It is fitting that this year of review and transformation has ended with many of you spending time with family, for there is no other group that can bring up any old issues and conditioning that may still need attention as well as they can. Now that you’ve had a chance to get back into your own energy and catch your breath, what did the holidays clarify for you? What did you do very well? What would you like to improve? What new intentions can you create moving forward?  How can you approach old patterns in new ways?

The busyness of the holidays can also make you aware of how you may neglect yourself, over give, or take on too much resulting in you losing your balance. How can you adjust this moving forward? Are there other people who can assist you in your tasks? Can you incorporate more being than doing into your holiday traditions? The holidays are such an ideal time to explore these areas because they truly magnify any area that is asking to be brought to the light for transformation.

You may even wish to write down what your discoveries are as a reminder to yourself to be read next year.  Place it right on top of your decorations to be found and read first thing next year when you open the box. You might consider it a new year’s resolution for next year’s Christmas or a love letter of support for your future holiday self.

We understand that for many of you spending time with family can be challenging. These are the people you have soul agreements with, who agreed prior to your incarnation to help you with what you wish to experience and master during this lifetime. They are the great activators of your chosen path. They may support you by encouraging you in that direction, or they may facilitate your growth by being examples of what you do not wish to be.  Certain people may be triggering, especially when you have been working on your growth and expansion and they have not yet been ready to step onto their own path and can’t see you in your energetic truth.

Dear Ones, we commend you for your efforts to navigate these relationships. Whether you have found yourself getting frustrated and upset (and then feeling bad about it afterwards), or whether you are getting to a point where you can hold your light and balance in their presence, we honour you for continuing to show up with your best, loving intentions. Even if you have come to a place where you have decided you can’t be around certain people from your past, we honour that, too, for it shows you are making your self care a priority by stepping away from situations that aren’t ready to shift.

Dear Ones, if you can accept that your growth is your service, and that what you consider to be your mistakes lead to your growth, it would stand to reason then that your mistakes serve both you and the whole, as well. The fact that you have had an experience and now know that if you had it to do again you would choose differently indicates expansion, growth, and greater maturity. That has shifted energy in a way that serves not just you in your greater knowingness of self, but also others who can learn from your experience. You have also anchored the energy of the ability to evolve beyond the original action.

Do you see?  Based on this new perspective, you can release shame and guilt for actions you took when you did not know better and give yourself the gift of understanding and forgiveness this holiday season. Taking the step of having love and compassion for yourself for it all is yet another way to serve the whole and express the divine being you truly are.  Further, once you can have love, understanding, and acceptance for yourself, you will be much better able to have the same for others. ~Archangel Gabriel through Shelley Young

We wish to commend you for all you have done during this pivotal and transformational year. Your consistency, your courage, your humour, your willingness to go deeper than ever before, has created profound change, and your solstice is locking in that change. On top of that, you will experience an influx of light – cleansing, supportive light on this day, another on December 22, and again throughout your holiday season, topping up your light, if you will, before you step into the brand new year of 2019. Wherever you are in the world, whether you are experiencing the end of the darkest night and the return to the light, or enjoying the day of most light, we urge you to simply open up and receive the light as the cleansing, supportive balm it is. We also encourage you, as you allow the light to envelop you, to celebrate your own brilliant, shining light as an essential part of the entire enlightenment process, for without you it would not happen. You are loved and celebrated more than you could ever know, this day and always. ~Archangel Gabriel through Shelley Young

Many of you find the idea of martyred service appealing because you perceive it as being selfless and thus being devoid of ego. But you can embrace joyful, supported service without fear of falling into ego, as well. It is your intention and mindfulness that makes all the difference. Further, joyful, supported service will inspire others to step into service of their own. You have to trust that you are ready to embody your highest aspects of self, Dear Ones. After all, that is what all the work you have been doing has been for. ~Archangel Gabriel through Shelley Young