Secrets
When I asked Spirit what messages they had for you this week I heard, “Secrets, hidden secrets.” I asked for clarification. What secrets? Personal secrets? Secrets in a relationship? Ancestral secrets? Secrets of the Universe? The answer was they were referring to our secrets – yours and mine – those thoughts held privately, in the dark, and tucked away somewhere
where only we can access them. Sometimes they are buried so deep we forget we have them. Then one day they bubble to the surface surprising us. These last few weeks seem to have presented those deeply buried secrets to several people I know as well as myself. What about you? Are your secrets coming to see the light of day asking to be examined and dealt with? If so, Spirit is saying this is the opportune time to do that. Maybe we have been preparing for what the current astrological changes will bring us – privacy, truth, intensity, and deep emotional work. This Mercury retrograde also has us looking at secrets that our past holds for us and this weekend of Venus “being in the dark” gives us the quiet time to release and renew.
What Are Your Secrets?
As I mentioned in previous blogs, the last several weeks have brought up lessons in control, responsibility, forgiveness, and compassion for me. With each twist and turn of events, I have been given another message, another opportunity to release things and relationships that no longer serve me. Feeling good about my own progress, I was surprised this week when another “aha moment” popped up during one of our Self Discovery and Healing Community meetings. As we went around the group sharing recent wins and challenges, a single thread quickly became obvious. Everyone was dealing with challenges to their personal power. Opportunities were arising for them to step into their power and even their bodies were confirming the message with digestive upset and other solar plexus chakra symptoms.
After the meeting I began to connect the dots for myself. The frequent bouts of slight nausea, the change in appetite, and “tightness in my gut.” I could suddenly see so clearly that my current challenges were not only about setting boundaries, but it was standing in my power to enforce them. I also had to do more to stand up for my personal integrity that had been attacked. With this new clarity I wondered why it had taken me so long to get to this realization. Then the past life memories started to flood in again but this time with a new perspective. They had not only brought lessons in responsibility and control, but they were also about standing in my power. Each lifetime my attempts had failed. My power was stripped from me. I was powerless and consequently lost my family and my life.
The realization struck me. That deeply buried secret was that I believed I was powerless. The fear, based on all those past lives, that if I tried to stand in my power, I would lose my family and my life, was keeping me from truly standing in my power this lifetime. The many incidents in this lifetime where I tried to stand in my full power and failed scrolled like a movie through my awareness. Looking at my current challenge, I saw the pattern again. I was holding back. I validated my hesitation with the thought that “maybe this is how things are meant to be.” I even handed my power over to someone else to address the situation for me. Frustratingly, none of these strategies were working and now I realized why. The lesson was in me taking my power back.
Do you have a deeply buried belief that is no longer serving you but is still secretly “running the show?” Are you currently dealing with a challenge that fits a pattern that has been repeated several times before? Do you have childhood memories or glimpses of past lives that might point to your buried secret? Are you carrying ancestral trauma that has been locked away too long and is now coming to light? Is your intuition pointing you in a different direction than you thought you should go? Are you stuck? What secret beliefs and thoughts are slowing you down?
Unpacking the Secret
It’s time to unlock our secrets. But where do we start? If you have been moving through challenges but your body and intuition keep telling you there is more, keep digging. Start by giving yourself carved out alone time. Sometimes we have to schedule it in and resist the temptation to “double book” ourselves. Other times, Spirit will orchestrate events in your life to give you the alone time you need when you need it.
When you get that time first be still and just breathe. If you can be in nature, Mother Earth will
help you to ground. As you relax, tune into your body. Where do you feel discomfort or dis-ease? Do you have a headache possibly indicating your third eye is blocked? Is your throat chakra speaking up with symptoms such as a sore throat or laryngitis that tell you to find your voice? Are your lungs manifesting grief as a respiratory infection? Are your shoulders heavy with a burden? Is our heart acting up because something has left you “heart broken?” Is your digestion off because you are not in your power? Are reproductive organ issues a sign of blocked creativity? Pay attention to the smallest symptom, pain or discomfort and listen to your intuition as you ask your body what it is trying to tell you. Each organ, each symptom has a specific meaning for you.
Once you have focused on the part of your body that is speaking to you, ask for the message. You may want to connect with your higher self, your angels, or guides for assistance. Simply ask the questions you want answers for. You can even ask, “What secret is that part of your body holding that can no longer be buried?” You may have already been seeing patterns in your current challenges. Another way to ask is what belief you hold that no longer serves you. Where did it come from? How did it keep you safe?
The Secret is Out
Sometimes your deeply buried secret is the memory of trauma. We keep it buried and tell ourselves its effect has shaped us into who we are. Then we believe that “This is just who I am.” But you do have the power to change that, to heal that trauma. Working with your higher self you can revisit the trauma as an observer versus reliving it. Sometimes just understanding what happened is enough to release a block to moving forward. You may connect with your inner child who formed a belief to feel safe. Separating them from that belief, helping them see the truth about themselves, others involved, and their safety are steps to releasing. Seeing the lesson it brings forward and then allowing your higher self, your angels, and guides to release the tie you have to that event can help. What trauma do you need to release?
