Releasing Bundle for the new year...

Make Your Own Releasing Bundle Instructions


If you'd like to make a releasing bundle you'll need:


A 5x5" square of cotton or hemp fabric, black is a good color for this, as it contains all the colors and represents the shadow side of things that we are releasing

An offering of loose tobacco (I used a very small pinch of tobacco and also some white sage and lavender buds-such small amounts-a little goes a long way.)  If you don't have tobacco handy - use a pinch of corn meal

Many tiny slips of paper to write your releasing wishes on

String or thread to tie it up with


1. Assemble your plant material on your square of fabric 

2. Add the slips of paper that you've written what you'll be burning up and away, and roll them up nice and tiny before you add them to the pile.

3. Gather the corners up and tie tightly with the string/thread. It will look like a little ball with pointy tips

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Solstice was on December 21st! 
Now is the time to try to plan to set aside some time and build a fire to burn away some of those things you planned to release for the new year... If you do not have access to an outdoor firepit, or barbecue, you can burn it outside, in an open space, and use an earthenware bowl or metal pan.  Do be careful and keep the flames under close watch!    

Verbally thank the Earth and consider making an offering to the Earth of a tiny stone or crystal to thank her for all that she carries for us.


Suggestions for things to release: 
You can write this on your slips of paper:  

I release 


Fear into Courage


Not Enoughness into Plenty                   

Old patterns of behavior into fresh responses and vulnerability           

Anger into Cleansing Breath

Sorrow into Hope

Grief into Rebirth

Loneliness into Circle and Support

Disempowerment into Confident Action

Creative Dormancy into Full Expression

Superficiality into True Being

Masks into Love of What Really Is

Shortsightedness into Eagle's Vision

Limitations into Possibility

Projections into Conscious Ownership

Stuckness into Movement

Depression into Light

Bondage into Freedom

Control into a Loose, Flexible Grasp

Obsession into Letting It Be

Anxiety into Flow

Fragmentations into Wholeness

Duality into Oneness

Shame into Acceptance of the Processes of Life

Mistrust into Trust

Judgment into Allowing

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All these things are little beliefs that keep us from moving forward into our path.  We can start here and begin to process this out as the new year enters and heals us.  Us this time to bring yourself to a place of release and renewal.  



"Imagine if we felt held enough by the Universe, by All That Is, and could shed the old skins to allow a rebirth when the light returns...imagine if we could hold our visions for ourselves as visions for the world and see how what we do as visionary women ripples out and is in alignment with the new consciousness trying to awaken everywhere.
Aho!"



Instructions and quotes from 
Pixie Campbell at 
http://pixiecampbell.typepad.com


adaptation by Patsy Patricia