“Meditate, visualize and create your own reality and the universe will simply reflect back to you.” ~ Amit Ray Do you meditate? It’s one of the things we are practicing on retreat right now. Even a few minutes a day, done regularly, can change your life – bringing calm and increasing your ability to cope […]
Last One Standing
“Each young person is a poet of sorts, trying to sort out the poetics of their inner life and its relation to the great world around it. Each elder is a philosopher of sorts, trying to sort out the meanings and gleanings of a life as well as the necessary implications of the presence of […]
Why You Need To Be On My March Retreat!
“Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future, therefore you can trust this indirect, oblique side of yourself. If you do, it will take you where you need to go, but more important it will teach you a kindness of rhythm in your journey.” ~ John O’Donohue […]
Working with the Super Blue Blood Full Moon of January 2018
“Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.” ~ Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi It’s an interesting moon we have tonight – January 31. To start with it’s a Supermoon – a super moon is a perigree full moon, a full moon that occurs at the moon’s closest approach to earth. The […]
Waves, Quiet, Prayers and Stones
“Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven’t the answer to a question you’ve been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause of a room full […]
January New Moon Ritual and Meditation – 2018
“Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose – and commit myself to – what is best for me.” ~ Paulo Coelho “Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.” ~ Peter F. Drucker Today, January 16, heralds the new moon. This New Moon is in Capricorn, […]
Awakening To Spirituality Retreat – March 2018
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.” ~ Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi Awakening to Spirituality Retreat – March 6 to 11, 2018, in Byron Bay Australia Do you yearn for deeper spiritual […]
Here You Are On Our Retreat Grid!
“My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.” ~ Tahir Shah As promised, here is a picture of our crystal grid here at retreat, which is very much still a work in progress. This grid sits in the centre of our hall, on my Nana’s round lace […]
Join us in our Retreat Crystal Grid!
“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.” ~ Mother Teresa Hello, Lovelies! We’re starting our Working with Crystals retreat today in beautiful Byron Bay. On every retreat I create a crystal grid in the centre of the room that holds a specific intent and […]
The Crystal Farmer of Byron Bay
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson We live on an organic farm, tucked in the hills behind Byron Bay. Our main focus is organic heritage citrus, beef cattle and bush tucker (Bunya nuts and herbs). But we have come to do […]
And the October Stones Winner is…
“Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones – maybe only the stones – understood.” ~ Annie Dillard Hello, Lovelies! I’ve so enjoyed reading about your creative projects, why you need creative energy and […]
10 Reasons Why You Need My End-Of-Year Retreat!
“Reach deep within, and reconnect with the essence of your being.” ~ Bryant McGill Do you need some time for recharging, reconnecting and being re-inspired? In late November I’ll be running my final residential retreat for 2017 in beautiful Byron Bay, Australia. It’s a special time of year for my team and I. We plan […]
October Stones – A New Competition For You
“Creativity takes courage” ~ Henri Matisse Hello Lovelies Every day in October I am meditating with these two stones – stones that feel comfortable as I hold them in my hands, stones which are being infused with the energy of my love, intentions and meditations. At the end of October, I shall give them away […]
And the September Stones Winner is…
“May crystals give you power!” ~ Isabel Walbourne Hello, Lovelies! I’ve so enjoyed reading about your happy places, and looking at the photos you posted for us here at Cauldrons and Cupcakes as part of our September Stones giveaway. After much deliberation, the winner of the September Meditation Stones and personalised meditation giveaway is… […]
September Stones – last call for entries!
“When you leave a beautiful place, you carry it with you wherever you go.” ~ Alexandra Stoddard Hi Lovelies, Reblogging this as the last call for entries on the September Stones! Love lots, Nicole and Cauldrons and Cupcakes Team *** Every day in September I am meditating with these two stones. The stones are intended […]
We’re On Retreat!
