I personally have done a version of this for years, especially since I created the Path of Possibility and Power Circle in the Magical Healing Garden in my back yard, ten years ago. I’m so excited that stone masons are here today to “foof up” the Path!

The suggestions below are from my mentor Jennifer McLean www.mcleanmasterworks.com and I appreciate the thorough instructions.

Over the years I’ve found that setting intentions is as powerful (if not more) for me than setting specific goals. When I intend to live on a higher level of BEING, goals in the third dimension come to fruition more easily. Here are the tips:

On a sheet of paper, write out all of the things from the current year that you’ve outgrown, no longer want in your life, no longer work for you, and anything else you feel you want to shed and leave behind.

On a separate piece of paper, write all of the things you can think of and feel that you want to grow and expand in the new year.

Then burn each paper in separate dishes or shells, making sure all pieces are turned to ashes.

Then, when cooled, put them into separate envelopes or containers (film canister, Ziploc baggie, etc.) and mark “to shed” and “to grow” on the container.

Around 5 minutes before midnight, start visualizing all the things on the “to shed” list, and see them slip away, see them blown away and washed away, out of your energy field, out of your life and out of your reality.

Then go outside and pour the “to shed” ashes into your hand and let the wind scatter the ashes away and release them and all they represent, as the old year fades away.

After midnight, after blessing the new year, with the second container “to grow”, visualize all of these goals, desires, etc. coming to fruition, to this level of reality.

I bring that envelope down to the garden, and with a stick dig a small hole, then plant these ashes in the earth, near a tree or in a special place, (for those in apartments, I encourage them to use their favorite houseplant).

The ashes are a reminder of the life cycle, the power of nature and the honoring of Mother Earth, that these seeds of hopes and dreams are nurtured into reality, in the coming year.

This ceremony was offered by one of Jennifer’s subscribers Maureen Collins, a wonderful artist and jeweler back in 2009. She has done this ever since with tremendous success and wanted to share it again with you all for 2012. You may want to try this and tweak it and do it a way that suits you.