October 2026: Follow the Joy

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Hello my darling. Welcome to your October 2026 cosmic colour energy update. And the big message this month is simple and it is everything: follow the joy.

Can you imagine? Each day for the whole of October you choose to follow the joy. Where would your life be by the 31st?

The energy we have this month is orange. Orange is here for us in a very full, very alive way. It is infused with health, wealth, vitality, connection and co-creation. And all of that is led through one frequency: joy.

Orange and the Life Force

There is something very important about the orange frequency that can often be overlooked. It represents life force. It isn't by chance you see monks wearing orange!

And this is why there is a life force available to you this month that is real and present.

Maybe you have been wishing for it?! Or have you been asking for it? Maybe up until now things have not quite been making sense.

That changes in October. Thank be to God.

Clarity is available. Things are falling into place. You may find yourself having a conversation with someone who speaks to something you have been thinking about, processing and sitting with on your own. And that conversation becomes confirmation. This is a month where you are being guided in a kind obvious way. Now I know we are always guided but this month there's no denying. There is a life force and the question is: are you going to choose it, align and go for it?

Come into your own body. Every session we have done these last two weeks I have had to bring the person into their body. It has been a game changer. It is like they are living a whole new reality.

Orange will call you to come into your own energy. Back in the wholeness and vibrancy of you.

Feel yourself relax into that for a minute and let it happen. This is important because orange is asking each and every one of us this month to become incredibly conscious of where we are placing our energy and our power.

• What are you thinking about?
• What are you saying to yourself?
• Who are you spending your time with?
• What are you doing with those precious hours between the sunrise and the sunset?

What Am I Manifesting Through the Frequency of Who I Am Being?

October is a month of creation. So rather than asking yourself whether you are manifesting, perhaps the more powerful question is this: what am I manifesting through the frequency of who I am being?

We have heard this before: your frequency is your currency. This month you will know the truth of this wisdom. Orange is adamant that you fully know that your frequency and your vibration are asking for your attention. Because it is this that is creating your reality. The energy you bring to something is influencing whatever action you take or make. And this is why this month you are going to feel it more and more. The BE, DO, HAVE. Not the do, do, do or I will do it when I have it or am it!

If you want to be in that co-creative experience then you can switch into a more playful energy. Play with the options and see what lands. You can loosen up a little. You can declare with this mantra and say: I am following the joy.

What Would Joy Do?

Can you imagine waking up and feeling: today I am following the joy. Doing the thing that brings you joy and letting that inform and lead you to everything else?

This is not about taking the easy road. Because often our intuition is actually going to ask us for the uncomfortable. The joy is the channel. The joy informs your action even when the action itself is something you would rather avoid because sometimes we end up doing something we did not want to do and we feel so much better for having done it. So it is your job to discern.

In following the joy you follow the joy of how you want to feel, what you actually desire and the feeling you would have if that reality were so. And then you let yourself be informed by the joy of the action. Where do you go? What do you do? What do you say? How do you spend your time? You are letting joy guide you. You are asking: what would joy do?

Joy will show you where there is life, where there is expansion, where there is resonance. Orange asks you to notice what makes you feel more alive. Ask yourself: what lights you up? What makes time disappear? Who brings out the best in you?

And of course you will also be guided with what feels heavy? If you are doing things out of obligation, if things feel forced and draining, notice that too. Beam those areas with the orange ray and see what happens as you infuse them with the frequency of joy.

Letting Go of Struggle

Here is something worth sitting with. We can become addicted to stress, to problems, to fixing and to worrying. We can normalise struggle until it feels like the only way. So October is going to ask you to make a decision. But you can if you want to? I actually feel the relief and release writing that line. What about you?

What if struggle was removed from your field for the month of October? What if struggle was simply no longer part of your new era? Because I really believe that struggle is no longer required in this new era we are moving into. The turning point we have been talking about these past few months is done. You are out the other side. Now where do you want to go?

Orange also helps you bring up, accept and let go of longstanding things that no longer serve you. Long-standing hurts, old stories, the past. Let go of all of that and surrender.

If you are pushing in any way, what would happen if you decided for October you stopped pushing against life and let life move with you? Move even towards you. Allow it to come in.

Surrender Is Not Giving Up

One of the other teachings of October is surrender. Because if you want more joy you have got to allow. And surrender means allowing, and that will require you to let go or release of control over how you think things have to be. That's really opening up to a whole other level of reality.

September's energy was red. Now we are moving into the orange. It is softer. It is warmer. It has the red fire inside it but it is a more open frequency. Take some time this month to acknowledge yourself. Go to your favourite coffee shop. Sit with it. Acknowledge who you have become in the last month. Acknowledge all you have shown up for and all you have created. And then surrender what is next into the divine hands. Let go of any resistance you are still holding.

Feel the relief of that. Literally let it come in. Because when you are constantly fighting, fixing, making and doing you are working against life force rather than with it. Think of a baby growing in the womb, growing all by itself with no interference guided by a divine intelligence. That same intelligence is available to you. And this is part of October's invitation: allow the beauty of the divine to woo you.

