“It was the kind of moon that I would want to send back to my ancestors and gift to my descendants so they know that I too, have been bruised…by beauty.” ~ Sanober Khan I’m late posting today, because I was up so late last night. Lats night I sat in meditation in a […]
It’s Here! Year of ME Planner 2017 and Other Good Stuff!
“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” ~ E. B. White “Dear E.B. White, if you had my Year of ME Planner you could do both!” ~ Nicole Cody There is one thing […]
The Week Ahead – Oracle Reading for Monday 12 December
“Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have been useful to our ancestors, but that are useful no longer.” ~ Roger Scruton “Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a […]
Join My Ancestors and Songlines Crystal Healing Grid
“The songs of our ancestors are also the songs of our children.” ― Philip Carr-Gomm Here on our farm I’ve made a special healing grid for us, as 2016 staggers to a close. This crystal grid is anchored by an Aboriginal stone club head representing masculine energy, and a selenite fish tail representing feminine […]
A Message for Empaths and Sensitive Souls
“The real warriors in this world are the ones that see the details of another’s soul. They see the transparency behind walls people put up. They stand on the battlefield of life and expose their heart’s transparency, so other’s can finish the day with hope. They are the sensitive souls that understand that before they […]
The Week Ahead – Oracle Reading for Monday 5 December
“There’s always a moment that separates the past from the future, and that moment is now.” ~ Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel Hello, Lovelies! Here’s the oracle card I have chosen this Monday, and my take on the energetic outlook for the week ahead. ‘Possibilities’ is from the Osho Zen Tarot deck and it signals opportunities for us to gain much-needed […]
The Energies of December – 2016
“Sometimes, you have to look back in order to understand the things that lie ahead.” ~ Yvonne Woon Hello, Lovelies December is here, and after the crazy ramped-up energies that were November things are shifting back to a slower gear! December is a month for truly giving thought to who we are, where we’ve been, […]
The Week Ahead – Oracle Reading for Monday 28 November
“May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke Hello, Friends! Welcome to the final days of these fabulous November energies. Here’s the oracle card I have chosen, and my take on the energetic outlook for the week ahead. ‘Totality’ is from […]
It’s Today!!! And It’s Big!
“But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window–maybe rearrange all the furniture.” ~ Raymond Carver “Don’t you long for something different to happen, something so exciting and new it carries you along with it like […]
Pop Up Shop Tomorrow and Saturday!
“Friendship … is born at the moment when one man says to another “What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .” ~ C.S. Lewis Just one more sleep until my Brisbane Pop Up Shop, Channelling Evening and Weekend Workshops! From Friday 25 to Sunday 27 November I’ll be running a pop-up shop as […]
The Week Ahead – Oracle Reading for Monday 21 November
“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.” ~ Dalai Lama XIV “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” ~ Leo […]
Dear Sensitive Souls, Are You Feeling These Intense Energies?
“Highly sensitive people are too often perceived as weaklings or damaged goods. To feel intensely is not a symptom of weakness, it is the trademark of the truly alive and compassionate. It is not the empath who is broken, it is society that has become dysfunctional and emotionally disabled. There is no shame in expressing […]
Create A Foundation Of Spiritual Habits – Workshop
“You can’t make yourself feel positive, but you can choose how to act, and if you choose right, it builds your confidence.” ~ Julien Smith, The Flinch “Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become […]
The Week Ahead – Oracle Reading for Monday 14 November
“Chronic self-doubt is a symptom of the core belief, ‘I’m not good enough.’ We adopt these types of limiting beliefs in response to our family and childhood experiences, and they become rooted in the subconscious… we have the ability to take action to override it…” ~ Lauren Mackler “All it takes is one person in any […]
Medicine For The Soul
“Put ‘im in your bag. Dis lil stone, dis leaf, dis feather. Dem all medicines for you. Your special tings dat make your heart glad. Make your soul remember. Dat good for you. Proper medicine.” ~ Aunty This morning, very early, I woke with a heavy heart. I felt the weight upon it of world […]
The Week Ahead – Oracle Reading for Monday 7 November
“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” ~ Maya Angelou “I go to my studio every day, because one day I may go and the Angel will be there. What if I don’t go and the Angel came?” ~ Philip Guston Hello, Lovelies! Welcome to the second week of […]
And the Winner is…
“Always find opportunities to make someone smile, and to offer random acts of kindness in everyday life.” ~ Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart Thank you to everyone who entered our competition to win a hand-crafted Talisman. We’re excited to announce that the lucky winner is: Joanne Sandhu Joanne, congratulations! I’m really looking […]
Win a Magical Talisman Just For You!
“Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you’ve changed, by believing. Once you’ve changed, other things start to follow. Isn’t that the way it works?” ~ Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard Last week I shared the story of how I brought my friend Carly’s magical […]
The Energies of November – 2016
“If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it.” ~ John Mayer “Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose – and commit myself to – what is best for me.” ~ Paulo Coelho Hello, Lovelies Let’s give a big […]
Nicole Cody’s November Events – Brisbane and Online!
“I’m not a teacher: only a fellow traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead – ahead of myself as well as you.” ~ George Bernard Shaw “I cannot begin to tell you how precious you are to me, and how much it means to walk this path with you. Come take my […]
The Week Ahead – Oracle Reading for Monday 24 October 2016
“Make the most of yourself….for that is all there is of you.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Hello Lovelies, Here’s this week’s oracle card and my take on the energetic outlook for the days ahead. I’ve chosen the Harmony card from the Osho Zen Tarot deck. Take a big breath in. Breathe out. Relax into it. Relax […]
Feathers for a Friend
“Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever heard.” ~ Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore This week I am enjoying […]
The Energies of September – 2016
“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince Hello, Lovelies Welcome to September. It’s such a lovely heart-centered month. A month for simplifying. For focusing […]
The Energies of August – 2016
“If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.” ~ Michelangelo Buonarroti Hello, Lovelies Welcome to August. August is a month for knowing ourselves, for bettering ourselves and for furthering ourselves. As we act from a place of self-awareness and personal clarity things […]
Brisbane Pop-Up Shop and Workshops – August 2016
“I am not a teacher, but an awakener.” ~ Robert Frost I’ve organised some lovely events for August. I hope you can join us! More details soon, but here’s an overview. Please save the following dates. From Friday 19 to Sunday 21 August I’ll be running a pop-up shop in Brisbane, as well as some one […]
Date Savers for August plus We’re On Retreat!
“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.” ~ Michel de Montaigne I’m off to run my Chakra Wisdoms Retreat today – a lovely immersive week of self-discovery, solitude, sanctuary, companionship, soul growth, crystals, meditation and really good food here in Byron Bay. I don’t think I have ever […]
Five Things I Love About Being Home At My Farm
“To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter… to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring — these are some of the rewards of the simple […]
The Energies of July – 2016
“Do what you think is right. Don’t let people make the decision of right or wrong for you.” ~ Steve Maraboli Hello, Lovelies I apologise for this one being a little late, but I promise there is plenty of month left in which to apply all of this information. July is here, and a […]
Day 7 – Oracle Card Challenge
“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Current Priorities All of us have so many demands on our limited time. How do we know where to put our focus? This next exercise will help you to gain clarity around the priorities […]
The Energies of June – 2016
“It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tired into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one destiny, affects all indirectly.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr. Hello, Lovelies Welcome to June. June is a month for plugging ourselves into the wider […]
Come Join Us For the Year of ME!
