Starting Fresh for the New Year

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Today, we were drawn to pull a rune, an angel card, and a tarot card.

We received the rune "Grief" -- the angel card "The Guardian Angel of Children" -- the tarot card -- the Six of Pentacles http://www.learntarot.com/bigjpgs/pents06.jpg

Grief is the sadness that lies in the heart. Grief is over some kind of loss, some hurt, some regret. Grief can be over some wrong that we have done to another. The Grief rune is telling us that it is now time to "tap into" the grief, bring it up into consciousness and let it go, then forgive and forget. Forgive and forget also means making amends where amends are due. If you have hurt someone, apologize -- then forgive yourself, too. If someone else has hurt you, forgive them for your own soul's sake.

The new year is such a wonderful opportunity to start fresh within ourselves. New Year's Resolutions created from the mind are easily broken. However, when you resolve from the heart, the changes happen naturally.

The Guardian Angel of Children, as her name describes, protects children, mothers, and those who work around children. However, we can call upon her to help protect and guide those who are at any new beginning. That can be a fresh project, job, way of being, resolution of change. She is a wonderful angel to help us when it comes to moving into the new year.

The Six of Pentacles has a man on it who holds a scale and he is giving to a miserly man. The pentacles on the card are unbalanced -- 3 on the left -- 2 on the right. Therefore, it insinuates that balance becomes achieved when you give something away. Balance is achieved this way, because what we give away from our hearts, comes back. We must cycle everything around. We give and get -- the great circle of life. Holding on to something tightly only ends up with our losing that object. This does not only relate to materialism and objects -- but also to love, kindness, caring. We must put love out into the world to get love back. We must respect to get respect, we must trust to earn trust, we must empower if we hope to be empowered.

So today -- we are being encouraged to tap into our own grief in our hearts, forgive and forget, ask for help from our angels as we move forward into our new phase of being, and be open, loving and kind to everyone who comes in our lives.

What a glorious way to usher in the new year!