There is an old spiritual tradition of pagan origin that celebrates the 12 nights from Christmas Even until the 6th of January. It is a 13 days long period characterized by daily themes to reflect, meditate and dream about. New years Eve there is a break to make a dreamboard for the next year, so the 13 days have 12 holy night and the night between 31st of December and 1st of January is a break to make the collage.

There are a number of things that you can do to mark the passing of these 12 nights that reflect the 12 months of the year to come:
- Meditate on the theme of the day, see video to find out the theme for each day;
- Write down your dream(s). Don't be surprise if you are more prolific than normal in this period;
- Choose a tarot card each day;

I made a video last year whit the details of the themes of every night as they have been transmitted in the tradition, I add the video below for you to watch.
As I do the 12 holy nights ritual since many years I am enthusiastic to share this practice. What you get out of the work in the first night will help you in January, from the second night will tell you somethings about your February and so on, every night will tell you something about a month in the new year. It is quite unique how spiritually you can connect with the year to come by focusing during this special time of the year.

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Where it comes to goal setting you more easily picture a business environment, a masculine environment characterized by sharpness, efficiency and effectiveness. If we had to put a female filter to all this we would have:

Goal setting becomes expressing desires
A business environment would become the kitchen of an herbalist or the practice space of an healer,
Sharpness would be replaced by intuition,
Efficiency would become attention
And effectiveness would turn into wholeheartedness.

What would actually be different?
And do we have to choose for one of the two styles or can we combine them?

What is always really important for a goal regarding our life on earth, in contact with matters and with other people, is that the goal is solid and grounded. This is the great added value of SMART goals. You cannot have a goal that is SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Result oriented and Time bounded) and that is not grounded, not if you have done it right.
 
However you can make SMART any kind of goal even useless, irrelevant, and even unethical or criminal goals.
​When you apply spirituality to a goal you pass your goal to a test that is likely to make it relevant, ethical and contributing not only to a better life for you but also contributing to society at large.

There are some important questions to ask yourself to apply spirituality to your goal. Please take the time to let the questions sink so that you can really feel which answers arises for you.