“You don’t have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Hello, Lovelies!
For this quarter, I’ll be working with This Might Hurt Tarot by Isabella Rotman – a bold, honest, and deeply compassionate deck that doesn’t shy away from truth, but holds it with warmth, humour, and a fierce belief in your ability to grow through whatever life is asking of you.
Our card to guide us for the week ahead is the Two of Wands – The Queen of Swords reminds us that wisdom is born through lived experience, and asks us to make clear, honest decisions that protect our peace, energy, and future.
2026 is a profoundly intuitive and creative year, encouraging adaptability, flexibility, and new beginnings that are both practical and sustainable.
June Energies
June encourages you to become both a loving parent and a trusted guide to yourself.
Many of us learned how to care for others long before we learned how to care for ourselves. We became responsible, capable, dependable. We learned to keep going, keep coping, keep carrying what needed to be carried.
But somewhere along the way, many of us also learned to dismiss our own needs, ignore our own exhaustion, and leave the most vulnerable parts of ourselves waiting patiently for attention that never comes.
June invites a different approach.
This month asks you to create a life that feels supportive from the inside out.
Offer yourself encouragement when things are difficult. Create routines that help you feel safe and steady. Simplify what has become unnecessarily complicated. Build structures that support your wellbeing rather than drain it.
At the same time, make room for delight.
Your inner child is not a problem to solve or a wound to fix. They are also the part of you that still knows how to wonder, imagine, create, play, explore, and dream.
Read books simply because they delight you. Wander through a bookstore. Make soup. Paint. Plant something. Spend time with people and animals that help you feel happy, loved and seen.
The more supported you feel, the easier it becomes to hear your own wisdom, and from that place, new possibilities begin to emerge.
Which brings us beautifully to this week’s card…
🌿This Week’s Guidance
The Two of Wands is a card of horizons. There is a sense of standing at a crossroads – looking back at where you’ve been and looking ahead at where you might go.
It’s the beginning of realising that more options exist than you first imagined.
This card is asking for thoughtful exploration.
For planning.
For dreaming.
For lifting your eyes from today’s circumstances and remembering that your future is still being written, so it’s never too late to start.
If you have been feeling stuck, uncertain, restless, or disconnected from your sense of purpose, this card offers reassurance.
You are not lost – you are simply in the space between one destination and the next.
The Two of Wands encourages you to review your life honestly.
What is working?
What is no longer working?
What dreams have been waiting in the background?
What projects deserve more of your attention?
What possibilities have you been dismissing because they feel too ambitious, too impractical, or too far away?
This is particularly powerful energy for:
👉 career planning
👉 business development
👉 creative projects
👉 writing and artistic work
👉 travel plans
👉 learning new skills
👉 long-term goal setting
This week invites you to think beyond immediate problems and reconnect with a larger vision for your life.
Where are you headed? And just as importantly… Where would you like to go?
📖Journaling Prompt
If I were designing the next chapter of my life from a place of hope rather than fear, what would it look like?
🌟 Top Tip of the Week:
Go back through your planners, journals and diaries. It’s time to put yourself and your dreams front and centre. Choose one thing you have wanted to do, have been unable to get done, or one thing you have been avoiding. Spend ten minutes on it, or delegate it to someone else. Even small steps count.
Then… do the same thing again tomorrow, and as many days this week as you can manage.
Crystals to support you this week – Moonstone, Smoky Quartz, Carnelian, Garnet, Sunstone, K2
And speaking of new directions, fresh plans, and learning to trust the road as it unfolds… here’s what’s been happening here at the Treehouse this week. 💚
🌿A note from the Treehouse
Last week was messy.
It was one of those weeks filled with disappointments, bad news, unexpected appointments, and more emotional energy than I really had available to spend. By Friday I was completely shattered.
So I did something I rarely give myself permission to do – I put myself back to bed.
And mostly stayed there.
The weekend became an exercise in doing very little. Resting. Reading. Drinking tea. Looking out at the trees. Letting my nervous system slowly settle again. By Sunday evening I felt a little more like myself. Not completely restored, but steadier. Ready to face the week ahead.
One of the things I’ve noticed lately is how much I’ve missed my writing. I’ve been away from it for almost a fortnight now, and the absence has begun to feel physical. A kind of ache. A longing to get back to the page and spend time in the worlds and stories waiting for me there. I’ve learned to trust that feeling. When I start missing the work that much, it usually means my creative well is filling again. Thank goodness for that!
Meanwhile, Rufous has appointed himself Chief Morale Officer.
His preferred strategy seems to be gift-giving.
Over the past week he has presented me with a fascinating collection of treasures, including screwed-up paper liberated from the recycling bin in my office, two excellent rocks, a stick, a very soggy scrub turkey feather, one of Ben’s slippers, and a hairclip I thought I’d lost months ago but which had apparently been relocated to a secret canine storage facility. What would I do without him?
I’ve been managing my own energy with tray bakes that last for days, meals made up of hot things on toast (eggs, mince, beans, leftovers), and more cups of fresh ginger tea than I care to count. Simple food has been excellent medicine.
So has paying attention to the small things.
We’ve had some new visitors arrive in our rainforest garden—a pair of rufous whistlers. It’s the first time I’ve seen them here since moving to the Treehouse. They spend their days darting among the palms and singing from hidden perches, and I’ve lost several pleasant hours simply watching them go about their business. There is something deeply reassuring about birds carrying on with their ordinary bird lives regardless of what is happening in ours.
I’ve also been disappearing into some very old books about pirates, sailing ships, and life at sea during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It’s all research for future stories, although I suspect I’d be reading them anyway. I find it endlessly fascinating to learn about how people lived, travelled, survived, and dreamed in worlds so different from our own.
Perhaps that’s why I love writing so much. Stories remind us that difficult chapters are not the whole story. They are simply part of the journey.
For now, the kettle is on, more ginger tea is brewing, Rufous is standing by in case I require another mysterious gift, and somewhere beyond the windows the rufous whistlers are singing among the trees.
Wishing you a replenishing week, with some strong moments of self-care.
With love from the Treehouse,
Nicole xx
