“Suffering makes you feel safe because you know it so well. But there is really no reason to suffer. The only reason you suffer is because you choose to suffer.”
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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 XVIII. ANXIETY
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.
June encourages you to focus on your life direction – reflecting on what is working for you, and what you would like to change. It’s a month of creativity and innovation, of heightened psychic perception and intuition, and a deep need to be honest with yourself about your life.
XVIII. ANXIETY
This week, the Universe reminds you just how much you are loved, by dialing up the levels of support and synchronicity in your life. It’s time to make decisions around the way you have been living, and what you might do differently, in order to have a different outcome.
Sometimes, the biggest risks, dangers and fears are all in our heads. This week we are invited to examine our own beliefs around areas in our life where we fear failure, perceive risk, or have major insecurity.
Perhaps you are stuck, or staying small or unhappy, because you’ve told yourself a story to keep yourself safe – and now the story is doing more damage than anything you might risk by doing the thing, feeling the thing, having the experience, meeting that person, joining that group, taking the leap.
Expect the Universe to give you encouraging signs and reassurance that you’re on the right track this week, or a lovely trail of breadcrumbs to help move you forward.
Embrace bravery, and challenge yourself. Remember, whatever you want is most likely on the other side of that thing you are afraid of – and we only ever need to be brave when we are scared. What if the thing that is scaring you turns out to be far less scary than you had imagined?
And remember, if you’re really stuck, sit with your journal and do some self-exploration, or seek out the support of a qualified counsellor.
My Top Tip For The Week Ahead
We usually know where we are stuck, and often we even know what to do about it. We just get paralysed with insecurity when it comes to doing it, so we procrastinate and do everything BUT the thing we know might change our lives. There is very little in life that hasn’t been done before. If you look online, or in your local bookstore, you are bound to find examples of people in similar circumstances to you who have done or overcome the thing you are worrying about. If they can, you can too, and they might have some great advice and tips for you. Ask the Universe to help you find that inspiration, and trust that you will find what you need.
Crystals to support you this week – Carnelian, Fire Quartz, Hematite, Sugilite, Green Aventurine, Smoky Quartz
Here at the Treehouse this past week I’ve been busy getting the 2025 Journeymaker’s Planner draft finalised with our printer. It’s such a huge undertaking every year. I thought I might share my process with you.
When I create a new Planner I start by meditating on the year ahead. I choose and dedicate a crystal to this specific Planner, and use that stone every time I meditate, channel or write so that I stay connected to the flow of information that comes to me.
Then I examine the astrology, lunar cycles and numerology for the year, the quarters and each month. I make notes, sit in meditation, and think deeply about the emerging themes and energies. When that is complete I channel the energies of the year, looking at the support for our Inner and Outer worlds. All of this information is written up in a log book and onto a series of flip charts. I choose cards for the year’s energies, and from this I then select the most appropriate crystal and essential oil for the year.
Then I lay out the quarters and the months within each quarter. I record the celestial and astrological events for each month, then choose cards for the months. I channel more information, and sit in meditation on this until the themes and energies become apparent, and I can see how they will work together. All of this gets recorded in my log book and on the flip charts too. I think about how to be support you on your own journey through life, so that you can strengthen your intuitive skills and self-awareness, and make life choices that are mindful and purposeful. I want, always, for you to feel supported and empowered.
Finally, I begin to create the content for the Planner, distilling the essence of the year, quarters and months down into the written information you see on the pages of the Planner. I select the essential oils and crystals for each quarter, and each month – carefully weighing up which oils and stones will best support you, and which will also be cost-effective and easy for you to access.
Once all of that is done, I begin to choose the graphics, colour scheme and illustration themes. Then I work with my graphic designer to put all of that into the format we use each year.
There is then much tweaking of text and graphics until we are satisfied with the interior pages. The stickers, front and back covers, and inside front and back covers are then designed and created too.
Each year I end up with an enormous amount of information which won’t fit in the Planner. This information then forms the basis of the Journey Through The Year course that guides my Inner Circle through the year, and forms the basis for the meditations, channeled events and other teachings that I create. All up, it takes around 10 months from the initial meditation to when the next Planner version is at press and ready to be printed. And even then we will still create proof copies, check those, and adjust the draft as necessary.
By the time the finished Planners arrive on my doorstep, or to Amazon, I am already working on the draft for the year after. It truly is a labour of love.
Next year is our Tenth Anniversary Edition – and we’ve gone for visual themes that speak of nature, nurture, fairies, crystals, magic and transformation. I can’t wait to share it with you!
Love, hugs, and satisfied exhaustion, Nicole xx
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