“God is all that exists. Every stone, flower, tree, animal and human being are on a spiritual journey to recognize their true self, their divine essence.” ~ Swami Dhyan Giten Today we move into our week-long meditation retreat. It’s a time to go within. A time of discovery, connection and revelation. A gift to ourselves […]
Love and Devotion Look Like This
“Rather than remain a sealed jar, she sought only to pour herself out to others. Everything she did mirrored her faith. It was as though every waking hour of the day she was devoted to pleasing her God by serving others. This God that she worshiped consumed her. It didn’t ask for a brief visit […]
My Kind of Happiness – Mystical Crystals
“Live what you love and what you love will fill your life.” ~ Jodi Livon Many years ago when I lived in the Kimberley – that wild outback corner of remote Western Australia – my Aboriginal Aunties showed me how to make stones sing, and how to infuse them with the energies of plants and […]
September Stones – A new competition for you!
“When you leave a beautiful place, you carry it with you wherever you go.” ~ Alexandra Stoddard Every day in September I am meditating with these two stones. The stones are intended to be held, one in each hand, as you sit in meditation. I’ll be giving these stones away, as well as recording a […]
The Energies of September – 2017
“Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” ~ Tony Robbins Hello, Lovelies Suddenly, here we are at September. I love September. In Australia it’s the beginning of Spring, and It’s a month of possibility and expansive energy, of change and curiosity, and of starting small projects that may take […]
And the Winner is…
“As I walk through the wilderness, my eyes and my heart are pulled towards the thicket, the ever-changing landscapes, the gentle daisy and the old beloved stones; as I marvel at the timeless complexities of creation, Nature never disappoints me.” ― Amelia Dashwood We had so many entries for our meditation stones competition! It was […]
Circles of Stones
“I live my life in growing orbits which move out over this wondrous world, I am circling around God, around ancient towers and I have been circling for a thousand years. And I still don’t know if I am an eagle or a storm or a great song.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke Yesterday, one […]
Feather Oracle – For Inspiration and Guidance
Image by Rachel Mitchel “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. […]
Turquoise – A Great Stone For Healers and Empaths
“A turquoise given by a loving hand carries with it happiness and good fortune.” ~ Arabic proverb Last week I made a simple turquoise and rose quartz necklace for a friend, and it has been charging up in one of my amethyst caves ever since. I’ll give it to her today – a gift […]
Stones, Crystals and Meditation Magic
“The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind.” ~ Caroline Myss I have long been a meditator. In fact it has been a daily practice for me since adolescence. Even with my recent bout of ill-health I haven’t missed a day. It’s as much a […]
Morning Healing Meditation Mandalas
“Outside the open window The morning air is all awash with angels.” ~ Richard Wilbur, Collected Poems, 1943-2004 “The period between four and six in the morning is called the Brahmamuhurta, the Brahmic time, or divine period, and is a very sacred time to meditate. ” ~ Swami Satchidananda, The Yoga Sutras And now […]
Learn to Channel in 2017!
“I suspect everybody has a degree of psychic ability, just as a everybody has a degree of athletic or artistic ability. Some people have special gifts; other people have a particular interest that leads them to develop their abilities. But the phenomenon itself is ordinary and widespread.” ~ Michael Crichton, Travels “Psychic power is the […]
See How Our Grid Has Grown…
“Think about our bodies. We’re a chain of veins and organs and they’re all interconnected. If something isn’t going right in one area, the whole system can get out of whack. That’s the way I see the world. We’re all connected. I don’t see myself as this separate entity. I see things in a much […]
Join Me In Sending Love and Light to Close Out 2016 and Welcome In 2017
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi “Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” ~ Barack Obama “They always say time […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Going Through Some Shi*t Right Now? (Shift, of course!)
“You can accept or reject the way you are treated by other people, but until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed. You can bandage the bleeding with food, with alcohol, with drugs, with work, with cigarettes, with sex, but eventually, it will all ooze through and stain your life. […]
Forgiveness Meditation – Mini Online Chakra Wisdoms Retreat Day 4
“Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.” ~ Marvin J. Ashton Forgiveness is one of the more valuable gifts that we can give ourselves. The energies of the […]
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 […]
Feeling Extra Tired Right Now?
