episode 32: 2025–2026 Ritual Threshold: Part 3 - The Mystery, Honoring Ancestors, & the Power of Receiving
This second installment of the 2025–2026 Ritual Threshold is a potent year-end release ritual designed to help you let go of what 2025 asked you to carry. This is the autumn of your ritual year—cooler, barer, wiser—where you acknowledge the hurt, reclaim integrity, and make space for a more potent 2026.
Here’s the episode outline:
How release work interrupts repetition compulsion
Five deep year-end reflection prompts for emotional clarity
A 'past life' letter ritual for closure and renewal
A naming ritual to facilitate integration & liberation
Fire and water release rituals to help you let go
Reference: Amanda Owen - Power of Receiving
Receptive states:
Meditating
Allowing
Noticing
Including
Appreciating
Listening
Watching
Revealing
Yielding
Hearing
Observing
Opening
Embracing
Relaxing
Welcoming
Contemplating
Revealing
Accepting
Letting be
Being
Attracting
Feeling
Letting go
Grateful
Acknowledging
Active states:
Analyzing
Influencing
Defining
Pushing
Building
Going after
Talking
Promoting
Judging
Holding
Doing
Hiding
Investigating
Multitasking
Exploring
Thinking
Acting
Forcing
Controlling
Persuading
Shaping
Informing
Performing
Evaluating
PART 1: Awareness of Current Levels of Receptivity
10 ways I'm comfortable receiving
10 ways I'm a little uncomfortable receiving
10 ways I'm very uncomfortable receiving
PART 2: Blood & Bones
Build an ancestor gratitude altar with all your ancestors who you can thank for the life you have
PART 3: Sleep Rituals
Pay attention to your dreams for this week
Or/and do before bed rituals for a week. Candle, magnesium supplements, body anointing with the oil from part 1, lotion
PART 4: Mystery of Surrendered Hands
Ball up your fists tightly. Let them open slowly.
Imagine the thing
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
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