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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Joy in the World The Month for Joyful Transformation October 8 – November 16 This is the time to transmute pain and disperse the harmful chemistry of prolonged suffering by learning to transform personal sorrow or loss or pain into at least the remembrance of joy. Autumn days help in the teaching. The name of […]
Joy in the World The Month for Joyful Remembrance August 29 – October 7 Remember joy and honor it in all its forms; celebrate accomplishments, your own and others’; learn to sweeten regrets by holding with the joy that is always present. Our guide for this month is Heart Felt: Feel me, for I cannot […]
Joy in the World The Month for Joyful Dedication July 20- August 28 Staying true to the path, staying aware of others on the path, we align and realign with the values we honor and the joys the days bring. Our Guide for this month is Prayer: I am contained in my love amor, floating […]
Joy in the World The Month for Joyful Presence June 10-July 19 This month we train our imagination to construct a potent sense of the aliveness and immediacy of joy as it surrounds and accompanies us, helping to ensure our growing happiness. Our guide this month is Dream Watcher. She wonders: What if your […]
Joy in the World The Month of Joyful Acceptance and Acknowledgement May 1 – June 9 The Guide for this month is Patti Kaufman’s Diva They call me Diva I am the strength deep within. I sing my song as clearly as the dolphin senses with its sonar. I have no restraints, nothing can stem […]
Joy in the World The Month of Joyful Awareness March 22-April 30 The guide for this month is Patti Kaufman’s Russian Grandmother Here is Patti’s tribute to her: Like the farmers before her, she seeded my life, and fertilized my soul. She fed me love and lathered me in her wisdom and chutzpah. She was […]
Practicing Joy in the World The Month of Joyful Beliefs February 10 – March 21 This month’s adventure is an exploration into one of the “tools of consciousness,” what we believe. More specifically, what we believe about joy. Even more specifically, discovering what we can believe about joy. If you wish assistance in this endeavor, […]
Practicing Joy in the World The Month of Joyful Sourcing January 1 – February 9 The Lady’s Year of Joy opens with forty days devoted to sourcing ourselves in joy. She suggests that we remember and recollect the beauty and inherent goodness that abide in each of us by noticing and absorbing the beauty and […]
Joy in the World The Birthdays of the Joyful Gods December 27, 28, 29, 30. 31 The Lady’s Year of Joy offers nine months of forty days each, with each month inviting an exploration of one of nine aspects of Joy in the World. That means a year of 360 days, leaving in our planet’s […]
Joyful Service and Sharing November 17 – December 26 The Goddess who presides over this lotus petal in the Path of Joy is the Virgin of Guadalupe. Over, beyond, above and within the Lady, whose face serves as a symbol of Latin America, as an emblem for the struggle for national independence, as protector of […]