Guest of Honor

Have you ever felt like you were on the outside, looking in – maybe like everyone else has found their place, really belonging to someone or something, having set themselves, up for life, with you still working out how to just get past the security guards at the front gate? It’s time for your outsider status to change. You are invited into the inner circle.

There are times to break free from the crowd, to stand alone and have the courage to be the outsider. If you are brave enough to endure the times when you feel like you don’t fit in, you gain a precious treasure. This is the ability to know who you really are and to learn to love that self. When you are solid in your self-esteem, and your self-knowledge, the powers you have developed as an outsider – including different viewpoints and ways of understanding the world – can be brought back to the rest of the world to be shared, to create a better world for all. It’s a bit like a soul version of sharing your holiday pictures with the family after a big adventure, opening up their minds to other worlds and maybe even inspiring them to take their own journey.

But if you’ve spent long enough on the outside, on the fringe of life, perhaps leaving people behind, it can take some intention and attention to change course. You might have become used to being the lone wolf or standing so apart from the crowd that there’s no-one else around you. That will have served a purpose,  but you are invited to shift your ways now – from setting yourself apart – to returning with that wisdom to share with others. It means believing you can sail straight passed the security guards at the door, straight into the most deliciously wonderful party and into the VIP room at the centre.

It’s your time for acceptance at a greater level because you are safe.

You have learned to accept yourself, so you’ll not hand your power over to others, as though their approval means more to you than your own self-possession. You can be amongst the crowd, and take your rightful place there, yet still be an individual, very much at home, belonging and sharing your treasures with others, still exactly who you are in truth.

The oracle of Guest of Honor brings a message: you are going to be offered pride of place in something that matters a lot to you. Accept it. It is your time to feel as though you have been chosen and that you belong.

Healing Trick:

To help you take the wisdom offered and put it to best use in your life now, do this healing trick to clear obstacles putting this guidance into place.

Imagine, visualize, feel or pretend that there is a big invitation before you. It is on a scroll with fancy lettering and a big red wax seal. Open it. It has your name in huge swirling letters on it, and it says, “You are invited!” Can you feel excited about this? Happy? Will you accept the invitation?

Say this aloud: “I belong. I have pride of place, the place that only I can fill. I am one of a kind and yet I belong to humanity. I am invited to take my place at the feast of life. I accept my invitation! I will partake with relish! Let’s party!”

You have finished your healing trick.

Affirmation:

Say the following affirmation aloud to boost the power of this message and to integrate it into your body, mind and soul. You can say it morning and/or evening for a few days, or even a few months if that feels right for you, or just at the end of your healing trick.

“Every door I wish to open for me does so at the perfect time and in the perfect way. I am invited to all that life has to offer and I accept it with joy in my heart.”

Card artwork: “Carnival” by Gracjana Zielinska