Posts From Elena Shuwany
Oh, what a magnificent array of opportunities opens before us today! And the Magical Door calls on us not to miss a single one. Of course, at some point you’ll need to choose — where to direct your attention, which actions or decisions suit you best, and which paths feel most exciting and fulfilling for you personally. But with such a powerful surge of energy as today brings, you can
Today, new meanings, new understanding, and new hope are born. After yesterday’s “and the wisdom to tell one from the other,” there is a desire to exhale—and inhale again. To stop endlessly digging into ourselves, searching for meanings, and trying to figure out what is right and what is wrong. To stop fighting with ourselves and with the world—and simply live. And the Magical Door opens this possibility for us.
Today stirs old wounds. Despite the pre-holiday mood—or perhaps because of it—we more often feel a longing for past moments, people, and hopes that were once dear to our hearts. As we take stock now, we look back not only on the passing year, but—due to a large karmic shift—on the decade as a whole, and especially its last three years, which have been leading us toward this main Door.
The upcoming pre-holiday week feels like a delicate bridge between ending and beginning, a moment when the year seems to pause on an inhale before a new exhale. We are leaving the final days of the old cycle behind while already touching the first threads of the future. I’ve already written about the traditions of Yuletide, where each of its days carries the matrix of one of the months of