My Top 3 End of the Year Rituals with Deep Visioning Work to help you end the year with peaceful closure. With December looming with white snow, carols and crossing off our gift checklists, I keep feeling in reflection this year has been far from EASY for any of us. December meets us with an intense EXHALE and a moment of silent pause that feels like the sensation of getting off a rollercoaster….still wobbly, still processing, still wondering wtf was that…. that’s been the main theme i keep seeing and for me personally? It’s been an intense year of growth. the Ashley that walked into 2025 is not the same present self that I am right now writing this to you. And the weird part is…i’m still grappling with the pieces of that, like a puzzle that isn’t quite solved. I’ve been trying to figure out how to write it all down or even reflect on it in a podcast episode but I don’t think that’s the point.
the Point is Change is inevitable. Maybe we don’t always understand it at first like a flower mid-bloom doesn’t know it’s petals will one day stretch open. However, what I do know is and has been the main theme of 2025 for me has been:
Growth Is a Spiral.
You may think you healed something or discovered something only to notice you are revisiting it again from a different perspective that changes your entire worldview.
I remember a wise friend once told me to recognize that Perspective is like a spiral staircase. Sometimes it feels like you’re on the bottom, clueless, not sure how to walk forward and sometimes you’re at the Top again looking down the stairs realizing all the pieces of the puzzle suddenly got you here to this moment now you see it with new eyes. The Bird”s eye view staring back at you.
It might be the same pattern, the same truth even but…you’re different. You’ve changed so all the knowledge you’ve gained, the experience suddenly seeps together and you’re left with the accumulation of it all. The Snowball effect is working behind the scenes.
When I think about reflecting on the end of the year and growth that immediately comes up for me to remember and realize: Growth is a spiral, you’re not meant to be the same person you were a year ago. This is the power of not just inner work but also acknowledging self-awareness through mindfulness.
It’s knowing that Awareness will always be part one but integration? THIS is where you don’t even realize you’re changing until you suddenly wake up and realize you’re already new.
I don’t think we know when it really happens, a sudden mindset shift, a healed chakra there, an epiphany in your journal, a moment of contemplating the cycle of life-death-rebirth….it doesn’t matter.
Because…you can’t go back, even if you wanted to.
This entire year has felt like Hard Pivots, Stepping wildly outside of my comfort zone, embracing another layer of emotional freedom and feeling the grief of the old self dissipating.
I’ve been reflecting on Who I was when this all started,
A wild dream. taking two years to make an ecourse, Struggling hard, writing energy reports, free mentoring on tumblr, making The Awakened Library, talk of astrology, manifesting dreams, new age concepts, free gifts after free gifts and Ascension symptoms being my viral website page over the years for people to find me the same way I once awakened from finding a list just like the one i wrote.
She’s not gone but The Awakened State has evolved into something else entirely.
It’s a space of Intuition Development, Emotional Mind-Body Healing, neuroscience, subconscious reprogramming, & teaching others to navigate Spiritual Awakening successfully by remembering their intuitive gifts.
I never wanted to stop The Awakened State, though I’ve thought about it many times, what I wasn’t seeing, but now i do: Growth is a spiral. It’s not that the message has changed; it’s gotten clearer, louder, direct, scientific, even, and tangible. As if by showing up and healing my throat chakra, it’s gotten clearer over the years I’ve kept going. i’m working on what this really means, standing at the top of the staircase only to find another staircase hiding, getting ready to climb, probably, but I think that’s what change is really like sometimes.
We don’t always know the answers, and we have to walk with the fear of uncertainty, knowing we’re safe regardless. Sometimes our intuition has to show us the message 30 times before we really listen, and sometimes it’s just a whisper that can change our entire life once we see a different perspective.
Regardless, I thought it would seem iconic to touch on the annual end of the year rituals that always help me anchor myself with closure and New Beginnings.
My Top 3 End of the Year Rituals For Massive Closure, Spiritually Aligned Goals & Visioning
This process I go in depth inside Awaken Your Aligned vision Workshop These 3 end of the year rituals are taken from my popular course Awaken Your Aligned Vision Workshop (It’s on Holiday sale right now for 30% off inside Giftmas) where you learn how to Set up a Potent Vision, Intention and Manifestation Game Plan for your New Year. It’s essentially a Visioning Workshop for your New Year goals, intentions and Aspirations so you can step into your new year with confident clarity & a potent game plan to help you align to your deepest goals and desires.
- Reflect
- Vision
- Get Practical by Quarter
Step 1 End of the year ritual: Reflect & Detach
December always gives us the feels, but as we tend to slow down due to the solstice, it’s a time to RELAX, REFLECT, & DETACH. I like to call this time period window: the Sacred Pause.I don’t know about you, but this time of the year I always make time for DEEP relaxation. Between holiday madness and the kids getting over the Christmas high, it’s a time to slow down.
Detachment ALWAYS creates Clarity.
When we detach by stepping back and giving ourselves that sacred pause, we can come back fully refreshed. It’s in that recharging energy that we can do this classic brain dump to get a clear head and open heart space. It’s actually when we fully detach not only do we gain clarity on what we actually want, but we filter out the noise that is making us feel indecisive or stuck. Sometimes the best thing we can do is stop doing the same thing over and over again. This is where detachment comes in.
