“Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.”
— John Muir
Hello, Lovelies!
This Quarter I am using the The Witches’ Wisdom Tarot by Phyllis Curott, illustrated by Danielle Barlow, for my weekly oracle readings.
Our card to guide us for the week ahead is 4 of AIR and its reminder to come back to rest.
2026 is a profoundly intuitive and creative year, encouraging adaptability and flexibility, and new beginnings that are practical and sustainable.
March shifts the focus from definition into expression. After February’s work of clarifying what matters, this month invites you to begin living those choices more visibly and courageously in your everyday life. March is a time of movement, creativity, and gentle expansion – where the habits, boundaries, and priorities you’ve been shaping start to find their natural rhythm in the world around you. Rather than striving for perfection, this month encourages participation: taking small steps, following curiosity, trusting your intuition, and allowing momentum to grow through action. What you nourish and sustain now begins to show its shape, not through force, but through the quiet confidence of living in alignment with who you are becoming.
🌺This Week’s Guidance
This week invites you to slow down and breathe.
When life becomes busy or emotionally charged, our perspective narrows. We focus on the immediate problem, the task in front of us, the pressure of decisions that feel urgent. Yet clarity rarely comes from pushing harder into the moment. More often it arrives when we step back.
This week encourages a pause – not withdrawal, but spaciousness.
Take a moment to lift your gaze above the details of your current circumstances and look at the wider landscape of your life. When you do, something subtle shifts. What once felt overwhelming often begins to look more manageable. Priorities become clearer. Small worries shrink when viewed from a little distance.
Breathing deeply, stepping outside, or taking time in quiet reflection can help you access this wider perspective.
There is also a strong energy of companionship around you now. You may find comfort in the presence of people who understand you without needing lengthy explanations. Time spent with trusted friends, family, or even quiet companionship with animals can bring emotional nourishment and balance.
Connection does not always require conversation. Sometimes it is simply the comfort of shared presence.
This week also supports nurturing environments – places where you feel safe enough to rest your mind. A peaceful corner of your home, a walk among trees, time beside water, or simply sitting with a warm drink and letting your thoughts settle can restore your sense of equilibrium.
If a situation feels tangled or confusing, resist the urge to force a solution immediately. Allow yourself time to breathe and observe. Often the bigger picture reveals itself naturally once you have created enough mental space.
You are not required to solve everything today.
Instead, let your attention move between the details and the wider horizon. Both perspectives are valuable, but it is the balance between them that brings wisdom.
📖Journaling Prompt
What situation in my life might benefit from stepping back and seeing the bigger picture?
Write freely about what you notice when you imagine looking at your current concerns from a wider vantage point.
🌟 Top Tip of the Week:
Give yourself a small breathing space every day this week.
Step outside, take several slow breaths, and allow your shoulders and jaw to soften. Even a few minutes of conscious breathing can reset your nervous system and bring surprising clarity.
Sometimes the most powerful thing you can do is pause long enough to see clearly again.
Crystals to support you this week – Moonstone, Red Jasper, Lapis Lazuli, Clear Quartz, Any Agate, Gold
🌿A small note from the Treehouse
And speaking of perspective, which is so on theme with this week’s blog, here’s a little glimpse of life here at the Treehouse right now. Let’s address my noticeable absence the past few weeks first. As is always the way when you don’t hear from me, I’ve been unwell. The kind of unwell where I struggled to get the basics done, let alone blogging.
Which leads to the next part of my update…
Life has a way of rearranging our plans sometimes.
Ben and I had intended to take a small road trip this past weekend – a few quiet days away to reset after what has been a very full and demanding stretch for us both. But as things sometimes do, circumstances shifted and the trip didn’t happen after all.
I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t disappointed. There’s something wonderfully restorative about watching the countryside roll past the car window, exploring small towns, and searching out good bakeries and second-hand bookshops together. We had both been looking forward to that little pocket of freedom.
Still, this week’s energetic focus of stepping back and taking a wider view has been helpful. Sometimes the bigger perspective reminds us that a change of plans is not necessarily a loss — just a different path unfolding. The road trip will happen another time.
Back at the Treehouse, autumn has quietly begun to arrive. The nights are a little cooler now, the days are softening, and recent rain has turned everything green and vibrant again. My mornings still begin the same way: meditation, followed by a mug of hot water with fresh ginger slices while I sit looking out over the rainforest and watch the day slowly come to life.
Each day I’m finding small pockets of time for writing. That inner creative world remains very much alive, even when the outer pace of life slows. Rufous is never far away for a cuddle, and Ben remains the calm centre of my days.
In between those gentle moments there is still work, medical appointments, and the usual realities of life, which means a few more naps than I might once have planned for. That’s simply the rhythm of things right now, and I’m learning to work with it rather than against it.
Something that has helped me step back from stress lately is remembering that all I ever really need to do is get through today.
I’ve had many hard days in this lifetime, and every single one of them eventually passed. That perspective makes it easier to keep breathing, to keep showing up, and to keep noticing the small things that still deserve gratitude.
Lately I’ve also been taking great comfort in reading some of the wonderful long-form writing on Substack. It feels refreshing to sit with thoughtful, reflective pieces again instead of the fast-moving fragments that dominate so much of social media.
Inspired by that, I’ve recently dipped my own toes into the Substack river and started a little corner of my own there. It’s called Still Here, and I’d love to see you there if that kind of writing speaks to you. If you subscribe, my longform posts will come direct to your inbox, like little love letters!
Find me here: Still Here – on Substack
The blog and the Monday Oracle will absolutely continue — this space is still very much home — but Substack has given me a place where I can write a little more personally and freely as I move into this next chapter of life.
Behind the scenes I’m also continuing work on my next magical realism novel. What I once imagined as a stand-alone story has begun to reveal itself as the start of a series, which is both exciting and slightly daunting. I’m currently polishing my pitch and preparing to reach out to UK-based agents, so wish me luck.
Someone told me recently that I’d left it a little late in life to become a writer. That made me laugh. I’ll be sixty in a few years, and I’m grateful for every piece of lived experience that has brought me here. If anything, I think now might be the perfect time to live the life I’ve always wanted.
It may be a life a little dinged around the edges, but we’re never promised tomorrow. And many of the things we were once told were important turn out, in the end, to matter far less than we imagined.
For now, life continues here at the Treehouse — quietly, imperfectly, and still full of small treasures.
And I hope you can find a few of those small treasures in your own week ahead.
With love from the Treehouse,
Nicole xx 🙏🏻💖😊
PS – Planner and Etsy sale coming up, so I can clean out my storeroom. Just give me a chance to set it up! I’ll let you know all about it right here on the blog.
