Month by Month Reflections for the Year of Joy.
Nine Goddesses to Nurture Nine Steps on the Path of Joy
This Year of Joy calendar gathers nine steps along the Path of Joy into nine months, composed of four ten-day weeks. The weeks invite you to explore joy through each of the four elements: earth, water, fire, and air, which can be experienced as metaphors – the fires of passion, for example, or the tears of sorrow – as well as richly concrete in themselves. The nine months, 360 days, come to an end on December 26, leaving five intercalary days before the Year for Joy begins again on January 1.
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The Month for Remembering Joy August 29 to October 7, 2025 Sun Rises to Bless the MountainPhoto by Anna Hines William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 30 begins with these elegant lines:When to the sessions of sweet silent thought,I summon up remembrance of things past,And goes on to demonstrate an array of sorrows:(notice his poignant verbs)I sigh the […]
The Month for Joyful Dedication July 20 to August 28, 2025 Master of the Universe Grant me the ability to be alone; May it be my custom to go outdoors each day among the trees and grasses, among all growing things and there may I be alone, and enter into prayer to talk with the […]
The Joyful Month of AwarenessMarch 22 to April 30, 2025 “The new world is the world of complete embrace.”–From The Prophetess by Chelan Harkin In this month of spring magic, we embrace the opportunity to grow more joy and offer such happy magic to this new world. A path from Awareness to Praise: Notice:Invite your […]
The Month of Transformation through JoyOctober 8 to November 16, 2024 Help me find satisfactionand a deep, abiding pleasurein all that I have,in all that I do,in all that I am. These words by the Hasidic Master, Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, suggest that the most assured means of transforming our suffering, despair, lostness and longing […]
The Month for Joyful MemoriesAugust 29 to October 7, 2024 LIVING IN THE SOUL The soul, like the moonis new, and always new again. And I have seen the ocean continuously creating. Since I scoured my mindand my body, I too Lalla,am new, each moment new. My teacher told me one thing,Live in the […]