Each year I like to look back over the previous year, and then set goals for the coming year. Many people do this on Jan 1st; I prefer to do it on my birthday. I often refine the accomplishments and goals until my new year, Samhain, but the bulk of the work is done on or around my birthday. I also like to do a tarot reading.

Last year, I accomplished:
Get published in a book/anthology (TWO! Neither published, so you’ll have to keep waiting on the announcement)
sold an article to Llewellyn annuals (technically, for 2017)
started a garden
organized and compiled my scrap books
traveled somewhere else on the Bucket List — Stonehenge, Paris (again), London (again)
Skype’d a ritual
updated my book inventory
update my music inventory
updated my photo albums — labeled ALL of them accurately
redo our guest room to make it exercise-friendly
finish SOMA work
re-kindled an old friendship, deepened my connections to others

In the coming year, I want to:
start pod casting for the Art of Ritual Class
re-create and update the Art of Ritual lesson plan
re-launch the Art of Ritual
create a system of advanced lessons with my coven
develop a coven leaders’ handbook
revise our 2nd * handbook
finish another needlepoint project
start composting (vermiculture) and install water barrels
take a cooking class
take up Tai Chi or Belly Dancing or Yoga (from my bucket list)
finish Household Binder (from my bucket list)
exercise daily (barring illness)
continue to lose weight (another 25 lbs would be great, 50 would be excellent)
maintain alignment
return to Muay Thai

As always, my goals are ambitious.

(to see previous posts like this, search ‘tabula rasa’)