I may be able to help you uncover your Lucky Numbers as well. Your Affirmation: “I accept nothing less from my own self than what other people expect from me. I shall always endeavour to pay myself first.”
It was on this day in 1431 that Joan of Arc was burned at the stake for heresy in Rouen, France. She was an ordinary French peasant girl, living during the Hundred Years War between France and England. When she was still a teenager she heard the voice of God telling her to join the battle and help defeat the English army. She performed a series of apparent miracles and persuaded the French army to let her command a group of soldiers. At the battle of Orleans she led the revitalized French army, bearing a flag with Jesus’ name written across it, and the English were defeated. She continued fighting battles until May 23, 1430, when she was captured by enemy soldiers. They turned her over to the church to be tried as a heretic, idolater, and sorcerer. Her enemies believed that the only way they could have lost in battle to a woman was if she had been using witchcraft. Her trial lasted for months. Every day she was brought into the interrogation room where she was the only woman among judges, priests, soldiers, and guards. The judges hoped to trick her into saying something that would incriminate her as a witch or an idolater so they asked endless questions about all aspects of her life, in no particular order. They were especially interested in her childhood. And because the transcripts of the trial were recorded, we now know more about her early life than any other common person of her time. Joan testified that she first started hearing divine voices when she was 13 while working in her father’s garden. When God commanded her to join the battle against the English she told her parents she was going to help her cousin deliver a baby. The judges asked her if she felt guilty for leaving her parents, and she said, “Since God commanded it, had I had a hundred fathers and a hundred mothers, had I been born a king’s daughter, I should have departed.” When she wasn’t being interrogated she spent her time in prison chained to a wooden block. After months of questioning she was told that if she didn’t sign a confession she would be put to death. She finally signed it but a few days later she renounced the confession and on this day in 1431 she was burned at the stake. She was 19 years old. She was mostly forgotten for about 400 years and then she was revived as an inspirational national figure during the French revolution. In 1920 she was canonized as a saint by Pope Benedict XV. She is the only person ever burned at the stake for heresy who later became a saint. The file on her at the Vatican is still sealed. She’s been the subject of more than 20 movies, as well as plays by writers such as Voltaire and George Bernard Shaw. More than 20,000 books have been written about her.
“Enjoying spending time in nature is crucial to your spiritual and emotional well being right now. Make time to get out there and to enjoy the natural world around you.” Your Angel’s Message: The angels need you to be aware of the beauty of nature. You’ve been distracted for some time. As you read these words, what is the first distraction the comes to mind? This is the main one you must focus on blocking out now. The issue here is that when your attention is fragmented, its hard to focus on and put time into your real priorities.
Once you have identified what isn’t working for you, you can begin to work on living life to the full in God’s grace. Get outside and enjoy walking along a beach and feeling the wind in your hair. Enjoy feeling that sand between your toes. Feel God’s creation. Know that you are a perfect part of this. Connect with the Universe! What You Should Do: Take stock of the distractions in your life. The ones that are blocking you from enjoying the aspects that are more important to you. See which ones can be eliminated. By doing this, you can let go of anything that detracts from your usual path. Let go of worries, activities you don’t enjoy and that are no longer meaningful to you. Enjoy living a healthy lifestyle, spending time in the outdoors surrounded by God’s perfect creations. It’s time to go back to basics! Your Affirmation: “All things are one. I connect with nature and enjoy her gifts. I feel free to focus on what’s important to me.”
The Vibrant Channeled Creator 