episode 30: 2025–2026 Ritual Threshold: Part 1 - Gather the Good
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Episode 31. 2025–2026 Ritual Threshold: Part 2 — Release, Liberate, Unbind
Episode 32. 2025–2026 Ritual Threshold: Part 3 - The Mystery, Honoring Ancestors, & the Power of Receiving
Episode 33. 2025–2026 Ritual Threshold: Part 4 — Drawing Down the Mystery & Planting Your Year
This first of four end-of-year reflections offers a warm, spacious ritual to help you close out 2025, honor your growth, and set the energetic foundation for your 2026 intentions. Pause. Re-member yourself. Let the good you lived this year rise to meet you. This episode is for anyone who wants to fully savor their year, dive deep into self-reflection, and enter the new year refreshed and intentional.
Here’s the episode outline:
Why we begin year-end ritual work by reflecting on the ‘good’
Achiever’s amnesia, negativity bias, and how they distort self-perception
Self-inquiry prompts for your 2025 highlights, peace, courage, and potential
Simple water, earth, fire, and air rituals to integrate your insights
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Summer Journaling Questions
1. My highlight reel this year - Name 10 things this year
Double dare - 1 minute dance party for each highlight
2. What brought me peace this year?
Helpful allies, supporting cast. Notice im not asking what you liked. I’m asking what brought you peace.
First identify the word peace and how it feels in your body
3. What required my courage this year? Where did I show it?
4. What went well this year?
5. Where were seeds of potential sown this year?
Try not to repeat what you wrote above or if you did write more specifically
6. What did I learn this year? What’s the wisdom I gained this year?
7. 3 things I appreciate about my year
Active Rituals
Fire/Wind Ritual Ideas
Burn it with the intention of sending the smoke like a prayer
Burn it and rub the ashes on yourself
Collect ashes and make an anointing oil with them
Water Ritual
Charge your water with your good
Earth Ritual
Write it on seed paper and bury it
until next time,
may you see the dignity of your 2025, deepen it, learn from it, and turn it into fertilizer for all your years to come
Dilshad
Hello! I’m Dilshad.
An Intuitive Guide & Ritualist.
For close to 10 years, I’ve helped people know their bespoke power & navigate this complex world we live in with dignity.
My work integrates spiritual insight, release work, emotional & mind coaching, & practical planning.
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