Grounded Beginnings | Energy & Astrology Update | Magical Michelle Orwick

Feeling strangely out of sync with the “new year, new you” buzz? Same. We’re in deep Capricorn season and walking through the dark moon—more compost than confetti—so we slow down, ground, and build the kind of structure that actually supports a sustainable life. Instead of forcing motivation, we talk about honoring real feelings, regulating the nervous system, and choosing presence over a spiral of “what ifs.”

We explore why January can feel heavy and how that doesn’t mean you’re behind. Think practical magic: simple systems, tidy spaces, and repeatable routines that stabilize your days. We dig into daily devotion—prayer, meditation, and small rituals that carry intention into your body—like blessing your tea or speaking a morning promise before you open your eyes. These acts aren’t fluff; they’re anchors that retrain your mind and calm your system.

We also map the bigger timing: a collective shift from the yin of the Wood Snake to the heat of the Fire Horse in mid-February, paired with a solar eclipse. Translation: now is for closing loops and resourcing yourself, not sprinting. We share a “joy and reset” list strategy, offer guidance for emotional honesty without dumping on others, and invite you into our new Living Magickally portal—regular live calls, community support, and first access to retreats—so you don’t walk this season alone.

If you’re ready to trade performative positivity for grounded intention, press play. Then tell us: what one daily ritual will you devote to this week? Subscribe, share with a friend who needs steadiness, and leave a review to help others find their footing too.

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Chapters

• 0:20 Permission To Not Be Okay
• 2:18 New Year Expectations Vs Reality
• 3:05 Capricorn Grounding And The Dark Moon
• 4:33 Wood Snake To Fire Horse Shift
• 5:33 Stabilize With Structure And Process
• 6:53 Nervous System Care And Presence
• 7:49 Prayer, Meditation, And Community Support
• 9:18 Devotion Through Daily Rituals
• 11:23 Practical Joy List And Reset Tools
• 11:23 Living Magical Portal Announcement
• 13:23 Daily Tips, Email Rituals, And Next Steps
• 15:02 Dark Moon Wrap‑Up And New Moon Outlook