Reflection:
Reflection helps us make peace with the year and creates closure.
Some of the best Questions to ask yourself are:
- How did i grow and what did i learn this year?
- What has been the ultimate top lesson of the year?
- What are things I wanted to do but didn’t accomplish, why didn’t i accomplish them? (good notes for 2026)
- What do i feel held me back this year that I could get better at next year?
- What has been the top tools, practices, teachers and even courses/books that helped me this year?
- What did I find out I absolutely Love this year?
- What is there to celebrate? Big and Small?
- What was my top moment of the year?
Step 2 End of the year ritual: VISION
Finally after getting clear, start reconnecting back to your dreams and vision for the year ahead. I do this through my favorite process of Soul Mapping my Intentions and how I desire to feel. This is my favorite ritual because it’s such a revealing process to look at the bird’s eye view of your life.
I step into Deep Visioning work, I love to plan by Quarter, Not always yearly. However I will use this time to set up some Intentions around what i want my next year’s focus to be.
I don’t focus on my vision board, “word of the year” or my “one-off resolution” because i don’t think that’s always practical or goes deep enough.
Instead what I do is I go deep into the heavy process of DREAMING and allowing myself to really step into My Next Level Self, The Vision beyond the Vision – and Ask higher self,
What do I see here? How do I feel? What feels like the intuitive next step?
And I’ll allow myself to start creating what I call MY Soul Mapping Process
I spend time honoring both Masculine goals and Feminine Goals.
Masculine – more structured physical Goals
And Feminine More Self-care, relationships, inner work goals.
Then I go even deeper into Identity Work
and Ask Myself: How can I step into more Possibilities Next Year? What Can I change in my habits, and routines or where do I need to shift next in my life?
Then I’ll go into the practical side
Step 3 End of the year ritual: Get Practical By Quarter
Often this is where people go to EXTREMES (which sets them up for failure) or they barely do anything (which also sets them up for failure). That’s why getting practical is where the work starts working. You dream big but then you dial back by Quarter – we don’t need to figure out everything and micromanage the entire year. We need to just allow enough clarity to create movement. This means we need to look at:
1.Your thoughts & beliefs
2. Your habits
3. Your daily actions
think about it like this, even if you have a vision board of a hot bikini bod you still need to start an exercise routine, figure out how many days a week you’re exercising, what muscle isolation groups you’re working on, your health and meal plan, etc.
The main thing missing from most goals is the THOUGHTS, NS, and Habits to BACK IT UP so action starts to become effortless.
So the question isn’t “i wish this would happen”, It’s questions that are more like:
If i was next level version of me, What would i immediately shift in my habits?
How would I start to show up differently?
What are 1-3 changes i would immediately start making?
What solid quarterly goals can I start to set up for next year so I stay focused?
Finally, What thoughts help support those goals?
This is part of the process I go extremely deep into in my Awaken Your Aligned Vision Workshop, which is now 30% off in the Holiday sale until the end of the year.
This Process is more than just laying out a “plan” or ‘steps’ – Eff the steps and plans!
It’s about realizing – If you don’t claim your Life for what it’s given to you for,
Next Year – You’ll wake up with the same resolution, same word and same goals – but you’re one year older.
and While everything may be great on the surface.
Your Soul,
your Desired longing for the dreams of your heart,
And the more you deny yourself of that pleasure – You feel it. you start to feel it in every area of your life.
When I take this time out of my last few days of the year – I allow myself to Create NEW experiences, New memories, New Goals, Fresh Vision so i am Born Again in the new year.
While that may sound a little dramatic.
When we take the time to get super intentional with our Life, we are bound to see a shift occur because you decided in that moment:
I am not choosing to settle – I choose to own my co-creative power – and Walk forward towards my desires Instead of settling.
I choose to go for it anyway despite the crazy talk in my mind.
I choose ME and my dreams, not the dreams I inherited, not the limits I set, not the conditioned opinions of what people ‘expect of me’
I choose to do things my way, In my energy of highest good and Know that – When I take the Time to Vision,
I’m not just writing words on paper –
I’m choosing to re-code and write my reality.
And to me,
that’s one of the most powerful things you can EVER do for yourself.
Because you’re finally telling the universe –
No – more.
I’m writing this story,
And I’ll show you how it’s going to go
And that,
Is the start of everything,
To Dreaming of Fresh New Beginnings,
Remember
the universe is inside of you and you hold the power to design your life,
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Ashley is an Empowerment Coach, Spiritual Mindset & Manifesting Teacher. Creator & Mastermind behind The Awakened State. A place of Empowerment to Heal & Manifest a Soul-Aligned Life. She Supports people on energy work, manifestation, mind body healing, kundalini awakening, subconscious reprogramming & moving into a place of emotional empowerment to own your power. She teaches others to Dismantle Resistance, Live Beyond Fear and Start waking up their Manifesting Potential through mind-body healing. Her Mission is to Help Others Empower their Life & guide them towards their own Personal Alignment. When she’s not blogging or teaching, she’s out Hiking in Nature with her husband, loves baking from pinterest recipes or going on adventures with her two kids.
