Hey friends! This month I’m doing a couple of overview posts before kicking off weekly magic updates starting in January.
This is a busy time of year for the planning business and I’m working hard to get some amazing new content ready for next year. But the good news is that there are nine days in December that I will be using to get myself ready for January.
Here are three of them for you to incorporate into your own planning:
Today, December 5th, Mercury squares Jupiter with the Sun in Sagittarius on a day for increase. This is a great day to get your budget ready for the coming year. I do a full budget review at least annually, including:
Checking on all my subscriptions and bills
Creating my budget for the next year
Rebalancing investments and setting savings goals
Creating / reviewing auto savings and bill pay
To spice up all this practical stuff, this would be a great day for budget magic:
Talismans for wealth and prosperity
Sigils for income, free stuff, discounts
Protection spells for your property (including your accounts)
Blessing for health for the household (if you are in the US especially, ill health is highly correlated to financial ruin: Health = Wealth)
The 14th is a day for unbinding sorceries. A few times a year, I like to take down household charms and clean them, undo any old enchantments that are no longer needed, and burn a stack of sigils that have served their functions. The end of the year is a perfect time for this kind of cleanup.
There’s a lot of sky action on this day with Mercury trine the North Node / square Chiron and the Sun square Neptune. With the tension between what we say and do (Mercury) with our destiny (NN) and ability to self-heal (Chiron), this is a great day for contract clearing work and ridding ourselves from old obligations that no longer serve us as we rid ourselves of stale enchantment. The Sun squaring off with Neptune suggests that we shine a light on how things are, rather than our dreams of what we’d like them to be.
In a weird synchronicity, we arranged to have our windows cleaned (we have some really scary high windows that are hard to get to) and they were available on the 14th. So we will be letting more light in literally and magically.
New Years Eve this year is a Saturday with the Sun in Capricorn (and entering the second decan) and trine the North Node. This is a day for family happiness and care of the house, but with the focus on Saturn, I love the idea of beating the bounds and setting new magical protections (shields, prayers, etc.) for your household for the coming year. Now that our son is in University, we have an extended household enchantment model that extends our protections to him in his apartment (with his permissions obv.). I also have this extension model for traveling.
All those household protection charms I cleaned mid month will get a recharge on this day.
Members, there are like six more planning days in December. Look for a members only email for the full list!
so enjoying the substack!
Hello Ivy! Thank you for this amazing content! I'm sure I'll find it very handy in the coming year. .... however.... did you guess that was coming? :)
I live in the near future (i.e. Australia) and it's already Tues 6th December when your email came in, so unfortunately I won't be able to use the info for the 5th. Or should I be shifting all of this info to the next day for the Eastern Hemisphere? Actually, it's been something I've been wondering about in astrology for years. I've tried to find an answer but to no avail.
I know you're very busy at the moment, so I understand if you don't have time to answer my question. I appreciate all the hard work you do and info you share. Blessings of your choice. |°|
Katie.