The Cailleach's Witches' New Year Twelve-Month Sweep ~ Sweep Out Every Month of the Old Year's Heartache, Jinxes and Dead Weight ~ Burn the Year's Residue at the Midnight Crossroads ~ Cross the Halloween Veil Clean, Light and Unburdened

Twelve months of weight are still clinging to you. On Halloween night, the old year gets swept out the door.

On Saturday, October 31, the Sun is in Scorpio, the sign of endings, death and rebirth. The Moon is waning in Cancer, the sign of home, and a waning moon is the time for clearing out and letting go. Mercury is retrograde in Scorpio until November 13, turning us back to look over everything the past year left behind. Halloween is Samhain, the Witches' New Year, when the old year ends and the veil grows thin. The door between the old year and the new one stands open for just one night, and anything you don't want to carry across can be swept out and left behind.

This is the Cailleach's Twelve-Month Sweep, a Witches' New Year threshold rite performed on Halloween night.

The Cailleach is the ancient Veiled One of Scotland and Ireland, the great winter goddess who takes up her staff at Samhain and rules the dark half of the year. She shaped the mountains, raised the storms and, according to the old stories, swept the land clean so it could rest and be reborn in spring. Long ago, families swept their hearths before Samhain and carried the sweepings outside so no bad luck would follow them into the new year. Sometimes they burned them at the crossroads, where the roads and the worlds meet.

This rite calls the Cailleach's broom into your life. It sweeps through each of the last twelve months, one by one, gathers what was left behind and burns it to ash at the crossroads.

Very effective for:

• A year that held loss, betrayal, a breakup or a hard goodbye
• Bad luck, jinxes or ill wishes that piled up month after month
• Old arguments and resentments that still sour your home
• Feeling heavy, tired or stuck, as if the year is still on your shoulders
• Starting fresh before the holidays and the new calendar year

Unchecked, the leftovers of a hard year follow you across the threshold and quietly color the next one.

The Unexpected Power of the Cailleach's Sweep

The clearing often shows up as:

• A sudden lightness, like a heavy coat finally coming off
• Your home feels cleaner, calmer and brighter
• Old patterns and the same old problems stop repeating
• Stalled luck in love, money and work begins moving again
• Clearer dreams and sharper instincts going into winter
• A real sense of a new beginning that belongs to you

Needed:

• Your full name, birth date and photo if available
• The hardest things this past year left you carrying
• What you want to welcome into the new year

Ready to sweep out the old year and step across the veil clean? This rite is performed on Halloween night, October 31, only. Order by October 31 and let the Cailleach clear your path!