Just as our past in this life can hold secrets, so too can our past lives. As in my case above, they may suddenly come to light for you. The stories may come through meditation, journaling, dreams, or even while quietly washing the dishes at your kitchen sink. They will show you a thread of meaning. The threads will point to the same lesson. As they come to light, they are telling you it is time for closure. It is time to integrate the lesson and move on in your spiritual growth. Your higher self will guide you as to what secret needs to be released to move forward.
When we ask about our secret that is at the root of a challenge sometimes an ancestor will come forward with a story. They are showing us the trauma we have been carrying for our lineage that we have agreed to healing. Part of our soul contract is to heal the trauma for past and future generations. You are here to heal it because you can. You have the strength and the wisdom. It is all within you. Allow your higher self to show you the way. Seeing the lesson, releasing the trauma, and bringing in healing can be done.
Another secret we can be holding is something that belongs to the collective. As many of you are empaths, your challenge may be rooted in what issue or trauma the collective is experiencing that you are taking on. You are feeling the chaos, the fear, the trauma of the world or groups of its inhabitants. Not knowing why you “just feel that way” or not understanding why you can’t shake a negativity may have you stuck. Starting by asking whether what you are experiencing is even yours will help. Listen to your intuitive answer. That is your inner knowing speaking, the voice of your higher self. As an empath you can then take the steps to offer healing to the situation and ask Source for help in only feeling what you are meant to serve.
What are your secrets asking you to do? Where are they hidden? Where did they originate? What is your next step?
A Reason for Everything
I have always believed that there is a reason for everything and as I get older, I find that truth is beyond a doubt. We all hold secrets and that is not a bad thing. They are here to teach us what we have come to this lifetime on this planet to learn. They are here to help us live our purpose. They have remained secrets until now because until this time we have not been ready for the truths they will reveal. As we unpack them, they bring us closer to our authentic selves.
The journey with our buried secrets may have been confusing, frustrating, and even have us feeling helpless and hopeless. Those feelings are triggers to prompting us to dig deeper for that treasure, to uncover that secret. When we do, our lives are changed, we move forward in our growth. We have the opportunity to clear out the past and all that no longer serves us. Parts of your life fall away as we embrace the memory of who we truly are. We have to let go to move forward. What are you clutching onto that is holding you back?
You Are Loved and Supported
Spirit wants you to know that you are not alone on this part of your journey. Spirit walks with you on your journey. We have so many helpers just waiting for us to ask them for assistance. Source would not have us enter these times of challenge and awakening without the supports that we need. I know when I ask for help, I can feel me Spiritual team respond. Sometimes it is angels of healing. Sometimes it is guides who whisper an answer to a question that I have been avoiding. Sometimes it is Mother Mary and Mother Giai holding me, reminding me that I am loved. Often, it is Archangel Michael helping me sever attachments to things and people that no longer serve me. Always I feel the love and support of my guardian angels. Sometimes those messages and support also come from my family and friends. Whether they realize it or not, they are part of showing me my path forward. Other times I seek the support of a spiritual practitioner for that slightly different perspective that I am missing.
Spirit has been telling me for almost over a year now that “something is coming” and I need
to prepare. I need to get my house in order so I can be a support to others. They often show me a single post standing in a body of water with a single seagull perched on top. The rest of the dock has washed away but the post remains stable, steadily braving all sorts of weather and challenges the water can bring to it. It is still a refuge, a perch for that seagull. Interestingly seagulls are seen as messengers from Spirit that good things are coming. They are symbols of freedom, resilience, trust in oneself, and seeing things from a broader perspective. I believe that is some of my purpose that I am clearing the way for. I can support others to move into those “good things.” As I learn and grow my confidence and self love grows too. I am feeling how much the Creator loves me and I can grow that love for myself and others.
Lastly Spirit askes, “Do you know what else is a secret?” The answer has been hidden from you by how our society currently works. We have been taught to survive a world of competition where the mindset of “survival of the fittest” dominates. We have created scenarios in our lives to stay safe and small just so we can survive. But we still have a knowing there is something else that is part of us. We reach out. We help others. We love and support other people, creatures, and Mother Earth herself. That is a glimmer of your true self that is slowly coming out of hiding. The secret is out. You are a powerful child of the Divine. You have an overflowing of love in your heart coming straight from Source to you and through you to others. Your innate gifts to connect with Spirit are coming back online. They have never been lost. They were just one of the secrets you had to bury to stay safe in a world that did not understand them. Now as everyone uncovers their secrets, they will become the norm, not a feared exception. As you feel more into your authentic self, your secrets revealed and honoured, your beautiful mind will listen to your heart to create a wonderful life devoid of fear and negative beliefs and full of joy. So, Spirit is asking you, “What secrets are you ready to reveal?” It is time they come to light and your team is waiting to help you.
Sending you love and light,
Marilyn
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