design your intentional life.
It’s all about balance. Whether you’re mindfully experiencing the seasons, caring for your home, organizing your finances in a thoughtful way, planning your next goal, cultivating a gratitude practice, or taking a moment to examine your life via journaling, we are here to help. You can balance your progress with ease, intention, and joy.
Lammas Meditation
Visualize yourself gathering these dry stalks and placing them in a separate pile. With love and gratitude for the lessons they’ve brought, imagine a gentle fire consuming them, transforming them into ash that will nourish the soil for future growth.
Journal Prompts for Lammas
How do you (and can you) share your talents to help others or build community?
How are you a leader in your life? How do you nurture your leadership skills?
Write about a time when thinking strategically led you to personal growth.
The Yule Companion
This companion features meditations, journal prompts, coloring pages, spells, and information on Yule to help you begin your holiday reflections. Its pages are for you to write, color, and make notes on. May it bring you insight, inspiration, and joy.
Ostara Meditation
Imagine yourself in a beautiful garden on the verge of spring. Beneath the earth, dormant seeds are awakening, just as you are beginning to awaken to new possibilities within. Allow yourself to connect with the energy of these seeds, each one holding the potential for growth, for beauty, for vibrant life. As the earth nourishes these seeds, so too are you supported in this season of transformation.
Introduction to Yule
It is also a time to light up the dark night with our gratitude, laughter with loved ones, and lights. We can indulge our seasonal whimsey and decorate a Yule tree to our hearts’ content! And it’s time for a Yule log: Burn a decorated log (traditionally oak or ash) in the fireplace or symbolically in a candle ritual. As it burns, make wishes or express gratitude for the past year and hopes for the next.
How to Celebrate Yule
If you have access to a fireplace, why not try out the tradition of the Yule log? You can either burn a special log over several days or simply burn a large piece of wood during the solstice itself. Some people like to decorate it with holly or other natural materials before burning it. As it burns, take time to think about the year ahead, focusing on new beginnings.
Beltane Meditation
Look around at the lush greenery, the vibrant colors of flowers in full bloom, and the rich, dark soil that is soft and ready for new life. The energy of Beltane is all around you, full of life, love, and possibility. This is a time when the earth, filled with the energy of creation, is awakening and inviting you to plant new intentions, ideas, and dreams.
Journal Prompts for Beltane
The Maypole dance represents unity and rhythm. What would your life look like if you embraced more flow and rhythm in your day-to-day existence?
How do you nurture the things you want to grow in your life? What care and attention do they need from you?
As we transition into the warmth of summer, what is one thing you want to let go of in order to embrace new energy?
What qualities of the earth and sky do you want to bring more of into your life this Beltane? How can you embody them more fully?
Yule Meditation
Imagine yourself in a cozy, warm room on a cold winter night. A crackling fire burns brightly in the hearth, casting a golden glow and filling the space with warmth and light. In front of you lies a beautifully decorated Yule log, carefully chosen and prepared for this special moment. This log, made from sturdy oak, symbolizes strength, longevity, and the return of light.
Journal Prompts for Ostara
Describe your ideal garden. Even if you don’t have the time or space now—or even if this fantasy involves hiring a gardener! What would you plant in your garden?
What qualities of the rabbit—such as vivacity and energy—do you see in yourself? How can you embrace these traits more fully this spring?
What are your favorite symbols of spring (flowers, animals, etc.), the ones you look forward to the most? What do they mean to you?
The Imbolc Companion
Imbolc is the perfect holiday for reflection. The days are short, and the weather may be cold. We stay inside, looking back on the previous year’s lessons and planning what we will plant in the spring and harvest in the fall.
Journal Prompts for Yule
How do you incorporate nature and its magic into your Yule celebrations?
Reflect on the significance of the winter solstice. What does this turning point of the wheel of the year mean to you?
Write about the importance of stillness and introspection during this festive season.
Yule Associations
No Yule celebration is complete without the aromatic allure of spices such as cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves. These spices are staples in Yule cooking, imbuing foods with flavors that not only delight the palate but also warm the body.
the Oak King and the Holly King
The Oak King and the Holly King are strong representations of the two types of male energy in nature. Mythologically, these two figures fight twice a year to mark the changing of the seasons. This fight represents the natural world's endless cycle of growth and retreat.
Your Debt Free Journal
Debt can be frustrating, exhausting, or overwhelming. And you don’t deserve that! You deserve security, peace of mind, and abundance. You’re worth it.
Set Birthday Goals
Picture yourself a year from now. What is your future self happy about? What is your future self proud of?
Analyze Your 50-30-20 Budget
Add up the total in each of the 50-30-20 budget categories, and then add up all three categories to get your grand monthly spending total.
Free Christmas Budget Spreadsheet
Add the names of everyone you buy gifts for. Don’t forget gift exchanges, office charity drives, and other similar obligations. Then add other holiday expenses that you usually encounter—activities, clothes, decorations, travel, etc.
52 Self-Reflection Journal Prompts
What is a decision you made that changed your life, and how did it?
How are you caring for your body?
What is the creative project that you’ve done that you are the most proud of?
Set Your Second Quarter Personal Finance Goals
By the end of this quarter, we’ll be eating early summer fruits and wearing sandals. It’s a really nice time to plant seeds and start projects—after all, that’s kind of what the earth is doing too. So let’s use that spring energy to our advantage!