“You carry so much love in your heart. Give some to yourself.”
— R.Z.
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 25. SHIELD OF CRYSTALS
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.
25. SHIELD OF CRYSTALS
Our weekly oracle card has an important message about the space that you choose to occupy this week. This is that space of loving yourself – of not treating yourself cheaply or meanly but instead treating yourself with kindness and care.
This week is about giving yourself the gift of time, the gift of care, the gift of space in your life for you and for what matters to you. It’s about slowing down and truly being in the moment. It’s about LIVING, not just existing. It’s about being as kind to yourself as you are to others.
It’s also about making peace with where you are now, even as you desire more or better for the future you.
What does that mean?
This is you silencing that mean and judgmental voice in your head that endlessly nags and criticises. This is you choosing to support yourself, encourage yourself and motivate yourself. This is you putting up boundaries – for yourself and for others, so that you live in an energy of respect and self-care.
It is important to find that balance between sustainability and momentum. Nothing can burn bright endlessly. Everything needs replenishment. So what nourishes and replenishes you?
It’s easy to think of food and exercise as nourishment. They are, but we are also spiritual creatures with hungry minds and searching souls. Our souls have their own appetites. Maybe you need to go watch a football game and revel in being part of the larger crowd. Perhaps live music will fill you up, or a wine and cheese tasting at your local cellars. An early-morning surf could be your thing, a picnic with family or friends, or an intimate date with your beloved. How long has it been since you read a book, listened to the birds in the backyard, visited a new restaurant or attended a workshop about something that interests you?
How can you incorporate rest into your every day, rest into your week or your weekend or your month. Can you find a work/life rhythm that works for you? Can you start work earlier and finish earlier, or give yourself a later start one day a week? Can you clear one day on your weekend to simply relax and have time for yourself? Can you put the kids in care one afternoon a week to create a window of time just for you?
The messages and wisdom of our weekly oracle card help you to become mindful about creating sustainability in your life so that you don’t burn out. Protect and nurture yourself this week.
My Top Tip For The Week Ahead:
This week remember that you matter and that your life matters. Tune in and rediscover love for yourself, reach into awareness to find that understanding of what your needs are – lifting your self-worth, lifting your self-esteem and really starting to trust that you can provide for yourself with whatever it is that you need. There is so much love around us – all we ever need to do is tune in. This week call on your Guardian Angel, the Archangels and the Unnamed Angels to support you and to smooth the way in all you do. The energies of this week support moving you in healthier and more supportive directions with work, love, finances and life.
Crystals to support you this week – Carnelian, Apophyllite, Any kind of Agate, Jasper, Tiger Eye, Citrine
After a wonderful vacation I am back at my desk this week.
I’m grateful to be home, and to have food in the fridge and clean clothes back in my wardrobe. I’ve also finally stopped rocking. (Have you ever had that happen to you after getting off a ship from an extended time at sea? For days it has felt as if the ground was still moving beneath me and it has only just stopped!)
My first task this week will be cleaning off my desk and starting over. I still haven’t cleaned up from my pre-Christmas rush, there are piles of paper and books and crystals everywhere, and I’m itching to get my writing space, bookcases and filing systems updated and ready for the new year. And then there is the pile of unopened mail and my 400 odd emails and nearly 200 personal messages to deal with. So yeah, this week is pretty much sorted right there.
Don’t worry if you have found yourself off to a slow start in 2024, or if you’re still in catch-up mode. March brings energies for making steady progress with new goals, and that’s just around the corner!
This week I’ll also be working on some exciting new challenges and workshops to support your intuitive and creative growth in 2024, and I look forward to sharing those with you soon.
Did you grab a copy of my Planner yet? My Planner will support you to create a year more focused on yourself, your intuition, self-care and your hopes and dreams. My Manifesting Mandalas Colouring Book and Course will help you to reconnect with your Inner Child and creative flow, to manifest your intentions, and to call forth support and assistance from the Universe.
If you head over to Amazon Australia and Amazon USA and look for the coupons you’ll find one for 45% off my Journeymaker’s Planner 2024. There’s also free shipping for Amazon Prime members.
Over at my Etsy store almost everything is discounted between 25% to 50%. Now’s your chance to grab a discounted Planner or Manifesting Mandala Colouring Book and Course (hard copy or digital), a journal, some crystal bracelets or mala beads, essential oils or a special meditation crystal.
Meanwhile, take steps to make your life happier and more sustainable this week.
For me that looks like home-cooked meals, early nights, good hydration, exercise and writing time. How about you?
Big hugs, love and light, Nicole xx
Thank you for this wonderful post