In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.
Mitch Albom
Hello, Lovelies!
October is a month for developing clear future vision and for believing in yourself and your dreams. You’ll be able to build on what you have already decided or created for yourself this year, aided by a deep knowing and intuition. Signs and messages are all around you, so trust your intuition! Keep October’s energy in mind as we look at the gifts of inspiration which the card RIVER brings us.
The Week Ahead
This week’s energies remind me of a stormwater drain. That might not make much sense yet, so let me explain…
Much of Australia is in drought right now. In drought there is little water, and certainly no flow of water into drains, creeks and rivers. In the stormwater drains dirt piles up. Leaves and sticks and bits of rubbish too. They get swept there by the wind, or by people with leaf blowers or brooms, or perhaps the force of a garden hose pushing debris off the footpath and into the drain, out of sight.
All of that muck builds up inside the drain, so water, if it comes, will run out the other end of the drain dirty, and with a reduced flow if the drain has become really blocked.
What it needs is a great big push of water from a storm or a huge rain event to push the debris clear so that the clean clear water can flow again.
Our unfelt and unprocessed emotions act like the sticks and dirt and rubbish that blocks a stormwater drain. They slow us down, and make us feel heavy, lethargic, anxious, angry, resentful and depressed. When we are filled with unprocessed emotion we find it hard to get into creative flow, or to think clearly. It’s hard to have energy and enthusiasm. Too much of ourselves and our energy is tied up with the past.
RIVER puts us on notice that we’re due for an emotional cleansing, like a big storm that rushes through and makes everything fresh and new again. It might get a little bumpy this week. You may feel flat, cranky, lost, emotional, up and down, a little crazy. You may find yourself nursing old wounds and bruises you thought you’d dealt with long ago. Or being triggered by things that haven’t bothered you for ages. All those old emotions you pushed deep down inside to deal with ‘later’ and then never got around to? They’ll be popping to the surface this week so you can finally feel them and then let them go.
That’s actually a good thing. As we shed these old hurts and unfelt emotions our vibration lifts, and we’ll be able to see our way forward again. New energies will take the place of what was stuck within us – and hope, optimism and clarity will be renewed. But you may feel exhausted first, after all that energetic work. so rest if you must. Everything else will click back in all by itself.
Be gentle with yourself and everyone around you this week. Be patient as you work though old emotional blockages so that flow can be restored again.
It’s also a week for making emotional connections and putting heart and healing into the important relationships in your life. Some of you will also find that it’s a week for reconnecting with people, activities and places that were once significant for us, and may be significant again in the future.
Supportive crystals this week?
Labradorite is a stone for deepening mystical connection, intuition and soul wisdom. It brings understanding and helps you to think deeply, boosting intellectual capacity. Chrysocolla helps you to release negative energy and old patterns, bringing love, light and healing into your world. It is a gently positive and reassuring stone that promotes self care. Aquamarine helps you to let go of emotionally painful experiences, keeping the learning but releasing the rest. Sunstone (pictured) helps you to sit in a place of abundance thinking so that you see the blessings and possibilities in your life. In Sweden and Norway, in the old ways, it was often referred to as the Fire and Ice stone, as was considered to bring both passion and logic to a person.
Helpful Essential Oils
Oils that gift us compassion, nurture and release are what’s need this week.
Rose, Geranium, Cypress and Wild Orange will support you well in the days ahead. Rose is the supreme heart nurturer and will help you recover from trauma and upset. Geranium helps alleviate feelings of sadness and distress, and re-centers you. Cypress helps shift old emotions and reduces stress and anxiety. Wild Orange helps you move from depair back to optimism, and encourages creativity and flow. These oils can be used alone or in combination in your diffuser.
I’m passionate about essential oils and their capacity to support our wellness journey and our spiritual and emotional wellbeing. If you’d like to know more or want to source the oils I recommend and trust visit this site or contact me at channelnc@gmail.com
Stay tuned this week as I share more tips here on the blog about how to shift old emotion and pain, to make room for new life experiences and a return to flow and possibility.
If you’d like to dive deeper into clearing up that energetic connection and tapping into the best parts of yourself, my new online Rituals Course will help with that too.
My intention for you is that, in using these rituals, you will learn to come home to yourself, to know yourself better, and to evolve into a wiser, more secure, more intuitive, and happier version of yourself.
To find out more or to purchase the course and enjoy lifetime access to the materials, click here. This course is normally offered at $147, but for a limited time we are offering it at just $97. More details on the course below.
Wishing you a month of insights, clarity and inspiration!
All my love, Nicole xx
RIVER, this week’s guiding card, is from the Dreamtime Reading Cards by Laura Bowen. I choose a card every week, and use it intuitively and in a channelled space to bring you insights for the week ahead. To find out more about Laura, an Australian indigenous artist and educator, and her gorgeous work go here.
Rituals Course Details:
Would you like me to show you a way to heal your relationship with yourself so you can accept and love yourself, just as you are, right now?
Rituals for Healing Your Relationship With Yourself is a foundation course for creating gentle and restorative magic in your life. It will help you to embrace self-acceptance, and to feel more comfortable in your own skin. The course includes:
- 8 unique rituals
- 17 lessons
- 9 instructional videos
- 9 PDF downloads
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You can come back to these rituals again and again, and they will always work for you. In fact, allowing room in your life for ritual enables you to reclaim more of your own mystical and intuitive self – which is your birthright, and an intrinsic part of who you are.
Coursework includes:
- Bathtime Ritual – to help you to anchor gratitude, safety and self acceptance in your body
- 20-minute Guided Healing Meditation – a meditation to practice any time that you experience pain, fear, illness, anxiety, discomfort or injury. It is a simple way to help promote healing and to reduce pain and inflammation. This meditation is also useful for you if you are exhausted or very stressed.
- Emptying The Mind Ritual – a ritual to help you empty your mind, so that you can get your worries under control, and separate out the useful problem-solving thoughts from all of that negative and destructive chatter
- Acceptance of Feelings Ritual – to help you to accept the feelings within your body so that they can be fully felt and released
- Sowing Seeds Ritual – identify and magnetize yourself to the yearnings of your soul, so that you can make your dreams manifest in your life
- Third Eye Activation Candle Ritual – a ritual to open your Third Eye and help you tap into your intuition and Soul Awareness
- New Moon Manifesting Ritual – to draw abundance to you, get you back into flow with money, and create a path for your intentions so that they move from thought to reality
- New Moon Grounding Ritual – this Ritual will ground you, as it opens you up to more of your own natural energetic and psychic ability; it is very comforting for people who spend most of their day indoors, or in front of a computer
- Mother Moon Nurture Ritual – a ritual to help you to heal and replenish yourself on a soul level
My intention for you is that, in using these rituals, you will learn to come home to yourself, to know yourself better, and to evolve into a wiser, more secure, more intuitive, and happier version of yourself. Ready? Go here.
