Message from Your Guides, 3rd edition
January 2024's First Quarter Moon (Jan 18, 2024)
Please pick a card and watch the reveal here:
Below is a written explanation of the meaning of each card:
Card 1: Benevolent Guide
Numerology: 57. 5+7=12. 1+2=3. (3 is the perfect number, the number of harmony, wisdom and understanding).
Are you feeling alone on this journey? Are you doubting yourself and your path? Don’t be. Don’t let the feelings of restlessness and discontent bring about challenges on your path.
Because you’re never alone. Your Benevolent Guide is always near you, waiting for you to acknowledge its presence and to help you. It’s the one that’s been whispering words of encouragement, love, and kindness to your ears. This message wants you to remember when its guidance has helped you many times in your life
It wants to remind you that the Benevolent Guide is constantly there for you. Unconditionally. Its presence is never outside of you, but inside you.
Now is NOT the time for struggle or fear. Connect to your Benevolent Guide through meditation and prayer, and you will never make the wrong choices.
Card 2: Luna or The Moon
Numerology: 2 (feminine power. Power of receiving)
The moon is the mother energy. Always so mystical. Every month, it goes into the spotlight, then disappears, only to initiate the cycle again. The moon reminds us that we’re in constant transition, a continual process of letting go. We’re impermanent; never stay the same.
This card may indicate a time of pause, reflection, or restoration. It’s calling for a deep spiritual practice to receive its message. To be patient through the process of change. What transpires today might not be understood a few months from now.
This card may also invite you to understand what today’s moon phase wants to remind you of. Today is the first quarter moon. Here’s what it means:
THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF THE FIRST QUARTER MOON
The first quarter moon has several important spiritual meanings that you might be able to apply to your life.
For instance, many people see the first quarter moon as a symbol of strength. The moon is moving towards its full brightness and is in the “yang” phase of its development. It is determined to get from where it is now to where it finally wants to be—the full moon.
Hence, many people see it as a good time to think about becoming stronger and more adept at the tasks that they need to perform to succeed. There will be plenty of opportunity to rest later.
Given this interpretation, many people associate the first quarter moon with similar traits such as determination and focus. Again, these are very much “yang” elements in the yin and yang view of the world and complement the desire to become strong. Like a warrior, you need to go through training and emerge out of the other side fitter than before.
You can also think of the first quarter moon as a time for re-evaluation. At this stage in the lunar cycle, the moon has gone from a new moon through to a waxing crescent. However, at the first quarter moon, it pauses briefly to consider the next phase. For you, this could mean that you also need to pause and take stock of how far you’ve come. You might also check to make sure that you’re moving in the right direction for the future. After all, you don’t want to work hard only to find yourself at a dead end.
The message of the first quarter moon is to keep moving forward, regardless of your doubts or concerns. As the moon shows, it is entirely possible to continue moving on, putting one foot in front of the other, until you reach your goals. The first quarter moon is a time for taking stock, being critical of your approach up to this point, and then setting out to finish your goals.
Please note that while the first quarter moon is a time of energy and action, there will be opportunities to rest in the future. However, that time is not now. You need to harness the energy of the moon as much as possible at this stage to move forward with your life. There will be plenty of time to consolidate and recover from all your hard work later.
From: First Quarter Moon and its Spiritual Meaning - THAT VERY NIGHT
Card 3: Separation
Numerology: 70. 7+0=7 (spiritual number, an awakening)
In the alchemical operation, substances are pulled apart for their higher good, either willingly or unwillingly. The process might take place suddenly or slowly. Either way, this process is a painful one. Images of swords and knives, battles, breakups, divorce, and atoms splitting. My friend’s lost her son.
There’s no easy way to explain this today. Because, like the message of Luna (card 2), what transpires today might not be understood a few months from now. As heartbreaking and painful as this process is, it prepares the receiver for a more conscious union down the line, an awakening to the love within the self.
Through the pain of separation, we came to accept and love ourselves as we truly are, and in turn, we loved others and the world. This is a prerequisite for Conjunctio, the process of union and love.
This process could also be happening at the mental level through language or words expressed. Labels, titles, definitions, and words no longer give meaning to you in ways that make you feel proud, inclusive, belonging, or whatever you attach meaning to. That they no longer determine who you are or what you are. And in letting them go (in this process of separation), you give space to a more authentic expression of you. A true liberation of self opens you up to a union with the quantum field, where everything is possible.