As we stand at the threshold of the new moon in Capricorn, I, Michelle Orwick, invite you to journey with me into a space of renewal and profound transformation. This isn't merely the turning of a page in the lunar calendar—it's the heralding of a fresh start for the year 2024. As the mercury retrograde draws to a close, we're afforded a precious opportunity to refine our communication, ensuring kindness guides our every word and intention. This week, I'm thrilled to guide you through the spiritual and astrological significance of this celestial event, and share how it aligns with the life-changing practice of Theta Healing, which we'll be exploring in an upcoming class I'm particularly excited about.
In this episode, you'll discover how to leverage the introspective power of the dark moon to crystallize your desires and how to prepare for the positive shifts that lie ahead. The new moon's energy is a potent ally in shedding outdated identities and belief systems that no longer serve us, opening the door to a more peaceful and supported existence. Together, we'll examine which parts of our identity we're ready to release into the ether, and how to embrace the changes necessary for our personal evolution. And of course, I'll be unveiling the transformative potential of the basic Theta Healing class, perfectly timed with the renewing energy of the new moon, to support your journey towards a more supported, clear, and peaceful existence. Join me for an episode that promises to be as enlightening as it is empowering.
As we stand at the threshold of the new moon in Capricorn, I, Michelle Orwick, invite you to journey with me into a space of renewal and profound transformation. This isn't merely the turning of a page in the lunar calendar—it's the heralding of a fresh start for the year 2024. As the mercury retrograde draws to a close, we're afforded a precious opportunity to refine our communication, ensuring kindness guides our every word and intention. This week, I'm thrilled to guide you through the spiritual and astrological significance of this celestial event, and share how it aligns with the life-changing practice of Theta Healing, which we'll be exploring in an upcoming class I'm particularly excited about.
In this episode, you'll discover how to leverage the introspective power of the dark moon to crystallize your desires and how to prepare for the positive shifts that lie ahead. The new moon's energy is a potent ally in shedding outdated identities and belief systems that no longer serve us, opening the door to a more peaceful and supported existence. Together, we'll examine which parts of our identity we're ready to release into the ether, and how to embrace the changes necessary for our personal evolution. And of course, I'll be unveiling the transformative potential of the basic Theta Healing class, perfectly timed with the renewing energy of the new moon, to support your journey towards a more supported, clear, and peaceful existence. Join me for an episode that promises to be as enlightening as it is empowering.
Welcome to Living Magically. This is Michelle Orwick, your host, and this week we have a massive, powerful new moon in Capricorn and we are finishing up this tiny little bit of dark moon and really it's going to feel like the beginning of 2024, but not till later on this week. I wanted to just start a little bit with a thank you for everybody that has sent so many warm wishes and love and, and just briefly, yes, I am doing well, my family is doing well. For those of you who don't know, my mother, kathy Chambers, did, did finally move into spirit on Friday during the Epiphany Portal, and she is. She was an amazing and deep inspiration to me and many others. I love her very much, but I, astrologically speaking, I couldn't have picked a better, more profoundly perfect time for her to move into into the other world and become one of our ancestor spirits, and so I just wanted to thank everybody, but I'm not going to address anything more on this video. I'll make a separate video on my personal page In the meantime.
Michelle Orwick:
This week is literally one of those beautiful portals for release, and we're here. It's Monday when we're recording this, but it could be Tuesday or Wednesday when you're hearing this. There's this final washing away, cleansing and releasing happening. We do that anytime there's a dark moon. That's one of the things that's amazing about astrology you get a new beginning, like a new year's, every single month at the new moon, and in this case we have the first new moon of 2024 on the 1111 portal fairly early in the morning, so you'll have the energy all day long. That means that there's a dark moon happening right now. At the last few days, we will see a shedding with this part of us that is ready to finish any release, any releasing, finish any inner perspective and for manifesting. I like to use these three days of the dark moon to actually set intentions, get, be quiet, be in meditative mode and just kind of go inward, take some time to yourself and get really clear about what you're calling in. And we do have an even better portal coming later in the week, around the 20th and 21st. We're later in the month, around the 21st and 20th of January, when we move out of a retrograde. We have one last retrograde to finish, so there's still a little bit of time.
