New Year’s Ritual For Release, Celebration & Manifestation
Photo of incense holder with two flames behind it by Rudy and Peter Skitterians from Pixabay
Updated 2021.12.28
Releasing the old, welcoming in the new.
Each new year, we do this, and each new year, I have a special ritual that I do each and every New Year's Eve and New Year’s Day.
It's a releasing and welcoming ceremony.
Releasing all that has happened in the previous year to let in the new.
The releasing ceremony also includes a celebration ceremony, where you let go and speak allowed all your accompaniments, both personal and professional, from the previous year.
This year, I'd like to invite you to join me in it -
New Year’s Ceremony
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Day 1 - On the Eve
Create two lists. On the eve of New Year's Day, write down on a piece of paper all that you are releasing from the previous year.
Make a list of things, ideas, concepts, or belief systems you are letting go of - once and for all. You may also want to write down lessons, or things you would like to seal the karma on once and for all.
This is the “Release List.”
Then make another list of all the things that you have accomplished or overcame that year.
This the “Celebration List.”
In this list, write about moments of your own greatness that you want to remind yourself. You may need a friend to help you with this one, so ask those closest to you if you think you've forgotten anything significant that happened to you that year.
In this list, write all the reasons why you are a fantastic person, not just worthy of acceptance but worthy of celebration.
So far, you'll have two written lists:
Things You Are Releasing
Things You Are Celebrating
These lists are great to do during your New Year’s Eve meditation - as suggested by Arcadia Publishing.
You are letting go of what you don’t have, no longer want to desire, and no longer need in your life.
Simultaneously letting in what you do have, what you want to remind yourself of that is unique, and what you want to keep in your life to honor. Kind of like a new moon ritual, but combined with a full moon ritual.
Take both of these lists and hold onto them in a special place just for the night.
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Day 2, part 1 - On New Year’s Day
Create a final list. On the following day, in the morning and as early as you wake, create a third list.
This is the "Manifest List."
It will be a list of all of the things you want to create in my life now, even more, a representation of what resonates with you and your soul path.
This could include what you are achieving in the following year, things you wish to welcome in and continue, and ideas or concepts you have that you want to come to physical reality.
Write anything, it’s an open door. It's a blank canvas to create a reality you could have if all your wildest dreams were possible.
Once this list is written, collect all together, and take a trip to the nearest water body that leads to the ocean. It could also be your kitchen sink or bathtub. All pipes eventually lead to the ocean via the hydrological cycle. Grab a lighter, and any incense you want for this event.
Day 2, part 2 - Complete Your Ceremony
At the water -
Place your “Release List” in the water’s current and wish it a goodbye. I like to rip it up in tiny pieces so it breaks down easier.
Take your “Celebration List” and hold it to your heart, keeping it close to your chest, you're going to keep this one.
Then burn your “Manifest List,” sending the smoke up to Spirit, asking them to assist in creating these realities for me in the next round the globe.
Then, when complete, turn to walk away and do not look back.
It’s okay to let go of the old, and it’s essential.
When you release, rather than holding an empty space in your heart - you allow yourself to fill it with things about yourself that you celebrate, love, and wish to honor.
When you do, you make things easier. You step into the ebb and the flow.
You remind yourself of what you do have, and you put in with the workings of the Universe for a better future by sending the request up with the third list.
The middle list, keep as your treasure for future years. You may want to put all the year's listings of achievements together in a binder for looking back on when you get older.
Burning the Manifest List is a way to send the messages up to the Divine and put them back into the ethers of ideas that still exist to be created in the Universe.
When we release, celebrate, and manifest, we give ourselves a chance to welcome in and tap back into the current of continuation.
We also remind ourselves of our own greatness.
So to recap, to complete this New Year’s Ceremony
New Year’s Celebration Ideas - Photo of incense holder with two flames behind it by Rudy and Peter Skitterians from Pixabay with text overlay A New Year's Ritual For Release, Celebration & Manifestation.
The Night Before - write two lists, what you are releasing this year, experiences and karmas you wish to clear, and what you are celebrating, your accomplishments.
The Day Of - write one list, what you'd like to welcome in.
To Complete, Same Day - take all three lists to a waterbody, release one to the river, keep the celebratory one for yourself, and send up the manifestations in smoke to Spirit.
You can do this alone, or invite someone you love to do this ceremony with you. You might be surprised at who says yes and what they're willing to share with you.
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