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How to Interpret Dreams

We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. ~ William Shakespeare Hey, Lovelies! Are you one of those people experiencing vivid dreams lately? And if you are, have you been wondering what they might mean? Your dreams are yours alone. We all interpret dreams differently, […]

What it means to sit with a big question

  Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke Hey, Lovelies. One of the most important gifts you can give yourself is the patience and care to sit with something that forms a big or […]

Is It Really Too Late?

  You say it’s too late. In my opinion, only a thimbleful of situations in life are that dire. Death begins and ends that list. Everything else is simply an obstacle that must be dealt with. ~ Kathleen Baldwin Hey, Lovelies! I had some strong responses to my post yesterday. Most of them were people […]

Christmas as a Meditation on Kindness

People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.Give the world […]

Some Encouragement For You To Do The Hard Things

Start by doing what’s necessary, then do what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. St. Francis of Assisi Hey, Lovelies. Sometimes what you need to do doesn’t feel good. Or it feels unfamiliar, all wrong, and way out of your comfort zone. It can often involve not just effort, but sacrifice.   While everyone else is taking things easy, while […]

The Big Sky Above Me, and my Aboriginal Aunties in my Heart

“There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.” ~ Victor Hugo Hello, Lovelies. I’m in Arizona right now. This morning I left my hotel room and went for a long walk in the early morning sunlight. It’s […]

Insight and Intuition – Monday Oracle 3 June 2019

This is a huge week for psychic and spiritual insight. You’ll find yourself connected in flow. Ideas, realisations, understanding and direction will come easily this week. You’ll be able to access this relaxed state of knowing and flow by moving out of stress.

Clarity and Insight! – Monday Oracle 6 May 2019

“In today’s complex and fast-moving world, what we need even more than foresight or hindsight is insight.” ~ Anonymous Hello, Lovelies! May is such a breakthrough month – it’s a time for positive progress, big leaps forward and fine-tuning of your self-awareness. Use experts and wise people to help you move past stuckness and overwhelm, […]

Valentine Chocolate Oracle for Manifesting Love!

“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”~ Dr. Seuss Valentine’s Day has a wonderful sentiment – that we should celebrate love and lovers, that we should name the emotions that often sit silent in our heart. But why have just one day for the […]

A Week for Action! – Monday Oracle 4 February 2019

“Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” ~ St. Francis Of Assisi Hello, Lovelies! February is a month for action and self-empowerment – for taking your plans and turning them into goals, action steps and habits. It’s a month for speaking your truth and standing your […]

Possibility and Completion – Monday Oracle 24 December 2018

“We often miss opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work” ~ Thomas A. Edison Hello, Lovelies!December is a month for planning and dreaming, interspersed with fun, curiosity, friendship and celebration.  Keep that in mind as we look at the gifts of inspiration which the card Eight of Crystals brings us. This week we are encouraged to pause […]

A Perfectly Wonderful Week For Adventures – Monday Oracle 3 December 2018

“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” ~  Roald Dahl   Hello, Lovelies! December is a month for planning and dreaming, interspersed with fun, curiosity, friendship and celebration.  Keep that […]

A Week For Clarity and Purpose – Monday Oracle 26 November 2018

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” ~ C.S. Lewis   Hello, Lovelies! November is an unusual month, gifting us energies in two different but interlinked areas. The first area is spiritual development. It’s a great month for all forms of metaphysical work, for clarifying our Life Path and for honouring a […]

A Week For Divine Guidance and Inspiration – Monday Oracle 6 August 2018

“Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.”  ~ Holy Bible: King James Version   Hello, Lovelies! August is here, bringing a delicious basket of delights. It’s a month for creativity in all forms and for getting back into the flow of life again. You’ll […]

Why You Need To Stop Fighting How You Feel Right Now!

“Sometimes you need to sit lonely on the floor in a quiet room in order to hear your own voice and not let it drown in the noise of others.”  ~ Charlotte Eriksson Hi, Lovelies! The energies of these past few days and the ones that follow – through until late this week – are turbulent, […]

Start Again In June!

