The energies of this week are unfolding in the most astonishing way: it’s still quite a while before the Yule enchantments, and yet the dark season is already telling its own tales — offering strange (and strangely beautiful) gifts and opportunities.

The dark time is honest — brutally honest, even — and its stories carry that raw, unvarnished truth. They echo the old Grimm fairytales, where every gift demands a return, and every chance carries a price.

🦋 The Magical Door today opens through understanding and accepting these rules. The day overflows with incredible opportunities — they’re practically showering down on us — and you could gather a whole basketful if you wished. Yet, to use them fully, to bring them into life and make them real, one must be ready for “sacrifice.”

At times, it may feel almost painful, as if we’re losing a part of ourselves — a “leg,” a “face,” a piece of who we thought we were. But in truth, it’s our illusions that we are offering up — shedding false paths, peeling away long-ingrown masks. And it is entirely our choice: to keep nurturing the comfortable mirages or to lay them upon the altar of new life, opening the road to greater gifts from the Heavens.

May all doors open for you!
© Elena Shuwany