Aligning with Peace & Joy | Energy & Astrology Update | Magical Michelle Orwick

Have you ever wondered how to navigate the holiday season amidst the swirling energies of Mars retrograde? Join me as I share the magic woven through this time of year, from personal stories of gratitude and the comforting presence of red cardinals, which symbolize my mother's enduring love, to the joy animals bring into our lives. We'll explore how gratitude and kindness can guide us through personal grief, celebrations, and financial stress, all while looking forward to a special free live Zoom call where we can release the past year and honor our accomplishments. As the darkest night approaches, let's connect with our inner light and envision a world at peace.

Looking ahead, the transformative energy of the Capricorn new moon beckons us to build a solid foundation for 2025. Revisit aspects of your life and celebrate your achievements as we prepare for a year of completion, a chance to release what no longer serves us. This episode encourages us to embrace the vibrant spirit of the season, cherish the stillness within, and align with our inner light. With themes of comfort, joy, and profound personal alignment, we highlight the importance of kindness, love, and peace as guiding stars through the holiday season. Happy Holidays!

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Chapters

• 0:19 Living Magically
• 15:10 Building a Solid Foundation for 2025

Transcript

Magical Michelle Orwick: 0:19

Hello and happy Magical Monday. I am your host, michelle Orwick, and this is the Living Magically for week of December 23rd, and I'm coming to you from beautiful Minerva, ohio, and this is sort of a holiday week for not sort of. It is a holiday week for so many people, and even if your holiday is just being off work or just being off school, I wish you a happy holiday, whatever you celebrate, because there's 25 different holidays and ways to celebrate going on this season. But what I do know is that the intensity is in the astrology. We have Mars retrograde. We have Mars retrograde.

Magical Michelle Orwick: 1:23

So if you are spending time with friends, family, co-workers, anyone, be gentle with yourself and with them. Be careful with your words, and there's an opportunity here to express gratitude and that's going to be your most powerful. Powerful thing you can do is to lean into your gratitude in this season, it doesn't matter what you celebrate Light a beautiful candle that's so good and create a little bit of magic. And even if you do just a day of reflection and I understand 2024 hasn't been the greatest year for everyone all the way to. It's been the best year for some, and so you're going to see a lot of people doing their reflections on 2024 and you're going to start seeing people start putting their goals and manifestations in for 2025. And here's where I'm going to say please be gentle with yourself and be gentle with everyone around you. So, whether that means you're feeling grief because this is your first holiday without a loved one and I know that's true for a lot of people, myself included all the way to someone who is celebrating, you know, success, all the way to somebody who is feeling the stress and the burden of the finances right now Just be kind, be grateful, be considerate.

Magical Michelle Orwick: 3:15

This is the season to review and, of course, one of the things I'm going to be doing is offering a free live Zoom call next Monday night, so 7 pm Eastern Standard Time on the 30th. I will be doing a process I do at the end of every year where I release the year. I'm going to look at the gratitude and the successes too, because we want to be in our power for what we did accomplish. Like, I'm really proud of the things I've accomplished this year, even if I was going through some some personal grief and going through a personal transformation. I am so grateful for my family, I'm grateful for my friends, I'm grateful for my clients and I'm strangely grateful to all the animals that have come into my life this year, ones that have already. Of course, today is my gotcha day for Joy, so it's four years I've had Miss Joy, my kitty, but also for Smudge, who is Marissa's cat, and how fun and playful Mr Smudge is. But also, you know, I have spent some time with my mom and Casey's dogs, daisy and Socks and Little Socks, and they're just a bundle of fun. And then I have another friend who has seven dogs, and we went to their house for tree trimming this week on the solstice. And a different friend who has seven baby white fluffball kittens has seven baby white fluff ball kittens. And so for me, one of the gratitudes I have is how many times I've got to spend time with great animals. We had a bonfire and we had a dog, miss Molly. I got to hang out with Susie Q at a different event. I got to meet Stella and Dottie and all these other really amazing animals.

Magical Michelle Orwick: 5:27

So what can you look for? That was a theme in your life. For me it was the comfort and care from the animal kingdom, including, and especially in this holiday season, red cardinals showing up to symbolize my mother. I'd never really noticed red cardinals in Christmas decorations before. I guess I always knew it was there, but this year I've had live red cardinals as well, as everywhere I turn there's a red cardinal in the Christmas decorations.

Magical Michelle Orwick: 6:04

So I know my mother is sharing her love and I want to just say whatever it is that you need to do to find peace and to be in peace and I know there's a lot going on in the world outside, in the media and in the news with all the drones and the plasma and all of the balls of light and all the things and I do want to address that just really briefly, in that I've had a lot of people ask me what I think and how I feel about the plasma balls of light and the more research I have done, and my true personal channeling is that these are beings here to keep us safe. I believe that they have to do with making sure that planet earth does not go into some kind of nuclear destruction. I really do believe that maybe our government has made some mistakes and right now we are being protected by this beautiful ball of light, plasma over these areas of the world that need to be protected, and so, if you are wanting to do anything for the planet, there is no better time than right now to connect to your own chariot of light, your own body of light. We are in the darkest days of the season. In fact, even though we had the winter solstice already, which is the longest night, we're going to have the darkest night on the 29th of December as we go into the new moon. So this week will be a week of going inward, even though we're going to probably spend a lot of time socializing with friends and family. I want you to go inward and find your light, connect with your peace, connect with your love, with your peace, connect with your love, connect with your gratitude, and see and envision peace on earth. That is my favorite. Comfort and joy and peace on earth are my two favorite statements for this season, and there is no more important time to do that than right now. Find your personal alignment with the light. Everyone has a divine spark of that consciousness within them. We are just plasma balls of light. We are living, walking, talking light beings, walking, talking light beings. We can connect to that angelic energy which is inside of ourselves, and I think remembering the light that is within you is the reason for this season.

