Happy New Year! It’s the first week of new year 2012, a time we are invited to let go of our disappointments, our regrets, our sorrows from year past to create room in ourselves for our dreams and visions for a year new. Unlike New Year’s goals that can fizzle once we go back our days and usual habits, ritual calls upon not only our mind, but the earth elements and the sacred as well for making it so. And at the end of 2012, when you look at the seeds you wrote down and what that then created in 2012, it will blow you away! So take 10 minutes to begin your new year anew with the ritual I call ”Release and Renew”.
“Release and Renew” Ritual
- Write down on separate slips of paper your resentments, your grudges, your anger and rages, the unforgiven, the wrong-doings of others to you, your sorrows, your depressions, the ones you despise….you get the idea. Make certain each one gets written down on it’s own slip of paper.
- Bury the slips of paper in the ground with sage or cedar if you have some, or if not, with some evergreen needles. (If where you live does not allow you to bury the slips of paper, then burn the slips of paper and bury the ashes).
- Write down on separate pieces of paper the seeds of what you will cultivate through this year….commiting to your compassion more than your judgment, commiting to transformations effortless through calling on grace vs believing it takes hard work and luck to create, commiting to being open to more questions and curiosity and needing to control less, etc. Place your commitment seeds on your altar if you have one and if you do not have an altar, it’s time to create one!
- Pray for the next moon (30 days) on what your heart frowns upon as well as what lifts up your heart and soul. In the realm of Sacred and Earth, all is energy and simply, our clarity is needed for what is released and what is renewed in our hearts and world.
Our human minds are powerful-and-placing our mind as the driver of our life was never meant to be it’s role. As we move into our future, our challenges will need us to meet them with our full capacity as human beings-the wisdom of our heart, the depth of our soul, and the infinite power and reach of our spirit. As women, our innate caliber and capacity makes us leaders in living more of our depth and dimension as humans for creating the fabric of our daily life, containing the well-being of all in our communities, and allowing nothing save peace and harmony on this Earth.
Make your dreams really really big for 2012, plant your seeds through commitment to your humanity and your divinity, and call upon the sacred to do the heavy lifting. We are so blessed by our gift of a human life….simply, sometimes we forget we are powerful gods and goddesses walking this sacred ground of Earth.