“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.” ~ Mother Teresa Hello, Lovelies! I’ve had so many people ask me whether it was too late to start using my Year of ME Planner, or to join the year-long course and community that I’ve […]
The Energies of May – 2016
“Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.” ~ Judy Garland “If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then […]
Chakra Wisdoms Retreat – 23 to 28 July, 2016
“Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle.” ~ Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland “And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?” ~ Rumi “At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.” ~ Lao Tzu […]
A Last Charge for Some Special Stones
“One is not loved accidentally; one’s own power to love produces love – just as being interested makes one interesting. People are concerned with the question of whether they are attractive while they forget that the essence of attractiveness is their own capacity to love. To love a person productively implies to care and to […]
Super New Moon Ritual – April 7, 2016
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” ~ Anaïs Nin It’s a New Moon! And not only that, it’s a supermoon, where the moon is at its closest position to earth during its natural orbit. This is the New Moon in Aries, also known as the Infant’s Moon. All new moons encourage […]
The Energies of April – 2016
“We need solitude, because when we’re alone, we’re free from obligations, we don’t need to put on a show, and we can hear our own thoughts.” ~ Tamim Ansary Hello, Lovelies Welcome to April! Let me share some observations about the energy of the month ahead, as well as a few suggestions for embracing all […]
The Energies of March – 2016
“Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.” ~ Albert Einstein Hello, Lovelies 🙂 Welcome to March! Let me share some observations about the energy of the month ahead, as well as a few suggestions for embracing all that March has to offer. Cards for the Month: I’ve chosen two cards for March for […]
The Energies of February – 2016
“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Hello, Lovelies 🙂 February is here! Let me share some observations about the energy of the month ahead, as well as a few suggestions for embracing all that February has to offer. Cards for […]
Which Oracle Would You Like Next?
My momma always said, “Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” ~ Forrest Gump Every so often I get the urge to create an oracle for you to give you guidance and support for the time ahead, and I have a few planned for 2016. What would you prefer? […]
My 2016 Personal Planning Summit!
“As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.” ~ Antoine de Saint Exupery Today is a day I always look forward to. After a relaxing Christmas, and a delicious day of doing completely NOTHING yesterday, today I begin my personal Planning Summit for 2016. I’ve set aside four […]
Christmas Full Moon – 2015
“The songs of our ancestors are also the songs of our children” ~ Philip Carr-Gomm Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! There is a full moon tonight – Christmas Night, 2015. (I know, I know, some of you dear readers are only up to Christmas Eve, but I’m in Australia, where it’s tomorrow already!) It […]
Come to my Christmas Party – and other cool events!
“Be merry all, be merry all, With holly dress the festive hall; Prepare the song, the feast, the ball, To welcome merry Christmas.” ~ William Robert Spencer This Friday, December 11, I’m holding a pop-up shop and Christmas Party, and I’d love you to come! The pop-up shop will open at 3pm, and we’ll […]
Endings and Beginnings
“No, this is not the beginning of a new chapter in my life; this is the beginning of a new book! That first book is already closed, ended, and tossed into the seas; this new book is newly opened, has just begun! Look, it is the first page! And it is a beautiful one!” ~ […]
A Sneak Peek at My Secret Project!
“A goal without a plan is just a wish.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry I always thought that the first book I brought out into the world would be a story. But it isn’t my story. It’s yours! Here’s the sneak peek I promised you of the project I have been working on. It’s a […]
After the Storm…
“When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.” ~ Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore One of the things I love about our retreats at Sangsurya is that we are always so supported by the natural environment. We’ve been doing […]
A Little Bit Of Chaos
“Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened.” ~ Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two I thought about writing a blog titled ‘Reasons for Screaming Yesterday – My Top Five’. They would have been: The microbat in my bath-towel […]
Crystals To Soothe Anxiety
“P.S. You’re not going to die. Here’s the white-hot truth: if you go bankrupt, you’ll still be okay. If you lose the gig, the lover, the house, you’ll still be okay. If you sing off-key, get beat by the competition, have your heart shattered, get fired… it’s not going to kill you. Ask anyone who’s […]
My Favourite Crystals For Spiritual Connection
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” ~ W.B. Yeats Meditation, connecting with our guides, getting into a channelling space or spiritual flow, doing readings or healings, clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, working with energy, astral travelling, improving our psychic and metaphysical abilities – all of these things […]
Date Savers For Working With Nicole Cody 2015 and 2016
“My greatest joy is to help people feel and trust the presence of their own soul wisdom, their own intuitive and psychic connection, their own gifts and talents, the wonders all around them and within them.” ~ Nicole Cody Hi Lovelies! I thought it might be a good idea for me to give you a […]
Emergency Crystal Help for Solar Flare Energies
“Here I came to the very edge where nothing at all needs saying, everything is absorbed through weather and the sea, and the moon swam back, its rays all silvered, and time and again the darkness would be broken by the crash of a wave, and every day on the balcony of the sea, wings […]
Full Moon Supermoon Ritual – August 29, 2015
“Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit […]
Emergency Help for Ungrounded People – Especially after Seismic Activity!