Michelle Orwick:
There's still mercury shadow, so still be careful with your communication. It's fine to start buying electronics and travel and all those things. Be really careful with your communication. Be really aware of what you say and how it affects others. When you don't know what to do, choose kindness. It's good time for getting clear on your articulation, on what you want, who you want to be in your life and how you want that to really support you. Who's going to support you? How do you want to be supported and how are you supporting others? How are you supporting your own dreams? Sometimes we have to have major endings.
Michelle Orwick:
If you are looking for big transformations and it is a transformation year you must let's go of something to be able to enter into something else. So that's happening right now. What identity are you letting go of? That will bring you to a sense of a deeper piece, a clarity. What identity is no longer serving you? What are old belief systems that are no longer serving you?
Michelle Orwick:
And, of course, my favorite way to do that is actually theta healing, and we're doing the first theta healing class. It's the key class, the basic theta healing class on Friday, saturday and Sunday of this week. So my favorite class, the beginning, the special theta healing class, that is the core. You can't really take any other class until you take basic theta healing. It's a three day seminar Is this weekend, perfectly timed to this new moon. So let's talk about the new moon. The new moon is actually one of those things that I always love. New moon is my favorite day of every month and this week it's on Thursday, which is a day ruled by Jupiter. We're still in the final bits of retrograde for Jupiter. No, jupiter's forward, sorry. We're still in the last bits of retrograde for Uranus. And it's conjuncting this beautiful day, so we have sort of this really extra momentum on Thursday, because it's a power day already.
Michelle Orwick:
You add the new year energy, you add the new moon energy and then you throw in a 111 portal. So it's 111, 111, which makes it actually a double 11 because since it's an eight year and an eight year is so huge, eight is infinite possibilities, infinite abundance. It is also the year of change and the year of karma. What you put out, you will receive. So if you're kind and giving and putting things out into the universe out of love, you will receive things back from the universe with love. It's just a frequency, it's a vibration. So 111 and it then adds up to an 11. So 111 and 2024 ends up being 11 if you add it all up, so it's really just very potent master transformation number. So when you're in alignment, when you're in your truth, when you're in your clarity, it's the perfect day for setting those intentions.
Michelle Orwick:
Intentions then become manifestations out of habit, and action and clarity. We don't get to the main point of the day action and clarity. We don't get to the manifestations if we don't make a decision. The magician's tool is choice. So we make this decision of what we want and then we act as if we already have it. We make all the intentions become reality by anchoring in the doing. So we really get to the doing stage of this month come Thursday. So Thursday and beyond, we are in that two week portal. That is a lovely, lovely, lovely, sweet spot. So we're going to have this opportunity to start anchoring in the energy for the first time of 2024. And it really is a different energy. It has this sense of it's going to be different. It's going to be a wild ride.
Michelle Orwick:
And again, allow yourself to let go and to not be the same, because if you were the same, you wouldn't need to be changed. If you already had what you wanted, you wouldn't need to change, you wouldn't be looking for this thing and usually, when it's something we really, really want, it's our soul telling us what to do next. So get out of the comfort zone. That is part of the part of the energy this week. Get out of your comfort zone, do something new. If you really want to be different by the end of 24, it's time to take aligned, concise, almost radical action. If you want radical change, take radical action. Eliminate the things, the bad habits, eliminate the stories you're telling, eliminate the negative people, eliminate the negative behaviors, and it's inevitable that you will be different, because if you're not doing, thinking and experiencing the negative, you're going to start vibrating higher and that is going to bring you into a new perspective, a new way of being.
Michelle Orwick:
So this is the perfect time at the perfect place. They call it the, sometimes they call it the perfect storm. I'm going to call it the perfect new beginning, the perfect dawn or the perfect awakening. So it is amazing energy we start gaining per, not perspective, but gaining momentum toward this new, new energy for 2024. Truly, I believe you will get a bigger boost at the 20th and 21st, when we have Mercury go out of shadow, when we see all planets are going direct, by the 21st of January, you will see that full moon, the potent January full moon, be really powerful this month. And then you are followed with two full months of no planets in retrograde and we'll move into the year of the dragon on the 10th of February and we'll get that Chinese New Year or that Asian New Year that's going to give us the year of the wood dragon. So really, the combination of an eight year and the combination of astrology in the western eastern astrology finally coming together and you're going to have this year of the dragon wood dragon.
