Posts From Elena Shuwany

Getting Ready to Celebrate Yule

🌟 With just one week until the Winter Solstice, it’s the perfect time to start preparing actively! 🌟 Preparing for Yule is similar to preparing for the secular New Year—cleaning and decorating your home, preparing delicious meals, making wishes, exchanging gifts, and enjoying festive days. However, Yule also has its unique rituals and traditions, sacred and meaningful, that were often lost as the holiday became more secular. If we want

Annual Spread: “12 Wishes”

🎉 As the New Year approaches, it’s a tradition to make wishes—whether by tossing notes into a glass of champagne, hanging them on the tree, or sharing them with a stranger at a crossroads. There are countless ways to make a wish and wonder if it will come true in the upcoming year! The year often surprises us by fulfilling the most unexpected or unconscious desires. To uncover which wishes

Magical Door for Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Opportunity, probability, potential, chance. These four simple words hold the power to transform our lives like nothing else. Yet, a simple fear of the new and unknown—of change itself—can turn an opportunity into an illusion, a probability into a faint hope, and a chance into a chimera. As the Winter Solstice approaches, it feels as though we are being transported to another world—one more comfortable and magical, where the conditions

Practice: “Desires”

🎄 This week, and indeed throughout this month, we are reflecting on our desires. Recall and write down all the wishes you made for 2024. Which of them have fallen away over time? Which have remained the same? Which have transformed? What desires stand out as the most vivid and relevant to you now? 🦋 It can be helpful to explore what each of your desires means to you in

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