“There are moments in a person’s life that change everything. Shake things up. Steer you in a different direction and push you onto another course, toward different people, places, and things. These moments don’t come around often, but when they do, they rip through the very fabric of your world.”
Hello, Lovelies!
This Quarter I am using the Queen Of The Sun Oracle by Stacey Demarco, illustrated by Kinga Britschigi, for my weekly oracle readings.
Our card to guide us for the week ahead is 40. THE UNEXPECTED (FLARES).
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.
November is a month for creating the future, for taking risks and creating change – but always with your wellbeing and life-balance in mind. Stop putting your dreams on hold. Let your heart guide you forward.
40. THE UNEXPECTED (FLARES)
This is a wake-up call week. If you’ve been neglecting your health, your relationships, your finances, your job or business, your special project, your promises to yourself or others – this week the Universe brings these things into clear view. We just can’t keep ignoring things that could potentially have a strong positive or negative impact in our lives.
If your lack of awareness runs deep, the Universe will clearly show you where you need to be putting your attention.
Don’t worry though. Help is at hand. It’s a week of intuitive clarity and guided action. Trust that you have the power this week to make decisions and chart a path of action that will begin to turn things in your favour.
Whatever you do, don’t put your head back in the sand again. Be honest. Tune in. Take action.
You’ll be so glad that you did. The choices you make and the actions you take this week will lead to healing, momentum, solutions and progress.
For some of you this will be the slow beginning of big or even life-changing course corrections, helping you to get back on track and moving forward in a direction better suited to the best expression of yourself.
Expect flashes of inspiration too – whether that’s creative insights or greater understanding of events, relationships and opportunities.
Let the energies of this week create ripples of change in your life that can keep flowing forward into the years ahead, bringing blessings, joy and peace.
My Top Tip For The Week Ahead:
What do you want to achieve? Start by getting clear. Write it down. Be specific. It doesn’t matter if it is something which right now seems impossible. Many wonderful things started out as impossible dreams. Commit to working towards your goal. What tools or equipment do you need? What information? Do you need help? Who can help you? Break your goal down into the smallest steps possible and begin, without fanfare or fuss. Then keep going. Day after day. Just small steps..
Crystals to support you this week – Carnelian, Labradorite, Amethyst, Moldavite, Clear Quartz, Any Jasper
Things quite often don’t go to plan, especially when you live with chronic illness. Last week I unexpectedly ended up needing further scans and tests after my initial recent hospitalisation for a severe adverse drug reaction, including a bronchoscopy which has left me very croaky and hoarse.
I’ll get all my results later on today, and I’m looking forward to having a better idea of what’s been going on inside me this last little while.
That’s one of the reasons I first created a planner for myself, well before The Journeymaker’s Planner that you know now. When you live with chronic illness, or mental illness, or other issues that put pressure on your time and energy (think looking after children or parents, going through a divorce, moving house or moving country, working longer hours, supporting a loved one as they go through ‘stuff’, studying or working on a personal project on top of whatever else is going on in your life) then often the traditional yearly planners don’t work, or make you end up feeling like a failure when you and your life get messy.
So, I’d long had a system to support me to get stuff done, and to stay spiritually connected and guided, but that would work for MY less than perfect life.
Then, back in 2015, my friend Angela’s health deteriorated. As she lay on her deathbed she made me promise I would create a Planner I could share with other people, so that they were supported to live well, to chase their dreams, and to make time for themselves amidst the busy-ness that life often is.
My Planner has been nurturing our community for ten years now – and it’s wonderful to see what transitions and changes have happened for so many of you over that time. I always love hearing how it has helped you, and it makes me think of my promise to Angela every single time.
Here’s how it came into existence in the first place:
https://cauldronsandcupcakes.
https://cauldronsandcupcakes.
I encourage you to try my Planner, and if you love it, to share it with your friends and family. We all need tools to help us to flourish, especially when our circumstances are challenging!
If you’re new to my work and you would like to explore the Planner, I have provided free access to the digital copy of the 2024 Journeymaker’s Planner over in my free Facebook group. 
Our 2025 edition of the Journeymaker’s Planner is now available at
Amazon USA – Hard Copy
Amazon Australia – Hard Copy
Nicole’s Etsy Store – Hard Copy and Digital Copy (printable and editable), plus lots of other goodies.
New content for our free course that supports the Planner will go live on December 1, and we’ll also have a free webinar/ masterclass in January 2025 (yes, it will be recorded if you can’t make it) for those of you who are working with the Planner.
Come connect with me on Bluesky
I’m over on a new social media platform called Bluesky if you want to connect there. It’s what Twitter used to be, before Twitter devolved into the miserable mess that X is now. Here’s my handle: @nicolecody.bsky.social
I’menjoying hanging out and talking about all the things that make me me – like books and the environment and kindness and curiosity and dogs and cooking and the random stuff that’s in my head.
Magical Things
Have you checked out my Etsy store lately?
I put love and magic into every order – especially at Christmas time. I realised some time ago that for many of my community, my Planner and anything else they bought from me might be the only gift they received. So I make sure that if you buy from me I treat your order as if I was sending it to a dear friend or family member. I gift wrap your purchase, add a note, and a little something extra as a surprise.
Okay, I think that’s it for now. I’m off to sit on my crystal-y front steps with the dogs and a cup of tea, so I can soak up some positive grounding energy before I start my day. Much love to you, Nicole xx
