“A time of celebration and joy is nigh! Enjoy this period Child of God. You deserve this!” Your Angel’s Message: You have created a wonderful time of change and of happiness within your life. With the help of the angels, you have created the right conditions to welcome an exciting and celebratory period. The good intentions you have sent out are manifesting. Your heart and soul are to be filled with warmth and thankfulness.
This card has been drawn for you. Let it speak to you. Feel its positivity. Feel happiness and excitement begin to build. You have planted and nurtured seeds that have grown and flourished. Sit back now and enjoy the fruits of your labours. Remember though, that for something to grow it needs to be tended to with love and care. Keep tending to your seeds and your crops will continue to be bountiful for many years to come! What You Should Do: Enjoy this lovely time. Celebrate yourself, your loved ones and all that is good in your life. Know that you have created this feeling and reality through your own good thoughts and actions. The angels have helped this along too. Your partnership with them is strong and will remain so. Take some time out to smell the roses! Your Affirmation: “My life is good. With the help of God and the angels, celebrations are up ahead. I am forever grateful.”
“Listen to your intuition now. Carefully consider what you want and need from life before you move forwards.” Your Angel’s Message: This is an intriguing card to draw. It tells you that the answers you need right now lie within your emotions and feelings. Trust in your intuition and even in your natural psychic abilities. You are a spiritual soul. You have great intuitive gifts. Don’t be scared to listen to your inner voice. Pay great attention to any intuitive messages you’re receiving. Look closely at your dreams too as these will guide you with accuracy.
Bear in mind though that you need to take some time to gain more insight. There may be more to situations around you than you currently imagine. Additional meanings of this card include: spiritual study, having patience, learning from emotional situations and keeping your desires and dreams to yourself. Archangel Haniel is the angel of feminine spirituality and grace. Call upon her to act as your spiritual guide and teacher. What You Should Do: Withdraw from the business of everyday life for even just a few minutes. Ask Haniel to guide you towards understanding your emotions. Your Affirmation: “I am a spiritual being of light and I have faith in my intuition! My dreams are guiding me on my path forwards.”
Archangel Haniel’s Message For You Today: “As you continue to grow spiritually, and practice showing kindness to others, today I ask you to show kindness to yourself. Release past hurts and regrets. It is normal to slip up, to make mistakes, to not be perfect. Be kind and gentle with yourself and see yourself as I see you – a unique, loved being.”
Your Angel Number For Today: 9 – The angelic number 9 supports endings. This is a perfect day to end your self-imposed suffering by living in regret. You are where you are now. If you feel called, you can change the future. Don’t hang onto what is long over.
Action Steps: Write down at least 10 ways you see yourself to be a loving being, a being loved by your guardian angel. Live by that list.
Affirmation Of The Day: “Today is a new day and I leave my past behind. I move forward with confidence and no longer press rewind.” Love & Blessings
Excerpt from The Tempest Act 4, Scene 1 by William Shakespeare Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp’d towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. Excerpt from “The Tempest” Act 4, Scene 1 by William Shakespeare. Public domain.
“Pay close attention to the dreams and ideas you’re currently having. These are direct communications from the angelic realm.” Your Angel’s Message: The angels urge you to pay attention to your dreams. These are your connection to your true self and are in line with your highest potential. The angels ask that you dream fearlessly and that you aim as high as you would like to. It doesn’t matter if what you’re hoping for seems unrealistic to your logical mind. Go for it and the angels will guide you towards what you need.
Dreaming gives us all a release for the humdrum of daily life. Perhaps this card has come as a message that you need to have a little more fun. When we dare to dream, we capture that childlike happy energy we once had when we were young. We feel happy and alive. We can create miracles! What You Should Do: The angels ask that you strengthen your connection to your higher self by allowing yourself to dream big. Enjoy these dreams and look confidently towards the most wonderful future! Your Affirmation: “I dream fearlessly and am eternally connected to my higher self.”
Even though you’ve been dead for almost two hundred years, I feel like maybe
I could fall through a wormhole or get knocked on the head or go through some stones in Scotland
& somehow make my way to you, wearing a complicated bonnet of feathers & ribbons
with medicines sewn into my pantaloons under my white muslin dress You’d fall for me & forget about Fanny Brawne & the big difference in our ages, because
well, because that’s what I want to happen, John Keats, not the part where your brother grows pale & mist-rising-from-a-shorn-field-under-a-sky-of-whirling- swallows-thin
& yes I’m sorry dies but the part where we lie on the grass & drink French wine & you lay your head on my breast I can feel your eyelashes against my skin even here in the twenty-first century
like the legs of a fly as it lands on a musk-rose while a tiny chorus hymns around your head That’s how much I fancy you, John Keats, like you’re an Amazon fulfillment center far out in space & I have a Groupon code for an intergalactic shopping spree like you’re the star of a miniseries about a Romantic poet unsullied by mycobacteria
& I’m a woman from the future changing literary history forever writing your name in my diary while you steer our little boat out of Lethe & into the lilies
trailing my hand in the canonical water Please take me away in my tight corset & wedding dress of sand
I don’t want to stay in this world watching Truth bound & gagged on the railroad tracks feeling like a fish trapped in a European pedicure spa while the tiny,
whining violins of privilege play & Beauty slowly backs away
Kim Addonizio, “I Can’t Stop Loving You John Keats” from Now We’re Getting Somewhere Published by W.W. Norton and used by permission of Massie & McQuilkin Literary Agents.