Michelle Orwick:
And if you want to pick a color to work with this year, pick emerald green. It correlates with the abundance of this year, it correlates with the energy of the heart chakra. It's the earth, it's abundance, it's prosperity, it's green summer. So if that is, if you're looking for a color of the year to go with the energy, it is definitely emerald green. In the meantime, I encourage you to write out your, your wishes, your desires, your dreams, your goals. Still a great week for reflecting and it's still an amazing week, especially from Thursday, friday, saturday, to set things into motion, to call in your dreams and your desires. This is the week.
Michelle Orwick:
Now is the time Literally no better time for manifesting, or woman affesting, as they sometimes say. I think manifesting is more about gaining clarity and getting a choice what habits or behaviors or experiences do you no longer want to be part of and associated with, and then getting control of your mind. This is a really it Capricorn allows you. I think the reason why some people are really successful with New Year's resolutions around this time is Capricorn is ruled with Saturn and it is the task master. It is saying just do it. It is saying no more excuses, and I really think that that's part of the year. Right now, it isn't aligned anymore to be your old self. We're being called to a new world. We have this amazing opportunity to be part of New Earth. What does that mean? It means that we are going to align ourselves with the peace.
Michelle Orwick:
One of my words that I'm working with right now for a lot of reasons is the word peace. And just going into a little bit about what's happening with my mom, I can be at peace because on the day that she crossed over, I told her I loved her in the last conversation we had. I didn't wait till another day to say it. I always make it right. So I am at peace with how our relationship was. So if there's anything that you need to do to get to peace and that for me is if there is a relationship that cannot be loving and peaceful, it may need to be moved in your life to a place where it doesn't get as much time and your energy If you're constantly arguing, constantly feeling tension.
Michelle Orwick:
I'm thinking of a very specific friend and client that eliminated, even though she loved them, her sisters, because every conversation was judgment, every conversation made her feel bad. And then later, six months later, after she realized that that brought her peace, she also eliminated a work situation that brought her absolute, just disrespect. And I ask are you really upset that this didn't work out? And the truth is she was so relieved to be out of the negative environment and out of the negative situations that she actually gets to look at what her dreams are. So, dream big, look at your dreams and look at who, what and how someone is stopping them and value those that are really pushing you to look to your dreams. Go for that perspective. Sorry, I have a doggy here and I just stepped on her. So, as we look into our dreams and as we look into our, our choices.
Michelle Orwick:
The astrology this year is really about taking that radical chance, that thing you have been wanting to do. What is stopping you, that thing you have always dreamed of doing. This is the year. Do it now, do it today. My personal motto for the year is today, not tomorrow. That really follows the astrology, especially this first six months.
Michelle Orwick:
We will have an eclipse cycle in April. We will have another one in the fall, but we have a great American eclipse this year In April. We will have a few years ago we had a full visual solar eclipse. We will have another one of those in April. It is a catalyst, anytime we have these kind of eclipses, for change. I think that this is a good time for you to I'm sorry she's trying to get out the door it's a good time for you to really check what kind of change do you want to be in this world? What kind of change do you want in your own world? How are you going to do that? It's never going to be by staying the same, doing the same things and never changing. A little bit of determination, a little bit of devotion will bring you a wonderful set of results. This year. I want to keep this really concise and short.
Michelle Orwick:
New Moon, on Thursday, I wish you incredible manifestations because I really believe that this will feel like the real beginning of 2024. So get really clear, light your candles, write your wish lists, set all your intentions and then you have really a month to get super duper, even clear, before February 10th. So this is your window of dreaming, this is your window of creating, this is your window of choosing, this is your window of deciding and once that happens, all things are straight ahead for a little bit. Until about June or July will be in the motion of doing and getting and having and changing. So we're in an amazing expansive place. How do you find your own way to that place? So finish your releasing before Thursday and light your intentions Thursday and over the weekend. I love you so much. Thank you again for all the well wishes. I feel so loved, so supported and so very, very grateful for every single one of you. I love you. I'll see you again next week and don't forget to live magically.