Happy New Year!
2025 adds up to a “9” Universal year number. It’s the end of a 9-year cycle that began in 2017. “9” is the number of culmination and is the third stage of completion. It’s a year of tying up loose ends, finishing projects, and internal as well as external growth processes, often begun during the first eight years of the cycle. This year carries the energy of preparing the way for a new cycle that will begin the following year– 2026, which will be a “1” Universal year.
“9” years are always beneficial although they can be stressful. Most people approach a “9” year thusly– you have a school project due and you don’t start working on it until the night before it’s to be turned in. To avoid all of the stress, begin sifting and sorting now through old, no longer useful items, emotions, belief systems, and relationships. If it doesn’t have current personal value to you, you need to let it go. You’ll find that you’re not losing anything– you’re making room for all of the new that’s coming your way.
Your message this month comes in the form of a quote or affirmation that will help you anticipate plan for the tasks and experiences of this coming year.
Our theme song for the year is “Let It Go” from the film, “Frozen.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr57W6R1qVE
FOR ALL OF US:
“In a world where you can be anything, be kind.” Ann Angel
“The weak give up and stay; the strong give up and move on.” Hall & Oates
“I love you, my sister and brother, whoever you are– whether you worship in your church, kneel in your temple, or pray in your mosque. You and I are all children of one faith, for the diverse paths of religion are fingers of the loving hand of one Supreme Being, a hand extended to all, offering completeness of spirit to all, eager to receive all.” Khalil Gibran
THE EMPEROR (March 21 – April 20) “You fix what you can fix, and you let the rest go. You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go, and see what happens.” Mandy Hale & Cormac McCarthy
THE EMPRESS (April 21 – May 20) “When one door closes, another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” Alexander Graham Bell
THE LOVERS (May 21 – June 20) “Once you make the decision to move on, don’t look back. Your destiny will never be found in the rear view mirror.” Mandy Hale
THE CHARIOT (June 21 – July 20) “You can’t possibly embrace that new relationship, that new career, that new friendship, or that new life you want, while you’re still holding on to the baggage of the last one. Let go… and allow yourself to embrace what is waiting for you right at your feet.” Steve Maraboli
THE SUN (July 21 – August 22) “Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open.” Ralph Marston
THE HERMIT (August 23 – September 22) “Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity, and a willingness to embrace paradox rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.” Tony Schwartz
JUSTICE (September 23 – October 22) “You’ve got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old – whatever “the old” means for you.” Sarah Ban Breathnach
THE MAGICIAN (October 23 – November 21) “Letting go may sound so simple, but rarely is it a one-time thing. Just keep letting go, until one day it’s gone for good.” Eleanor Brownn
THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE (November 22 – December 21) “Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness.” Thich Nhat Hanh
THE WORLD (December 22 – January 19) “The decision to let go of that which has completed its course in your experience is even more important than the decision to welcome new ideas. You cannot walk forward by looking backward. You intuitively know what should depart from your life.” Raymond Charles Barker
THE STAR (January 20 – February 19) “Let things go. Release them. Detach yourself from them. Stop turning on your emotional television to watch the same program over and over again, the one that shows how much you suffered from a certain loss: that is only poisoning you, nothing else.” Paulo Coelho
THE MOON (February 20 – March 20) “You can’t reach for anything new if your hands are still full of yesterday’s junk.” Louise Smith
The intent of our magical, sacred Odyssey is to align with and immerse ourselves in the energy and magic of the area’s most powerful vortexes, thus activating the natural forces that will impel our deepest dreams to come true.
As promised, here is Day 1 of A Scottish Odyssey through My Eyes, Part 1.
By now, in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres, it’s obvious that we have entered into a very pronounced climatic, emotional and biological phase. For you lucky Southern hemisphere dwellers, that phase is called late Spring, which portends a verdant, luscious, warm Summer season. For us in the Northern hemisphere, there’s no denying it– this phase is called late Fall, which is wasting no time in ushering in all of the characteristics of a barren, cold, often bleak Winter.
Here is Your Mercury Retrograde Survival Kit…
The planet of communication, logic, roadways and best-laid plans, Mercury, will be going retrograde on Monday, May 18th at 8:49pm EDT. It’ll be retrograde until Thursday, June 11@ 5:33pm EDT. I’m being so exact with the date and time because I want all of the lead time I can get and I’m sure you want the same.
I’m for responsible use of my resources, too, but whenever I hear that, I wonder how and why they’ve come to believe that investing in the joy of their heart and Spirit, and the growth of their soul is an act of irresponsibility? Life has taught me that if the Universe has given a person the ability to recognize something the soul wants, it will also give that person the means to obtain it, as well as the means to re-fill their coffers when they do.
Happy Spring!
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Therefore, I decided to share my day-to-day Odyssey experiences with you through a series of newsletters. Every few days, I’ll post an account with photos of our amazing adventure.