Out with the previous and in with the brand new!
There’s magic on New Yr’s in all that you simply do!
Beth
Rejoice, my dears! We stand on the crossroads of a brand new 12 months!
I counsel that you simply spend a while in the present day in sacred area, setting your intention for the shining promise of this new starting.
Supported by Mercury, Jupiter, and Uranus in retrograde, this is a perfect time to REview, REflect, RElax, and guarantee that in days of auld lang syne, previous acquaintance not be forgot.
And also you’ll most likely be relieved to know Mercury stations direct tomorrow!
New Yr’s is a gateway of very previous magic, and all types of manifesting, spells, and rituals are amplified at this turning.
You possibly can put together for this second of initiation by understanding that all the things you do on New Yr’s Eve and New Yr’s Day is loaded with magical significance.
Rituals and Preparations
For instance, make a ritual of writing down a listing of all you do not need to carry ahead into the brand new 12 months. A toss into the fireplace or a smoldering, cleansing-herb stuffed cauldron will launch these energies and is a time-honored custom.
This is a perfect time to make a vision board for what you’d wish to manifest within the coming 12 months.
Or decide a phrase that shall be your inspiration and guidepost for the times forward. Write it down or make it into artwork. Simply make sure you put it someplace that you’ll be reminded of it every single day. My pal, Lunaea Weatherstone, has written an inspiring article about how she goes about this.
In lots of components of the world, the New Yr is greeted with lots of noise, generally made by church bells. Initially this was to frighten away evil spirits that may attempt to sneak into the New Yr and attempt to spoil it. Folks within the Northern Hemisphere generally lit bonfires for a similar motive.
A few of our neighbors out right here within the woods of Durham County, North Carolina wish to shoot off weapons and bottle rockets.
However taking pictures weapons up into the air is colossally stupid, because the bullets should come down someplace. Severe property injury, accidents, and even loss of life may result, to not point out terrorizing pets and the native wildlife. So the native animals and I choose the ringing of bells and songs provided to the Guardians.
Earlier than midnight tonight, sweep and clear your home and take out all of the trash. You don’t need to sweep tomorrow or take something out of the home, or else you’ll sweep away the brand new starting that tomorrow brings.
And doing laundry is extraordinarily unhealthy luck on New Yr’s Day. Simply so . (Extra tomorrow!)
Additionally, ensure you end any initiatives you continue to have to finish, for they are saying {that a} process carried over won’t ever prosper.
If there’s one thing BIG occurring that may’t be completed (like my Tarot book, that’s almost full and hoping for a writer), at the least full a part of it, achieved and dusted.
Manifesting Prosperity
Utilizing that very same sympathetic magic, you may observe the customized of leaving some cash simply exterior your door, as a way to carry it in very first thing tomorrow, setting a prosperity spell for your complete 12 months! This has labored fantastically for us for plenty of years.
The American customized of spending the evening with the one you’re keen on and kissing them at midnight insures that the connection will thrive within the coming 12 months.
In Vienna, the pig (sacred to the Goddess Freya, whose time that is) is the image of fine luck. Pigs are let free in eating places and everybody tries to the touch it for luck because it runs by. In non-public houses, a marzipan pig, with a gold piece in its mouth, is suspended from a ribbon and touched as a substitute.
Hogmanay
Since historical instances in Scotland, this evening has been celebrated as Hogmanay. Outshining even Christmas celebrations (which have been banned for over 400 years in Scotland), it is a time for wealthy feasting, ingesting, dancing, tale-telling, and music.
The primary particular person to cross your threshold after midnight brings luck into the home. Since medieval instances, then, the absolute best first-footer can be a tall, dark-haired, good-looking man, who introduced presents of whisky, bread, a chunk of coal or firewood and a silver coin.
He enters in silence and nobody speaks to him till he places the coal on the fireplace, pours a glass for the pinnacle of the home and desires everybody a Pleased New Yr.
Then, in fact, the revelries explode and proceed into the wee hours, even for a number of extra days in some instances!
I extremely suggest adapting this observe at your events tonight. It’s a magical second you’ll always remember, and wealthy rewards could also be yours within the coming 12 months!
Divination and Magic
Naturally, this an exquisite evening for divination, and it’s excellent for these of you who learn the playing cards.
