Rounding the Year: Taking Stock of my Goals & Wishes

How has the past 6 months gone for you? It seems to have gone quickly for me, and it’s been a rollercoaster of good things and unpleasant surprises.

Every January I make a list of ambitions (you can see it here) and a Wheel of the Year vision board, which you can see in the picture above. I try to check how I’m doing regularly. The half-year mark is a good time. 

When it comes to my blogging intentions, I’ve been on track with what I aimed to do each month, including writing about seasonal folklore, books, crafting, and posting divinations for the world. 

One of my resolutions I’ve not worked towards yet is “Interview at least 6 pagan authors”. So, if you are a pagan author who hasn’t been interviewed by me yet but wants to be, let me know. You can email me at badwitch1234@gmail.com. 

The vision board reflects some great social events and a writing opportunity that flowered between Spring Equinox and Beltane. The Greenoaks Gathering was fun and something of an adventure before the Summer Solstice. I hope there’ll be more days out and holidays before Lammas, rather than just “coming home”, which I wrote on the chart. I wonder if I manifested those things, or if they’d have happened anyway?

The worst unpleasant surprise of the year so far was my cat Tommy dying suddenly. I still miss him. When I look at the vision board, however, I see that dark spiral before Imbolc. I intended it to mean a time for rest and introspection, but not laying my cat to rest. Still, I accept life always has moments of sadness. No one can guarantee they won’t happen at any time.

Looking further round my Wheel of the Year vision board I see the time of harvest. I was in my garden yesterday and noticed fruit and berries filling out on the trees and bushes, although some fell prematurely in the recent thunder storm. I hope we don’t have too many more of them before summer ends.

How are your plans for the year doing?  Please leave a comment. 

Rounding the Wheel of the Year

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