Grief, Devotion, And The Return Of Light | Astrology & Energy Update | Magical Michelle Orwick

What if the real power of January is not a sprint toward reinvention, but a vow to be here now? I open a tender, grounded conversation about grief, Epiphany, and the quiet magic of devotion, anchored by the two-year anniversary of my mother’s passing and her steady wisdom: “My favorite flower is the one in bloom.”

We unpack why early January often feels heavy despite the “new year” buzz, and how honoring the season of inner winter can relieve the pressure to perform. Through the lens of Epiphany and the Three Magi, I translate ancient symbols into modern practice: gold as heart-bright courage, frankincense for clarity and uplift, myrrh for purification and insight. We explore simple rituals—lighting a candle, blessing a meal, stirring intention into your tea—that return you to presence and help you choose your frequency on purpose.

We also talk about portals and numerology not as dogma, but as collective moments to pause, pray, and aim attention toward peace. From releasing relationships that dim your light to saying a real yes to your dream trip, this is a call to protect your peace and act with devotion. I share the story of nudging my mom to Australia at 75—she hugged a koala at 76—as a reminder that life favors the brave, even in tender seasons. If you feel raw, tired, or quietly hopeful, you’ll find grounded guidance to navigate change, honor your heart, and create a life that feels true.

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Chapters

• 0:20 A Different Kind Of Transmission
• 1:20 Honoring Mom And Naming The Mood
• 2:35 New Year Energy Versus Inner Winter
• 5:16 Epiphany, The Magi, And Sacred Gifts
• 7:35 Frankincense, Myrrh, Gold As Practices
• 8:57 Portals, Numerology, And Collective Intention
• 10:05 Be Here Now: The Flower In Bloom
• 12:05 Devotion Over Worry In A Changing World
• 14:10 Love Loudly, Release Gently, Protect Peace
• 15:55 Book The Trip: Dreams Made Real
• 17:33 Retreats, Soul Sessions, And Community

