Why do we make New Year’s resolutions? Why don’t we make our resolutions as we celebrate our birthdays? It would be a more accurate new year for oneself than January 1.

New Year’s resolutions began over 4000 years ago with the Babylonians who held the first recorded celebrations to honor the new year —though their celebrations coincided with crop planting in the spring. Promises were made to the gods to pay their debts and return any objects they had borrowed. If promises were kept, they would have good fortune and an abundant crop. (source: https://www.history.com/news/the-history-of-new-years-resolutions)

This year, New Year’s day falls on a Wednesday. If you follow astrology, Mercury rules not only Wednesday but is the ruler of our rational mind and speech. It is a good day for you to take action on those things that you have been thinking about adding into your life.

As I look back on this past year I may not have checked off all of my goals, but it was an amazing year learning and stretching outside of my comfort zone to be a stronger and more centered being.

As we end 2019, reflect on what has gone great this past year. Don’t beat yourself up over what wasn’t accomplished. The universe has a plan for you and maybe it is just not quite the time to achieve it. Keep working on yourself. Be kind to beings regardless of their views, religion, ethnicity or situation. Stretch and get out in nature every day. Try to find at least one thing that you are grateful every day and write it down on little pieces of paper, put it into a jar and in a year look back at all of those wonderful things.