Embrace What Is
Angel Raphael channeled through Adria Estribou
This is the dark time. There's no way around that. There's no sugarcoating it, either. This particular dark time is not for ill-intent, but neither is it for up-rising within your soul. There's not much you can do about this particular dark night. And it's not a dark night of your own soul, dears. It is a darkness around and through humankind right now. It is temporary. It is dark.
We send you many, many tools, blessings, prayers, instruments to succeed in navigating this time. It is up to you to love yourself enough to see it through. Do not expect the world to open up with shining lights right now. Do not expect big openings in your journey or path right now. This is the time for inner light and inner breakthroughs. Perhaps inner breakdowns that lead to something new. Use it. Use all of it.
In the lighter times, it's easy to expand and grow and imagine and hope. Darker times also bring gifts, even though we said it can't be sugar-coated. Everything has a gift or a purpose. It is easier to see a candle at night. It is easier to see your own light and purpose when you are enshrouded in something you can't define.
This darkness is not of your making, and it will cease. Use your gifts to see it through now. But also don't anticipate you shattering the dark. It's about using this time—using the particular qualities of dark to enhance your light, or to notice that there are different qualities in the all-that-is.
You do not need to "succeed" in bringing light around you or towards you at all times. That is a definition of a one-sided universe. Though we do wish for you more expansion in light and less of these contracted compressing times, this is a time in its own. It is a time, by definition, of God. If you define God as we do as the all-that-is, this must be part of God's world. Embrace, in a sense, what you are in—in some fashion. Uniquely, you will find out how to do this. If you can just stop trying to make it other than what it is for a moment, you can find peace and rest and solace in what is instead of continually trying to bring about what is not. This time will change. It will pass.
In the meantime, perhaps look into what it is for you. And what are you to it? Are you irrelevant? Are you interwoven? Are you part of this? Are you separate? What are you? Go deeper, deeper into introspection this month and you'll find more peace, more solace, than trying to crack through and shift the dark.