“The safest place to be during an earthquake would be in a stationary store.” ~ George Carlin, Brain Droppings In Australia we’ve had a string of small earthquakes in the past few days. Seismic activity like this can be very unsettling for energetically sensitive people. In the days before an earthquake, volcanic eruption or other […]
Blue Moon 2015 – How To Work With These Energies
“It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn’t matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.” ~ Paulo Coelho, The Zahir On Friday, July 31, we’ll have our second full moon […]
Advice For Overwhelmed Empaths and Psychics
“Every time you make a commitment to your own self-care, self-love and self-respect and then follow through, you build trust in yourself.” ~ Miranda J. Barrett The difficult thing about being empathic or psychic is that most of us can’t turn it off. Some days that’s fine. We feel strong, and we can roll […]
Every Bead A Prayer
“What is a teacher? I’ll tell you: it isn’t someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.” ~ Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello You may remember that at the very beginning of my Retreat preparation I made […]
When Crystals Break…
“We had entered an era of limitlessness, or the illusion thereof, and this in itself is a sort of wonder. My grandfather lived a life of limits, both suffered and strictly observed, in a world of limits. I learned much of that world from him and others, and then I changed; I entered the world […]
The Love In Every Detail
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” ~ Confucius I’m putting the final preparations together for my Beginners Channeling Intensive Retreat this week. It’s called an ‘intensive’ for a reason. It’s a big course, and it takes a lot of commitment – from me, […]
Fairy Oracle – Messages Of Guidance and Support!
“You must try to have a positive attitude. It does not matter how small a person is. One can still change the future. Size is only a state of mind. You know – it is how you use your wits that counts. Nothing can stop us, if we put our hearts into it. Anything is […]
And the Winner of the Healing Necklace is…
“What’s meant to be will always find a way.” ~ Trisha Yearwood To find the winner of this beautiful healing necklace, I put all of the names into my singing bowl. And then I prayed for the Highest Good and I drew out the lucky winner. This is whose name I drew: Leisa Zoeller […]
Win A Beautiful Healing Necklace
“The power of love is real whether you can see it or not.” ~ Debasish Mridha “The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.” ~ Mother Teresa Do you remember, a while back, when I created my Love Mala? Twice a day for one month I prayed that mala. […]
Water Oracle – For Embracing Opportunity
“Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away […]
Counting You On My Fingers
“It is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you will understand why everything in the past never worked.” ~ Shannon L. Alder I was up two hours earlier than usual this morning. (That’s early, believe me!) Why? Today marks exactly one month until my Beginners Channelling Intensive Retreat […]
How to Be An Everyday Mystic
“Rituals are like electrically powered transmitters sending stimulating sparks of electric current or inspirational feelings that connect us to our inner being or soul.” ~ Wes Adamson Who doesn’t want to embrace their inner mystic? We want to be able to listen to our intuition, and to call on energies that help us find […]
Want to join me on Witch Camp?