(In the event you don’t, however want you could possibly, may I counsel beginning off your New Yr with a potent reward to your self: my 2-part introductory Tarot class is now registering. It’s prone to be my ultimate time of educating it, so check it out.)
In any other case, since I’m not providing private readings, another strategy to decide your future within the new 12 months is to prick a newly-laid egg on the smaller finish with a pin. Let three drops of the egg white fall right into a bowl of water.
Then use your powers of scrying to interpret the designs it makes. This provides you with a glimpse of what the brand new 12 months holds in retailer for you.
One other custom for the younger folks is one which involves us by means of Russia. Put a thread by a golden ring. Pour some water right into a glass after which decrease the thread with the ring into it.
Wait quietly till it begins to swing and knock towards the borders. Depend the variety of strikes – they denote the age whenever you’ll get married.
Ancestors and Trendy Instances Entwined
And these resolutions we make 12 months in and 12 months out (or else resolve not to make anymore)? We aren’t alone!
There are data from 4,000 years in the past in Babylon of New Yr’s resolutions. Usually they have been introduced publicly. The commonest have been to make good any excellent money owed and return something borrowed.
These days, the most typical resolutions are to shed weight and quit smoking, intently adopted by .. guess what! .. making good any excellent money owed and returning borrowed items!
And talking of our long-ago ancestors, the traditional Egyptians, Greeks and Romans all had the custom of displaying off the primary infants born within the 12 months. Within the 14th century the customized of displaying a child entwined with a banner of the New Yr started, in Germany.
The Divine Ones
New Yr’s Eve is sacred to Yemaya, the Mom of the Sea. In Brazil, folks gown in white, go all the way down to the ocean, gentle candles within the sand and throw white flowers into the waves for Her. 
Within the historical Egyptian traditions, in the present day is the sacred day of Sekhmet, the lion-headed Goddess whose worship middle was Memphis, Egypt. Nursing moms would pray to Her to let down their milk and to guard their wee babes.
And at the present time can be put aside for honoring Vesta – the Roman Goddess of the fireplace. Identified by the Greeks as Hestia, She was credited with the artwork of constructing homes (since each residence was constructed across the sacred central hearth). An excellent energetic cleaning and blessing of your fireplace can be a most rewarding exercise in the present day.
Maybe echoing that customized, that is the day that many put away their Solstice decorations, for some say it’s unhealthy luck for them to nonetheless be up within the New Yr.
Not less than make sure you give thanks on this evening for the benevolence of Hestia, for the roof above your head, and the a lot in your life. Many in our difficult financial instances have found that house is a valuable, generally precarious reward.
And we particularly ship our prayers on behalf of the estimated 110 million souls who’ve been forcibly displaced from their houses, together with these fleeing the warfare in Ukraine, however not absolutely (but) accounting for the tens of millions caught within the crosshairs in Gaza.
Blessed be to your holy residence, because it provides you the nurturing and luxury that allows you to exit into the world.
Gracious Blessings within the Title of Hecate
And as , the final day of each month is sacred to our expensive Hecate. Hecate is the Goddess of Witches and the psychopomp who reveals the way in which to these crossing to the lands of the lifeless. As such, She is the Guardian of the Crossroads, together with all mundane highway crossings in addition to the crossroads between life and loss of life.
We particularly welcome Her as She presides at this crossroads of the Yr.
She is the Triple Goddess in Her most historical kind, the trinity of Artemis the Maiden, Selene, the Mom, and by Her personal title, Hecate, the Crone.
On this evening, go away meals at a crossroads in Her title. If you’re particularly clever, you’ll decide a crossroads the place She will be able to see to it that the hungry could eat it, whether or not they know it’s in Her title or not.
Hecate additionally guidelines over prophecy, therapeutic, visions and magic. This amplifies even extra the magic of New Yr’s Eve as an excellent evening for divination, meditation and spellwork.
So elevate a glass with me, and bid farewell to 2023, a 12 months of fearful challenges, and profound change. For higher or worse, it’s about to be a closed chapter.
Hail the brand new, ye lads and lasses.
2024 is knocking on our door.
That is an up to date assortment of tidbits from my posts in years previous, with heartfelt because of the late, beloved Waverly FitzGerald, from whom I discovered a lot. Blessings to you, Waverly, in your legacy as a Priestess of Time and Instructor of the Knowledge of the Historical Methods. What’s remembered lives.
