Week 2: The I AM Codes
“I AM Strong” — Alchemizing Identity
Welcome ✨Creators✨
Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. Only transferred, transformed and transmuted. That’s the law of the conservation of energy. The actual process is called alchemy.
In medieval times, early “chemists” alchemized common metals in attempts to turn them into gold. In many instances, they created something humans have used for centuries but wasn’t worth jack back then. But you know what they say: Some things are worth more than gold.
Think of alchemy as the ability to change one element to another. Change one thing’s form to something more useful and valuable. Transform a negative experience into a positive outcome. Turn lemons into lemonade.
Joel 3:10 — “Let the weak say, I AM strong.”
This verse isn’t about pretending. Yeah, you may be weak for a moment but you’ve been strong for eternity. It’s not delusional to choose to identify with the version of yourself you love the best, not just the one other people may be experiencing. This verse is about using the declaration “I AM” to pull strength (identity) from the divine within you.
Every time you declare “I AM strong,” you shift the vibration of your reality. You’re not denying weakness — you’re transforming it by associating every other moment of weakness with the moment of strength that got you to the other side. Because each time you push through a moment of weakness, you show strength. Whether it feels like it or not. You’re reminding your body and mind that divine strength already exists within you. You’ve done it before. You’ll do it again.
Our moments of weakness are the best places to call in our desired realities because we get real clear and specific. Sometimes, we get so caught up in our lives feeling alright that we don’t realize we want better (AND CAN ACTUALLY GET IT). However, when we are experiencing a moment of weakness, in mind, body, and spirit, we understand and feel very deeply that we don’t want our lives to feel like this AT ALL. Eventually, there comes a point where something snaps. We shift. We change. Sometimes to our desired realities. Sometimes, right back to our just alright realities. We can use that pitfall (or “rock bottom” as the girls over at To Be Magnetic would call it) to alchemize whatever pain or negativity that is brewing and create something new from it. And we can do that with everything that is already within.
🔮 TAROT — Strength
In Tarot, the Strength card represents the moment we stop fighting our reflections. Your reality reflects your thoughts and beliefs back to you. Whoever you are blaming for your current experiences?
This is the part of the Fool’s Journey where power softens into grace. You realize the energy you’ve been exerting fighting the external has all been wasted. You cannot be upset with anyone but yourself. Lick your wounds, grant yourself grace and, instead, use that power to understand yourself and how to transform your external world around you. Channel that power with intention.
Strength teaches us that courage isn’t about force. Once we are done fighting our reflection, we must truly face it. Courage is about facing yourself so that you may master yourself. The Strength card is depicted as woman holding a lion.
You can’t tame the lion with control; you do it with love.
Ask yourself:
Where am I still trying to control or perform strength instead of embodying it?
How can I approach my challenges with compassion instead of impulsivity or pressure?
♈ ASTROLOGY — Mars
This week, we align with Mars — the planet of drive, willpower, and action. Mars reminds us that energy is neutral: it becomes anger when it’s suppressed, and power when it’s directed.
When your I AM is clear, Mars energy flows with purpose.
When your I AM is fragmented, Mars scatters its fire.
Ask yourself:
Where is my energy going lately? Is it scattered or controlled? Where is my power going lately? Is it scattered or controlled?
What am I fighting against that I could instead move through?
🪶 EMBODY
Writing is powerful tool for alchemizing but any creative art medium works just as good. Through creative writing or whatever medium you choose, explore the following:
What weaknesses have you been calling your identity? How can these weaknesses be transformed into strengths?
What story of limitation are you ready to release? Rewrite that story without the limits? Who are you? What does your life feel like?
🌕 Leaving You With This
This week is not about finding strength or getting stronger. It’s about alchemizing that which you already have.
Because when you say “I AM strong,” you’re not creating strength but claiming it.
Like Mars, let your passion be transformed into purpose.
Like the lion, let your fear be transformed into love.
✨ Affirmation ✨
I AM strong because I exist.
Your Cosmic Advisor,
Monique 💫