This is a spontaneous newsletter, drafted with love 💗 below you'll find ways to connect more deeply, including 2024 tarot readings, coworking and my Substack.

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🛋️ Settling into something fresh

Hi friend, I hope this finds you well on your end of the inbox. I wasn't planning on sending anything, but I got my computer back today after a brief (and necessary) respite. It just felt right somehow, to come and draft you a note when we're winding down the year, which I hope you are spending in ways that are supportive to you.

I love a new year. I love a fresh start in general. There's nothing like setting an intention that can help light the way, to help us generate a spark through these darkest, coldest months of the year.

Through trial and error, I have had to learn how to construct these intentions differently. To make them anything but SMART. To set them with fewer specifics and more abstraction. I want to feel more connected to my community, is one of mine this year. I want to feel more energized, might be another. I haven't settled on anything yet. I probably won't be settled on them until the end of January, tbh. Intentions simply need time to marinate, time to notice what needs tending.

There are lots of ways into solving both those intentions, many possible routes I could take and adapt and play with. It gives me the grace to do some experimenting to see what works best for me, using my lived experience. I trust I'll find a route there somehow, even if I'm not sure how yet, or if I only have the capacity to take baby steps right now. I need a lot of freedom to choose, so I give my goals lots of latitude.

I want you to know, I feel it in my bones, that the things you yearn for will blossom with the gift of your attention. And that I believe, the time horizon that dearly held intentions change on, is often much longer than we grant ourselves the time and space to move through.

My heartfelt wish for you is this — for gentleness, space and patience with your dreams. Choosing to name them is already helping you move in the direction of calling them into your life, work and relationships. Good luck and stay soft out there ✨

🐚 Tarot readings for the new year

I'm planning reading for my 2024 on the first day of the new year (although that's generally kind of early for me — I usually ooze into the new year and get to it eventually, luxuriantly). This has been one of my most consistently supportive practices for myself, to give my year more context and stick a toe into the bathwater on what I'm in for in the upcoming year.

I'm sitting with folks for their annual readings over the next couple weeks — one hour, you and me, in a Zoom room, with a follow-up recording and journalling prompts to deepen into throughout the year. $117 CAD, book below or just hit reply if interested.

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🌬️ Drop into the Flow Zone

Same rad coworking, now featuring a name that brings me joy. Weekly on Mondays at 1pm ET / 11am PT. We say hi and set a goal, I play groovy music, we get down to it. Perfect for clearing your inbox, catching up on admin, or getting design or writing done.

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🌚🌝 Drift into the Catch + Release

I've started this new thing on my Substack, where I'm working with a pair of prompts timed with the moon cycle: what am I calling in more of? (new moon) What can I release and carry less of? (full moon).

This came out of experimenting with the idea, what happens if I root to schedules other than the calendar? An invitation to notice more natural rhythms of self reflection than the end of a week, month or year. One that draws on histories of meaning-making that I'm curious to explore more of and write into. So yeah, subscribe if it sounds like your thing.

I will also say I'm not entirely wedded to sticking with Substack — the actions of its leadership lately haven't been choices that feel aligned with my values. And I'm also just really sick of toxic ideologies poisoning so many drinking wells in this era of the internet. I might move? Who knows? I am, as always, just feeling this out as I go. Signing up for my Substack will make sure you get access to my more emotive writing, wherever it lands.

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Sending you peace and love,
for the new year, for always,

​Amanda Caswell (she/her) is a human being who wants to know what life feels like for you. Forwarded this by a friend? ​Subscribe for reflections + events to support your self-inquiry.

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