Since the year 2012 gave way to 2013, Mike and I have cuddled up somewhere and done an extensive Year-End Review and Planning ritual that we’ve refined and upgraded year by year.

It’s soulful, strategic, magical, and honestly, one of my favorite times of the year.

But you know what? We didn’t do it this holiday season.

I could easily point to the unexpected travel and the two funerals and a wedding that happened in December, all celebrations in their own different ways.

I could point to speaking gigs, end-of-year concerts, and the deep, unyielding desire to simply sit on the couch and read for hours at a time.

But the truth is: we haven’t done our official crossing from one year to the next ritual because it’s not time yet.

Despite how long I’ve been reminding folks that January 1st is cosmically and naturally a pretend start of the year (and my episode of Plenty this week explains why), for the past 13 years, we’ve still fit our strategic and soul planning into the box of the Gregorian Calendar.

And without meaning to, I think this year my soul simply said, “No more. It’s not time yet. This is not a time of new beginnings on the planet or in your body. Let’s wait.”

And so we are. And it feels really good.

(If you’re curious, we’re doing it the 3rd week of January while on a getaway for some Vitamin D.)

This year, I feel a reluctance to start fresh that’s unlike anything I’ve ever felt before.

I don’t want the kids to go back to school tomorrow. I don’t want to get back to my routine. I feel like I need at least three more years of slow mornings reading with a cup of coffee by the fire.

I’m telling you this in case you feel this way too and have been beating yourself up about it. (I did a little bit of that and then remembered that my entire body of work is based on following the wisdom of the body and the wisdom of the Earth. And both of them right now are saying it’s time for slow.)

Relaxed Money Live comes around February 3rd and 4th in Nashville, the very same week that marks the halfway point between the Winter Solstice and the Spring Equinox. It’s a time when the energetic quickening begins.

Then the Lunar New Year, aka the Chinese New Year, will welcome in the Year of the Fire Horse on February 17th, and another layer of momentum will return.

And then, the Vernal or Spring Equinox will mark the peak energetic time of new beginnings in our annual turn around the sun, on March 20th.

This is all to say, if you don’t feel like doing anything, welcome. I feel the same. It’s a sign that our bodies are synced right up with nature and we’ve reached a new level of depth, alignment, and wisdom.

Congratulations to us.

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