SUIT 1: LOVE
1 ~ The Heart Stone
Love is the strongest structure you can stand on.
Your heart carries a quiet and steady power that has been with you from the beginning, even in the years when you forgot it was there. The Heart Stone reminds you that love, for yourself, for life, for what is, has always been your grounding.
You don’t need to search outside yourself because your center, your truth and your calm have been here the whole time, waiting for you to return.
There is a soft recognition that comes when you realise you are not trying to be in love at all, you are made of it. Something opens in you, a sense of home, a sense that you belong to yourself. When we are born, we don’t just enter the world, we bring love into form.
Note for today
Embracing the The Heart Stone's wisdom
Listen and let yourself be guided.
Today choose one small thing from your heart rather than from habit, something that feels like truth instead of obligation, whether it is rest or a message or a boundary or a breath of fresh air.
Trust the quiet sense of this feels right for me. Your heart is already guiding you toward ease.
Ancient wisdom
The Roots
At the root of all things is love. The Māori word Aroha speaks to this, the sacred breath that moves through all life. Aro is presence and ha is breath and together they remind you that love is the air you live on, the steady force that has shaped you more than anything else. Aroha is not a concept but a way of being in the world, expressed through care and kindness and the small gestures that say I see you. This is the ground beneath the Heart Stone.
Present wisdom
The Spark
There is a gentle turning inside you, a moment where the past, the present and the future begin to speak the same language. Say to the person you once were: I love you. Ask the person you are becoming: How would you like to be loved. Ask yourself now: How can I love my whole being more fully. Love appears in so many small ways, through tenderness, or laughter, through being seen, or a moment of joy that catches you off guard. It shows itself everywhere once you start to look.
Future wisdom
The Horizon
Your life itself is love in motion. Every breath and every choice carries that movement forward. You don’t need to reach for love as if it were somewhere else because you are already made of it. The Heart Stone speaks to the possibility that you don’t have to try to be in love, you can simply remember what you already are. When you live from that knowing, love becomes the quiet current underneath your relationships, your creations, your way of caring for the world.
Embracing the wisdom
Your next steps
Take three slow breaths
Imagine love flowing in with each inhale and radiating out with each exhale.
Gather what loves you back
Notice the people, places, and practices that return love to you.
Carry love forward
Attune to love and see where it shows up throughout your day. Let it guide you.
Let love move through you into form.
Do something simple that embodies love: water a plant, write a kind note, showing up for yourself.
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The healing of our planet, the healing of our people is with our Aroha.
~ Dr Rangimarie Rose Pere
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Take this with you:
"Love is your life force and your homecoming."
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