 Happy Valentine's Day. Romantic love. It's a lot like a rose. It's so beautiful and smells so sweet, but it's got those sharp thorns that you've ever been, you know, stuck by it. You know how much that hurts, but you find the right person and it just, it's blooms and blooms and blooms and it's something really just nothing else like it. So today I'm just going to share with you a story of how my guides helped me to find the right one for me and I'm just going to share a piece of artwork also that was involved in that and at the end I'll do a love reading for this Valentine's Day 2021 or whenever you happen to land on this video, if you're drawn to this, this reading is going to be for you. Okay so this story takes us back almost a year and a half ago to November 2019 and I had about two years before left a very challenging long-term marriage and at that point I was really feeling kind of ready to maybe jump into this relationship thing again. I actually had a long-term relationship or kind of a long-distance relationship with an old flame that this person really is dear to my heart, but it just wasn't feeling aligned to me and then there was another another long story, a person that was not a romantic relationship but was had that kind of twin flame feeling on my end anyway and which I knew from the get-go wasn't right, but it just was one of those super compelling emotional things that you know it was like you know some of those things where it's like no matter how hard you try it's still there. So it kind of working through some of those things and maybe you can relate to some of these experiences. But it was like I knew that neither one of those was the right but it was just sort of you know where we go from here and so one time is you if you've been following me for a while you may know that I work in my journal and that I access kind of the akash or through my higher guidance through the journal a lot. It's one beautiful way and if you haven't tried it yet I'd encourage you to try journaling because it it's an awesome way to really really connect in a deep way to your higher self. Anyway so I was doing some journaling and I wasn't even asking so much about I wasn't even asking directly about romance. It wasn't even on my mind but I was just sort of like asking for kind of clarity and guidance on kind of the path I had or the next couple months and all of a sudden she like my higher guidance starts going in on you need more romance in your life and not the swashbuckling kind you need the flowers and chocolate kind but maybe light on the chocolate right. And then she continued and gave me this whole list of instructions and what to do next. So I wrote them all down and it was things like first thing she told me to do was write down exactly what you want in a partner all the important things just write them down. And then she said paint the angel of romance and then hang that painting up in your bathroom get yourself some roses buy roses for yourself get yourself some bubble bath take a bubble bath she gave me this whole list of things to do. So when I came out of that and re-read it as like wow and oh at the end she goes this is your Christmas wish as like and I was sort of like looking at this like where did this come from but I decided what the heck okay so I did I did every single thing on that list and starting with the painting of the angel of romance and part of me in the back of my mind is like what is this. So I got this big sheet of watercolor paper I'm gonna put this painting up here so you can see it got this big sheet of watercolor paper and just started painting and you know just letting the intuition take it and this angel appears and when I first saw him I was like really I felt dismayed I was like I am so done with you know my heart being a battleground and here's this warrior this really powerful warrior angels like I know I don't want this anymore but then I went and did the rest of it right I took the bubble bath and all that and oh they said put the rose petals in the bath so I had this bubble bath with rose petals and a candlelight it was so romantic it was just me right but then I as I took that bath they understood that and they told me and I did some more journaling around this and they said or she said my higher guidance said that there will be other angels of romance this is the first one that you're being sent and the reason it's a warrior is because he's going to protect and guard the boundaries of your heart and then it was like oh well that makes so much sense because like many of us one of the things that you know I was running into is was you know feeling this oneness with another person without really having those boundaries and which opened me up to not being treated well to not treating myself well and you know all those things that lead down that path to a very painful love relationship okay so so so what happened next what happened next was really amazing this friend of mine who I had gotten to know over the past year and had actually hired him to work on my house and stuff like that but to me I wasn't really feeling this romantic feeling towards him but he started showing up and even just a couple years before my my guidance had told me the right one's going to show up on your doorstep and and he started sort of showing up in my life and then shortly before Christmas I really started getting this feeling this was maybe two weeks before Christmas I started getting this feeling I really really need to just end this long distance relationship it just it's it's not right and and I kind of put it off maybe this is like three weeks before I put it off to about three and finally it was like really urgent you got to just cut it off and so I did and then like I think it was maybe the very next day that my friend Rich kind of basically asked me out for Christmas morning and we end up going on this hike on Christmas morning and we've been together ever since and really happy ending to that is like last last solstice just a few a couple months ago we ended up getting married so so that's my love story that I wanted to share with you and I'm sharing it with you in case if you are in that position where you're just like you have been hurt by love but are really feeling like you want that in your life that that you know even if you've been hurt again and again and again you can still like it's that that true love does exist it really does it's amazing when you find it and that you also have to be very very first of all clear about what it is that you want right what's important to you in that other person and be very clear on that and then also be willing to say no and willing to just you know bring in that warrior angel and and recognize that you are you know you're you're worth treating well you deserve respect you deserve to be treated well right and whatever that means to you but it's important that you know you first of all understand within yourself and begin to really love yourself in a deep deep deep way and to protect your own boundaries and and make sure that whoever does you know make it through they're gonna make it's gonna be that one who not just shows you love right because you know how many relationships start with love bombing but truly shows you respect and you know and who is just you know it's gonna show up for you and it also needs to be vice versa right so really being clear on you know how you can support that person as well okay so I hope you've enjoyed that little story and I'm just stay tuned now we'll just do a little love reading and by the way I don't think I introduced myself in this video yet so if you don't know me my name is Ona Christie and I am a visionary artist and energy worker I work a lot with the the spirit animals and kind of the nature spirits and today I'm actually going to be using a plant deck this is the illustrated herbiary beautiful deck that was given to me recently by Maya toll so starting with the energy of you quaking aspen okay we are one this is beautiful this is a this will be is going to be represent kind of what you're working with right now kind of the energy of the current