Hola from Boquete, Panama
It’s Christmas Day as I recorded this video and I thought it would be really nice to do a reading for the month of January from this beautiful, inspiring… peaceful, joyous country
As we step into a brand-new year, I’m sharing this January 2026 Energy Update to help you ground, reset, and gently align with what wants to emerge next.
This is a Year One in numerology — a powerful gateway of new beginnings, fresh timelines, and courageous choices. In this intuitive reading, I weave together art, oracle insight, and spiritual reflection to support you as you step forward with clarity and trust.
I recorded this from the lush highlands of Boquete, Panama, where the air is alive with possibility and nature reminds us that nothing blooms without first surrendering to change.
May this message bring you peace, courage, and a soft remembering of who you truly are.
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As we step into a new season, the first message that rises to meet us is Oasis of Calm.
It’s a quiet but powerful reminder that peace is not something we must earn — it is something we allow.
When we consciously surround ourselves with calm, with beauty, with moments that soften the nervous system, something extraordinary happens. We begin to remember who we are beneath the noise. We return to ourselves. And in that stillness, purpose often reappears — not as pressure, but as a gentle remembering.
An oasis is not about escape. It is about restoration.
It is where you pause long enough to hear your own inner rhythm again.
If life has felt hurried or loud, let this be your invitation to create a pocket of calm — even if only for a few minutes a day. That space can change everything.
The second card is Ode to Joy, and it arrives like a soft hand on the heart.
Joy is not always loud or dramatic. Sometimes it slips quietly out of view when life becomes heavy or demanding. This card invites you to remember the moments that once lit you up — moments when laughter came easily, when your spirit felt unburdened, when you were simply being rather than striving.
Revisiting those memories is not about nostalgia. It is about remembering what joy feels like in your body so you can welcome it back again.
Joy is not something we chase.
It is something we allow ourselves to feel again.
This card feels especially potent in our current world.
Silence is no longer something we stumble into by accident. It is something we must choose. In Panama, silence arrives generously — in the hush of the early morning, in the pause between birdsong, in the moments when the jungle breathes and nothing else competes for attention.
Cherishing silence is an act of self-respect.
It allows your nervous system to settle.
It creates space for wisdom to rise.
This card gently invites you to step back from the constant noise — the news, the opinions, the relentless commentary — and return to the quiet truth within yourself.
Stillness is not emptiness. It is fullness without distraction.
This card carries such a tender message:
Embrace optimism to manifest the beautiful results you desire.
Beauty is not naïve. It is courageous.
To believe in beauty — in your dreams, in your potential, in the goodness that wants to unfold — takes bravery. Especially when life has asked much of you. Especially when the road behind you has been hard-won.
Yet beauty responds to belief.
When you allow yourself to hope again, even gently, you open the door for something new to form.
This is the energy that carried us to Panama — not certainty, but trust. A quiet yes to the possibility of a more aligned life.
This card speaks of transformation. Of alchemy.
To step into your flower is to honour the full range of your experience — including the anger, the grief, the fire — and allow it to become something purposeful rather than destructive.
Passion does not need to burn you.
It can warm you, guide you, and shape beauty through you.
Your experiences, even the painful ones, hold wisdom. When honoured, they become art, compassion, strength, and service.
You are not meant to shrink.
You are meant to bloom.
And finally, gratitude.
Not the forced kind. Not the performative kind.
But the quiet recognition of what is already present and sustaining you.
Gratitude grounds us. It returns us to the richness of the now. It reminds us that even in uncertainty, there is something — often many things — to hold with appreciation.
When gratitude becomes a way of seeing, not a task, it transforms everything.
This spread is an invitation to soften, to remember, and to trust yourself again.
To create calm where you can.
To honour joy when it appears.
To choose silence over noise.
To believe in beauty.
To transform emotion into purpose.
And to live from gratitude rather than fear.
May this month bring you gentle clarity, renewed courage, and the deep reassurance that you are exactly where you need to be.

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