End of Year/Start of Year
“You must always celebrate the endings because they come with new beginnings.”
Just a list of some things I do the last week of the old and first week of the new year. I have dearly loved - needed, really - silent retreats during these weeks. Sometimes, I’ve been fortunate enough to go to sacred places during this time of planning and reflection, but other times, I’ve just created a sacred space in my own home. And spent the time being grateful and open to possibility.
Susannah Conway’s Unravel Your Year and Find Your Word
Calculating and reading about Creative Numerology’s Yearly Forecast for me
Listing Ten Things that Made My Year
Selecting a crystal or mala for the year
Writing Intentions for the New Year’s Four Chambers of My Heart: Physical, Mental, Home, Spiritual (or whatever chambers you choose)
Morning and Evening Routine Worksheets from Scattered Squirrel
Creating a Vision Board (the old-fashioned way, which I prefer because it’s so visible every day, or online using something like Canva)
Purchasing a 5 Things I’m Grateful for Today or 3 Moments of Joy Today little book
Finding a book of prayer or hope or talks with your God for the year. I happen to like Joel Osteen’s Come Home to Hope, but this is a personal choice.
I can’t think of a nicer wish for us all than Neil Gaiman’s journal entry from 2011.
“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.
Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.
So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.
Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.
Make your mistakes, next year and forever.”
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