“Today is the perfect day for a fresh start. Stop delaying, stop making excuses, stop putting it off. Now. Today is the perfect moment. You can change things, you can try. Don’t give up.”  ~ Akiroq Brost I had so many messages yesterday from readers and students and clients all asking me if they could start […]

A Week Of Increasing Courage! Monday Oracle 30 April 2018

“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”  ~ Jim Morrison   Hello, Lovelies! I know, I’ve been very quiet this last little while and I’ll tell you all about that in another post, but meanwhile let’s talk Monday Oracle! It’s […]

The Energies of April– 2018

“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”  ~ Vincent van Gogh Hello, Lovelies  April is a month that brings a delicious flow of new ideas and inspiration. Your job is […]

This Quiet Morning

  “Outside, there was that predawn kind of clarity, where the momentum of living has not quite captured the day. The air was not filled with conversation or thought bubbles or laughter or sidelong glances. Everyone was sleeping, all of their ideas and hopes and hidden agendas entangled in the dream world, leaving this world […]

Valentine Cupcake Oracle – A Reading for Love!

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”  ~Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower Valentine’s Day has a wonderful sentiment – that we should celebrate love and lovers, that we should name the emotions that often sit silent in our heart. But why have just one day for the celebration of love?  Why not […]

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. […]

Reclaiming Your Dreams – Monday Oracle 17 July 2017

“The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I’m not going to let myself pull me down anymore.”  ~  C. JoyBell C. Hello, Lovelies, I’m just loving the energies of July. It’s such a supportive month! Here’s the oracle card I have chosen this Monday, and my take on the energetic outlook for the week ahead. […]

The Week Ahead – Oracle for Monday 13 February 2017

“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” ~ John F. Kennedy Hello, Lovelies! Here’s the oracle card I have chosen this Monday, and my take on the energetic outlook for the week ahead. I use any oracle or tarot cards shown as a prompt for channelled messages and my own intuitive wisdom, so my take is […]

The Week Ahead – Oracle for Monday 6 February 2017

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” ~ Thomas A. Edison   Hello, Lovelies! Here’s the oracle card I have chosen this Monday, and my take on the energetic outlook for the week ahead. I use any oracle or tarot cards shown as a prompt for channelled […]

The Week Ahead – Oracle Reading for Monday 19 September 2016

“Stay out of the court of self-judgment, for there is no presumption of innocence.” ~ Robert Brault   Hello Lovelies, Here’s this week’s oracle card and my take on the energetic outlook for the days ahead. ‘Never-ending Story’, from Colette Baron-Reid’s Wisdom of the Oracle deck is the card I have chosen for this week. Do you remember […]

This is How The Universe Works…

“There are no ordinary moments. There is always something going on.” ~  Peaceful Warrior “Everything around us is made up of energy. To attract positive things in your life, start by giving off positive energy.” ~ Celestine Chua A few days ago, as I sat at my desk early, early, early in the morning, looking at my […]

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 […]

The Thirty Second Power Pause

“As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi “Your self-talk is the channel of behavior change” ~ Gino Norris   Can thirty seconds really make a difference? […]

A Slow Start is Better Than No Start

“Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.” ~ Robin S. Sharma   It’s fair to say that, thanks to Lyme Disease, I’ve experienced chronic ill-health for a long time. Over thirty years, in fact. And certainly in the past six or seven years, as I have battled with cardiomyopathy, congestive […]

What It Feels Like to be Hijacked By a New Story

“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.” ~ Franz Kafka   Last year, on one of my retreats, something very interesting happened. Just a passing thing. But it would not let me go. I […]

On Overcoming Obstacles

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.” ~ Calvin Coolidge   I have always wanted to […]

Today Is A Powerful Day

“Stop trying to ‘fix’ yourself; you’re NOT broken! You are perfectly imperfect and powerful beyond measure.” ~ Steve Maraboli   Today, and the following three days, are powerful days, energetically speaking. Why? They are days for decisions. They are days for facing up to that thing. You know. That thing. The thing you’ve been agonizing over. That thing […]

Top 10 Tips for Planning a Successful 2015

“A goal without a plan is just a wish.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry “It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit   Well here we are, in the opening pages of a fresh new year. As some of you will […]

Choosing your Power Word for 2015

“The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.” ~ Socrates   2015 is almost upon us, and already I can feel the opportunity and potential transformation that this new year brings. Choosing a power word will help me to focus, and make the most of 2015’s energy. Why a power word? I long ago gave […]

