January Affirmation: I release memories and pain from the past and
welcome a new beginning in the New Year.
We continue our soul journey through the major Arcana with the Chariot. The Chariot symbolizes forward motion, which is a perfect energy for the beginning of the New Year. But before we can move forward, we need to reflect on the past and any regrets that might block our continued forward progress.
In these first days of the New Year, find a quiet space to go within and connect with your inner soul. Let yourself feel any pain, any anxiety, any regret that you have stored from the experiences of the past year. Revisit the circumstances that created these feelings and if you’re ready, release them and let them go with a blessing for what they have taught you. Allow the newness of change into your life as you step across the threshold of the New Year.
As you move forward with the energy of the Chariot, take this opportunity to create your New Year affirmations. I prefer the word “affirmations” to “resolutions”. Reflect on your goals and your purpose for the year ahead and then put them in writing. You can use this as a daily meditation practice, affirming on an ongoing basis your focus and goals as you move forward on your soul journey. Be aware that the two horses of the Chariot can veer in opposite directions. One is often pictured as black, the other white, which highlights the challenge of keeping the energy flowing forward into the Light and avoiding the pitfalls of doubt and fear. Step forward with courage and faith in the future. All will be well.
And remember: “The outcome of the world, the gates of the future, the entry into the super-human – these are not thrown open to a few of the privileged nor to one chosen people to the exclusion of all others. They will open only to an advance of all together, in a direction in which all together can join and find completion in a spiritual renovation of the earth…”
~ Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
O God of Love and Compassion, often we are hardest on ourselves. We live for years with old resentments, old guilts, old anger and frustration. Now it is time to clean house. Heal us at the very depth of our souls. May we release the old baggage that we have carried for so long. Remove the blocks that build walls against loving and being loved. There is so much that we can do here in your world if we have the strength and the courage to walk forward, vulnerable and unafraid. Be our Protection, dear God. May your Light always surround us. May your Love always enfold us. May your Power always protect us, and may your Presence always watch over us. Wherever we journey, you go before us. Thank you, thank you, thank you, God. Alleluia. So it is.
