Your 6 journal prompts for the "divine void"

Health, happiness and hope ✨️

The festive week has looked like:

Twinkling lights, toddlers, and very very nice cats.

I hope you’ve had a beautiful solstice-time. Just think - every day now, the lighted hours grow. Can you remember what the dawn chorus sounds like? It will soon be on its way to serenade your morning routine again.

I wanted to hop on here during this liminal time - the yearly week of stuffing, antacids and forgetting your job title - to give you six journal prompts to guide your New Year in with gentleness, contemplation and soft, intentional action.

Recently, I saw the time between the solstice and New Year described as both a “fertile resting ground“ and “the divine void.” I couldn’t agree more. This is a time for preparing the seeds we wish to sow and allowing our bodies and minds to be rested and ready for when it is time to renew in the spring.

This “void” time is absolutely necessary if we are going to grow and thrive in 2025.

I know that I’m using this misty, peaceful winter period to gather my ideas for The Green Witch Substack and think about how it will morph and change into something greener and more magickal next year!

Tomorrow (Monday 30th December) is the final new moon of 2024 - and it will fall in Capricorn. Could there be a better sign for making plans?

Take some time to sit under the night sky with a candle, notebook and these journal prompts this new moon. Reach into the divine void and take what brings you hope and strength for the coming year.

2025 journal prompts

1. What was my biggest strength over this past year?

2. What was my biggest weakness or failure?

3. What am I leaving behind this year?

4. What are the five personal qualities I want to grow and nurture in 2025?

5. What small, helpful changes can I make to strengthen and focus my spiritual practice this year?

6. This “fertile resting ground” time of year allows me to think about what I wish to birth in 2025. What is my one ultimate goal for the next 12 months?

Bonus witchery

What a treat! 🎉

You’ll remember I gave you a door cleansing ritual for the Witches’ New Year a few weeks ago as well as a home blessing to say over your Yule simmer pot last week. The simple witch’s prayer below is a 2025 blessing that you can say at your front door or over a refreshing herbal simmer pot (with plenty of pine and lemon).

I hope it brings you everything you want for the coming year:

“As the old year ends and the new begins,
I welcome the light where hope shines in.
Bless this house, each wall and door,
with health, with joy, and so much more.”

Happy new calendar year, lovely. May your 2025 be full of bright days, heartfelt community and the scent of apple blossom on the breeze.

Sending love,

Jennifer x