challenge or lesson that you're learning right it's called we are one so this is a perfect card to come up in terms of a love reading this is if you're if you're resonating with this now remember this is a general reading for the collective so if you don't resonate with this it just means that you're not necessarily at this point right now but this can be this is great for either if you're seeking love or if you're already in a relationship and you know looking at deepening that relationship so aspen is a beautiful beautiful tree that if you're looking at an aspen grove a lot of times they're going to be actually the same tree it's just coming up as different that the base whole interconnected root system and so the different aspens are going to be pretty much pretty much one basically so a lot about aspen is about really connecting to something greater than yourself and because what happens sometimes in relationships is that we want to connect with that other person right and we're what we really need to do first is root down really connect with the oneness right and and connecting with that great mother with the oneness of mother earth and feeling your connection with all of humanity right and and feeling your place there and also you know reaching up and connecting with that higher light okay and once you've done that once you've really rooted and really grounded yourself and also holding yourself consistently to the light right when you really have that deep connection you know the central son of the holy father with the the core of the crystal mother earth right the holy mother that's when you can have this personal relationship because until you connect with that divine mother divine father you're always going to be looking for that connection and if you're trying to get that out of another individual it's never going to work right so aspen tells us that okay once we have that that deeper connection with you know with the planet with spirit with you know knowing our place in the whole then we can have that beautiful beautiful love bond between two individuals looking at this one this will be you know energies that you've either mastered or are coming out of a white willow says the ways of water to me water often is like this emotional field right and white willow coming up as a challenger with this water coming up as a challenger that that's I mean that to me that's always this over overly emotional or being carried away by your emotions right it's seeing that it's coming up as a challenger you know if this is resonating with you with you likely you've you may have had some of these relationships where you're just just emotionally carried away and and that's when it's like we have to have that balance between our logic right because we can have those emotional bonds that are just like a somebody's energy can just blow your way and you think oh my god you know this is this this has got to be the one because it feels so strong but then you can you know if you've ever been in that kind of relationship where it's just like you're just head over heels but you're getting the little red flags right the logic this doesn't make sense or the spiritual warnings like you know they'll come in and they may be really big red flags but if your emotions are so strong if you haven't mastered those emotions yet it it's so easy to ignore those red flags or just go counter to them okay so this is a card kind of indicating that it's seeing as it's coming out of the past you know learning your lessons from the past looking at you know if there's a new relationship on the horizon and you may be feeling that heart-thumping right look beyond just the emotions you know look beyond just the chemistry and make sure that you've also got you know your your spiritual your intuitive you know if it's a green flag rather than a red flag making sure that you know this relationship makes sense logically right we need to have all those things in place before I get to this one let's yeah let's look at this one yes this is going to be the kind of advice or moving into again coming up with a challenge so let's look at this dandelion dandelion is a real survivor right just gripping gripping gripping and it can be a very very very positive totem you can see just got the solar kind of connotation kind of bloom where you're planted but it also kind of I think has the reputation and herbal circles is kind of being a curmudgeon right and so this is it's perseverance but also just lighten up the perseverance a little bit right because we can get really like you know really emotionally attached to this idea of oh my god it's got to be the one and it's got to be the you know the twin flame and it's got to be whatever and and that can get us into almost this almost the state of flight or flight about this whole thing and and so what I think this is saying is you know dandelion can be such a survivor so grippy right and we can get really kind of uptight about it but if you turn it over it can be super playful and just sort of like allowing yourself to play allowing yourself to just sort of bloom and be happy right finding that happiness first and also that's that's where this can really lead you know allowing yourself to just spread out send yours your this is like the fruits the seeds right and so when we're fully balanced with ourselves when we found that already then we're going to be sending our little seeds out right of happiness of joy and that's when the you know that we're going to get a pull in that which we are wanting to attract so I'm going to leave this both of these right side up here just remembering to you know that you've you've come all this way you've learned a lot of lessons you've mastered a lot of things and you know love is no different than anything else right we always want to just be balanced and keep that balance and you know hold on to that and also you know just allowing yourself to let loose and play a little bit the supporting elements well so many things coming up upside down in reverse there's a star flower finding grace and I'm not familiar with this herb very much so but I'm seeing a lot of peacock here okay so I'd say that this is really about looking past looking past you know the the outer showiness you know and looking into the heart of things right even though there's not a heart here to start it just feels to me like you know the peacock can be so showy and he's trying to like show off for the you know his mate but just you know and that's why it's coming up this way is that I'd be looking beyond you know maybe maybe it's not going to be what you think it is right so you know finding that grace in the whole process being open you know watching for the signs of you know would you find peace in your heart are you feeling grace within yourself and remembering that if it's the right person even if it doesn't seem like it's going to be just give it a little chance give it a little time right and if it's right it'll grow into it like you don't have to rush into this and this is this is going to be the the challenging aspect spirit into matter okay what I'm getting here again I'm sort of getting a the same the same message here it's sort of like the grasping and the showing you know showing off the the the rings or whatever it is and okay these quick blooming things sometimes you know they can look be beautiful to begin with but take your time I think for both of these I'm getting really take your time because sometimes it's so flash something that's so flashy or showy at the beginning will wow you but like don't be too fast to jump into it okay don't be too fast allow things to really unfold and to blossom and then you're you know you don't have to jump into hey don't have to jump into bed right away you don't have to jump into exchanging rings right away you can let this blow and maybe it's also letting it really bloom within yourself first really fall in love with yourself first you know have the patience to do that and you know then it it will bloom in its own time okay so hope you've enjoyed and much love to you best best wishes and I will catch you again soon