January 2009

Ritual for the New Year

This ritual can be done anytime at the first of the year, beginning at midnight on New Year's Eve.  Please perform it as close to the first day of the year as possible:

Find a quiet spot and light a candle (violet or white - 2009 colors -  are preferable, but any color will do).  Sit in front of the candle and take a few deep breaths.  Then think back (without attaching emotion to the memories) over the past year.  Don't judge, just think about everything that you can recall - "good" and "bad." Accept everything and then allow it all to float away from you - leaving you open and free.  Breathe deeply, throwing back your shoulders and opening your chest. Intend to open to the Power, Light, and Dark (the Void, the Mother, and the Mystery) of the year to come.  Accept it all and trust that all of these energies will bring you exactly what you want and need in the year to come. 

Then blow out the candle and watch the smoke waft into the air.  It is carrying your intentions into the universes.  So Be It! 

Power Days:          8^th - 11^th, 14^th - 18^th, 21^st - 25^th, 27^th - 29th   

January’s Rune: Sowelu (Wholeness, Life Forces), upright.  A Rune of great power, making life force available to you, Sowelu marks a time for recharging and regeneration right down to the cellular level. You may actually experience power surges, for the energies involved can be dramatic.  Although this Rune has no reversed position, there is reason for caution.  You may even see fit to withdraw, to retreat in the face of a pressing situation, especially if events or people are demanding that you “spend” your energy now. Know that such a retreat is a retreat in strength, and that it can mark a voyage inward for centering, for balance.  . . . . At the same time, for some, this Rune counsels opening yourself up, letting the Light into a part of your life that has been secret, shut away.  

 "You, who are the source of all power,

Whose rays illuminate the whole world,

 Illuminate also my heart

So that it too can do your work."

The Gayatri

January's Tarot: The Five of Pentacles, reverse, followed by the Queen of Swords, upright. Money regained after severe toil. New employment, but this may not be permanent.  Charity. A new interest in spiritual matters.  Followed by Kindness but firmness. Keen observation (needed).

January Wisdom

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
                                                                                                                                                               -   Norman Vincent Peale  

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.  
                                                                                                                                                                          -   Daniel Webster  

Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago?  How did they work out?  Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them?   Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?
                                                                                                                                                                             -   Dale Carnegie 

You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough.  You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.  
                                                                                                                                                                        -   Sheilah Graham  

A strong, successful man (or woman!) is not the victim of his environment.  He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.
                                                                                                                                                                 -  Orison Swett Marden 

Those who say it cannot be done should not interfere with those of us who are doing it.
                                                                                                                                                                                  -  S. Hickman 

Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have.  We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy - if not less of it - doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.    
                                                                                                                                                                          -   Terry McMilan  

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
                                                                                                                                                                                      -   Aristotle 

See where your own energy wants to go, not where you think it should go.  Do something because it feels right, not because it makes sense.
                                                                                                                                                                  -   Mary Hayes-Grieco
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
                                                                                                                                                              -   Ralph Waldo Emerson   

Acceptance Mudra

Hand position

The index finger is folded into the space between thumb and this finger, so that the nail touches the fold. The outer lower corner of the thumb's nail touches the inner lower corner of the pinky finger's nail.

Emotional / spiritual use

To overcome sadness or an unnecessary resistance to situations, this mudra can help to get into a mood of acceptance.

Hold the finger positions with both hands, for at least a couple of minutes.

 copyright  Kathleen Pinna 2007 - 09

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