Hey my joys, how are you doing? As I recorded this video, we’ were a week away from the new month in September. So, I thought I’d do a reading from the Art of Life Inspiration Deck and let’s see what shows up for the month ahead. I like to do a six-card reading. It was so uncannily accurate last month, so let’s just see what the energy is like for the month ahead.
I love this deck; I created it during COVID, when everyone was, well, many people, experiencing a lot of fear, and a lot of shenanigans were going on, and I wanted to show up for love. So these are positive cards. Each one has a painting created by me.
I’ve been very prolific in the nine years which I’ve been living in The Bay of Islands. It was here, during Covid that I embraced my new self, The Joyful Artist.
On each side of the cards is an inspirational sentence which I wrote during the Covid assault on her freedoms because of things we were going through.
So, what is the energy reading for September?
Flow gracefully. And the card says, ” Grace will take you places hustling won’t.” So, think about that. That’s the whole thing about, you know, we were working with someone recently and really, you could tell they wanted the sale. They were hustling, pushing, driving us to the point we felt stressed out and overwhelmed
We backed off, we got the speed wobbles, and we exited the relationship. And then they flowed gracefully back in when the buyers got a fright and wanted to be introduced back to our property. And things are flowing more gracefully now.
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How might this card speak to you?
The second card, Purposeful Passion. Again, a beautiful reminder. The painting on the card, which is called Passion is on my website, available for sale.
Purposeful Passion: Reinvent your life, find and follow your passion. So I have a great passion for joy. What do you have a passion for? And if you’re not sure, look at my book, How to Find Your Passion and Purpose, and that will give you some beautiful tips. Find Your Passion and Purpose
What else is for our September reading? Word Wands, yes! Remember that your words can deeply hurt or magically uplift and that’s the painting there: lovely blue, soft, angelic, peaceful words. So, even though I’ve become a bit of a word warrior with standing back and pushing back against things, I do so joyfully and peacefully and with a little bit of fun and friendliness. But there’s still passion, sometimes joyful and sometimes passionate anger behind my words, driven by the things I’ve had to push back on lately.
Could you be even more childish?
So how about you? Someone said to me recently, ‘Could you be even more childish?’
And it was meant to be attacking. And I thought, gosh, that could have hurt me if I were still that sensitive person who took everyone’s opinion as truth. But I’m not that guilable woman anymore. And I hope you are not, too.
I could have brought George with me somewhere and been absolutely childish like the kids at the market that I saw, and they had their toys wrapped around them. And I just love the whole irreverence of just not being Mr. Serious, Mr. Grumpy, as some people are.
So be careful how you use your words, because they can come back to haunt you, and words said in anger are hard to retract.
So, could I be more childish? Yes—and I celebrate it!
This video was filmed at our local vineyard, Kainui, back in November 2021 during the time we all called The Hermit Kingdom. What I’ve since discovered is that one of the greatest pleasures in life is to live with more childlike wonder, play, and joy.
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Life is too short to be serious all the time—why not play a little?
Resilience Rising is the next card for the September 2025 Energy Update — Intuitive Art & Oracle Reflections.
Absolutely. Setbacks don’t have to knock you flat. Bounce back. Find another way to be and do what you love. And that’s the card, and the artwork is the same name, made out of beeswax, which is so beautiful. And that was in a artshow called The Beauty of Resilience here in the Kerikeri, The Bay of Islands and it sold quickly. It is also a great example of resilience rising.
If you look at my video on why I started my own gallery down in the cow shed on (then) our 10 acre property, it was because of something that happened, a setback that happened that was unpleasant. And we thought, okay, bounce back. How else am I going to sell my paintings and not feel bullied? As I share in the video, below, I transformed a setback into an opportunity.
It worked. out a lot better than I thought. And I’ve met so many beautiful souls in the gallery because of that nasty experience that I had. So that’s Resilience Rising.
Lean into your big idea, take the first step and watch it happen. And that is the card. And the painting is one of my biggest paintings that I ever made. Huge! It’s actually in the kitchen at the moment. You can find it on my website. Pretty Gorgeous, and it is for sale as well.
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But the main lesson, the main thing for you, which I would encourage you to think about, is what is a big idea you’ve got? Maybe you think you could never do it. Like one of our big ideas is the possibility of moving to Panama. So we’re thinking, fantastic! Let’s go to Panama, or let’s go and live offshore, and that’s our big idea at the moment. And that is what September is speaking to us about: how can we lean into that even more? So how about you? I like to share real-life examples from my own life, but it’s not all about me; it’s about you. How can you take this card, your big idea? What’s something you would love to start to create in September and take the first step and watch it happen?
It may be something for 2026. So I used to say this to clients in counseling and coaching sessions when I was working in corporate, and counseling “think back, look back to what your big idea, begin with the end in mind. Think okay, this is it this is what I want, and then work back. What are all the things that you would have to do, working right back to today, to put that in motion?”
And the last card today is, let’s see what’s the last card that we could that could really help all of us for September. Wow, isn’t that just beautiful? Believe in miracles. “Think pink”, as beautiful Audrey Hepburn used to say, “think pink”. So, believe in miracles. Stay strong when everything seems to be going wrong.
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Just keep believing in miracles. It’s so important that you hang on to hope, don’t allow doubt to throw you under the bus. Just keep believing everything will work out perfectly for you. I think it’s so important to stay in the high vibration of love. Love!
So a quick run through: these are the cards for September.
Post this blog or video in a location where you can easily access it and refer to it whenever you find yourself in a challenging situation. Think, okay, perhaps you say, how can I flow gracefully? Purposeful passion. Okay, how can you lean into your passion and purpose? Is there something like the beautiful man Robert Greene, who wrote this fabulous book about power dynamics, 48 Laws of Power, and he thanked everyone who betrayed him, who’d been miserable and just awful to him, for inspiring the book.
So many of my books are inspired by things that have not gone, yeah, have been difficult for me, and I’ve used that passion to help myself and other people as well; hence the book, How to Find Your Passion and Purpose, and Midlife Career Rescue. And I was being— I was someone threatened to smash my head in. It was awful; they— it was just awful. I got shingles, and then I wrote about that. It’s called Midlife Career Rescue, about the time I worked with an art therapist as part of the exit kind of strategy, and I drew a bird stuck in a cage with the door open, and she’d forgotten how to fly
The counsellor burst into tears.
That was me once but it’s not me anymore. I am not afraid to fly.
I created my publishing company with a logo of a spotted giraffe with wings! I’m excited to be helping other women tell and publish their stories. Like beautiful Heather.
Keep your thoughts and your words positive.
Try not to do any harm out there in the world. It’s an angry enough world as it is without you adding to it. Try to say some beautiful words to people, some uplifting words. One of the people I’ve met through my book writing and romance as Mollie Matthews wrote to me recently and said, “I don’t know what I love more: your paintings, your writing, or your fabulous creativity”.
It’s so lovely when someone actually says something positive to you, especially if you’ve had a lifetime. Like I have and people have been nasty. Believe in miracles, absolutely!
It’s so important to have a big dream. Lean into it, allow no doubt. Just put it on paper if you need to, but just take little steps to make it happen.
And resilience rising, that’s a big one. Keep getting back up, don’t lie down, don’t let these nasty folk get you down. Keep showing up for your joy and your love. We need you!
Well that’s it. I hope that you will find encouragement in September as I have, sharing it with you. I hope this helps, and please do feel free to email me and let know if my words have had some positive impact.
Sending much love
xxxx
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