Awakening Acts

01/02/2026

Renewal, courage and wonder♥️

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

Text on image:
“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.”

12/28/2025

So true

Chaos often comes before clarity.
When life shakes you, it can feel cruel and unfair. Everything you trusted may seem to fall apart at once—plans, relationships, certainty, even your sense of self. But storms are not sent to destroy you.

They arrive to rebuild you.

Every storm strips away what was weak, false, or no longer aligned with who you are becoming. It forces you to let go of illusions, comforts, and attachments that were quietly holding you back. What remains after the storm is not less—it is truer.

🌧️ Storms don’t come to stay.
They come to pass.

They wash away what no longer serves you.
They clear the path you couldn’t see before.
They teach you resilience, patience, and trust in yourself.

In the middle of the storm, all you can do is endure.
After the storm, you understand.

You see what really matters.
You see who really matters.
You see how strong you actually are.

So when life feels chaotic, remember this:
clarity is forming beneath the noise.
Growth is happening beneath the struggle.

Hold on. Breathe. Stay grounded.

🌱 Every storm leaves the ground cleaner, the air clearer, and the roots deeper.

And so do you.

12/27/2025

Ask Mother Earth and the Ancestors to bless you

This blessing asks the ancestors and the living earth to cradle you during the final days of the year, easing burdens that have settled in your body and rekindling warmth where your spirit has felt chilled. It also invites subtle, soul-level blessings, carried by moonlight, animal messengers, and the deep stillness of winter to arrive gently and support your renewal.

© DailyShaman 2025

Text on Image:
“May the last week of the year
be held by the ancestors and the earth, soften what’s been heavy in your bones, warm what’s been cold in your spirit, and bring quiet blessings carried by moonlight, owl wings, and the stillness of winter roots.”

12/21/2025

Go within; in solitude find gratitude and renew your hope!

A Winter Solstice Blessing

The winter solstice is a sacred time,
infused with quiet magic and returning light.
It is a moment when the universe, in its infinite kindness,
awakens our hearts to tender and brighter possibilities,
rekindling the light of hope within our souls
as a new cycle of light slowly begins.

In this holy pause between darkness and dawn,
we are invited to release,
to loosen our grip on old patterns, heavy sorrows,
and lingering wounds that we may continue to carry.
With open hands and gentle hearts,
we step forward,
cradling the promise of brighter, more hopeful beginnings.

May all who have known loss or disappointment
find comfort in this peaceful turning.
May the light, though small at first,
guide us faithfully through the darkest days,
reminding us that even the longest night
must yield to morning.

As we give thanks for all that has nourished us,
every lesson, every kindness, every tenderness
that shaped our year,
we honor the path that brought us here.
And in gratitude,
we begin again,
walking onward with renewed hope,
gentle anticipation,
and the quiet courage
to welcome the year ahead.

~ 'A Winter Solstice Blessing' by Spirit of a Hippie

✍️ Mary Anne Byrne

~ Art Unknown via Pinterest

12/01/2025

It’s all about intention 🙏💜

December will be the best month.. 🙏

11/01/2025

Samhain ready!😀

10/25/2025

We are LIGHT remembering itself.

Science has discovered that all living beings emit faint visible light—a biophotonic glow that vanishes at death. This subtle luminescence, invisible to the naked eye, reveals that life itself radiates energy, harmony, and consciousness. It is the silent pulse of creation within every cell.

Every heartbeat, every breath, generates photons through metabolic processes. Yet beneath the biology lies something even more profound: a light that mirrors the ancient teachings of the soul. Across cultures, sages spoke of an “aura,” the luminous body of spirit. Science now touches the edge of this mystery with modern tools.

These biophotons are more than byproducts of life—they are communication signals, connecting cells through frequencies of light. The body does not merely live; it shines. The same divine intelligence that animates stars flickers within us, whispering that existence is radiant at every scale.

When the body dies, this glow fades—not as disappearance, but as transition. The energy does not end; it changes form, moving beyond visible spectrum into realms unseen. What remains is essence, eternal and expansive.

This phenomenon bridges the measurable and the mystical, the physical and the spiritual. It reminds us that the boundaries between science and soul are thinner than we imagine.

To live consciously is to brighten that light—to let awareness and love increase the radiance that life already carries within. Every act of kindness, every moment of gratitude, amplifies that glow.

We are not beings seeking light; we are light remembering itself.

10/23/2025

Autumn thoughts…🙏🧡

As time goes by,
You will loosen your grip on that rock,
The one you always thought was home,
And you will realise that home is not a place,
It’s a state of mind.
Let it go.

As times goes by,
You will learn to see yourself more clearly,
The girl who was always too much of one thing,
And too little of another, was actually
Everything she needed to be.
Let her out.

As time goes by,
You will let the simple things become the big,
And you will allow the big things to become the simple,
And that readjustment will be,
The day you really start to live,
Let it be.

As time goes by,
You will be forced to say goodbye many times,
And your soft little heart will shatter but,
It will still beat and that will bring you,
All the purpose you need.
Let it beat.

As time goes by,
You will stop choosing wealth over peace,
You will stop choosing money over time,
And you will see that the treasures you need,
Are in the smiles and the laughter.
Let them in.

As times goes by,
The moments you remember when your life flashes past,
Are never the awful memories my friend, it’s the joy,
The summer nights, the lazy days with loved ones,
The midnight chats and the morning hugs,
Let them happen.

Let them all happen.

Donna Ashworth
📗: Joy Chose You

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