You are Afraid to Be Seen
Higher Self has signalled that you are ready to be comfortable in your own skin and become visible to others.
If you have chosen this card you feel vulnerable to be seen both physically and spiritually and therefore you protect yourself by wearing a mask to hide your fears and childhood wounds. Your mask is a shield from these darker emotions. What you present to everyone says, ‘This is the form in which I feel I am the most acceptable to others. I cannot be rejected with my special mask on.’ Only at night when you sleep is your mask removed and in your dreams are you free. Upon waking in the morning you put your mask back on in readiness for the world. This mask makes you feel safe. You feel confident or competent for instance wearing the mask of ‘mother’ or the mask of ‘teacher’ because you perform these roles very well. You’ll put on your professional mask when appropriate – a doctor puts on a white coat and everyone knows the story – people know how to connect to this. You wear a mask in order to be seen in a non-threatening way – creating pseudo-relationships – in a form that is acceptable for people to deal with.
The permanent (and prominent) mask you wear is a solid mask of wounds that sits in the form of a shield. You move through life as if wearing the head gear of a scuba diver with your vision and connection to the world fogged up and constricted. Your mask is not a decorative thing of beauty or worn in a playful way – as when going to a masquerade wearing a Venetian mask – one day a tiger, one day a rat, one day a rabbit. The mask you wear has solidified and encapsulates a false identity. This false identity indeed has cracks in it. If people see through to your core you fear you’ll be unable to protect yourself. Your spirit is wounded from past events and possibly past lives and now lives in fear that if you stand out (in your new role – expressing your true identity) the result will be ridicule and loss of life (physical, lifestyle or personality).
In being afraid to be visible you may protect yourself physically by shrink-ing from the world, making yourself small or physically thin. Or you may protect yourself by having an extra layer of protection around your body.
Alternatively you may hide your face, or shroud your body in clothes to make it invisible. You are finding the best way to be invisible without realising the hidden motive.
In choosing this card your Higher Self has signalled that you are ready to be visible to others, for intimacy in friendship and feeling connected in relationship to others. You are no longer willing to walk around breathing through a solid mask that separates you from those you love. What is it that you have been asked to do that you shy away from? Are you gifted in a way that you have been hiding that needs to be shared with many? Have you been asked to start public speaking, write a book or take responsibility for the direction of a new project, and shied away? Do you struggle to take action, move forward or accomplish the task at hand? Are you afraid to say what you think and feel or to stand out because if you do then people would know who you are? Celebrate as you are ready to release the mask and be seen.
Imagine feeling powerful being aligned with your true nature – one that is not hampered by the pain of the past. Reach out and connect to your own core; it is truly ready to be free. The time has come for you to be seen.
