And my word for the Year of the Horse is ‘Restore’. Sounds a wee bit of a soft word for the forward-moving energy of the year ahead of us. But here’s the twist – after flicking through my many dictionaries I discovered restore means ‘to give back to the original owner’ and this was the exact sense I received when this word was revealed to me. It’s more a remembering of and restoring my youness and my lineage. And after doing some further pondering teal popped up as the associ

One of the most liberating things about oracle cards is that there are no right answers. No tests. No gold stars. Just you, your inner knowing, and a card offering a new angle.

Turns out Delight is a remedy for overwhelm, and Pause is the doorway. Together, they create that definitive bass line, assisting me to move from stuckness into flow, from procrastination into presence, and from masking into unapologetic me-ness.

Like many of us, I have undertaken the practice of choosing an annual word for a number of years now. For me though, this year is different.