Practicing Joy
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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#3 Joyful Awareness 2025
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 […]
#8 The Month for Joyful Transformation 2024
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 […]
#7 The Month for Joyful Memories 2024
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 […]
#6 The Month for Joyful Dedication 2024
The Month for Joyful DedicationJuly 20 to August 28, 2024 Whatever their ways, they are all in love with you. Each comes by a path to theRose Garden.–Niyazi Misri Welcome to the Rose Garden And this time of Dedication and Re-Dedication to your life. You know why you have chosen to live at this time […]
#5 Celebrating the Presence of Joy
Joy in the WorldThe Month for Celebrating the Presence of JoyJune 10 – July 19, 2024 If you listen,not to the pages or preachersbut to the smallest flowergrowing from a crack in your heart,you will hear a great songmoving across a wide oceanwhose water is the musicconnecting all the islandsof the universe together,and touching allyou […]
#4 Joyful Acceptance and Acknowledgement
The Month for Joyful Acceptance and AcknowledgementMay 1 to June 9, 2024BECOMING PRAISEOnce upon a time, many years ago, this nine-fold path for practicing joy was “given,” first in words, and then in a magical calendar. Since that time, I have learned that these forty days provide the happiest and easiest way, not only to […]