The Winter Solstice represents our cyclical nature here on Earth.
This year, the dark New Moon is upon us during the Winter Solstice. Both the Moon and the Solstice are welcoming growth towards more light- pretty special!
It’s a great time to turn our attention inwards, to reflect on letting go of the past, and fully living into the present moment.
By honoring the Lunar cycles, it helps us live in step with Mother Gaia’s rhythms, helps us adjust with change, and aids in our awareness of our internal seasons of productivity, healing, rest, and dreaming.
With this New Moon comes a new season, Midwinter. This spoke in the Wheel of the Year gifts us with darkness, may it empower us to shine our light bright in 2023!
The deep dark nights of winter lend us a Sacred Pause, the New Moon and the Solstice invite time for stillness and reflection to nourish your body, mind, and spirit.
It’s time to reflect on what you want to release for the coming year and what you want to create.
Crystals and meditation will help illuminate and activate our intentions for 2023.
The wise ones tell us December Solstice to be the very MOST powerful time to set intentions for the New Year.
Mother Gaia wants you us grow and I feel crystals want to help us walk our spiritual path, influence our energy.
The turn of the Wheel supports our evolution while also helping the globe embrace its rhythmic cycles. The moon phases and the seasons are both powerful energies and subtle natural markers that help us reset, revive, renew, restore, review, reflect, or radiate.
Crystal Intention Ritual
1. Grab your journal + a writing tool 2. Pick out crystals and jewels you want to support you during this lunar cycle, or in this new year. 3. Add ritual accessories like music, incense, candles, oils, tuning fork, singing bowls, tarot…
I’ve gathered some journal prompts from some wise women, you can journal or simply list what specifically you are releasing this year and what intentions you’re welcoming into your reality.
JOURNAL PROMTS
Remove yourself from all fear, doubt, and inner resistance. Those low frequencies will not serve you. They have nothing to do with your true & deep Soul Purpose. Your Soul Purpose is SO much bigger & more multidimensional than any of those burdens. So let them go. Rise above them. Leave them behind. Focus on this inquiry:
If fear, hesitation, procrastination, and subconscious blocks DID NOT EXIST …
• What would you do in 2023?
• What would you do if you KNEW that you could not fail? (Jocelyn Star Feather)
When the moon is new
she invites us to question
• What is it our soul truly needs? (Flora Ware)
And looking within
heart wisdom rises up
to intentionally plant the seeds.
In the darkness,
I know my light
eternally guiding the way.
December can be a time of reflection- look back over the ebbs and flows, the wins and the losses.
• How can I embrace the shadowy parts of myself that rise up to protect my heart and ego?
• What’s my greatest harvest this year?
Reflect back on the challenges, the celebrations, the heart ache and the joy. (Aurora Farber)
• What yearns to be manifested through me? ‘I am creating’ ‘ I will’ ‘I see myself’ (April McMurtry)
• What are you NOT taking with you into 2023? • What are you burning in the seasonal fire?
If you have a goal for 2023, covert your goal into an affirmation. For example, if you want a new job, your affirmation would be “I love my new job.” Bring your desires in the future into the present tense.
Bringing an affirmation into the present with I (like ‘I feel’ ‘I will focus on’ ‘I appreciate’ ‘I am open to’ ‘I call in’) magnifies that affirmation. By focusing on the emotions you will feel and recreating those emotions in the present you are creating space in your body and mind for this reality.
Once your intentions are set. Pick up a crystal or jewel, hold in in your palms. Close your eyes and slip into a deep meditative state. Then say your intention out loud. Set your crystal on a grid or a windowsill for overnight programming, cleansing and charging. The last step is to let go, trust, and surrender to Gaia, the Universe, and Spirit. Allow your unconscious mind to do the rest.
I found a more elaborate crystal ritual here;)
As we celebrate the Solstice, let’s not only imagine a New Year but also a New Earth.
Even though it’s the darkest day of the year, and the darkest Moon in the cycle, we can find warmth and positivity in knowing that more light is on the way!
Healed people heal people. Working to raise our collective consciousness, being intentional with our dreams, wishes, thoughts, desires, and building our community will help create a groundswell of crystal people, creating tremendous positive change for our dynamic planet, Mother Gaia, humanity, and beyond.
Boho Bahia 