Hi Jenny - fascinating sharing.

So you said...

"I see myself now getting a bit tight about boundaries and being overly protective of what's coming in. Finding a balance here is tricky...not letting the mind be the guide for what is allowed and what is not. There seems there is a distinction between creating imposed limits on others/on self behavior/feelings/actions and feeling for what is aligned in the moment...I suppose I just don't feel that clearly yet, so instead the mind is stepping in to create the boundaries...whereas action coming from the soul would not be predictable or fall into a "don't cross this line" feel."

This sounds to me exactly like the process of inner alchemy taking shape. The mind wants the immediate solution, a logical, formulaic solution that can be applied in all situations. But the soul is much more malleable and flexible than that. So you have to keep working with it. You have to feel the tightness. Because it's only in the tightness that you can work to soften it. In this way, it's just like healing a sprained ligament or developing a muscle. You have to keep working it!

You say...

"Is it even possible to take on someone else's energy or is my own energy merely resonating with what is around me and dipping and lifting in response to that? And then there would be the natural flow of your own energy which has it's own flow with the distortions that occur within myself."

You have empathic qualities, so at least a part of your flow is to empathise with others! It is to 'take on their energies' so to speak. Or to put it more accurately, you flow into their landscape and it serves your soul to feel by taking on an impression of their landscape. But it's your impression not their energy. This will serve you because it means you can hold the space for them to evolve a higher expression. That's where you also need to hold a vibration of your own truth, whilst in a landscape that looks more like them. Yes it's tricky and the only way to master it is to expose yourself to it, knowing that you'll need to tweak your feelings here and there, knowing that the way to 'get it right' ultimately, is to probably get it wrong many times before!

Finally you say...

I keep seeing animals with a missing or broken right foot/leg - a blue heron and then a deer...and recently a shoeprint in the sky...feeling now perhaps it relates to keeping one foot in "heaven"/inside and one outside

Yes to me, the right side of the body always represents the spiritual connection into the higher dimensions. The Heron and the Deer probably reflect different, blending qualities which may help you maintain that bridge. The Heron is about focus. The deer about softness and surrender. But this would be surrendering into your inner feelings, exactly at the point where you perceive a person in the outer world needs a particular response from you.

I trust this makes sense!

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