A Lovely Night of Normal

“Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That’s what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?” ~ J.M. Coetzee   One of the problems of having a chronic illness like Lyme Disease is that so often you end up marginalised in your own life. If you choose to expend […]

How to Connect with Unexpressed Grief and Emotional Pain

“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.” ~ Sigmund Freud   It’s never healthy to swallow our grief, to stuff down our pain, to ignore our heartache. And I also know that sometimes you just can’t fall afford to fall apart in the moment. You might be […]

My Day’s Best Medicine

“Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine.” ~ George Gordon Byron   There is one thing Lyme has taught me that is well worth sharing. Some of the best medicine isn’t prescribed by a doctor. Here’s some of my favourite medicine. The smell of pine trees and sunshine. Posies of sweet little flowers from […]

Magical Teacup Oracle

“As far as her mom was concerned, tea fixed everything. Have a cold? Have some tea. Broken bones? There’s a tea for that too. Somewhere in her mother’s pantry, Laurel suspected, was a box of tea that said, ‘In case of Armageddon, steep three to five minutes’.” ~ Aprilynne Pike, Illusions   Will you join […]

The Power of Sharing Our Shames

“Shame is a soul eating emotion.” ~ C.G. Jung “If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can’t survive.” ~ Brené Brown   We did something very powerful yesterday, here at our retreat. Earlier in the day we’d been doing some journalling, looking at our triggers and the things […]

Your Strength as a Wounded Healer

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” ~ Rumi   Have you ever wondered why stuff happens to you? Why you’ve had to suffer, and endure the things you’ve gone through? I have no good answers for the WHY, but I do have some advice based on having suffered and endured on […]

When I Loved Myself Enough…

“You can be the most beautiful person in the world and everybody sees light and rainbows when they look at you, but if you yourself don’t know it, all of that doesn’t even matter. Every second that you spend on doubting your worth, every moment that you use to criticize yourself; is a second of […]

Rewarding Yourself Is A Good Thing

“The reward of a work is to have produced it; the reward of effort is to have grown by it.” ~ Antonin Sertillanges, The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods “To celebrate the production of the work and the personal growth created by the effort is a wonderful thing. Stopping to mark a personal achievement can […]

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 […]

Unexpected Treasures from the #Writers Festival

“What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show […]

The Perils of 2AM Thinking

“Worrying is carrying tomorrow’s load with today’s strength – carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn’t empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”  ~ Corrie ten Boom   Have you ever stayed up all night stewing about something? Or woken up in the middle […]

Will You Join Me For Some Guided Meditations?

“Meditation is listening to the Divine within.” ~ Edgar Cayce   Meditation is one of the foundation stones upon which I have built my life. It is a twice daily routine for me, and I have practiced now for nearly thirty years. Meditation is not based on a religion, and many atheists I know practice […]

Why You Need to Stop Talking And Start Doing!

“They blossomed, they did not talk about blossoming.” ~ Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun   I’m guilty of it. I’m sure you’ve been guilty of it too. We have an idea. For a book. For a business. For a holiday. For a themed party. For something that excites us so much that we just have to […]

Steps Towards Loving and Accepting Yourself

“Your problem is you’re … too busy holding onto your unworthiness.” 
~ Ram Dass “Your task is not to seek for Love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” ~ Rumi   Most of us believe that to be truly loved by another, their love […]

Rebirth of a Tenacious Tree

“Often it is tenacity, not talent, that rules the day.”  ~ Julia Cameron, Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance When we moved to this farm there was a hulking squat skeleton of a tree near the clothes line in the back yard. From its furthermost branch clung a few twisted and misshapen leaves. Piece by piece […]

Morning Rewards

“As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?”  ~ Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes It’s still early. But already I’ve meditated. I’ve taken my morning ‘before food’ drugs. I’ve fasted and I’ve given vial upon vial of my blood to be tested for positive signs of health progress. It’s time for […]

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 […]

Lucky Dip #2

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”  ~ Bob Marley   It’s one of those ‘not coping very well’ kind of days. I’ve been enduring nights of no sleep, constant pain, fevers, sweats and anxiety. But that’s okay. It’s all for a good cause. And I’m prepared for days like […]

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