2026Q1 Field Notes (TCL)
As this year is turning out to be fast-paced more so than the past years I've had, I felt the need to do a quarterly wrap. Revisiting everything I thankfully managed to document across my writing tools to review this first quarter. Honestly, it already feels like a whole year has gone by though we're only 28% through the full calendar!
This post is part one of two - featuring highlights and interesting texts (to me) that I had no recollection of noting down or writing. There will be a separate post for my reflections.
When planning for 2026, I drew some tarot and oracle cards as a way of anchoring me through the months, sort of like a precautionary measure if I ever felt too lost or swayed by the energies around my life. It really helped as I had expected, especially on days when I felt extra sluggish and did not have the initial starting power to get down to business.
I'm sharing these anchors now that the quarter is done and completed.
Q1 ANCHOR
Everything I am capable of and perceive is a mirror. Magic is immediate — follow when found! Building stamina to keep going & thrive + protect & fortify The Rose; my victories are in the celebration of each step and decision I take towards my goals (not in the actualising of the goals themselves).
Field Notes:
JAN: The wisdom of my heart becomes one with the knowledge of my mind.
FEB: Keep facing forward towards light — remember who I am and exactly define what I want to do.
MAR: Return to your centre — emotional stability in the sea of opportunities.
JAN: The wisdom of my heart becomes one with the knowledge of my mind.
Year of Growth Journal: January
- I am disciplined about my joy!!!
- ... bringing down what has been inspired in thoughts into grounded reality and form — diligent devotion and practice, applying and sharing what you learnt, not just consuming knowledge but implementing them into real life => converting ‘food’ into energy for the body of work that wants/needs to come through!
- Remember remember remember! There is no perfection, only complete. Refinement as evolution. Express what wants to come through in its purest form first.
- Expectations vs standards vs rules vs personal truths vs universal truths vs boundaries vs values vs principles…
- I am building and designing my life that honours my soul’s essence. Structure steadily and lovingly supports my becoming. Brick by brick, step forward and again, I am shaping my path and forging ahead — whole and aligned with who I am here to be.
- In this era of my life, LIFE is like a gentle training session of ping-pong. As long as I keep the momentum going — be it big leaps or small micro steps — energy will move through and progress to the next step and the next.
05/01 - Facebook: @The Happiness Planner
"The biggest upgrade isn't changing your life. It's changing how safe you feel inside it.
It's learning to trust yourself in uncertainty. To stay grounded when things don't go as planned. To stop living in constant self-correction and start moving with self-respect.
It's realising that peace doesn't come from having everything figured out, but from knowing you can handle whatever unfolds. That you don't need to escape your life to feel better in it. You just need to feel at home within yourself.
Because when you feel safe inside, everything outside begins to soften too."
06/01 - Journal
The more we love ourselves, the more we start to really love ourselves on an integral level, the stronger and louder our innate needs and inherent desires on a soul level want and need to be heard, acknowledged, expressed, and met.
22/01 - Journal
The point to also remember is the balance ⇒ harmony of giving Life to my life and receiving Life into my life.
23/01 - Journal
Money appeared to me... like a child I’d over dote on and spoil unrestrained during times of plenty and ignore during times of drought. This is the very first time ever that money has come to me embodied in an energy I can now relate to... As weird as it sounds, as contrary to what many in the manifestation world describes about money as energy, I am finally open to the mechanics of how my relationship with money is like for me, or has been since. Maybe it will change in the future as I change, like all relationships do, but now is now and this is what I have been made aware of to work with at the critical point of threshold if nothing changes and I don’t change.
26/01 - Journal
- It’s really strange and a bit scary how a full day of debilitating period migraine (day one) could easily ‘wipe out’ the short-term memory I’ve accumulated and built in my world for that whole week.
