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What to Take with You Into the New Year and What to Leave Behind

When the final days of any given year can feel equal parts quiet and reflective, hectic and social; the typical New Year’s Resolution seems like just another January 1 to-do check box just waiting to be done. The transition moment is often thought to come before January 1, but most of the time our energy slowly adjusts within the first three months as we reflect on the previous twelve months. Whether we are trying to kick start loose ends or burn the ends of unwanted things– it’s time to get the new calendar year off with a clean energy slate.


You many have been meditating on relationships, personal challenges, or passion projects that you’ll want to tie up or continue having in your life as you move forward into the new year. Or, maybe you just want to know what the hell the planetary elements are up to and what that has to do with you.


For instance, Mars, which is the planet of energy, action, and sexual desires, has been at a bit of a disadvantage while transiting through dreamy, mutable water sign Pisces since November 15. On New Year’s Eve, the warrior planet moved into its home sign Aries, inspiring aggressive, impulsive, fiery forward movement. The beginning of the new year is going to be fired by great energy and the will ‘to do’ – so make sure your thoughts and actions lead you to the choices your heart desires.


Even if you’re not quite ready to shift gears in a certain area of life, the astrological aspects on the horizon could force your hand. The eclipse gateway is happening right now. This is the period between two eclipses, the New Moon Solar Eclipse on January 6 and the upcoming, intense Full Super Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse on January 20-21. These gateways are immensely healing, but also highly challenging, as old energetic debris comes up for clearing and we receive a rare opportunity to press ‘karmic reset’ and wipe out past pain, trauma, conflict, tension, sorrow and regrets. Eclipse Gateways pull our unhealed, forgotten issues to the surface, so it is vital to spend time caring for and repairing our innermost, oldest emotional wounds, and forgiving, loving and comforting ourselves for all we’ve put ourselves through. This will likely be a turbulent and chaotic period, but one that will bring in major change as we transcend outdated patterns and habits and we magnetically draw everything to us that we want and need. Eclipse Gateways are bridges that take us away from the unwanted old and lead us toward new, far better beginnings.


Whether or not you believe that planetary alignment gives surges of energies to our beings, there are additional steps you can take today, in the moment, to help clear room for the clean energy slate.


Declutter & Cleanse

The first step to an uncluttered mind, is an uncluttered home. For thousands of years, philosophy has shown us that this conventional thought plays an integral element in our lives. As with energy, you need to clear out what is not needed to make room for what is to come. The beginning of the year is a great time to purge unwanted thoughts and items and allow not only your home, but your mind time to cleanse, declutter and be the center of your own space. Donate your items to a shelter and assure that they go to a good cause, remove the negative and stagnant energy and begin to stand in the center of your space. Feel free to express yourself and new space by lighting sandalwood incense, Palo Santo wood, or the good ole’ sage to help bring a cleansing ceremony to a close.


Fix the Broken

Usually somewhere on our ever-growing to-do list is something that needs fixing or something that we just keep forgetting to get rid of. Consider not bringing the energy of those broken or unfixable items into the New Year with you. Referencing a Feng Shui tip, all things, even inanimate objects have energy. The energy of something that has become useless is stagnant. As you try to invite a free flow decluttered energy into your new year, consider these broken or need to be fixed chores as definitely being energy blocks in your life and material space.


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