Incoming: 2026

Infuse your home with intentions 

in preparation for the new calendar year.

Cleansing

Clean with purpose. Not just picking up and basic sweeping. Rid things that bring negativity. Organize with function in mind, rather than aesthetic. Cleanse the atmosphere as well as your mind. Rid yourself of negative thoughts, stressors, and anxiety. Focus on your end goals and hopes for the future.

Grounding

Ground yourself. Meditate on the goals you will achieve in the coming year. Not just goals you want to make - verbiage is important. Speak their success into existence. Instead of saying "I will be more organized," speak it as if you have already achieved it: "I AM organized." 

Charging

Charge your space. Push your determination and the strength of your intentions and goals into your home. Visualize this in your mind to help you. Your energy is what is in control; infuse that positive energy into the items in your home, and into your home itself. Your home is a living, breathing entity. It feeds off your energy, your power, your magic. Feed it positivity and strength. 

Purposefully Using

Function in your home with intent. Speak on every small step towards your goal. "I am doing this so that I will achieve..." and "I am achieving this intention by doing this." Remember to thank your home for holding your positivity and strength throughout the year. Be mindful of what kind of energy you allow to grow and feed your home. If you bring negativity in, make sure you sweep it back out. Keep your home not just physically clean, but mentally clean, with the energy you want to maintain.

This is also a great time to use the above template to help organize your goals and intentions. I first saw this template used by Witchy Words (a blog long since privatized, despite being absolutely amazing and informative....I truly miss WW). I decided to make my own version, and released it back in 2015. I have used this exact template personally every year since. It helps me stay organized and connected to my spirituality as I live day to day, with my goals in mind. If you find it helps you as well, feel free to use it: a conveniently placed blank template.

I haven't filled mine out yet. It will something I work on for the next few days, and will possibly share with you readers - I haven't decided.

If you're looking for some guidance on how to use this, I did a big detailed post about it back in 2022: Hello 2022 and despite that year being entirely too complicated, this is still probably the best in depth breakdown of how I use the template. I did change to order of the goals, as I was tired of the whiny complaints I get every year about how people don't like the order I use it. No, it wasn't in the correct order. But it was in the order I felt was best organized for my own mind, and in reality, this blog is more for me than anyone else. So I didn't cater to you, readers (especially those over on Pinterest, where most of the whining comes from). This year, for the sake of my own mental capacity, I felt the whining would be more detrimental to me than maintaining the order I've used this template in for over a decade....you're welcome I guess? I could go on and on about the irony of the backlash I consistently get around my practice, but it isn't worth the energy. I have more important things to do than breakdown why people choose to be awful, and that isn't energy I want to carry into the new calendar year. We are in winter, and winter is for rest and recovery. Part of that is letting things die so that beautiful new things can grow come spring. 

You may also see a new version of this template over on the other blog: SamhainGirl the Kink Witch.  If you know, you know....