- Who knew that scribbling down my raw expressions from pen to paper would help me love writing, and root me deep into the soils of creation? :) <3
28/01 - Journal
Last year, collectively and thus individually, it was a huge energetic year of change - through endings. This year is also a new year of change - through new beginnings. I’ve been having the strong sense that everything that’s happened in the past, what worked and didn’t worked, no longer applies in this new year. There are times and space where looking back into the past makes solid data to inform the present and future. This year is not one of them. It’s like a brand new slate of framework, an empty blueprinting canvas I get to decide, design, and create for my life starting this year. I must remember to stay open to the new and unknown, ground my energy intentionally in the Present Now, all while looking forward towards my vision for the future. Reality is stranger than fiction and I guess that’s why I don’t engage with fictional slice-of-life stories as much as I used to as a growing kid; the best part is I get to experiment and play with the writing of my reality now.
28/01 - YouTube: Adam Elenbaas (Nightlight Astrology), Neptune Enters Aries Spiritual Rock Bottom and Recovery
- "Discipline in time becomes devotion - you see the fruits over time as you keep to it, and realise it's no longer what felt like duty."
- "It's not about perfection - it's about practice. It's about showing up and just (giving) your best."
- "We lead through the quality of consciousness we create.”
- "Grow our capacity to do the hard but necessary thing."
FEB: Keep facing forward towards light — remember who I am and exactly define what I want to do. When I focus intensely at the task at hand, I am more than capable and can move mountains.
Week of 9th - Bullet Journal
- This week felt very nebulous - perhaps because the creative output I do is still behind-the-scenes so it doesn't have a tangible quantifiable quality to the work I've been doing. All I have to bank on is my time tracking and referring back to what I've logged done in this journal. ... I must remember to schedule in time for leisure and play, like how business trading employment gets two days off per week.
- I express and embody my highest best potential. Moving my body = moving life!
- I'm so in love with my life and all the opportunities and interactions waiting around every corner in my life.
13/02 - Journal
I have been taking the past two days off to play and wander and let down my proverbial hair - being reminded that I must also have my "weekends" off to fully recharge with things that aren't all about what I am focused on building and creating my life to be. That structured play time is also essential to schedule into my routines, so I won't burn my energy out playing catch up with leisure at night during unwind for bedtime. This is the balance I am being made aware of, and one of the Aries transits lessons through my 6th House I am seeing in this Year of The Mirror.
Week of 16th - Bullet Journal
I enthusiastically and lovingly work with what I've got.
21/02 - YouTube: The Ash Files, breaking up with your phone will give you your life back
“I don’t have the answers yet... just an idea of what I’m striving for.”
Week of 23rd - Bullet Journal
Getting real with the current reality clarifies the true direction I will strive for - it's not about getting all the answers 'right', but more about letting the truth stabilise and calibrate the true path to go forward for my Highest Best Potential.
MAR: Return to your centre — emotional stability in the sea of opportunities.
Week of 2nd - Bullet Journal
I am having so much fun moving life through moving my body and working on my goals every single day.
05/03 - Floral Design Journal
Even though I did not implement any active experiments from the Ikebana text I read today, I do see how it has helped: I get to build a new set of language in terms of how the author write and described about the topic. When we can start to name things, the translation flows wider through as we express what wants to be expressed. Most of the time. :)
Week of 9th - Bullet Journal
My time and energy is so well wisely spent. So this is what the energy of Gemini feels like at its healthiest expression in its purest light. I love it and I am so well adapted and adaptable with the flow and changes...
Week of 16th - Bullet Journal
- Great week! New energy is flowing again... Kinda lost steam on Sunday but I did well overall so YES!
- "It's only a good idea if it's aligned (receive effortlessly, feel good, magic is immediate)."
Week of 23rd - Bullet Journal
- Amp up and pay special care to energy protection practices.
- "I am a magical manifestor: whatever I dream, I desire - I create."
- "Isn't it wonderful? Something marvellous is happening to me now."
An analogy I sketched out about tuning into the "Waves of Possibilities" in the quantum field. Something that also helped me stay focused in all aspects of living and being.
Gardening Notes
Total writing time: 10 hours (includes extracting notes for the purpose of this post)
Cultivation period: 1 Jan - 17 Apr 2026 (107 days)
Resonance/Vitality: Not Applicable
Moon Cycles: Full Moon in Cancer (Jan 2026) to New Moon in Aries (April 2026)