“Yours are the only shoes made to walk your journey.” ~ C. F. Glassman I have some exciting news! My friend Maia Toll runs a couple of online courses every year, known as Witch Camp. Maia is a herbalist and wise woman, who is helping others to reclaim the word witch the way witch once […]
The ‘Best Path’ Magical Oracle
“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.” ~ J.K. Rowling Feel in need of a little guidance? Every so often I like to create an oracle for you. The very first one I ever posted was The Healing Power of Flowers and […]
The Glorious Journey of Our Love Mala
“The best teachers have showed me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly–we only think it does. The motion of drawing back a bow and sending an arrow straight into a target takes only a split second, but it is a skill many years in the making. […]
Emergency Help for Grounding Yourself and Opening your Feet Chakras
“Get yourself grounded and you can navigate even the stormiest roads in peace.” ~ Steve Goodier You may be aware that the Earth has experienced some fairly intensive geomagnetic storms and solar flares just recently. The energy of those storms has passed, but there is still an energetic residue that we are dealing with, […]
Navigating The Energies of March 2015
“When you follow a star you know you will never reach that star; rather it will guide you to where you want to go. … So it is with the world. It will only ever lead you back to yourself.” ~ Jeanette Winterson, Boating for Beginners I’m sure you’ve been noticing it, these intense […]
It’s Finished – Our Mala of Love
“Be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education.” ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov “It does not matter how long you are spending on […]
Mala of Love
“Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi I meditate twice a day; once in the morning when I first wake up – at around 4am, and once in the evening before I go to bed. This has been […]
Crystals to Help With the Current 2015 Energies
“Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.” ~ Meister Eckhart Are you feeling it? This wild, crazy energy we’re sitting in right now. If you’re the slightest bit spiritually or psychically sensitive you’ll know what I mean. Of course, each of us will be impacted differently, and we may […]
Power Word Meditation for 2015
“The more of me I be, The clearer I can see.” ~ Rachel Archelaus Today I’ve prepared a short guided meditation to help you to truly connect to your power word for 2015. If you haven’t yet chosen your power word go back and choose it here. If you have a crystal that you’d like […]
A Little Taste of Our Sanctuary
“Each positive thought is your refuge and your sanctuary, where in that thoughtful moment, you are safe.” ~ Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life It’s our final day of the 2014 Soul Sanctuary Retreat, and I thought I’d share just a tiny part of what we’ve been doing. We’ve come […]
A sneak peak at Day One…
“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.” ~ Mother Teresa “Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.” ~ Ruth Reichl The picture at the top of this post is a rather large crystal mandala, […]
The Winner of the Chlorite Phantom Quartz
“Home is not where you live but where they understand you.” ~ Christian Morgenstern I’m so happy to announce that the winner of this beautiful little Chlorite Phantom Quartz Crystal is: Pauline Longdon Congratulations, Pauline! I know you’ll take good care of her, and I look forward to hearing all about your adventures together. […]
Win a Chlorite Phantom Quartz
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” ~ W.B. Yeats Hello Lovelies, I promised that during our Journal Challenge I would be having some giveaways, and here is the most precious of them all. A stone from my own personal and much-loved collection. This is only a […]
And the Lucky Rune Winner is…
“Because I was more often happy for other people, I got to spend more time being happy. And as I saw more light in everybody else, I seemed to have more myself.” ~ Victoria Moran, Lit From Within: Tending Your Soul For Lifelong Beauty There were so many names to put into the hat for […]
Rune Giveaway and Facebook Party
“It is easy to decide on what is wrong to wear to a party, such as deep-sea diving equipment or a pair of large pillows, but deciding what is right is much trickier.” ~ Lemony Snicket, The Slippery Slope Hello Lovelies, I promised that during our Journal Challenge I would be having a weekly […]
One More Sleep ’til Retreat!
“Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.” ~ Gloria Steinem It’s only one more sleep until I head off to run my Advanced Channeling Retreat. I’m so excited I could just about bust! 🙂 For the last eight weeks I have […]
Magical Book Oracle – A Reading Just For You!
“We’re here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.” ~ Whoopi Goldberg I love the idea of a magical book. Don’t you? I’ve often turned to books when I’ve needed guidance or answers. So today I’ve used some beautiful […]
Colour Oracle for Channelled Guidance
“Color directly influences the soul. Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another purposely, to cause vibrations in the soul.” ~ Wassily Kandinsky, Concerning the Spiritual in Art Here’s a little colour inspiration to start […]
Magical Cupcake Oracle #2
“If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.” ~ George MacDonald “A hug is a great gift – one size fits all, and it’s easy to exchange.” ~ Author Unknown Will […]
A Little Bag of Comfort!
