New Year's Eve

One ancient magical practice that was very powerful was the New Year's Eve fire. On the last day of the year, the ancients realized that anything that was not consciously destroyed on the last day of the year would be brought into the New Year. This included thoughts, habits, patterns, behaviors, illness and negative energy.

The magical ceremony involved the recording all of the negative things that the individual did not want to take into the new year and burning it in a sacred fire. Any fire will do. So make a list of all of the things you want to leave behind and burn it on New Year's Eve. When you feed it to the fire, hold the intention in your mind that all attachments to the "thing" be destroyed by the fire.

The symbolism of the fire is easy to understand, it is like the sun which turns all negativity into light. The fire will do the same. Advanced practitioners don't even have to write it down, they simply form the intention that all negativity be feed to the fire and it is automatically transformed by the fire.

This is much more powerful that simply writing down a New Year's resolution. Good luck!