A Ritual for a New Year
✨ A ritual for a New Year ✨
For this article I chose this photo from my trip to Italy because it beautifully reminds me that what’s inside of us is divine, we all play a part in this universe together. We are each aging on the outside like the green patina here, dwelling inside us are our hearts, souls, & our purpose.
Like this sweet altar tucked in a Venetian lane, we get better with age. We get better with the years, with introspection, with reflection, with intention.
‘Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards’ Soren Kierkegaard.
We need to reflect on what has happened, the choices we made, the roads we chose. Then using that information we plan forward. We move towards our hearts deepest wishes, with the accumulated wisdom from our past.
Moving forward we can reach for the highest vision of our true self, if we really crave that kind of life. A life where you are the Captain, its not random, your not just ‘goin with the flow’, you are an active participant working with the divine, your most important collaboration yet.
So this year we start a new year, a new month and a new week on the same day. Start your engines! How fun is that!
I’m excited to offer you a ritual that I am doing to welcome in the New Year of 2024.
Take a pen,
Take a notebook.
Light a candle or a stick of incense.
Offer your palm to your heart and take a handful of fresh breaths.
Take your Love List and review it. Feel into what goes, what stays. Dont have a Love List, dont worry, just start with the steps below.
Take note of what you enjoyed in 2023 and what you’d like to do more of. Eg less time on mindless grocery runs, a monthly visit to art gallery (its free!).
Next note what values you want to carry into this fresh new year. Can some change? Others to let go of?
Now, fresh page. Write this title, Love List. Date it. Make it cute. Like 1.1.24 🤎
Answer this question, what is worthy of my devotion for 2024? Devotion = attention. What is worthy of your attention? Start your list, take values and mix them in, take some info from the above questions and add them to the list. It doesn’t need to make visual sense, it just needs to grab you. It could look super neat or be a messy mind map. As long as it FEELS like YOU!
You can add some photos, or a quote or prayer that you love. I’m loving ‘Your heart sees by its own light’ Radiance Sutras, Yukti 14 and ‘Live the thing you are focusing on’ Cleo Wade.
The most important thing that this list will give you, is this:
>> Your 2024 Mood <<
Yep, you read that right. It will offer you up the feel and mood for this ripe new year ahead of you. It might have a vibe of Action, or Reflection, Rest, Softness. There will be a theme there, if you cant see it, give it time to reveal itself to you.
Or try it the other way around. What mood do you want to create for your New Year? Energetic, Calm, Optimistic, Easeful. And write in detail what that looks like? What does an easeful year look and feel like to you?
Next:
I’m guessing your’e wondering what you will do with your Love List?
Every day, read it. As you wake up and as you go to sleep. Make it a ritual if you like, an action repeated at the same time each day that feels special to you. You’ll be surprised at how easy this is to do, because this is your LOVE list. It will have weight and gravity with your consciousness. It will pull you towards it.
And what will start to happen, is that you will begin to notice these things on your list will start to be drawn toward you. The Universe is being shown what it is you love, and like when you look for a new car or thing, it will start showing up. You may be shown opportunities to bring your values to life, someone might ask you to go do that thing you really want to do with them.
Your can a bit of extra to this by journalling about it, why you want what you want, why you love your values.
Trust in the process. Email me, let me know how you go.
xx
