Celebrating the New and Ending the Old
Summary synopsis of this blog post
Ceremony for Release, Renewal and Regeneration, manifesting your desires
This blog post offers a ceremony to help you release the old and make room for the new. You can perform this ceremony at any time, whether it’s the Winter Solstice, New Year’s, or any other occasion that feels meaningful to you.
Why perform the ceremony?
– To release old patterns, habits, and energies that no longer serve you
– To make space for new opportunities, growth, and positive energies to come to you
– To align with your intentions and desires and elevate yourself/your life to your desired state.
When to perform the ceremony?
– Winter Solstice (December 21/22)
– New Year’s (January 1) or any other New Year occasions celebrated around the world
– Your birthday
– Spring Equinox (March 20/21)
– Any other significant date or occasion that feels right for you
How to prepare for the ceremony?
1. Make a list of intentions:
– Things you want to release (e.g., pain, sickness, lack, anguish)
– Things you want to manifest (e.g., joy, happiness, peace, abundance)
– Things you want to create for others and the world (e.g. Global health, wellbeing, peace, abundance, prosperity, harmony, caring, sharing, compassion)
2. Gather materials:
– A bonfire or a metal dish/sink for burning stuff indoors
– Water for extinguishing the fire and washing away debris
– Offerings (e.g., aromatherapy oils, incense, spices, flower petals, herbs)
Performing the ceremony
– Call on your beloved deities, guides, and spiritual teachers to support you
– Read your intentions and offer them to the fire
– Use the fire to release and transmute old energies
– Use water to wash away debris and seal the intention
– Thank! Share your experience with others, if you feel called to do so
Detailed description of this Blog: This blog offers you an exercise to perform at any point in time when you feel the need for inviting New things that provide Joy, Renewal and Regeneration in your life while removing and releasing the old outdated, stagnant energies that no longer serve you. The idea is to Lighten your load to make room for the New to come in and fill your life with positive change. You are making an intentional attempt to let go of all the things that have become old and heavy and making room for New things to fill the space. It can be a ceremony or ritual for letting go of the Old and Welcoming the New. Your own Birthday is a fantastic time for performing such a ceremony. Please don’t feel bound to any specific time of the year. If you happen to read this blog in the middle of summer, do it anyway. All the more power to you! It will work as long as you intend for it to do its work. It can be applied every year or even anytime of the year when you really want to be done with the Old and Welcome the New. You are the final decision maker and the creator. You can do this!
At the writing of this blog, we are about 4 days from the Winter solstice and 14 days from the New year. Both occasions are perfect for such a ceremony. Winter Solstice becomes the harbinger for completion of the old Year and start of the New Year and a good time to release the old and begin the New.
If you decide to do it around the Winter Solstice and in prep for the New Year, you can choose the day/Night of the Solstice or any day or night during the Month of Dec., and even into the first few days of the New year. If you celebrate a different calendar ending at a different time of the year, use that date. For example, before the Chinese New Year (Feb), the Indian New Year (Oct-Nov), or when Mother Nature celebrates the beginning of a fresh New Year around March 21st, Spring Equinox.
CALL ON YOUR BELOVED DEITIES AND SPIRITUAL GUIDES
You may call on your own beloved deities, Guides, Guardian, Spiritual Teachers- living or ascended. our favorites are Divine Mother, Sanat Kumara, Divine Feminine Members and all Beings of Light. Call them to magnify and speed up your intentions. Ask them to give you what you ask and even better. They are not limited to what we think is beneficial- they can bring what’s beneficial and perfect for us, when we ask them.
Please remember that we have 5 New Great Beings who come to make our world better and more stable, a New Reality that is desirable and beneficial for us and future Generations. In our last Newsletters and the Advanced Courses, I mentioned these 5 Beings. Please check out those Newsletters and look for the steps to invoke them and ask their help for all you need/want in the New Year and beyond.
If you don’t have the time or the inclination to do a ceremony, please be mindful of the importance of the Winter Solstice as the longest night of the year. This represents an important symbolic turning point. With the Solstice we put the darkness behind us, and Re-enter the LIGHT. The Nights get shorter after the Winter Solstice.
WHAT YOU NEED FOR YOUR CEREMONY
To prepare for moving into the new year and to perform your ceremony:
Please make a list of all your intentions:
- for all the things that you want to RELEASE: things you no longer want or need- pain, sickness, lack, anguish, loneliness, hard times…. Fill in the blanks and make a list of all things that are personal to you that you need to release for yourself or help other do so. Add to this list all that you feel our world needs to release for the future to become Lighter and Brighter.
- Make a list of all the things that you want to MANIFEST- what you desire to bring into your life that benefit yourself and others- Joy, Happiness, comfort, peace of Mind, having a noble purpose that serves your Soul as well as your personality and character, feeling accomplished at every task, having support and help at every corner and for every project, having emotional, mental, spiritual clarity and focus to grow and prosper-
- Make a list of all that you want to manifest in our world-wishing people of the world to receive all the wonderful things you’d want for yourself. Also, health and Wellbeing for our planet and all creation. Ask for calming down and Release of Negative and dangerous events such as natural and manmade disasters, violence, abuse, corruption, and all qualities and activities that are detrimental to us or to the planet. Drawing in the intentions: that the planet becomes healthy and whole and capable of offering her prosperity and abundance to all creatures and species. Health and abundance to bless all kingdoms: plants, minerals, animals, humans. Intending that all human-made objects- (AI, Super-computers, Cyber-activities and anything else you feel needs to be included) to serve in the best interest of all life and the planet.
- MAKE A SMALL BON FIRE IF YOU CAN- fire is a purifier and cleanser. It will dissolve negativity and all that no longer serves you by absorbing and transmuting it. Making a bonfire is beautiful. But if you are unble to do that and want to do something indoors, then make your offerings inside a metal dish or your metal sink or even to a candle flame and imagine that you burn the old and make room for the new, releasing negativity and undesired thoughts, actions or intentions. Everything that you release, will dissolve in the fire and be transmuted. Having some water handy to pour over the fire- especially if you are inside will make it safer. Water washes away all the debris. The combination of Fire and Water Elements brings balance. pour some water over the debris of your Bonfire at the end of the ceremony intending to release all residue.
- Invite friends to come to your ceremony with their own list of intentions or invite yourself to a friend’s bonfire. Having more people can be great fun.
- Make offerings of other items to the fire- aromatherapy oils, incense, spices, flower petals, Rice, kum-kum, herbs, or anything similar can be offered to the fire with special love and intentions for magnifying the outcome. You can pour some on your written list before offering it to the fire as well. For example, you can take a few flower petals, hold it close to your heart and say the intention for what you want to release or what you want to manifest and then offer them to the fire. Then you may repeat this action with another bunch or petals for your next intention. Please be creative, make any safe changes and offerings you desire. Please be safe and make sure everyone else is too!
- Thank you for your Service! Everything you do for yourself and others impacts our entire world. As you begin to Lighten your load, you lighten the load for everyone in the world and the load of the planet too. This is a Great and benevolent act of Service.