DELIGHT: You are now, the Kitsune are happy to share with you, in the midst of a moment of beauty – it is joyful, fun, uplifting, and you will fee so much happiness. For some people, this may seem trivial – that enjoyment and good times are not as serious as those moments when we walk with the shadows and discover more about our deeper aspects. This is not that time. This is now a time to come into the light – time to allow the moments of joy, the lightness of being that graceful state to be ours, too, to have humor and play, music and sweetness all about us, and to laugh and be free. And this is the energy this card brings to you now. To be light, to be joyful, to be as the music from the flute is – high, and light, and sweet, and to know that every note has its moment and will pass.
As you enjoy this time and smile, with pure uplifting energy shining from you, others will open up and feel this way, too. It will be a simpler time, an easier time, a time when the heaviness of the world falls away, and you are ensouled, but in the most sparkling and naturally happy of ways. You will find others to share your happiness with, and it will be like a ripple upon water – spreading out, and influencing so many. And the world needs this joy, dear one, and this is the gift of the Kitsune realm to you – a springtime for your soul. The Kitsune adore music, and fun, and dance, and joy! Let no one tell you you are not serious enough. Let no one try to hold down your joy – bubble up, like spring beneath the earth, and shine out to the world.
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Leave Behind What is No Longer You: Sometimes when we feel we are being what is called by humans “true to ourselves”, we are in fact not being true to ourselves at all. At times, we develop habits of self, and who we are has become an old story we tell ourselves and others, over and over again, until it seems natural and inevitable. This after all, is who we are, we believe. But the truth is now here for you, and some of who you have told yourself you are is about to get a shake-up, and you will find yourself walking through the gateways into a new version of who you are, and leaving behind who you once thought you were. This will be a raw time, a time when we feel vulnerable and exquisitely sensitive, yet it is good work that we do when we no longer follow a pattern, but seek instead to become who we are next meant to be. But in order for this to take place, something must be left behind before you walk through this gateway.
Choose what feels less true than it ever has been before, and choose what still feels like a pattern you have attachments to. For once you walk through the gateway adorned with all the attachments and entwinings that ivy can bring, we will cease to make our former self and others and responsibilities our major commitment. Instead, your own undoing and re-becoming will surface and demand its place in this next stage of your life. This is a gate of freedom you walk under. First, though, put down the burden of attachment to who you believe who you are – or, more truthfully, who you believe you ought to be. Rebirth yourself, dear friend, and allow the gateway of the realm of the Kitsune to work its magic upon your endless reimagining of who you are.
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To Dance With Joy: You are not alone, beautiful soul, although you have felt alone so many times. When this card comes to you, Seeker, you know that there will soon be others who will join you, and together there will be festivities and creations, rituals that are joyous, and a sense of no longer being alone in a world where you once felt disowned. You move, and as you move, the world notices you. Your energy draws others closer to you, and they join you, attracted by the energy you radiate, as you dance the truth of your existence.
It is no one else’s dance, and there are no laws to it, except that every step is a part of your story, and you are sharing with others, finally, more of who you are. There will be times when you are celebrated, when people remember what is important to you, when gifts are offered, and when friendship’s hand is extended towards you. These are all coming towards you now, and all you need to do is allow yourself finally to be who you are amongst others. In this way, the people of your own soul tribe can find you, for they too have taken refuge in the forest of the Kitsune, and they are delighted that you, too, thought to hide there. And, within the honesty of revealing our soul’s truth, other can know us, and what was once too raw to share becomes simply the most beautiful vulnerability – the truthful, simple kind, without drama, that allows others to see their kinship to you.