“Most of the things we need to be most fully alive never come in busyness. They grow in rest.” ~ Mark Buchanan Hello, Lovely Lightworkers! Feeling extra tired right now? I’m not surprised. No, there is nothing seriously wrong with you, but I am prescribing a lot of extra rest this weekend. I always […]
Quiet Time
“I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.” ~ John Muir It’s rainy here at the farm this morning, and cooler. You can truly sense autumn in the air. My Accelerated Channeling retreat starts tomorrow, and I can feel […]
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 […]
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 […]
All Things Fairy!
“Things that fairies love? Well, every fairy is different, just likes peoples are. So I will tell you what I love. I love flowers and crystals and shiny sparkly things, and babies smiling, and people laughing, and music, and the smell of puppy feet. And I love you! Thank you for believing in fairies!” ~ […]
December 2015 – What to Expect
“Dare to dream, for in the daring there is defiance to live beyond your circumstances.” ~ Su Williams, Dream Weaver Hello, Lovelies! We’ve almost made it through the year. Already we are under the influence of 2016 and her glorious possibilities, which is why December is an important month for tuning in to the […]
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!” ~ […]
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 Meditation To Ease Suffering in Self and Others
“Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in.” ~ Leonard Cohen With all that is going on in our world right now it is easy to feel small and insignificant – unable to help when all we feel in […]
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 […]
The Supported Teacher
“One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra At my last retreat, my Beginner Channelling Intensive, I taught a new healing method. It’s a beautiful technique, and simple – an energy balancing, healing and expansion, performed in silence, and using energy, awareness, essential oils […]
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 […]
Just a Couple of Places Left for our Intuition Retreat in September!
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?” ~ Marianne Williamson Are you […]
A New Journal Challenge For You!
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” ~ Rumi Writing a journal is something I’ve done since I was a child. I don’t mean a simple diary, where you record the events of the day. You know what I mean… I ate this. I did this. Someone said that. No. I mean a place […]
Restful Rambles
“We need the tonic of wildness… At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.” ~ Henry David Thoreau, Walden: […]
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, […]
Are You Ready to Learn To Use Your Intuition?
“Come from the heart, the true heart, not the head. When in doubt, choose the heart. This does not mean to deny your own experiences and that which you have empirically learned through the years. It means to trust your self to integrate intuition and experience. There is a balance, a harmony to be nurtured, […]
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, […]
Helping The Great Mother
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the Earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.” ~ Rachel Carson “In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing.” ~ Seneca One of the most vivid dreams in my night of owl dreaming was one in which […]
Is it Time to Work Out What’s Holding You Back?
“When we pay attention, whatever we are doing – whether it be cooking or cleaning or making love – is transformed and becomes part of our spiritual path. We begin to notice details and textures that we never noticed before; everyday life becomes clearer, sharper and at the same time more spacious.” ~ R. Fields […]
Up Early With Ganesha
“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.” ~ Meister Eckhart This morning, as ever, I was up early. I took my mala beads, my singing bowl, and my prayer shawl and snuck out onto the veranda to meditate and greet the dawn. Today I sat with Ganesha. Buddha, by his side. A possum […]
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 […]
Kindness Challenge – Week One
“What this world needs is a new kind of army — the army of the kind.” ~ Cleveland Amory Hello Friends, and welcome to Week One of our six week Kindness Challenge. To participate in today’s challenge all you need to do is select and perform one of the following kindness activities. The beneficiaries […]
Unplugging for the Super Moon
“Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you – sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, […]
Simple Meditation for Connecting With Your Guides
“We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.” ~ William James “We begin to see that we are spiritually linked with people halfway around the world, and with those who lived hundreds, even thousands of years ago. We begin to see that we emerge from, and are the expressions […]
The Rock, the River and the Mountain
“…your memory is a warm stone hidden in my hand I’m always turning over…” ~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain “I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but […]
Girl, stop askin’ dem questions. Listen!
“Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds — justifications, confirmations, forms of consolation without which they can’t go on. To really ask is to open the door […]
The Voice
“Sometimes beautiful things come into our lives out of nowhere. We can’t always understand them, but we have to trust in them. I know you want to question everything, but sometimes it pays to just have a little faith.” ~ Lauren Kate, Torment Yesterday afternoon I lay down for a nap and fell into the deepest, dreamless […]
6 Simple Meditation Techniques for Beginners
“There’s nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on underwater,you realize that you’ve been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent.” […]
Eating the Sun Meditation
“The deeper we look into nature, the more we recognize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life is a secret and that we are united with all life that is in nature.” ~ Albert Schweitzer “The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious–the fundamental emotion […]
Why it’s important to be a Lightworker
“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” ~ Buddha A Lightworker, most simply stated, is someone who intentionally brings Light and positive energy into the world. You don’t need to feel aligned with the metaphysical and psychic […]
Getting Ready for 2014 – Will you join me?
“New Year’s eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on […]
Calling in Rain
Image from Wallpaper Seek “Rain drops are not the ones who bring the clouds.” ~ Sorin Cerin, Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom The next installment in my Kimberley Story… Before I tell you about the Fairy Mound, I need to give you some more back story. If I don’t none of what I write after this will make […]
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 […]
To BE a Seeker is a glorious thing
“There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.” ~ Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid We’re under the influence of a Seeker’s Moon right now. For those of us who hear […]
We’re On Retreat!
“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.” [The Minotaur] ~ Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays In just a few hours we will pack the truck and head off for the week, to my Spiritual Retreat in the foothills of Byron Bay. For those of […]
The Seeker’s Moon
“There comes a time in the seeker’s life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved.” ~ Sri Chinmoy “Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn’t it first merely a thought and a quest?” ~ Rumi I am making the final preparations for my retreat this week, before […]
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 […]
A little Solitude is good for the Soul
“Language… has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone.” ~ Paul Johannes Tillich, The Eternal Now If you’re energetically sensitive like me, then you might already understand the importance of time on your own. Interacting with others draws […]
Weathering the Moment
“Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.” ~ Langston Hughes Do you ever get stuck in your head? I found myself there last night. The sort of stuckness where you’re oh-so-tired, and know you should be getting to sleep, […]
Simple Technique to Boost Energy
“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.” ~ Nikola Tesla Life can be exhausting. Situations, people and places might drain us. The electrical and electro-magnetic energy of our cities and devices can play havoc with our own auric fields. Or perhaps we over-extend ourselves, running […]
The Gift of Feathers
“Now you got your Story, your Spirit no longer lost. That Dreaming inside you make you understand who you are. That Story how you gonna walk this world.” ~ Auntie The next installment of my Kimberley Story… It was late in the afternoon. The shadows were long, the air had cooled and a light breeze […]
Animals, Meditation and Energy Work
“It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters.” ~ Amit Ray Animals are very tuned in to energy and emotion. If you meditate or do […]
Maybe Visualization Works After All…
“You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.” ~ Morpheus, The Matrix I have teetered between unwell and totally incapacitated for my entire adult […]
The Sound of Smoke
“Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplated by men´s eyes, because they know – or think they know – some things which other men have […]
Coming Back to Centre
“At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.” ~ Lao Tzu “I want you to be everything that’s you, deep at the center of your being.” ~ Confucious There’s a small ritual I practice often. It’s easy to do, and there is a great power to […]
Little Bird
“I am not a teacher, but an awakener.” ~ Robert Frost The next installment of my Kimberley Story… Auntie, the old barefoot Aboriginal Elder in her faded pink dress, had turned up in my dream before she ever turned up in my waking hours. And when we finally met she promised me that she would take […]
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. […]
Unblocking and Grounding your Foot Chakras
“In a flash of wonderment she saw firm, continuous ground under her feet, stretching from back then to right now and on and on as far as her eyes could take her.” ~ Ann Brashares, The Second Summer of the Sisterhood Ever felt any of the following? Vague, disconnected and disoriented. Spaced out, especially when doing meditation […]