Show Notes
In this episode, Britten records her final episode of 2025 under a Taurus moon, waxing toward the full moon in Cancer. She reflects on the year that has passed, sharing intimate thoughts on time, grief, the poignancy of being human, and her relationship to the Gregorian calendar turn. Britten opens by describing a grief portal she moved through at the winter solstice - one she had been avoiding for weeks but that finally came for her. She speaks to the heaviness of the year, acknowledging both the beauty and magic of 2025 alongside its brutality, and the importance of letting her body honor all of it.
Topics She Explores: The terror of time and how it loops back to our fear of death and losing the ones we love, which ultimately returns us to presence and the sweetness of being here together
How the Western insistence that the holidays are only about wonder and magic makes it harder, when the truth is there is always grief and wonder together
The Hermit year (2025 as a 9 year) and the lantern as a tool for turning toward life so it can reveal itself to us - including ourselves revealing ourselves to ourselves
Her year-end practices of data collection and looking back: skimming journals without judgment or pathologizing, seeing everything as evidence first before recognizing patterns and curriculum
Why only after collecting data does she bring in the archetypes (transits, cards) so they don't override what actually happened
The concept of reveals and revelations as a major theme of 2025 - how running, journaling, relationships, and creative work are all self-revelation processes where life reveals itself when we turn our lantern toward it
Learn More: Britten invites listeners to join her in the 4th installment of Mystics Making Money: Revolutions, Not Resolutions on January 15-18, ending on the new moon in Capricorn, where she'll be teaching her time practices and supporting people in their reorientation as they release 2025 and move into 2026. Registration opens around January 9th and you can join the newsletter to be the first to know by clicking here.
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