Though I don’t wish to seem too fanatical, I consider the owl ungrammatical. “To -whit, to -who” he sits and keens; “To whit, to-whom is what he means. Robert N. Feinstein
Tomorrow, your Guardian Angel Haniel wants you to know…
“Review your life path and choices. Shed all feelings of guilt and move forwards.” Your Angel’s Message: This card carries the message that you must now take an honest look at your life. Don’t look back on the past and feel guilt or unhappiness. This is unhelpful to you on your spiritual journey. You need to look to the future and to change any negative patterns of behavior. The past is in the past.
Look at yourself as a loving and Divine soul. You are wonderful in yourself. You are a spiritual warrior. Don’t let life events get in the way of your happiness and inner joy. You need to take time to get over the past and to create a fulfilling and beautiful present and future. What You Should Do: Accept yourself for the beautiful soul you are. Don’t listen to other people’s negativity or harsh judgements. Admit to yourself what is most important to you. Call upon your angels to guide you towards these wishes and goals. Your Affirmation: “As I look back on my life, I accept the things I cannot change and focus on letting go of any negativity.”
The really happy woman is the one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour. (anonymous)
So your device has a low battery & seems to drain faster each day. Maybe you should double your medication. You might feel queasy, but also as if the spatula flattening you to the fry pan has lifted a little. So your breath comes out scorched, so what. Inside, trust me on this, there’s a ribbon of beach by a lake, in the sand, fragments of a fossilized creature resembling a tulip. Back in the Paleozoic, online wasn’t invented yet so everyone had to wander alone & miserable through the volcanic wastes or just glue themselves to a rock hoping someone would pass by. Now you can sob to an image of your friend a continent away & be consoled. Please wait for the transmissions, however faint. Listen: when a stranger steps into the elevator with a bouquet of white roses not meant for you, they’re meant for you.
Kim Addonizio, “Stay” from Now We’’re Getting Somewhere. Published by W.W. Norton and Used by permission of Massie and & McQuilkin Literary
I learned how to make Nana’s chicken soup by shadowing her steps in the kitchen, taking notes on a white paper napkin. A cauldron of sorts is required, as well as a once-animate chicken submerged above the stove’s blue flame. “You put in the onions,” Nana said, her Russian accent as fresh as the breeze must have felt on her face when she debarked at Ellis Island in 1916 or so. “How much salt?” I wanted to know— and when she shrugged I could see a palimpsest of the girl she was at my age. The water boiled and the air filled with steam. Not offering an answer in words, she poured salt into her upturned palm and tipped it out into the pot. No measuring cups for my Nana. “A little this, a little that,” she’d say, cocking her head, adding a pinch of black pepper and copious piles of carrots and celery. I thought about the chestnut-colored braid my mother showed me, wrapped in a piece of sea-green silk. Nana was beautiful when she was young. Everyone said so. Cleaning a leek, she told me, “I don’t know what it’s called, but it makes the soup good.” Sixty-four now and all my elders dead, I add a parsnip as well, just as I watched Nana do, and I feel the velvet touch of her hands on my forehead. All the old people I knew spoke English with sounds borrowed from Russian and Polish, Yiddish and Romanian. I assumed, as a girl, that I would speak like that, too, when my hair turned gray and the pads of my thumbs grew soft and pillowy. Gathering parsley for the soup from my garden, I seem to hear Nana saying my name made rich with her guttural R’s and broad A’s. “Bahbra, dahlink!” the birds are singing today. I boil Manischewitz noodles, only adding them to the bowl when I ladle out Nana’s love. Golden and gleaming with fat, as bejeweled as the star-filled sky must have looked when, shipboard, she tipped her kerchiefed head back and filled her eyes with all the dazzling possibilities, and all the dangers, of a new place, a new language, a new land. Her favorite brother waiting for her with his Romanian wife. The brother-in-law she’d marry. Twenty-seven years following the end of Nana’s life, her love fills me up and restores me.