The closer we move toward the Winter Solstice, the more clearly we feel the shift in rhythm. The first week of December promises several new influences and, with them, the closing of certain doors. The overall tone of the week is favorable, so you don’t need to brace for sudden troubles dropping out of nowhere.

As the energies shift so actively, we’re also pushed to readjust, so we can move with this supportive current rather than get stuck in old vibrations. This week calls for a redistribution of resources, attention to where your energy is leaking, clarity on which projects still matter, and which ones should now be handed over or released entirely. If finishing complicated tasks feels unrealistic without overwhelming yourself, it’s wise to look for allies — helpers, partners, people who can share the workload.

💰 This theme naturally leads us to a review of how we’ve handled the fruits of our efforts over the past cycle — what we’ve integrated, and what we’ve discarded as unnecessary or obstructive to entering the new year with confidence in our direction.

If in recent months you’ve gained an important insight, lesson, or decision, now is the time to implement it in everyday life. Not to store it away as a “someday” idea, but to weave it into your days through real actions. Actions — not thoughts — are the key to transition now.

For example, if you parted ways with someone or something during this period but keep drifting back to the past in your mind, now is the moment to clearly state: this no longer has a place in my life, and start building your reality based on its absence — whether it’s a person, a job, a plan, or anything else.

🪶 Or the opposite: if recent transformations showed you that you once let go of something important too hastily — out of fear, exhaustion, or lack of strength — now is the perfect time to reclaim it. But consciously, from a grounded and matured inner position.

Having reviewed and reinterpreted the year — perhaps even the past several years — sift through the memories and dreams that remain in your heart like beads on a frayed, ancient thread.

Recall those old aspirations you abandoned not because they were no longer needed, but because you doubted your abilities or weren’t ready to change your life at that moment. Maybe at the time you lacked emotional, financial, or other resources. Choose the bright beads that still hold meaning and string them onto a new, solid thread — and discard the old ones firmly, but with gratitude.

What matters most now is closing doors fully — making final decisions that remove the exhausting state of being “neither here nor there,” thinking one thing but doing another. Limbo drains more energy than any change ever could.

© Elena Shuwany