Don’t worry about getting perfect, just keep getting better.
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Hello, Lovelies!
This Quarter I am using Wishcraft Oracle by Stacey Demarco, with artwork by Elizabeth Tiethoff, for my weekly oracle readings.
Our card to welcome in the New Year and guide us for the week ahead is 22. CANDLE MAGIC
2024 is a year for fresh starts, for creativity, healing and social connection. It’s a year for ambitious projects and for getting stuff done.
February is a month for shaking things up, and doing life differently. After all, if you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you always got. Invite positive change and inspiration by making new choices.
22. CANDLE MAGIC
My Great-Aunt used to have a daily affirmation that went like this:
Every day, in every way, I’m getting better and better.
That’s a great affirmation when you are feeling good, but it’s also great when things aren’t going your way. It helps remind you to dig deeper and keep going. Because all of us face obstacles and limitations – the ones other people can see, and the ones that are invisible to everyone but ourselves.
Do you ever feel like you stuffed it all up? That you have squandered your talents, wasted your gifts, made every bad decision and now it’s too late, much too late, to be who you might have been?
This week reminds you that this isn’t true. Life is hard, and messy, and who knows why we do what we do or why things happen to us, or don’t happen to us. That’s part of the glorious mystery of being human for a while. One thing is true. As long as you have breath in your body you can start over. You can embrace life. You can make the time you have left count.
This week also lets you know that, at the core of who you are, you are as beautiful, worthy and deserving as you ever were, as the innocent baby you were coming into this life with your cherished dreams and hopes and this lifetime stretching out in front of you.
What matters is that you are here. What matters is that you can slow down enough to truly inhabit this moment. That’s what stretches time out like magic. That’s where all your power is. Right here. Right now. With every breath.
It’s okay to feel lost. That happens sometimes. When you are in pain, when you are run down or overwhelmed, or sleep deprived, or hanging on by your fingertips it can be easy to lose sight of the goodness in you, the talents and gifts and dreams inside you.
If you want to change, it’s still possible.
If you want to do something that counts, it’s still possible.
All you ever need to do is live in the moment. One moment at a time.
Then trust. Because your wise self will always know what to do in that present, precious moment.
My Top Tip For The Week Ahead:
We always carry within us the seeds of who were were, and who we can become. That’s important, because it means that at any time we can start over.
Don’t get stuck in your head this week. Slow down. Breathe. Then slow down some more. Bring yourself back into your body. Look around you with the curiosity and wonder of a child. Be right here. Right now. Anchor that moment. Then anchor another with your mindfulness. Remind yourself how amazing it all is.
Because it is. And so are you, my love. So are you.
Crystals to support you this week – Carnelian, Tiger Eye, Labradorite, Smoky Quartz, Moss Agate, Rhodonite
It’s funny to be writing these posts in advance, knowing that while they are posting I am doing something completely different to my usual life and routine.
It makes me wonder how this vacation will change me. I wonder what will happen as I become more rested, and have more time for fun and leisure, for being with Ben and for hanging out with my Planner and my writing projects?
I wonder if I will make it through this vacation without succumbing to illness. I wonder how my pupsters will be travelling without us (even though they love our house sitter).
I wonder how this time away will shape the rest of my year.
And I wonder what I will have written in my journal and my Planner.
Are you working with my Journeymaker’s Planner this year? It’s a fabulous tool for living mindfully, and for developing great self-care and time for yourself, your dreams and your projects. It doesn’t matter if you haven’t started yet. It’s not too late.
If you head over to Amazon Australia and Amazon USA and look for the coupons you’ll find one for 35% off my Journeymaker’s Planner 2024. There’s also free shipping for Amazon Prime members.
Over at my Etsy store you can grab a discounted digital copy of my Planner and my Manifesting Mandalas book and course too – but no physical product orders from me until I get back home in late February. (Not too long to go now!)
If you purchase the Planner or the Manifesting Mandala Colouring Book and online course you will also be eligible to watch the replay of my recent Masterclasses. (You can find details about that here.)
Know that even though I’m away right now I am continuing to hold you in my daily prayers and meditations. You’re important to me. I care about you, and I care about your journey through this life. I’m grateful we get to share some of that oath together.
Meanwhile, I’m hoping that future Nicole (the one who is on vacation today) has smooth seas and a heart full of love of life.
Here’s to dreams coming true for all of us. Love, light and hugs, Nicole xx
