“Patience. The slow painful patience. The one that reminds you to be humble and nimble. The one that reminds you how much existence relies on our ability to remember our connection to Earth. We are nature. Not separate or disconnected.”
Now, I know that January 1 is not the time to start new things. But I’m guilty of getting swept up in the excitement of making it through 2025 and was focused on the numerology shift from 9 to 1 because I am so ready for the endings to end and beginnings to begin. I’ve spent more time than I’d like to admit planning and plotting with the intention of sharing where I’m going and inviting you along for the ride.
But I started to notice myself spiral, and then hesitated — something wasn’t quite right. Maybe it was because I feel like there’s cleaning up to do following the holidays before I start anything new. Or like I need to take time to mentally prepare to go back to work and don’t have the capacity to be creative when I’m in re-charge mode.
Then I came across this post (copied at the bottom of this email) that articulated exactly what I’ve been sensing. Which gave me the peace of mind that I’m not “missing” anything if I take a few more weeks to release before I start building again.
I’m not always great at sitting still. Patience does not come easy to me, especially as I feel desperate to build something that will make my existence back in corporate feel meaningful in some way beyond my own personal gain.
So instead of doing “nothing”, here’s where I’ll be channeling my focus while I patiently await the energy shift to start moving again.
#1: Reading books I started and never finished
I have about a dozen, probably more, books that I’ve started, put down, and never picked up again. I feel them waiting in a little library in the back of my mind, often popping into my awareness at “random” moments as if they’re trying to tell me that the answer would be clear if I just picked them back up. Here’s where I’m starting:
Rewiring the Corporate Brain by Dana Zohar
Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Maree Brown
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
The first two were enormous sources of inspiration when I first started by business and are now showing me ways to make make my presence inside a corporate system feel more meaningful. It’s funny how that works.
The last is the first fiction book I’ve read since I was a child, and my treatment plan for overcoming the feeling of always needing to be productive.
#2: Cleaning my house
I have never been good at cleaning. My motivation usually only kicks in when I’m a few hours away of having company over. But leveraging the energy of the season is something I can easily get behind, so for the next few weeks my boyfriend and I will partner on purging and cleaning — getting rid of things that have been hiding in cabinets and not touched for years and scrubbing every corner while we’re at it.
One thing that does help me find motivation is using cleaning products from Supernatural. They work great, smell even better, and make cleaning feel more like a clearing ritual than a chore. You can use my refer a friend link to get $20 off your first $50+ order. I’m not an affiliate, I’m just genuinely obsessed and want you to enjoy them, too.
Focus #3: Releasing old beliefs using PSYCH-K
It’s likely you’ve never heard of PSYCH-K. It’s one of those things that finds people when they’re ready. I first heard about it from my mom after she won a free session on a “Buy Nothing / Sell Nothing” Facebook group in her area, and then my naturopath brought it up again as something she thought I should do. It had been years since I thought about it, but my first 90 days back in corporate were incredibly difficult for many different reasons, and I needed help fast.
I had a single 90-minute session that completely transformed my perception and in turn, my reality. Literally overnight. By the time I went back to work the following Monday, the major triggers that I had been struggling with literally dissolved, and completely disappeared shortly after. I’ve trained in Reiki, ThetaHealing, NLP, hypnosis, you name it — but I had never experienced such rapid shifts as I did with PSYCH-K.
Fast forward a few months later and I took a 3-day workshop to learn how to do it for myself. I continue to use it almost daily to rewire my beliefs and shift my reality as I notice things in my life that don’t fit anymore. I’ve also used it for mundane things like finding a parking spot. And I’m telling you, it works.
So there’s no question that I’ll be leaning on it as my secret weapon over the next few weeks to dig deep and clear out all the shit hiding in the dusty corners of my mind.
If you want to learn more about PSYCH-K
Because this technique is so little known and yet so powerful, I want to help give it a stage — and so this month my teacher and PSYCH-K Instructor and Master Facilitator JoAnn Sweeney will be joining me live for a conversation where she’ll share about what PSYCH-K is and how it works, her personal experiences with the practice, and successes she witnesses with her clients and students.
We are still working out the details, but if you would like to join us live to connect with JoAnn and ask questions, just reply to this email and I will send you the link to register for free as soon as it’s available.
Thank you for continuing to sit in this in-between with me. What are you feeling called to shed? Do you feel the same relief in knowing it’s not really time to push forward, yet? Where are you putting your energy instead?
We’re in this together,
Marissa
Note: The content in the section below was taken directly from an instagram post by @feng_shui_certification. View the original post here.
Between the Calendar and the Compass
The next few weeks are the most important part of your 2026 transition. The world is loud with talk of resolutions, sprints, and reinvention: you’ll see vision boards and goals everywhere. But energetically, we are still in the year of the Wood Snake.
We are in the space between endings and beginnings. The Solar New Year begins on February 4th. The Lunar New Year begins on February 17th, marking the start of the year of the Fire Horse.
Until then, we are in a limbo of letting go.
This is not resolution season.
This is the phase of the deep exhale. After a year of internal alchemy and facing our venom, the snake begins to loosen its grip. You are no longer who you were. You are not yet who you are becoming. It is the uncoiling of the Snake.
This time is not for pushing forward. This time is for:
Clearing
Decluttering
Letting go
Becoming still
Being present
Do not gallop in dead skin.
If you try to gallop now, you are galloping in dead skin. It feels itchy, heavy, restrictive. Recommit to the shed. Use this time to look at what no longer serves you, what drains your energy, and what you are no longer aligned with.
Ask yourself: What part of my identity am I still clinging to out of safety?
If it no longer aligns with who you are becoming, it is not yours to carry forward. Let it uncoil.
You are not behind.
In limbo, we do not activate. We become still. The year of the Horse will be fast and loud. Filled with movement, action, and consciousness. This quiet is preservation. Use it to integrate what you have learned and to alchemize the last cycle.
If you feel restless, tired, or like you are waiting for a signal, you are exactly on time. If you have not created your vision board, if you have not done your budgets, if your plans feel unfinished – it is all in motion. You have time. The Horse is not in a rush.
Before the Horse arrives
Use this month to tend to your home
Clear your space
Declutter intentionally
Move furniture
Open windows and curtains (even if it’s cold)
Let your home breathe
Let it rest
Let it shed
Before the Horse enters your home, let the Snake finish shedding. This is not the pause before nothing. This is the pause before momentum. Honor the limbo. Honor the uncoiling.
If you already feel the horse
If you are already sensing the Horse energy, the excitement, the ideas, the pull toward movement, pause. Rushing now does not make the Horse arrive sooner. It only weakens your footing when it does. Stay with the shed. Finish the uncoiling.
Look at your affirmations, your reflections; refine what you don’t want to take into this new year, and then start letting go. This is the last ceremony of the Snake; to uncoil, it must in essence release too.
Your energy will meet the Horse in strength, not haste.