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01/29/2026

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01/02/2026

01/02/2026

This blessing honors New Year’s Day as a sacred threshold, acknowledging the breath, lessons, ancestors, and community that accompany us into a new cycle. It invites renewal, courage, and wonder as guiding practices for the year ahead, framing love as the steady thread that leads us from one unfolding moment to the next. Its significance lies in grounding the turning of the year not in resolutions, but in relationship, to self, kin, spirit, and the path yet to come.

© DailyShaman/CM 2026

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“On this first dawn of the year,
we honor the breath that carries us forward,
the lessons the old year placed in our hands,
the ancestors whose wisdom still lights our path,
and the circle of kin and kindred who walk beside us now.
May renewal be our prayer,
may courage be our practice,
may wonder be our medicine,
and may love be the thread that guides us,
from threshold to threshold,
from dream to dawn.”

01/02/2026

This reminds us that while the calendar urges us to start fresh in January, the natural world is still in a phase of deep rest. Its significance lies in validating the instinct to slow down, turn inward, and honor winter’s quieter rhythm instead of forcing growth. It invites a gentler, more nature‑aligned understanding of beginnings, one that starts in the roots before it ever reaches the bloom.

Shamanic Journey Invitation:
“In the quiet of winter’s deep rest, what wisdom do the roots of my being want to show me about the beginnings that are forming unseen?”

This question invites you to journey into the hidden, gestating places within yourself to discover the subtle beginnings that are taking shape beneath the surface long before they bloom.

© DailyShaman/CM 2026

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“The calendar may shout ‘begin,’ but the Earth whispers ‘rest.’ In winter’s stillness, we don’t rush to bloom, we tend the roots, dream the seeds, and trust the slow magic of becoming.

01/02/2026

Happy New Year thoughts

The first day of the year arrives like a quiet pause in the turning of time—a moment suspended between what has ended and what has not yet begun. The hours feel stretched and unmeasured; the world holds its breath, and even the smallest movement seems to echo.

Shadows of the old year linger in frost and still air, while the new year waits—unseen but present—just beyond the horizon. Some call this the Day Between Breaths: a gentle in-between where possibility pulses slowly, tender and alive.

On this day, the world itself seems to listen. Rivers move more quietly, trees hold their frozen branches in stillness, and even the wind softens to a low murmur. If you wander through the woods at dawn, you might notice faint impressions in the frost—paths never taken, chances not yet arrived—and tiny glimmers of light hovering just above the ground.

The first day of the year is not a starting line. It is a pause—a soft exhale between what has been and what is quietly forming. In these earliest hours, the veil between what is and what could be feels thinnest. You may glimpse the shimmer of an unwalked path, hear the faint voice of intention, or feel time slow until it matches your own breath.

Here, there is no urgency. No resolving. Only noticing. Let your thoughts drift like snow settling on bare branches, like light resting on a frost-lined windowpane. Allow your heart to remember its own rhythm. The air itself feels alive, carrying subtle guidance, gentle encouragement, and the hush of hidden magic.

Step slowly, or remain still. Breathe with the day. Listen for what stirs within. The first day is not about doing—it is about being. And in being here, you honor the unseen, the tender, and the quietly waiting possibilities of the year to come.

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12/18/2025

Oregon Only Stones: 🌟 Oregon Jade (green chalcedony) and Common Opal $20, Found in OR, polished by hand, wrapped in woven copper.

12/18/2025

Oregon Only Stones: 🌟 Banded Agate $20, Found in OR, polished by hand, wrapped in woven silver.