It’s a New Year! I’m going to keep this answer short and sweet.
There’s no reason to think about challenges right now. All I’m seeing at the moment are opportunities.
Right now, 2024 is a blank slate upon which we can write anything our hearts desire!
Good morning, Happy New Year, and happy Monday, friends!
This past week, aside from Christmas celebrations, Selene and I traveled to Volusia County, Florida to visit the Southern Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp. If you’re not familiar with this interesting little city, basically everyone who lives there is a psychic, medium, or healer.
We went on a ghost hunt, found an energy vortex, explored a fairy trail, got read by a psychic, and participated in an official Cassadaga seance. I had such an interesting time, I’ve actually decided to make an entire video to share the experience.
Of course, I can’t start that project until I finish the Q&A video…
Early access to the Q&A video was uploaded for Patreon supporters. This will soon become Music, Myth, & Magick episode 6. I’m working on the edits and hope to have it out for everyone else this week!
In honor of New Years, I also made a short guitar version of Auld Lang Syne. For maximum entertainment purposes, I was sure to don a silly hat and glasses. If you watch until the end, you’ll see Selene makes her debut in one of my videos.
Selene and I had a fantastic New Years ritual. For the past few years, we’ve made it our tradition to start circle at around 11PM on New Year’s Eve and finish sometime after midnight. It’s about 3AM right now as I’m writing, so we’ve been done for a couple hours. It’s a really interesting experience to welcome the new year in circle — you’re between worlds, your attention and focus are on the astral, where time doesn’t really have any meaning… and when you come back, a whole new year has started! It’s even more interesting to do this for multiple years in a row… kind of makes it seem like time loses some of its power.
We usually come up with some fun prosperity-themed workings to do together. My family never had any sort of New Years traditions, but Selene has told me about plenty of interesting ones from her family, including running around the block with luggage to manifest travel and eating twelve grapes to bless each month of the incoming year. It was fun to read this slightly tweaked grape ritual by Ivo Dominguez Jr, where he incorporates each of the zodiac signs.
I hope you have a fantastic 2024, filled with blessings of health, wealth, and joy in every conceivable way. May you find fulfillment, contentment, and purpose! So mote it be!
Do you have any interesting habits, rituals, or traditions for New Years? If so, I’d love to hear about it! Let me know in the comments.
Aerik Arkadian 
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