 Hey there and welcome to this reading for April 2019. This is Christy Martin with Art of Awakening and this is the first of, we're just kicking off a whole month of daily uploads for the month of April and this is in celebration of reaching a thousand subscribers last month. I just am so grateful to all of you who have subscribed. I'm grateful for every single like and share and comment. Love your comments. Also thank you so much to those who have worked with me and purchased sessions or also purchased my animal awareness deck. I really, really appreciate that support and moving forward here. So this is a general reading for the month of April, asking for highest and best insight and guidance for Highest Miss Good for the month of April. Anybody who is drawn to this, I really, I'm going to show you the decks first. I'm using the Mermaid's Adolphin's deck from Durian Virtue as well as my Old Spirit of Animal Awareness deck. The reason I'm choosing these decks, I had actually recorded this reading for April earlier and I think the reading was valid but it just didn't, there was something that didn't feel right and I think it was because I was using a couple decks that had a lot of masculine energy and it was just like too much. It was just like I felt overwhelmed at the whole time and I feel like, I feel like right now the masculine is really coming forward, coming forward for healing, starting like this is divine masculine I'm talking about, which is super different than the patriarchal energy that we've been coming out of and it's really a beautiful thing but with going into Aries season, we're in Aries season right now going into an Aries full moon, just a lot of that kind of proactive, very masculine for a lot of fire and I'm feeling like there's a lot of people that I've been connected with that have been feeling kind of overwhelmed. I'm feeling a little bit overwhelmed right now and just feels like there's a lot of, self-care would be a super good thing and this is just sort of an energy update on my part for April, really keep an eye on self-care. You know if you feel like things are going too fast, take some deep breaths, you know go into meditation, it's okay to you know just step back a little bit, suspend some alone time, journal, you know because this looks like it could be a very busy month and that you know in a good way. I mean I'm feeling like there's a lot of opportunities that can open up a lot of like if you've been stuck in any kind of area of your life, it could be projects or relationships or whatever, this this may be the month where it really starts to free up and you know there's a lot of creative energy going on that you can tap into but all that kind of creative energy can get sort of exhausting so do not neglect the self-care this month, very very important and if you can pull water into the mix somehow make sure you keep yourself hydrated, baths, maybe go swimming, maybe sit by some water, listen to the water flowing, it could be a very soothing thing to help with all the busyness. All right so coming up first positive energy, all right so this is really really really important for this month again with all this kind of there's a certain amount of volatility or just action and creative potential it's it's really easy, hi Jazz it's my dog, really easy to to to really again get overwhelmed so staying positive, surrounding yourself with positive people, situations of whiteness activity and that includes your thoughts like if you feel yourself there's there's my dog Jasmine drinking she's bringing some water into the mix so thank you Jasmine. So like if you feel yourself like getting up tight like just really stay aware of your mental and emotional the climate that you've created for yourself or what's coming up for you mentally and emotionally and stay very very aware because you can direct that energy if you notice that things are getting down that you're getting stressed out redirect yourself you know either do what you need to do to take care of yourself or redirect your thoughts like if you start getting the I can't thoughts or the you know the victim kind of mentality turn that around you're not a victim an officer victims like unless we choose to be right so you know choose to empower yourself and you can choose who you hang out with we can't always choose that right we can choose how we respond to them and but we can also choose to proactively you know sometimes we can't choose to avoid those people that we feel are not supporting us and spend time with people who are all right so next card to come up is salmon again bringing that water in really important this energy right now is like I see salmon as a real ascension creature I see it as really you know when a salmon does the salmon run moving up the stream in the spring that is usually in the spring time moving up to spawn right they have a goal in mind they are very very focused okay so this is a really good time though you're going to get the most out of this month if you take a little time to get very very clear on your ideals what's important to you and your goals you know what you desire in your life and make sure that those are aligned because it's really easy to have goals that are not really ours are not really aligned but whatever we keep in mind that's what we're going to create in our life so if you know be and here's again this positive energy and being very aware of your thoughts you it's easy to put goals down on paper but if we start worrying around those goals then that sort of hijacks the goal the worries hijack the goal so the worry becomes in effect the goal because that's what you're centering your your your focus on right so really be clear on where is your focus and is it staying positive and if you do that then the action because this is a really good month for taking action keeping aware of