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The witch’s new year does not begin on January 1st…in fact, we’re deep in the season of the soul with yule 10ish days ago and the season of Imbolc to go before we reach a fresh beginning. Cosmically and on earth, now is the time to feel deep into the feelings of rest and restoration. BUT – if you’re wanting to participate in the global excitement of the new year, here’s a few rituals that are both goal oriented and nourishing to your soul. It’s time for a spiritual reset.
What is a spiritual Reset?
A spiritual reset is used to cleanse your soul, release the burdens of the past year, and begin a new part of our journey of self-discovery and spiritual growth. If you’re feeling overwhelmed with the need to set a million goals going into the new year. If you’re overthinking every action you take (or don’t take). If you’re feeling burnout and lost. If you’re feeling stuck. It might be time to slow down, go inward, and focus on creating an environment that allows you to reconnect with your soul and replenish your spiritual practices that guide you throughout the year.
New Year Spiritual Reset Rituals:
- Journal what you’re releasing from last year: Before we can welcome new energy into our lives, it’s essential to release the ick of the past (as much as we can with where we’re currently at). Take time to reflect on the challenges, disappointments, and negative experiences of the previous year. Write them down on a piece of paper and, as a symbolic gesture, burn it (if you’re not into burning it – rage rip it up). This simple act can help free your mind from the weight of the past and make room for positive energy to flow in.
- Gratitude Journaling: Now that we’ve released negative energy from last year, let’s focus on what we’re grateful for. Allow yourself to get specific – and remember, you’re allowed to include things that happened last year in your released journal entry as well as your gratitude journal (it’s ok to live in the gray, or the both/and).
- Pick a Word of the Year: This is one of my favorite new year practices. I’ve been doing this since the beginning of my spiritual awakening and I love how much the word really has been a theme throughout the year. Pick a word that you want to embody this year – don’t overthink it, what’s the first word that comes to mind? Once you have the word, ground yourself in the energy of this word, allow it to shape your experiences next year. Tap into the word as you’re planning goals and events – how can you embody the word? My word of the year for 2023 was ‘pleasure’ and I really set my mind to having fun in my life and allowing myself to live in a more maximalist way (the year before it was ‘peace’ because I had an infant and I honestly could not imagine pushing myself to embody anything other than peace). For 2024 I’ve chosen (or it’s chosen me) ‘discipline’ for my word of the year. I’m looking forward to following through on the commitments I made for myself around Samhain and through 2024.
- Create an Altar: An altar serves as a beautiful sacred space to connect with your intentions. Pick a place in your home (or even digitally if you’re tight on space/don’t want an altar out), and decorate it with pieces that mean something to you. Don’t overthink it – whatever calls to you is perfect. On my 2024 altar I’ve place my goddess of the year, animal of the year, a card to embody, some crystals that called to me, items to represent air, fire, earth, and water, as well as a few items that I was intuitively called to adding.
- Create a Vision Board: If you’re a visual person (or honestly even if you’re not) creating a vision board or refreshing the vision board you have going is a lovely way to invite the renewal of the year into your manifestations. Grab images, words, feelings of what you’re calling in and plop them into a board (digital or physical). Put it where you’ll see it often. This can be a really fun ritual to do each year. Grab your supplies, a fun drink, snacks, and get cozy tuning into your dreams.
- Clean your Space: There is nothing better than a clean, fresh space to support you in the new year. Soul time (the time from Yule to Ostara) is a time to prepare ourselves for reemerging into the world with fire and passion – but before we get there, now it’s a good time to refresh your energy and that energy includes your physical space. Declutter, clean, use smoke cleansing, or even simmer pots to renew the energy of your home.
- Intention Setting Ceremony: Now we can pull everything we’ve done so far together into an intentional reset ceremony. This can be as simple as sitting in front of your altar/vision board and sending energy from your heart space to your intentions and from your intentions to your heart space. It could be doing a meditation or saying a prayer/meaningful words. During my ceremony I tuned into each item on my altar as well as my word of the year and invited them to guide me throughout the new year.
A spiritual reset offers a profound opportunity to step into the new year with purpose and positivity without feeling overwhelmed by the ‘new year, new me’ mentality of the world. You deserve a space to rest and refill your cup – but if you’re in the mood to dive into fresh year energy, I hope some of these rituals help you on your path.
You’re doing great! Have a wonderful new year.