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 0:20

Hello and welcome to Living Magically. I'm your host, Magical Michelle, and I want to be really clear that today's transmission is a little bit different than the average transmission. So if you feel that you're just here for astrological updates and um those kind of things, this might not be your episode. But if you're looking for real and you're looking for a little bit of deeper insight, tonight might be just exactly what you're looking for. This week, January 5th, is a very deep intentional mood week. And pardon me if I sound a little hoarse. I'm on the mend, but it has been one of those weekends where I've just been low energy. And I've been sitting with something that really is near and dear to my heart, and that is the fact that today, January 5th, is the two-year anniversary of the passing of Kathy Chambers, which is my mom. And you may recognize her, you may not in this image. This is a painting that was painted right before I was born. And this is an image of her and I, 11 months before her passing, when we made our trip to Australia. And so I was really sitting with this. I'm obviously in an honoring stage of my own grief, my own feelings, my missing of her. And there's a lot of other people who have talked to me about having headaches and why am I feeling so ick. It's the new year, and I don't feel like this new year, new energy yet. And I want to be clear: yes, it's a one energy, it's a one-one one energy. It is also still the snake energy. The big banners talk about how it's the year of the fire horse and we're gonna have momentum and how it's a one year, but it's not a natural um new year's. It's always going to be a time where we're in the womb, it's always going to be a time where we want to go inward. So here I am coming you to you from my bedroom, from my sanctuary, where I've wanted to nest and come inward and be in celebration. Now, living magically doesn't always look like a party. Celebration can be gratitude, even in grief. Celebration can be recognizing how far you've come. Devotion could be honoring the person, even their flaws, honoring your ancestors, honoring your own sense of grief, your headache, your body. Whatever you're feeling is okay. And I I know that a lot of my images show me in beautiful places and doing wonderful things, and what you don't see always is the raw me, the one that um maybe has a little you know, sinus infection, or isn't necessarily, you know, big push. Both of those things can be true. It's these inward times where I actually say, Oh, I don't feel great. I don't feel um inspired per se, but I feel like I want to be in devotion. Like my year, um one of the words that came to me through the travels that I made in 2025 is the word devotion. 2025's word was originally creation, and the bridge word became devotion. And my and my words going forward are devotion, passion, and some of those other feelings, but there's a bridge, there's a womb, and actually we're in Epiphany, we're in twelfth night. Um you have the Yule 12 days, and you have the Christmas 12 days. So, really, what we have if you're looking at the Christian mythology, we're we're celebrating the three kings day, where the gifts were brought to the Christ child from the three magi, from the three masters, from the Egyptian, probably Egyptian um astrologers. And those gifts were gold, and it's not physical gold, it's the energetic of the gold that is the Christ light, the celebration. You notice the candles are golden, the light of a candle is golden, the return of the light. It would not have happened at exactly this time of year. If you actually look at astrology and and we know when it would have happened, this is a true um historical event of a birth of someone named Yeshua. And what we know is that frankincense is a purifying, it's it's to help raise the consciousness. So when I work with frankincense oil, it's to raise my consciousness, and that can be out of grief, it can be out of heart, it can be out of trying to connect to the sun, to the light, the divine light. When I work with the energy of gold, it is the unique sun's ray that comes in to replace the darkness, to penetrate into the energy of the heart, the soul, the emotion. When I work with myrrh, I work with it for purification, for divination, for insight that can come from these master energies. And when we look at 12th night, when we look at Epiphany, it is about the rebirth and the gifts of these 12 days. And I've really been celebrating all the way since the beginning of Hanukkah. We're at tomorrow will be 24 days of me intentionally lighting a candle every single day to celebrate each of these different traditions, the lighting of the candles of Hanukkah, the 12 days of Yule, and now the 12 days of Christmas ending in Epiphany. And even the seventh is Coptic Christmas, which is the Ethiopian and ancient Egyptian Christmas. So these traditions are here, not because they're exact days of the year which we have made them. It's because the return of the light is always a place where we take a still point in darkness. And we've had this illuminating cancer full moon, and that may be some of the cause of the headaches. The transformation that is happening is probably the bigger thing to look at. We are still in the shedding of the snake, but we're in the new energy of the one transmission. And someone asked me this week, and I really wanted to share this. Someone said, Well, I don't believe in your one-one one portal or any of these numerology portals because they're not um they're not astrological, they're not proven. And here's the thing: everything we do is man-made, it's made up. So this is yes, a new age concept, but what has happened and why we use the portals of 111 or 2-2 or anytime we have double digits, this is using the numerology, using the calendar, and it has been agreed upon by the spiritual community to use this time for prayer, to use this time for intentionally creating peace on earth. That's just the wave. If if every single 1-1-1 or 11-11 or 2-2-2 or any double-digit day or time, when you see it, feel it, you just take a moment and you remember that magic is alive. Remember that you are part of the magic. Remember that life is intentional and that our vibration, we are not powerless, our vibration brings in the power. And so I wanted to share with you my mother's favorite saying, and some of you already know this, but my mother's saying was my favorite flower is the one in bloom. And more and more this year has been about I am here now. I'm not in the past two years ago or three years ago or five years ago with her. I am not in the future, I'm not worried about the future. I'm creating today. That was the message. And the my favorite flower is the one I'm nurturing, I'm blooming, I'm experiencing. So, my invitation to you this week is to be right where you are, to not be trying to become something to see and review how far you've come, but be here now. If you're in grief or you're in illness, or you're in joy, or in your if you're in creation, or if you're in excitement, or if you're present with someone, be present. This new magic, this new life, this new era. We are here together to create and devote ourselves to the frequency we are choosing every single day. So just like we've hit that flower, we should appreciate exactly where we are, exactly with who we are with. And I'm gonna invite you to live more intentionally, to stir your cup of tea with your intention, to stir your coffee cup with more intention, to eat your food and bless it, to be very grateful and appreciative of exactly where you are, exactly how far you've come, the people around you. Thank them, appreciate them, be with them, contact them, tell them you love them, never miss an opportunity. One of the things I do not regret about the time with my mother is every time I talked to her, I told her I loved her. And even to this day, I still listen to a few messages of her on my cell phone, and every one of them was I may have missed you, but I love you. Goodbye. Or I play tag, love you, mom. And so I never doubt that I loved her and she loved me. Don't leave that doubt in your heart. And if you have to let go of someone, there's also a big release right now with this final shedding of the snake, where if someone isn't showing up in your life and can't love you the way you need to be loved, it is okay to protect your peace and to shed people experiences. There is a lot of change. The astrology for 2026 is better than 2025, I'll tell you that, but it is still a lot of change. So get ready, buckle in on your seat belts, be really clear of who you are and the frequency you're wanting to hold because it is going to be perhaps a little bit challenging because change is challenging. Perhaps you're not loving what you're seeing on the radio or the TV or in the world view. Be more devotional, send energy into the world about intending peace. Prayer actually works, devotion actually works. Instead of being worried, be intentional. Instead of being sad, depressed, or afraid, accept that. Like we're not going to tell you you're wrong, but be devotional of creating the world that you want to create. Be intentional about the life you want to lead. The other thing I don't regret is I forced, I kind of forced my mother to go to Australia. This was her dream trip. She was 75 years old when we bought the plane tickets. She'd wanted to go to Australia and hug a koala bear since she was five years old. She did it at 76. So book the trip. Be intentional, be with the people, love. And so, if that is something I can help you do, if you wish to go, we have two sacred trips coming. We have one to England. We'll we'll be going to the Chalice Well and English sacred sites and stone circles and being very, very devotional and intentional in England in the summer of 26. And if the big trip is the big dream dream is to go to Egypt, where we see the places where the Christ child actually studied and to actually touch the history of Egypt that is way beyond the the history you and I are aware of. It is ancient, it is mystical, it is codes that I cannot even tell you you will receive. If you want to receive the new version of you and go on a truly transformational retreat, I invite you to connect with me and we will make your dream trip happen. If there is somewhere else in the world that you're looking to to book, if it's your dream trip, start putting five dollars away, whatever it is, but plan to live your life, plan to be intentional about living your dreams. And again, it living your dream life is sometimes messy because it's being really, really clear on what you want and eliminating what you don't. And if I can help you with that, if you're if you're interested in a soul session on how to transform, and this is your year to get really, really intentional, this is my invitation to you. I have some space in my calendar. Now, if you want to create community in Orlando, Florida, we have the soul circles, and we'll start back up on the 12th. I decided to take tonight for myself and the feast that I'm about to have. I've got a plate of my mother's favorite foods, and I'm just gonna sit with her painting and the candles on this Epiphany night and really be present with the biggest influence of my life, Kathy Chambers, and tell her in spirit how much I love and appreciate her. And I hope you found this message to be um meaningful. I appreciate you. I love you. I have seen so much growth in the people that I'm working with. I've I've certainly come a long way in the last 20 years serving this community, and I intend to serve you for the next 20. I love you. Have yourself a beautiful, magical week. Be kind to yourself. It is the dark moon or disseminating moon. Um, so for the until um until the 17th, we have a period of clarity where you're letting go of what isn't going to be there for you in the future. So take this next two weeks and just get really clear on maybe what isn't going to be true for you anymore. I love you, live magically.