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 0:20

Welcome to Living Magically for the week of January 12th, 2026. And I'm your host, Magical Michelle. And as we go into this week, I've heard a lot of people that are struggling. And so I just really want to start with it's okay to not be okay. And I really believe that the living magical process is more important to honor exactly where you are than to spiritually bypass and say you feel good or you're happy. It does not require you to be happy. It means it's important to stay and get and be connected and grounded. So I know right now life is destabilizing and that there's a lot going on. There's a ton going on in the collective. I think that if I had to state how many times I said it's a lot, um, or heard someone say it's a lot in the last week, that might be the biggest um thing I've heard over the last couple of weeks. And someone asked me, I don't feel like it's a new year, I don't feel the joyful, perky excitement I was expecting to feel in a new year. And I'm just gonna say something that um a lot of astrologers want to remind you, this is not necessarily the time of year that people are going to feel like getting things done now. You might feel a new start. The one energy, the one one, one or the one energy does give us a fresh, clean sleigh, and there is a lot going on to bring us into that alignment. But Capricorn is all about grounding, it's it's an earth sign, and we're in the deep stages of Capricorn with a Capricorn new moon coming up on Sunday. So, what happens before a new moon is that we have the darkness before the new moon, and so this week leading up to that new moon um Sunday afternoon is all about grounding, centering. A lot of people are still closing up loose ends and finishing things to wrap up stuff that happened last year. And remember, there's no beginning of a cycle that is so complete that everything is finished, and a lot of us won't feel the new year until we actually get into the year of the fire horse, and that does not start, my friends, until February 17th, the new moon in February. So we have a full month before that happens, and it's gonna be a doozy because it is actually a solar eclipse. So it's the fire horse and it's a solar eclipse, and so that's when we're gonna kind of feel that heat. Right now, we're still in the yin energy of the year of the wood snake, so get grounded, get stabilized. Capricorn is all about structure, so reset, set some structures in place, set processes, get going on things. So if you're like, I'm just now even starting the things I wanted to do in 2026, like you maybe went back to work or just got back to school, and you haven't really even got into the swing of things. This week is about that stabilization. This is about creating processes, and like I just I've been tidying up my house, and I've been trying to finish old paperwork and get some projects off my plate. A lot of people have felt sick, and I tend to call this ascension flu. You might be recalibrating your body and your nervous system, and then that's not to say that there isn't a lot going on on the world stage. And so, what I'm gonna invite you to do is spend some time regulating your nervous system. If you need to rest, rest. If you need to feel angry, let yourself be angry, but don't take it out on the people around you. If you need to grieve, I invite you to grieve. But I am going to um invite you to get clear on ground into your heart. I'm gonna invite you to stabilize from a place of groundedness. I'm gonna invite you to be allowed to be happy even if there is chaos. I'm gonna invite you to realize that there is no point living in fear. And I'm gonna remind you of something. You have survived every single thing that's ever happened to you, and there is no way to prepare for what's coming, and there's no reason to stress and worry about what might be as much as to act upon what is and take whatever measures that you can take, and so I'm not inviting you um to put your head in the sand, but I am gonna say don't get into what ifs. My invitation here is to be very present with what is available to you and to do that, to live very intentionally right now. I am spending extra time in prayer right now. I am spending more time alone in meditation than I ever have in my entire life because I feel like prayer and meditation is really, really important for ourselves and for the collective. And you, my friends, my followers, those who always put in the comments on my um on my posts, I actually spend time every single day praying for the people that put things in my posts. In fact, um one of my beautiful friends, um Wendy, put in there, you know, that she asked for healing, not just um what I was stating, but say, Can you send healing? And then she had um, she's like, I don't know what you did, but it felt better. So, yes, every single name that I ever see on one of these posts where I say, please type a comment, put it in there that those prayer requests really do go into my heart, and I hold you up and I make commands to the to the universal energy using the theta healing method to lift up those who are um who are posting. So feel free and I invite you to share these posts. I invite you to comment on my posts, my videos, because I will absolutely spend some time with you on my prayer list, and I do that every single day at the beginning of the day and at the end of the day, it's non-negotiable. So that's my invitation to you. What is the the rituals, the meditations, the practices that make you grounded that become non-negotiable? That's that's the key here to devotion. The living magically way is to find the things that bring you magic every day. For me, it is stirring my tea. I think I might be mistaken, but I think today is national tea day. So happy national tea day if it is. Um, but but I was thinking about the fact that every time I stir my tea, actually stir it with the right spin energy, and it's made of water, and we're made out of water, and so I I spin it right and I make a blessing, and then I get to drink that blessing. So you're actually taking it in when you do that. You can hold your water bottle and do the same thing. When you ingest food, water, drink, bless it, because that is going to then be taken in ceremoniously into your body. Whatever you're doing, doing it with intention is really, really powerful. If you are day-to-day setting an intention, um, one of the things that I do every morning is say to myself, today is going to be a great day. And I do that before I even open my eyes. I say, today is going to be a great day. So what kind of meditation, what kind of grounding practice practices, what kind of day-to-day items are non-negotiable for you? And maybe now is the time that you're doing that. I invite my clients to make a list of 10 to 100 things that they can do to bring themselves more happiness, more joy. It could be take a walk, it could be go to the beach, it could be get a massage. I try and invite you to make sure that some of these things are free or inexpensive, and then you can always work up to the ones that take more time or more money, but you should have a few of these things that help you reset your body, your mind, your system, your day. And then the next thing I'm going to do is because the world is an interesting place right now, we have decided, thank you so much, Marissa, for putting in all the work. We have decided that we want to be even more present with you this year. So we've created the Living Magical portal, and that is going to give you an opportunity to have a minimum of three calls a month, and that will be live as well as they'll be recorded live events on Zoom that would allow you to manifest and heal and work with the collective, activate Everen. So this magical community is something on some level I've been doing online since 2020. We had the Goddess Within program and and multiple programs over the years, and what we've come down to is we average on the on the average three calls a month. So we're just making that available, and it is starting right now. Like we are announcing it today. This is the first time. So if you um you can pick, it doesn't change what you get, um, it just it's pay what you feel is energetically aligned for you, and it would include these online as well as if you wish to come to Soul Circles, which are we hold on two to three Monday nights at the urban ashram here in Orlando, Florida. So it would include both of those things, and it will also get you first dibs on my trips and retreats. You'll be the first to know, and you'll be getting discounts on some other things. So it gets you discounted um prices with one-on-one sessions with me, as well as first dibs and discounts on my trips and retreats. So I'm really excited for us to bring that out. But again, I want to thank you, Marissa, because you've worked so hard on that for the last couple of weeks, and we are ready to do that, as well as we're gonna be bringing you more tips every single day on how to live a more intentional, magical life. So we'll be having that here on social media, and more importantly, we're gonna be putting together a little daily ritual that you can do that we're gonna send out by email. So we're gonna put um an opportunity for you to sign up for that email out over the next month, and you could have a little tip every single day to how on how to live a literally a more intentional, magical life. And I feel that that's so important with the times that we're having right now. Stay grounded. Maybe it's as simple as lighting a candle, maybe it's as simple as putting your hand on your heart and doing a little breathing, maybe it's an affirmation, and and I'm huge on downloads, affirmations, and um and seeing the words, feeling the words, creating the words that write, speak, and manifest the life that you want to be leading. Doesn't mean it's gonna be perfect, but it does mean it's going to be intentional and devotional. So I invite you to lean in this week. It might feel still a little bit sticky, but with all of that, think of this as the dark moon before the new moon. And do what you can to wrap up any loose ends. Rest, get ready, because the new moon next week, we're we're gonna start the week off with a Sunday new moon, which will bring us a little bit more clarity and a lot more energy to get things done next week. So, with all of that, I love you and live magically.