Welcome to the turn of another calendar year (what a friend of mine calls Muggles New Year). Last night, Steven and our friend Renato enjoyed dinner together, then I helped R. through a Creative Life tarot layout using the Tarot of the Crone.
I marked my own entry into 2010 this morning through smudging myself and my entire living space with sage, then sweetgrass. Out with the old and in with the sweet and happy! I then cast the I Ching for what I most need to know or learn this year. The essence of the hexagrams I received — 28 and 7 — were to use moments of breakdown and dismantling to come into my own leadership and individuality, to serve the common good with allies that I rally in order to overcome disruptions (and maybe cause some in service to the greater good).
How are you marking the change from one year to the next? What rituals of letting go and welcoming are appropriate for you as you enter 2010? What needs to go and what needs to come in? What do you most need to know or learn about yourself and your life as you enter a fresh year?
Feel free to explore these questions with me in a private session.
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January 2, 2010 at 2:22 am
Martha Hillhouse
I keep getting the 9 of Cups from the Thoth deck — yipee!
I am letting go of walls and sandbags and guard dogs who kept me safe for years and that don’t serve me any more and welcoming whatever is supposed to come knock at my newly painted door.
My rituals were messy, intense and erratic over the last few days – this week I am going to be open to less frying-pan-hitting-the-head magic —- though tonight I am grateful for lessons that came literally at the 11th hour last night. As it’s said – don’t give up 5 minutes before the miracle.
The theme for 2010 continues to be a lot about SHARING.
Today I walked under hawk happy skies in the park, post romance-reboot with my husband and tomorrow night I’m hoping to do a champagne toast to conscious relating and break bread with others over oranges, quinoa, chili, cornbread, black-eyed peas and collard greens —- and maybe bread pudding with whiskey sauce.
Happy Happy.
Much love,
M
January 2, 2010 at 2:32 am
jameswells
Happy New Year, Martha!
As ever, superb descriptive comments on your unfolding. Thank you for sharing. The rituals might have been messy, but the post-ritual reflections are not.
A blessed 2010 to you and J.
Hugs,
James
January 7, 2010 at 5:45 pm
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