Hello all!
It has been a minute, as I had many festivities over the Yule time. January is a great time to rest and replenish from festivities—which I am trying to practice. For Nordic pagans in particular, this time of rest is important as it is a great time to integrate and reflect on all the lessons learned from fall to winter rituals.
I find that some ritual messages can come to you later after the ceremony is finished. This can be a good reason why it is good to set aside time after rituals/ceremonies, allowing yourself to have space receive. This space also allows all the energy to have balanced time to rise, express, and descend. In this descend time is where we can receive more messages from our gods, entities, and guides.
Maybe you did the work at the fire and released everything you needed to, yet you still need to sit with all the change and chaos that has shifted within. Ritual can be very viscerally intense, moving many parts, and expecting to get an immediate clear message from source can diminish the actual weight of the process. Trust the process, yet co-create with the process by providing it space to fruit, and harvest that.
For non-pagan folks, January is still a great time to rest from all the big changes through the Winter season, cyclical death bringing cyclical rebirth causing a lot of internal/external chaos (metaphysically/socially/physically). Seasonal shifts can cause a rise in illness, so now is an extra great time to fix that sleep schedule!
I recommend to folks who struggle with sleep to make some sort of sleep ritual—setting yourself up for a successful holistic sleep. Putting intention or a spell on an animistic object (for practitioners, use a sigil here) underneath your pillow, first smoke cleanse the object before bed, you can whisper to this object “I will have a full sleep tonight” or “I am fully rested.” It is very important to cleanse the object before bed every night, along with cleansing your room before bed. Deep breathe yourself to sleep and continue this meditation into sleep. If breathing alone feels difficult, look up a guided sleep meditation—there are so many on youtube!
Some other helpful sleep aids: Remove all blue light 2 hours before bed, read a book to bed—not your phone, audiobook to sleep (Norse Mythology by Neil Gaimen), chamomile tea.
I plan to do more posts soon of my perspectives and my latest Pagan snow shoot.
🐺 Get some rest—Skål!
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