“When our heart is open
Everything we do becomes love”
―
Hello, Lovelies!
This Quarter I am using the Sacred Earth Oracle by Toni Carmine Salerno and Leela J. Williams, illustrated by Helena Nelson-Reed, for my weekly oracle readings.
Our card to guide us for the week ahead is CONNECTION
2025 is a year for pattern breaking, deep healing, mysticism and new directions.
March is a month for aligning to your dreams, a time of opportunity, creativity and possibility. It’s a month that asks for action, commitment and the courage to make yourself, your needs and your projects a priority.
CONNECTION
In a year that is all about pattern-breaking, this week’s energies support opening up and bravely making connection – with your own heart, and with other people. A stunning week for emotional healing and support.
CONNECTION encourages us to be vulnerable, even if the thought of that is terrifying.
There is a tender place in all of us – a place that is good and honest and true. It’s the essence of who you are – a complex and unique combination of personality, talents, ideas and beliefs, knowingness, life experiences and wisdom. It’s the person you often keep locked away, for fear of being judged, rejected, humiliated, laughed at or abandoned. You hide in plain sight.
Most of us do it. We learn not to say the thing we believe, when it goes against others in our family or workplace. We learn to hide our spiritual practices and intuitive abilities, or our love of art, or the way we dance in the dark house when no-one is watching, or the other many things that make us who we are. We do our best to keep ourselves safe, to keep our jobs safe or our position within a relationship safe. We fly under the radar and those parts of us we fear to express become lost, or buried, or well hidden, sometimes even from ourselves.
Instead of living from that tender place, most of us live from efficiency.
We know the ‘right’ thing to say or wear. The ‘right’ way to be. We dial down our individuality and do our best to ‘fit in’, to please or at least to not cause offence. It’s not all deliberate. Who ever enjoys being bullied or laughed at, or worse? It’s a safety thing, because all of us have a need to be loved and accepted, and to belong.
Even more, we keep telling ourselves and others that we are okay. That we are coping. Even as it feels as if our legs may go from underneath us.
CONNECTION’s message is simple:
It’s time to be yourself. It’s time to show your face. It’s time to live with courage, from a place of vulnerability, open-hearted to the world. It’s time to let others in to that tender-hearted place, to accept help and support, and to stop trying to be all things to all people always. It’s time to be loved, as you have loved. It’s time to heal connections and make new ones. Let the Universe open your heart this week.
My Top Tip For The Week Ahead:
Trust that your intuition will guide you in how to show up in the days ahead. Maybe you need to create a blog post, video, podcast or an email that shares a little more of yourself. Perhaps it’s time to have that hard conversation, to pick up the phone and call a friend, see a counsellor, or admit to yourself how you really feel. And if you’re called to it, how can you be that friend for someone else?
Crystals to support you this week – Amethyst, Mookaite, Bronzite, Red Jasper, Rose Quartz, Unakite
It’s been a messy week of Lyme treatment, medical appointments, bloodwork and scans for me. I’ll admit, it was a tough week, and I know I have more tough weeks to go.
In the middle of all of that messiness we opened a box of Ben’s stuff that got packed away at our farm long ago. We didn’t know what was in it. To my delight it contained two Ehrman tapestry kits to make pretty floral cushions. I haven’t done any needlework for fifteen years, and I decided it was time to bring out all my old sewing tools, find myself a new floor frame, and set up an area by the window in our lounge room where I can sit with Ben at night and stitch away until I am ready for meditation and bed.
One of the wonderful things about handicrafts is that they take you out of your head, and help you focus on what’s right in front of you. That’s a great countermeasure to help cope with stress, anxiety and overwhelm.
I’m also grateful that Autumn is finally here, and that it’s soup weather. Soup and I are getting along just fine, and there’s not much more comforting that a warm bowl of soup when you’re feeling poorly.
I start new drugs this week, and I have EVERYTHING crossed that these ones may be a little more gentle on my system. Here’s hoping. 🤞🏼💖✨
I’m still managing micro-sessions of writing, and the 2026 Planner copy is almost done and ready for graphic design. Next year looks quite different to this one, and I am looking forward to its grounding practical energy when this turbulent year of pattern-breaking and deep healing is done.
Sending love to you all, and holding you in my daily meditations, Nicole xx
Life is hard and you are amazing, your inner strength shines through your posts and help many of us cope through the rough patches on life
Some years ago a woman in your situation (chemo) told me the only food she could eat without vomiting was mashed potatoes. Maybe your body likes that too.
I am so going to try that!!! Thank you xx
A little trip to NZ at the end of the week could help me really sit in my heart ♥️ I decided last night to go … life is short …. Take chances and live
Yes, do it! And have a wonderful time xx