the goal keeping it positive keeping it aligned then your actions are going to follow through and it's going to help create the conditions the results that you desire that's manifestation okay so this is a really good kickoff month this year for manifesting what you want not that it's necessarily going to all manifest this month but you can be setting the seeds it's a good seed planting time and really moving into the new moon especially setting intentions all right so speaking of that next card is morning affirmations let's pull this up here a little bit make sure you can see all right morning affirmations all right so again this really ties in with the goals with the setting the the the positive energy you know this may be a good time this month to spend some time every morning if you don't have a morning ritual good month to start one morning ritual is really important to make sure that you're you know keep yourself just a little alignment practice every morning to help stay on track with your goals on track with your positive energy and if you don't have a lot of time in the morning just make a little ritual it could be a five minute ritual it could even be a two minute ritual it could just be something that you say to yourself while you're brushing your teeth whatever it is but it's really important to set that day off you know in a way that's positive in a way that's going to help you to reach your goals to achieve your goals to to stay on track with what you want which you know because we do we are the creators we are there our own artists we are the artists of our own lives and if you want your life to be a thing of beauty then it's really we have to stay aware part of being an artist is really being aware at all times of what's happening what's happening around us what's happening um on the on the paper or whatever however we're creating um you know I there's art goes way beyond just the creative arts it's you know the healing arts anything that you do can be art last card here at home look at all the water look at all the water I love it blue whale all right so whales like okay it's a couple things that are coming forward one is really going deep and this is really sitting the stage so what happens in this month is it can be foundational it can be foundational to like a new life that you want to lead a new project I'm really feeling like um you know this can be like the seeds that we're planting now these roots are going to really go deep or there's the potential for that anyway um so whatever seeds you plant now they have the potential for really going deep and that can go either way if you're staying in that positive energy you're doing your morning affirmations if you're staying um you know staying on purpose knowing your purpose you know you know knowing your intentions knowing who you are setting your goals and and staying focused then those roots can be very very strong that you know those seeds that you sow this month you know they're going to grow real strong and they're going to really grow into something beautiful over the next few months and years but if you allow the negative energy to come forward this month there's there's a lot of powerful manifestation energy this month you know you're going to get those weeds coming up and it's um you know not that they can never be pulled out but they may be kind of tenacious weeds right so we want to immediately really keep it positive this month um and then the other thing coming up with whale is communication so this is a little bit of the whale's telling us a little bit about how we want to make sure that we are speaking our truth and really paying attention to this is very much throat chakra thing right um really pay attention to your body and your emotions and your thoughts but especially your body and your emotions I'm getting and honor them whatever that's coming through for you um you know if you've been the kind of person that like kind of clamps down on the emotions or doesn't you know honor them or just feel the figures you can like this is really I'm speaking to really strong people here right really strong people who can take it and who are able to kind of handle stuff just sometimes it's like we we push through situations because we're survivors but this is really this energy right now is asking us to like step out of the survivor mode and into the thriving okay because a survivor or just like it's good to be survivor right but I think we are starting to get the point where we can start transgressing that and because what the survivor mentality tells us is that things are hard right and if we step out of the survivor I can handle this and into I can really take charge of this there's a big difference there okay from I can handle it and you know that's just kind of taking on this energy and bearing this burden right into oh well you know even if things are challenging even if we've got backup alarms going when we're making a video we can actually kind of roll with that and turn it into a positive so really stepping into your power this month and part of that is communicating first of all to yourself what's really going on here you know this is not like pushing things under the rug this is taking them out and looking at them but this is also being communication in a way that is powerful but like powerful and strong but like not like whales are very communal and they're very supportive of each other so supportive communication so you can this may be invitation to speak out about your boundaries but be careful like not to do it in a way that is antagonistic right just be true to yourself and things will go just fine all right so just trust things are going to go just fine just stay stay in that positive energy bring the water in if you need it and have a lovely month thanks so much for joining me and I'll catch you again tomorrow