“There’s a sorrow and pain in everyone’s life, but every now and then there’s a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed.” ~ Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream Right now I’m pushing through an aggressive round of drugs and herbs to treat […]
Making a Flower Mandala
“Each person’s life is like a mandala- a vast, limitless circle. We stand in the center of our own circle, and everything we see, hear and think forms the mandala of our life.” ~ Pema Chodron I spent this past weekend resting, healing, reconnecting and weaning myself back onto my Lyme drugs. It has been […]
Living my Sacred Promise
“You protect your being when you love yourself better. That’s the secret.” ~ Isabelle Adjani It’s the final day of Retreat, and I’m profoundly grateful that my body has held up for the duration. Just at dinner last night my Lymey eye began to pulse and pain, and I ended up running our after-dinner channelling session […]
Thank you! We’re Two!!
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” ~ Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul Cauldrons and Cupcakes turns two today. Two years since my first uncertain foray into the world of blogging, with the auspicious post Ice-Cream Plum […]
How to Have a Heart-Centred Year
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection” ~ Gautama Buddha “I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.” ~ Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre I’m betting you’ve never had a year where you made yourself – your wants […]
Moon Magic
“Last night I danced. My body rose from its slump for the first time since the beginning of sorrows—my fingers beckoning to the stars at arm’s length, back arching as tingles bubbled up my spine, hips caught in a silent tempo while on tiptoe I twirled in endless euphoric circles. It didn’t matter that you […]
Feather Oracle – For Inspired Messages!
“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.” ~ Emily Dickinson Every night at my farm a big owl alights on my clothesline. I feel very safe and loved in the presence of this owl. Often I am […]
Magical Leaf Oracle – A Reading for Nurture and Guidance
“and the leaves were telling secrets to the wind.” ~ Peter Mulvey Nature is one place I always find nurture and inspiration. So today I’ve used nature, and that potent symbol of life and growth – the leaf – to gift you clarity and reassurance about where you’re at right now. Each leaf also comes […]
Create Positive Change Program – Week 8
“If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.” ~ Gail Sheehy Congratulations! You made it to the final week of our Positive Change Program. This week’s about putting it all together, and then making a commitment to follow through on the dreams, plans and concrete steps we’ve identified in […]
Create Positive Change Program – Week 7
‘Throw your hat in the ring’ – Meaning: Make or take up a challenge, or demonstrate one’s willingness to join an enterprise. This week we’re getting serious about creating change, with my Throw your hat in the ring challenge! When we’re inviting change into our lives it’s important to think about the sorts of changes we […]
Create Positive Change Program – Week 6
“When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.”~ Paulo Coelho 2013 and 2014 are years for inviting and creating powerful positive change in our lives. And knowing that, there’s a decision to be made… Do I actively seek change and open myself to these energies, or […]
Create Positive Change Program – Week 5
“Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” ~Lao Tzu There’s no point in merely thinking about change. Thinking is an important part of the process, but there is nothing quite so powerful, so […]
Create Positive Change Program – Week 4
“It’s not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What’s hard, she said, is figuring out what you’re willing to give up in order to do the things you really care about.” ― Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way That’s the thing about change. It requires room. […]
Create Positive Change Program – Week 3
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow […]
Create Positive Change Program – Week 2
“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. One of the biggest obstacles to change is that feeling of overwhelm we get when we look at where we are now, and then at the distance between us and our goal/heart’s […]
Create Positive Change Program – Week 1
“For things to change, you have to change.” ~ Jim Rohn, The Art of Exceptional Living There’s change in the air. We’re finally shifting away from those old energies, those old patterns, and into the beginnings of a new space. Change is always a little chaotic, and it can be unsettling and uncomfortable. But change also gives […]
Working to Create Positive Change – An 8 Week Program
“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” ~ Jim Rohn We’re living in exciting times – times that are opening us up to great new possibilities and future directions. But how can we make the best of these energies of change that are upon us? Over the next eight […]
Tree Oracle Reading for Embracing Change
“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson Trees have long been known as Sacred Guardians of the Earth. […]