Out With the Old: Spells for Breaking Habits, Changing Fortunes, and Cutting Ties

Heading into this new year, there’s plenty each of us would love to leave behind. These out with the old spells hep us do just that – casting out negativity, bad luck, unhappiness, and bad influences – while also ensuring that we invite good fortune and positivity to take the place of the bad we want to rid ourselves of. Here you’ll find easy spells for breaking bad habits, severing ties with people and situations, cleansing ourselves of the past, drawing success and monetary fortune our way, and attracting all sorts of goodness in the year ahead.

In With the New: Unlocking the New Year With Tarot

With the passing of each new year, many people turn to divination to see what the coming year has in store for them. The Gregorian New Year has only just occurred, and, while some of you may still be recovering from New Year festivities, now is the perfect time to look toward the year to come. Instead of focusing on resolutions and pressuring ourselves needlessly, these tarot spreads are instead intended to reflect on the year now behind us and the year to come ahead of us. In this piece, you’ll find six spread in total, each easily customizable to meet your unique needs – two versions of an Out With the Old, In With the New spread, a 12-Month Tarot Spread, two versions of a 6-Month Tarot Spread, and the Wheel of the Year Spread, each offering a glimpse into the year to come in their own special way.

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Intent & Intentions in the New Year: A Beginner's Guide to Setting Intentions for a Fresh Start

Once again, we stand on the threshold of a shiny new year. For many people, this is the time to take stock of the lives we’ve built for ourselves and assess the areas that need change, to make plans to become a new-and-improved version of ourselves by the next New Year. In the context of holiday traditions, we refer to this as making resolutions; but, when working with energies and magical forces, we might refer to it as setting intentions.

the Winter Ones: Folkloric Figures of Winter, Yule, and Christmas

Yule has many customs and traditions, and those practices differ from region to region. One of my favorite aspects of Yule is the amount of figures associated with the festival – folk figures unique to the regions from which they hail. For many people, if you ask them about figures they associate with the Yule season, you’ll hear Father Christmas, Krampus, and maybe even a nod or two to Hans Trapp, but there are so many more Yule figures out there! In this post, we’ll meet a variety of these folk figures, and we’ll learn a bit about their Yule tales. It’s my hope that readers of this blog may find a new way of incorporating beliefs or customs of their ancestors or of their homelands (for our readers who are members of diasporic populations), and that, in doing so, their winter holidays may be even just a bit brighter for it. Now, shall we dive in? Who to meet first…