Author: Jill Smith
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Entering the Temple Within: Humanity as Our Uniting Prayer
In heavy times, we do not look away. We pause. We breathe. We remember. At Mainely Mystics, we acknowledge the weight many are carrying fear, uncertainty, and the ache of watching humanity struggle to remember itself. And still, we choose to enter the temple within. When the outer world feels chaotic, the inner temple becomes…
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New Moon in Capricorn — January 18, 2026
A powerful New Moon in Capricorn invites you to build a life you can actually live in, one rooted in truth, aligned goals, and long-term magic. This moon asks what you’re ready to commit to in 2026.
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Closing the Sacred Door of 2025 & Lighting the Way Into 2026
There is something holy about the final hours of a year. Not the loud kind of holy. Not the sparkly, forced-joy version. But the quiet kind the kind that asks us to sit with what really happened. As 2025 draws to a close, I feel deep gratitude not because it was easy, but because it…
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Christmas Is: A Sacred Pause Between Worlds
Christmas is the last great rush of the year and then, finally, the moment we stop. It is the conscious breath. The intentional pause. The soft exhale where we allow the true meaning of this day to reach us not just as a holiday, but as a living, breathing experience of connection. This breath extends…
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Title: The Mask That Would Not Age
Subtitle: On illusion, embodiment, and making peace with time There is a particular kind of dissonance that happens when you encounter someone who has spent their life running from consequence—and then watch them try to outrun time itself. Aging is not the enemy that we were taught to fear. It is a record. It is…
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✨ Christmas Through the Eyes of a Modern Witch ✨
By Mainely Mystics There’s something tender about waking up on Christmas Eve and feeling that familiar pull in my heart — the soft glow of childhood memories, the scent of pine, the quiet sense of holiness that settles over the world whether anyone names it or not. And every year, I find myself in the…
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🌑 Mother’s Night — The First Breath of Yule
Tonight marks Mother’s Night, the quiet opening of the Twelve Days of Yule. Before the feasting. Before the light. Before the world turns outward again. This night belongs to the Mothers. Not just the ones who raised us, but the ones who carried us through time— the grandmothers, the great-grandmothers, the unseen women whose names…
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Blessed Yule: Honoring the Return of the Light
At Mainely Mystics, Yule is not about perfection, productivity, or pushing forward. Yule is about pausing. It is the sacred still point of the year—the longest night, the quiet womb of winter—where darkness is not feared, but honored as the place where light is reborn. On Yule, we remember that even when the world feels…
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🌒 How to Prepare for a Universal Year 1
Clearing Space for the Cycle Ahead Before a new cycle begins, there is always a pause—a moment of quiet integration where we gather what we’ve learned and decide what we’re ready to carry forward. As we approach 2026, a Universal Year 1, preparation is not about doing more. It’s about making space. New beginnings thrive…
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🌅 2026: A Universal Year 1
The Year of Conscious Beginnings, Identity, and New Direction Every nine years, we arrive at a powerful threshold in numerology: a Universal Year 1. In 2026, that threshold opens again—inviting us into a fresh cycle of growth, identity, and intentional creation. If the previous year felt like closure, release, or emotional integration, that’s no accident.…
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