Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
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Hello, Lovelies!
This Quarter I am using The Sacred She Oracle by Ma Deva Padma for my weekly oracle readings.
Our card to guide us for the week ahead is 11. HONESTY.
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.
April is a month for giving your dreams power, for heightened intuition and messages from the Universe. It’s a time for finding your own answers and speaking your truth.
11. HONESTY
The Universe has a strong message for you this week. You are fine, just the way you are. That doesn’t mean you can’t work towards a better version of yourself, but at all times, being yourself is what will work best for you.
And if it hasn’t? Find new people. Find new family. Find new work. Find a new space to call home. Keep being yourself, and shining your light – because you want people to be attracted to the truth of who you are, and to love and embrace you for that truth, rather than some facade you put up for the world. Don’t feel like you have to dress yourself up in some embellished and fanciful version of yourself in order to please others or to win their love and respect.
This also means that if you have something to share with the world, just do your best. Put your heart into it. Then put it out there. Trust that what you create is the answer to someone else’s problem, and that they are out there in the world looking for you and your solution right now!
Speak plainly this week – tell your truth, and allow room for other people to tell you theirs. Know that it’s okay to choose what makes you happy, even if no-one else understands or supports that right now.
As sensitive and empathic souls we’re really dialled in to what other people think and feel. So when someone we love and/or respect tells us that we laugh too loud, or that red doesn’t suit us, or that we should do something about our crooked teeth, or our wobbly tummy, we often take that advice to heart – and either seek to change ourselves, or to become ‘less offensive’ to the people around us. We do it to please them, or to manage the energies around us, to keep the peace, to be respectful, or to smooth out potential conflict.
Or, we do it because we have lost our way, lost our confidence, lost our self-trust, lost our sovereignty. So we let other people’s opinion become more important than our own.
All that does, my darlings, is dim our light. It makes us awkward. It gives us something to worry about. People have happily succeeded in life, love and business with the exact same ‘problems’ you have. They just didn’t fret about them. Those ‘problems’ were part of their identity, or perhaps not even something they thought about at all. So, this week, embrace yourself, just as you are, and let the magic happen!
My Top Tip For The Week Ahead
Think about a current problem or insecurity in your life. Ask yourself if the ‘problem’ really matters to you, or is it simply something that someone else has a problem with?
If it IS something you want to change, great, go do it!
But if it’s a low priority, if it’s something you can live with, if it’s something you actually LIKE about yourself (even if someone else doesn’t) then just do YOU. Be YOU. Embrace YOU.
Your life is your art.
Don’t be afraid to be original.
Don’t be afraid to be yourself.
Crystals to support you this week – Carnelian, Amazonite, Moss Agate, Rhodochrosite, Citrine, Kyanite.
It’s been a sad few days here at the Treehouse. We lost a member of our Cauldrons and Cupcakes community in a violent incident at a Sydney shopping centre on Saturday. We’re heartbroken for her and her family, and for everyone else who was touched by this tragic event.
Apart from that, I’ve been busy supporting family who have been unwell, and playing nurse, cook and housemaid.
I also did a HUGE meditation with the new moon solar eclipse last week, which was wonderful. Meditation is one of the things that helps anchor me in the world, and allows me to cope with the stresses of life and my work. It’s such a gift, and I feel blessed to have embraced this practice from a young age.
My writing is going well, as are my creative projects. It has been good to have these to bring my focus back to my own passions after spending so much time caring for others and their needs this past while.
No matter where you are, or what’s going on for you this week, I encourage you to take a little time for yourself, to reach out to friends and loved ones, and to share love and kindness wherever you go.
Holding you all in my prayers and meditations, Nicole xx
yes thanks for the beautiful reminder, good call. SO sad to hear that one of our community was lost in that tragic Sydney event…sending loads of love to all. We are welcoming in an expanded consciousness of love <3
Another wonderful post, I am who I am, take it or leave