Magical Michelle Orwick: 9:11

Whether you're lighting candles for the winter solstice, all the way to lighting the three candles of red, white and green for this season, or if you're lighting advent candles or you're lighting a menorah, it does not matter how you are doing it. The energy here is remembering that you are light, you are love, you are peace. We become the situation we are creating. So if you are a magnet for peace, peace is going to come to you. If you are a magnet of love, love is going to come to you. If you are a magnet of joy, joy is going to come to you. So, no matter what, let's remember those ancestors. This is a great week to also light candles for those who've been watching and helping and doing those things from the other side. So, love our ancestors, love our friends, our family and our animals. As you can hear, this is Miss Socks giving you a little barky, bark, bark.

Magical Michelle Orwick: 10:34

And as we come into this season, remember that we're going to be creating for 2025. It is going to be the year of the snake. So, again, we have this new moon on the 30th, which is next Monday. So we'll be going into the new year at a new moon energy, which I love. So remember it's the dark moon, with Mars retrograde. So try not to say things you can't take back. Try not to basically be a jerk because of that Mars retrograde.

Magical Michelle Orwick: 11:12

We might be wanting that aggressive energy and I'm inviting you to be kind this week and once you get through your holidays I think this weekend you're going to see yourself kind of wanting to clean up, clean up your house, clean up your mind, clean up your inbox, letting things go as we're going toward that new year's energy and I'll talk more about that on Monday and I invite you to come do this process with us. It's a free Zoom call. All you have to do is sign up for the link. We're going to do a release, a gratitude. A release, a gratitude, a recognizing what you want. I don't like to set goals, but I do like to set intentions or words or manifestations. So we're going to do that, and then we'll do an activation of your energy body, your light body and your manifestation, and so it should take us between an hour, hour and a half to do that next Monday night. So I'm excited to do that If you are wanting a really wonderful gift this year and it might be time to give yourself the gift of witch school.

Magical Michelle Orwick: 12:33

If you want to work on learning how to do some of the things that I do Like creating magic, creating spells and creating a magical life and to truly embrace that magical being that is you, maybe this is the week to sign up for witch school as well. It could be a great gift to yourself or something you ask for for the holiday. But whatever you celebrate, even if that is just celebrating yourself and just saying I made it through a rough year, whatever you are celebrating, whatever you are achieving, whatever you are getting through this week, I love you and I am grateful for you. And just remember to, in the world where everybody is going to want everything in the holiday season, remember it doesn't have to be perfect. Perfection is in the moment. The magic is in the small, tiny details of being together, of allowing, of sharing a laugh or even sharing a mistake. It doesn't have to be perfect, every single perfection.

Magical Michelle Orwick: 14:01

I'm just saying that because I feel like where the astrology is this week, we've moved into Sagittarius, from Sagittarius season into Capricorn season, and Capricorn wants perfection and sometimes we get so stressed out about perfection that we are not in the moment. So let's be in the moment of gratitude. Let's be in the present of the presence. Let's be. If you're going to be with someone, just be with them. It's okay to even just sit with someone and just really relish that you're together, really relish that you're together. And if you're going to be in a meal or something and we don't agree, it's okay to just shut your trap. Just silence is okay too. It is not the time to make your point or to make an argument. You can do that in the new year, but this is a great week to practice patience and kindness and being present in the moment.

Magical Michelle Orwick: 15:10

With that Mars retrograde but, as we are in Capricorn season, I love that Capricorn new moon, which is next Monday, brings us into the solid manifestation energy of giving ourself a foundation to build on, and it's interesting because we're going to be building in a way we haven't built since 2008. So that's been a while that we've had this kind of energy at the beginning of the year. So we're going to be creating a solid foundation, with that new moon on the 30th, to be building off 2025. And 2025 is a year of completion. So what do you have to complete this week. What do you have to finish?

Magical Michelle Orwick: 15:56

Let go of even review, because to me, I love to, to, to celebrate what has come and what has been successful, and that celebration can be everything from a big accomplishment, um, all the way to something like I made it through the year without um, without it destroying me, without it destroying me. So be kind, be loving, be peaceful, have a beautiful, happy holiday and remember that the season, no matter how you celebrate, it is all about finding that light within you, that light in the darkness, that pregnant pause of stillness and practice living magically. This is a magical week. Go have some magic and some fun. I love you Big kisses.

Magical Michelle Orwick: 16:58

Happy Holidays.