Beauty, Relationships and Getting Out into Life

Orange is also associated with relationships. So it may show up in relationship to yourself or others. So maybe reflect on these kinds of questions.

• What are you in relationship with or out of relationship with right now?
• How are your relationships?
• Do they need a little more attention, love, freshness or more vitality?

Orange will also be having you get out from behind the screen. We can hide behind the computer. Get too comfy staying at home. While orange, the most sociable colour of the spectrum, will be moving you to go out and meet people. Connect, have a coffee, go somewhere. Accept invitations. Join a group. Have a conversation, laugh, dance. The physical connection is going to be really good for you this month. If it is not possible in person then reach out virtually, face to face on video. Connection is the medicine.

And if there is any victim mentality that might be lurking around, this should not be happening to me, why is this happening to me, I should be further ahead, it should have happened by now. Declare, Decree and Say, Cancel, clear, delete this story. And choose joy.

You are in your prime. You are here to be present, to come from curiosity, in the knowledge that the divine has your highest good in mind and everything is working out in perfect order. It is your time.

Becoming Available to Receive

Manifestation happens when we finally allow and become available to receive. On a scale of zero to ten, how much are you in receivership of your desires? Ten being one hundred percent. One being no.

Orange is shining a light on you this month and asking you to be at a ten. To be unapologetically, vibrantly you.

If there is any version of you that you have been presenting from a wounded place, from a survival mechanism, from fitting in or from living based on the expectations of others, we are going to put that down now. The keeping the peace, the pleasing, the doing the right thing by everybody except yourself. We are going to move that out of the way.

You are stepping into the truest version of you. And maybe there is vulnerability in that. But this is what will set you free. No more hiding. Going within. Coming to know yourself as a soul. To thine own self be true. The ancients knew this was the path to enlightenment and abundance. The more deeply we embrace the inner essence of who we are, the less interested we become in the conditioned social ideals that have no resonance with our heart.

Your Body Is Always Informing You

Pay attention this month to how your body feels. Witness and observe and take a little space around how you are feeling when you are with someone. Do you feel expanded? Energised? Seen? Or do you feel contracted, drained, heavy? We are always being informed. We just rarely take the time to be informed. Your body knows.

Ask yourself: what am I in resonance with? What am I no longer in resonance with?

Your Personal Currency

October holds a powerful message around prosperity. Your true personal currency is your frequency. But your skills are your currency too. Your talents are your currency. Your ideas: are you implementing them, or putting them on the shelf? Your relationships are your currency. Your energy is your currency. Your beliefs are your currency.

And what you believe you are worthy of receiving will determine how much of the abundance that is here you can actually experience. This is where October is inviting you to step up and say: I am now stepping into my prosperous joyful potential and I am letting that lead the way.

Notice what happens inside you when you say: everything I desire comes easily to me. Do you expand? Feel resistance? Feel excitement or disbelief? Do not judge it. Get curious. October is inviting you to be open to everything and attached to nothing.

The Power of Your Words

Your words also carry energy this month. Words are wands. Each word has a vibration. Notice the difference between saying "I have to" versus "I choose to". Between "I can't" and "I haven't yet". Between "it's difficult" and "it's coming together".

Words like I have to, I can't, it's difficult, there is not enough, I am exhausted, I am stuck: those energies attract more of the same. Whereas: it's easy, it's time, I'm worthy, I'm ready, it's happening anyway. These are soul-frequency words. They open the field rather than close it.

Watch your words. Return often to: I am following the joy. I am trusting the flow. I am available for more.

Take the Step

I am going to do the thing from a place of joy. I am going to co-create with the universe. Take the step. Open the door. Do the thing. Take a pause.

You do not need to push harder. You do not need to have the entire map. You do not need to chase what is meant for you. Follow the nudge. Let go of the grip. Let life move through you with fluidity.

What would your day look like if you moved through it with that kind of softness and aliveness? What would your walk look like? Your parenting? Your work?

October is asking you to say yes to yourself. To say yes to the joy. To come alive.

A Note on Working with the Orange Energy

Wear it. Bring it into your environment. Let orange work on your behalf. Colour works on a frequency level: it sends a message to your brain and from your brain to your endocrine system and activates an aliveness in you from the inside out. You do not need to agree with it first. You just need to let it in.

And I just want to close by saying: acknowledge yourself this month. Go somewhere beautiful. Eat something nourishing. Let beauty be part of your October practice. Because when we are in beauty we are in resonance with life. And that is the whole invitation of orange. Come alive. Stay alive. Let life move through you.

I am sending you so much love for this October. I would love to hear from you: what are you becoming available for this month?

Share this with someone you feel would benefit. Because the more of us choosing joy, choosing aliveness, choosing to follow the frequency of what lights us up, the more we contribute. Not just to our own lives, but to the whole.

With so much love,
Marcia