#47: Adieu, adieu. To You and You and You
Rituals for Transition
I was just taking my final *everything shower* of 2024 (Highly recommend ritualizing your last shower/bath of the year. Slough off that dead skin! Use a new bar of soap! Replace your shower head filter to enter the new year the squeakiest of squeaky clean! It’s as real as you make it.) and had the overwhelming desire to send y’all a little missive.
I haven’t drank a LICK of alcohol in three years as of today, and this small but mighty community is a big reason why.
Talking about LiFe’S mYsTeriEs is the reason I’m on this rock hurtling through space, and I knew that if this profession was going to sustain me…quite frankly, I had to stop being so drunk.
So here I am, bright eyed and bushy tailed looking at you with the biggest heart eyes emoji. Thanks for booking readings, thanks for reading my newsletter, thanks for shopping my Etsy. In 2025 TBH Magic will celebrate its 5th birthday!
Ok ok enough with the mushy stuff— there’s a few magical things I wanted to share to support you in this little year end/year begin portal. First of all, look at what my dining table currently looks like:
Things are WITCHYYYY over HERE. And while I truly don’t believe that time is linear, I can also appreciate that billions of people are currently acknowledging the switching of the calendar year, which therefore creates a lot of pulpy (pulpy?) energy for us to harness.
If you’ve been debating doing a spread for the year ahead *this is your sign* to jump in and pull some cards. It’s one of my favorite ways to tap into my intuition because it (Tarot cards) ~literally~ make the magical mundane. They are just pieces of paper with pictures on them! And somehow……..MAGICAL and SPARKLY and so much more than pieces of paper.
If you don’t have Tarot cards, don’t want to work with Tarot cards, etc. etc. etc. there are many other fun ways to ponder and prepare for 2025.
COLLECTIVE NUMEROLOGY
Using numerology, 2024 was a “Strength” year (this is the 8th Major Arcana card). Yes, ok, bringing up Tarot again. Even if you know nothing about the practice, this card is pretty straightforward. We all needed/had/pursued STRENGTH this year. Quite often, I find that this card surfaces when we face difficult things and Strength with a capital S is a valuable resource to navigating it. We typically discover we’re much stronger than we thought.
Ponder what was difficult this year. When were you strong? When were you forced to be? Remember that being strong/accessing your strength doesn’t also mean that you weren’t terrified/sad/anxious/bored etc. etc. etc. at the same time.
2025, comparatively, is a HERMIT year (cheering with all the other introverts) and is giving big cave energy™. I actually visited some caves back in August, of which I will now share a photo for inspo:
The Hermit card is all about accessing inner wisdom and becoming your own best teacher. This can bring up varied emotions. Some people think caves (which might also look like alone time) are cozy and safe, while other people think they’re dark and scary. Maybe they’re both at different times. Or at the same time!
If you’re looking for a journal prompt for some intention setting, free associate about caves and reference it throughout the upcoming year.
PERSONAL NUMEROLOGY
This one is pretty wild. I’ve watched it play out year after year in my own life with pretty on the nose results. Add up your birth month and day with the current year then reduce the numbers to a single digit to reveal your “personal year number".” These numbers go in nine year cycles, 1-9, and represent big themes of our life, over and over and over. The more you practice magic the more you might find it…practical?
I’ll use my triple Gemini sister as an example for 2025 (you’re welcome in advance, Casey). She was born on June 8th.
6 + 8 + 2 + 0 + 2 + 5 = 23 = 2 + 3 = 5 personal year
5 is all about FREEEEEDOM! There is a lot of change indicated with a 5 year and travel and adventure are likely to be big areas of focus. And while I don’t often see numerologists connect these dots, I like to think about the houses of the birth chart for these numbers too. The 5th house rules creativity, romance, and children.
Take a minute to calculate your personal year number and see if the themes associated align with where you think you’re headed (free note: there will be surprises either way).
ASTROLOGY
I talk to my clients ad naseum about profection years and while some may be sick of hearing it— here I shall continue!!!
Profection years are a magical timing technique in astrology. They can help uncover themes that you (and everyone else at your same age) will be working through. My favorite example right now is Taylor Swift, who just entered a 12th house profection year (age 35) days after her completing her ERA DEFINING tour. 35 year olds the world over are less in the spotlight than other points in their life. They might seem more elusive than normal— and that’s because they’re in the process of some deep shedding.
Google a “profection year chart” and find the age(s) you’ll navigate in 2025. Learn about the themes associated with that house within your own chart. Bonus points for tapping into the ruler of that house to discover the planetary energy guiding your year.
Ok, that’s it for now. I hope these techniques will feel supportive for you in this end of year/beginning of year transition. If there’s one overarching theme I would call out for all of us in 2025…it’s that we will recognize the need to save ourselves. The Aries area (all about individuation and solo pursuits) of all of our birth charts will be a hot bed for renewed energy. Our wildest dreams might suddenly become grounded in reality. What will we do, personally, when that happens? Does imagining that make you excited or afraid? Or both? What does that say about you?
Ok, OK, I’m off to go eat my LAST CROISSANT OF 2024. Beaming lots of loving pink light your way.
Through time and space,
Erin River Sunday
3 years sober.. wow! I am so proud of you. Also excited for my year of FREEEEEDOM. <3