January Is Not a Time of Change
This year, let’s meet January differently.
Not as a battleground for new goals, big resolutions, or fierce transformation.
January is the in-between — soft, slow, muted — before any great unfolding.
The pause just after the last breath of the old year — not yet the inhale of the new.
And please, let’s stop clinging to resolutions, to big plans, to declarations of who we *must* become.
January doesn’t want that.
January wants you to slow down with it.
There’s an impatience in our culture — whispering that January should be about action, ambition, reinvention. But that’s not the season’s energy. January sits in the deep winter, in the roots of things, in the small dark underworld where seeds rest and dreams gather strength.
January is not the new “start.”
It is the stillness before the stirrings.
It is the space where we learn how to enter the new year slowly, not through accomplishment, but through presence.
Deep Winter, Deep Listening
We are still in winter — the long, dark season when the world contracts, and the earth draws inward.
But in our culture, stillness is often mistaken for stagnation.
Here is a radical idea: stillness is a season.
And in January, our nervous systems are asking for less doing and more becoming.
Rest is not a fallback plan.
It is the foundation of every future spark.
Sleep.
Dream.
Slow your breath.
Don’t rush toward clarity yet.
The In-Between Time
If we listen to Celtic and Pagan rhythms, January isn’t the start of anything yet.
It’s liminal — threshold time.
Just as dusk isn’t night, and dawn isn’t day, January is neither the old year nor the new.
It’s the moment between heartbeats, where life is held softly in suspension.
In Celtic calendars, we wait for Imbolc, when first hints of light return, when the land begins to stir.
We wait until the year truly turns.
Because until then, all of this — this resting, this dreaming — is the real work.
The land doesn’t rush.
The body doesn’t rush.
And neither should we.
January feels like compost time — unseen, deep, quiet.
Here, in the womb-time of the year, roots are knitting beneath dark soil.
Here, nothing looks like progress, yet everything is becoming.
Lunar and Eastern Cycles: The Year Hasn’t Turned Yet
If we look to other ancient rhythms, we see January isn’t expected to be the defining moment.
The Chinese calendar waits.
The year does not truly begin until Lunar New Year — which this year arrives later, still within the embrace of winter.
We are in the Year of the Snake — the year of shedding old skin, of letting go, of completion rather than initiation.
Snake time reminds us that release comes first, and only then can returning be possible.
We are still ending something.
And after this finishing, the Fire Horse follows — a year of movement, fire, embodiment, momentum.
But that energy hasn’t reached us yet.
Now is preparation — the quiet clearing before the heat.
What we do not rest into now… We will burn through later.
We Are Still in Winter
Winter isn’t about sweeping transformations.
It’s not about announcing who you’ll be.
It’s about letting your nervous system soften,
About deep rest, deep sleep, and deep revival.
In winter, the world contracts.
Trees fold their leaves in.
Seeds huddle underground.
The breath turns inward.
This is not deficiency.
This is containment — a sacred holding before the turning of the wheel.
So here’s the thing: today’s world pulls us in every direction.
But right now — in January — your nervous system is asking for only one thing: to be soothed.
Soft breath.
Slow exhale.
The sensation of your feet on the earth.
This is January’s medicine.
Something Else Is Shifting — Even Beyond Earth
And if you’ve been feeling… off lately — unexplained fatigue, irritability, fogginess, restless sleep — you’re not alone.
The Sun has been unusually active, releasing powerful solar flares and coronal mass ejections — bursts of energy hurtling through space toward Earth that can stir up our planet’s magnetic field.
These aren’t just data points for scientists.
There’s emerging evidence that when Earth’s magnetic field fluctuates, it can subtly influence our circadian rhythms, our mood, and our nervous systems — especially for people who are sensitive to energy shifts.
So if you’re waking up in the middle of the night, restless.
If your thoughts feel louder than usual.
If your body feels like it’s rewiring itself while you sleep — this January may be asking you to feel before you explain.
Even science is starting to notice that geomagnetic storms can influence sleep patterns and mood — and that means what we often dismiss as “feeling weird” might actually be your nervous system adjusting to shifts in the field we all share.
You’re not imagining it.
You’re feeling it.
This Is Not Random — It’s Timing
The Sun is near its peak of activity in this solar cycle — which means more energetic fluctuations than in years past.
Scientists watch this with instruments, but we feel it with our bodies.
It’s as if the cosmos is nudging us out of autopilot and into awareness — not to rush us forward, but to slow us down enough to notice our internal terrain.
This is not chaos.
This is initiation.
But not the kind that demands productivity.
The kind that asks for presence.
So What Do We Do Right Now?
We let our nervous systems calm.
We resist the urge to plan big.
We let our bodies integrate the subtle energy around us.
We sleep more.
We breathe deeper.
We give ourselves permission to be still.
We let January be January.
Because in the stillness, something powerful is happening:
You are emerging into yourself — not the self you should become, but the one that’s always been here, waiting to be noticed.
You are shedding old skin, like a snake.
Not with force — but with slow, quiet release.
A Gentle Whisper — Not a Push Forward
Let this time be a soft ritual of surrender.
Not resignation — but restoration.
Not forgetting your dreams — but beckoning them gently closer.
Lie in the quiet.
Stay with the dark.
Stay with the breath.
Stay with the dream that moves slowly in cavernous silence.
Feel your nervous system soften.
Listen to the unspoken currents inside you.
January invites you to rest into devotion to your body, your nervous system, and your inner world.
Let January be the pause before your fire returns.
We are still finishing.
We are still shedding.
We are still becoming.
There is nothing to decide right now.
There is nothing you must do.
Because the year isn’t starting yet.
The year is still dreaming you.
And in this dream of winter — you are exactly where you are meant to be.
I believe that is all for today.
I would be so happy to hear from you.
If this spoke to your heart, I’d love for you to share it with a sister, a friend, a fellow Goddess on the path.
I send, as always, love, light and gratitude.
Isaya