Out with the previous and in with the brand new!
There’s magic on New 12 months’s in all that you just do!
Beth
Get prepared, get set! We now stand on the crossroads of a brand new yr!
So how will we put together for what everyone knows goes to be a tectonic shift in our world?
First, I counsel that you just spend a while right this moment in sacred area, setting your intention to your highest hopes for this new starting.
With the just-barely-past New Moon, the Waxing Gibbous Moon in Capricorn provides a lift right this moment for making pragmatic plans and techniques for brand spanking new development.
New 12 months’s is a second of very previous magic, and all types of manifesting, spells, and rituals are amplified at this turning.
You may put together for this second of initiation by figuring out that the whole lot you do on New 12 months’s Eve and New 12 months’s Day is loaded with magical significance.
Rituals and Preparations
For instance, make a ritual of writing down an inventory of all you do not need to carry ahead into the brand new yr. 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 prefer to manifest within the coming yr.
Or decide a phrase that can be your inspiration and guidepost for the times forward. Write it down or make it into artwork. Simply you’ll want to put it someplace that you may be reminded of it each day. My buddy, Lunaea Weatherstone, has written an inspiring article about how she goes about this.
In lots of elements of the world, the New 12 months is greeted with loads of noise, typically made by church bells. Initially this was to frighten away evil spirits which may attempt to sneak into the New 12 months and attempt to spoil it. Folks within the Northern Hemisphere typically lit bonfires for a similar cause.
Our neighbors out right here within the woods of Durham County, North Carolina prefer to shoot off weapons and bottle rockets. They really began on Saturday… sigh…
However 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 dangerous luck on New 12 months’s Day. Simply so . (Extra tomorrow!)
Additionally, make sure 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 happening that may’t be completed, at the very least full a element of it, completed and dusted.
Manifesting Prosperity
Utilizing that very same sympathetic magic, you would possibly comply with the customized of leaving some cash simply exterior your door, as a way to convey it in very first thing tomorrow, setting a prosperity spell for your complete yr! This has labored superbly for us for a few years.
The American customized of spending the night time with the one you like and kissing them at midnight insures that the connection will thrive within the coming yr.
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 personal houses, a marzipan pig, with a gold piece in its mouth, is suspended from a ribbon and touched as an alternative.
Hogmanay
Since historical occasions in Scotland, this night time has been celebrated as Hogmanay. Outshining even Christmas celebrations (which the infamously stuffy previous Scottish Presbyterians banned for over 400 years), it is a time for wealthy feasting, consuming, dancing, tale-telling, and music.
The primary individual to cross your threshold after midnight brings luck into the home. Since medieval occasions, then, the absolute best first-footer could be a tall, dark-haired, good-looking man, who introduced items 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 needs everybody a Completely satisfied New 12 months.
Then, in fact, the revelries explode and proceed into the wee hours, even for a number of extra days in some circumstances!
I extremely advocate adapting this follow at your events tonight. It’s a magical second you’ll always remember, and wealthy rewards could also be yours within the coming yr! Though you will have blended emotions about serving haggis.
Divination and Magic
Naturally, this a beautiful night time for divination, and it’s excellent for these of you who learn the playing cards.
Otherwise you would possibly want to floor the great fortune of this date by making an appointment together with your favourite reader. Sure, in case you didn’t know, I’ve returned after my hiatus and am providing a very restricted schedule of Tarot readings. You may click here to see what is available.
Another method to decide your future within the new yr 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 yr holds in retailer for you.
One other custom for the younger folks is one which involves us by the use 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 in opposition to the borders. Depend the variety of strikes – they denote the age once you’ll get married.
Ancestors and Trendy Instances Entwined
And these resolutions we make yr in and yr 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 12 months’s resolutions. Typically they have been introduced publicly. The most typical have been to make good any excellent money owed and return something borrowed.
These days, the most typical resolutions are to drop extra pounds 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 yr. Within the 14th century the customized of displaying a child entwined with a banner of the New 12 months started, in Germany.
The Divine Ones
New 12 months’s Eve is sacred to Yemaya, the Mom of the Sea. In Brazil, folks costume 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, right this moment is the sacred day of Sekhmet, the lion-headed Goddess whose worship heart was Memphis, Egypt. Nursing moms would pray to Her to let down their milk and to guard their wee babes.
And this present day can be put aside for honoring Vesta – the Roman Goddess of the fireplace. Recognized by the Greeks as Hestia, She was credited with the artwork of constructing homes (since each dwelling was constructed across the sacred central hearth). A very good energetic cleaning and blessing of your fireside could be a most rewarding exercise right this moment.
Maybe echoing that customized, that is the day that many put away their Solstice decorations, for some say it’s dangerous luck for them to nonetheless be up within the New 12 months.
No less than you’ll want to give thanks on this night time for the benevolence of Hestia, for the roof above your head, and the lots in your life. Simply this week, it was reported that homelessness in the U.S. spiked in 2024. Many in our difficult financial occasions have found that house is a treasured, typically precarious reward.
And we particularly ship our prayers on behalf of the numerous folks who are still living in temporary housing after the devastation of Hurricane Helene.
Blessed be to your holy dwelling, because it offers you the nurturing and help that allow you to exit into the world.
Gracious Blessings within the Identify of Hecate
And as , the final day of each month is sacred to our pricey Hecate. Hecate is the Goddess of Witches and the psychopomp, who exhibits the best way to these crossing to the lands of the useless. As such, She is the Guardian of the Crossroads, together with all mundane highway crossings in addition to the crossroads between life and demise.
We particularly welcome Her as She presides at this crossroads of the 12 months.
She is the Triple Goddess in Her most historical kind, the trinity of Artemis the Maiden, Selene, the Mom, and by Her personal identify, Hecate, the Crone.
On this night time, depart meals at a crossroads in Her identify. If you’re particularly smart, you’ll decide a crossroads the place She will be able to see to it that the hungry might eat it, whether or not they know it’s in Her identify or not.
Hecate additionally guidelines over prophecy, therapeutic, visions and magic. This amplifies even extra the magic of New 12 months’s Eve as an excellent night time for divination, meditation and spellwork.
So increase a glass with me, and bid farewell to 2024, a yr of hopes, shocks, and ominous prospects, if ever there was one. For higher or worse, what has been is now a closed chapter.
Prepare, get set, and hail the brand new, ye lads and lasses.
2025 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 realized a lot. Blessings to you, Waverly, to your legacy as a Priestess of Time and Instructor of the Knowledge of the Historic Methods. What’s remembered lives.
