Five Little Known Secrets to Soften Your Heart and Step Into the New Year Light on Your Feet

Happy Holy days, my wonderful readers!

I love this time of the year. I go into my Winter Womb to reflect:
write + pray + watch movies + make out in candle light.  Heaven.

Your official permission to blow off your to-do list and dissolve into the moonlight is here: Winter Solstice, December 21, 22 and 23. Twelve years ago I had this vision on a Winter Solstice:

A mystical woman stands at the top of a staircase. Cloaked in a flowing, transparent blue cape, she summons me up. ‘What is your name?’ I ask. ‘Sofia,’ she replies. Climbing white marble steps suspended in the air – stars spilled all over Sofia’s blue cloak – I stand at the gateway beside her. “Open the door,” she says. I do.

The next moment, we are floating on our backs in a still, quiet lake. But it has no earth-dirt to hold it – just water, suspended, floating through the cosmos. Sparkly blackness all around.

I reach out and touch a star.

Speaking of stars…drum roll, please!

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Little-Known Secrets for Setting Your New Year Intentions*
*(and actually receiving what it is that you want!)

Let yourself rest in these weeks; the Moonlight will protect you while you sleep. Allow 2011 fade into memory, its praises and blames, its gains and losses – especially the grievances you hold against yourself. It is time to release the criticism and shame with which you beat yourself up.

Let yourself loose. Let it all be washed over you. Breathe again. Forgive yourself.
Your 2012 resolutions will bounce right off if you’ve armored yourself in a hard shield of grievances. Let it all go. You must soften to receive the new and marvelous.

Five Ways to Soften Your Heart and Receive in Style:

1. Make a list of what you’re grateful for.
2. Let yourself cry in reverence for the one more day that you (and your loved ones) get to live.
3. Howl at the moon when you feel angry, hurt and not at all grateful.
4. Scream in your car in a remote corner of a large parking lot.
5. Listen to So Much Magnificence by Miten.

Release the burdens of the year past so that you may step into the New Year light on your feet. And take soul flight.  Pay those you owe. Redeem those who owe you. Forgive yourself for all judgments you hold against yourself.

You are a precious child of God.
You cannot make a permanent mistake in an impermanent world. (In other words: you don’t have the power to F- it up!)

Now go party! And dream big dreams!
Happy Holy Days!

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