Friends,
Have your resolutions fallen apart yet?
Did you decide, for 2025, to simply not make any, to overplan them, or to just gesture at them jokingly (“My new year’s resolution is to just give myself a break!” ha ha, etc etc)?
Resolutions, are, of course, almost always false promises. They are an attempt to relate to time differently, but they don’t equip anyone to do it. Simply firing up strong feelings of commitment at the beginning of the year doesn’t bring real understanding or generate new life rhythms. 

That said, the good thing about resolutions is that when we make them, we see ourselves in our ideal form. We connect with who we really are because we can see ourselves newly. We identify the version of ourselves that doesn’t smoke, that reads more, that finishes the creative project, that uses the phone less, that applies for the inspiring job position, that meditates, that makes enough money to help the rest of the family, that treats the partner better, and so on…

And this is exactly what the world needs from us. More than ever, we are meant to be where we are meant to be.

The world is changing, recombining, developing. We can see it in our political structures, our networks of relationship, and our economy. Since we are part of the world, our clarity creates a strong voice/node/site for its creative expression. The clearer we are, and the closer we are to our path, the more the world can work out its own development through us.

To put it a bit more starkly, if you aren’t committing to being with what you really know is your offering to the world and to yourself, you aren’t just missing an opportunity, you are missing your chance to participate in the direction the world wants to take.

The essence of the resolution is the decision to be who you are. But the form of the resolution doesn’t help you get there.

If resolutions aren’t the best tool, and their carrying capacity is too small for really envisioning what you can do in a year, what is the best tool?

This is part of why, at the end & beginning of each year, in the bridge months of winter, I offer workshops to help people “map” the year ahead. I’ve been doing this for five years now. It’s always my most popular one-shot and relatively lower cost offering: I want people to move towards what they are meant to move towards, to be in alignment with the right striving and to have the strength to stay with it throughout the year. The workshop (called NAVIGATO this year in case you haven’t been reading these posts) offers a complex but non-complicated process rather than a simple one, and every year, it changes based on what I learned the year before.

Something I brought in recently was the idea of quarterly cycles.

Yes, I love business jargon — after all, it’s often what connects people to their work, their accomplishments, and their financial goals — but I think more usefully, the language of quarters connects us to being directive. Whereas seasons and festivals represent natural and spiritual rhythms that come with the year, the quarters are rhythms of work that give us the knowingness that we’re giving effort to something.

One metaphorical-but-a-bit-more-than-metaphorical way to think about this is the year as day. 

If we see the year as a day, each quarter is 6 hours in the year’s day.

• 12 midnight to 6:00AM – January, February, March
• 6:00AM – 12 noon – April, May, June
• 12 noon – 6:00PM – July, August, September
• 6:00PM – 12 midnight – October, November, December

In the first quarter, slowly, we “wake up” to the year. The pervading darkness gradually lets the light in, and the year dawns on us. Time to wake up, pay attention to how we feel, look towards the day, consider if we woke early enough or if we need to readjust for “sleeping in.”
By the the time the second quarter comes, our day has begun, the same way our work day begins. We are in the “birth” of the year in Spring. We are often filled with energy, and our potential feels wide open. We are ready to do (and often overestimate our ability to do!).
In the third quarter, we are reaping many of the fruits of our labor. We feel exhausted or accomplished. Sometimes the year, like the day, feels like it “flew by” and we didn’t get anything done. The year becomes too late to “recoup.” We have to work with what we’ve got and start “powering down.”
When we get to October, the start of the fourth and final quarter, we feel ourselves moving into a mode of rest. There is still time to work and accomplish things, but more and more, we have to depend on ourselves to complete these tasks. Others are in the (often opaque) duties of their own work. On top of it, we bring with us everything from the “day.” What have we learned?
By the time December comes, it is time to fully rest. It is difficult to get anything new off the ground. We fully feel the effects of the year, and largely have to hold off until the year turns over again. In other words, we have to go to sleep and turn our efforts over to the next day.
Then, January again. And our spirit is stirring in the realm of “dreams,” awaiting the new light.

Perhaps what is most important to tune into now, as February is almost halfway over, and the final month of the first quarter is on its way:

In the first quarter of the year, the time to attune, to map-out, to get a full picture of the year, and to participate in its unfolding is available to us in a way that it never is again throughout the year.

Whether or not you find the year-as-day model a spiritual truth or just an analogy, you will nonetheless likely feel there is something to this:
By the time the second quarter comes, the activity of life overwhelms us with its scents and colors. It’s not too late to start new things, but if we want to consider the entire year, the additional task of reclaiming ground becomes part of the work. In short, you have to do more than you would’ve to get a handle on the rush of time.

Furthermore, you don’t get to as easily participate in the creation of time or the way the world participates in time.
When you engage with your ideal self, in this case through the mapping of your year, you are creating a different relationship with your development, and therefore with time. Rudolf Steiner taught that

“There would be no time if all beings were on the same level of development.”

That includes each human being’s individual development.

Time is an assembly of spiritual developments.

You know this is true because you feel it in a “small” way. Time as a function of development shows up in your life and the lives of everyone you know. Are you swept up in the current of the year and its events? Or are you standing on a bridge looking down at the rushing waters. And if you’re above it, are you able to see your reflection for what it is, or do you just want to jump in and cling to it with melancholic affinity?

So the function of mapping out your year is to
see your ideal self and
its relationship to time and
to create multiple pathways for the world to evolve through.

Whether we realize it or not, that is what’s at stake when we make – and let go of – our resolutions rather than approaching our year more intentionally, purposefully, and clearly.

Friends, this is the LAST CALL to sign up for NAVIGATO, my one-on-one workshop to help you map out your 2025.
SIGN UP HERE TODAY

As of this post, there are ELEVEN spots open. ALL of these access points will be closed by February 24, if they are not sold out before then.

I hope you’ll join me in this purposeful activity.

Thank you,
CH

Here’s the description of the workshop again:

Friends,
What awaits in 2025?
When the world feels like it’s closing in, that’s because it’s close to us, asking us to keep it in mind. But that can mean that the path of a good life seems narrow, requiring a new sort of attentiveness that we’re not used to.

The task ahead of us is staying the true course. That means being where we’re meant to be in our lives, and doing what we’re meant to be doing; not out fear, or of some sense of what everyone else says we “should” do; but from the knowing that comes from experience, love, and creative wisdom.

That’s why I’m offering this year’s year-end/year-beginning one-on-one workshop:

NAVIGATO: GUIDANCE THROUGH YOUR 2025

Together, we’ll develop the tools for navigation for your 2025: We’ll make a map, we’ll connect with what we know to be true, and we’ll make sure we know how to steer the passage though the cliffs as smoothly as possible.

SIGN UP HERE

In our meeting we will:

• Consider the destination and the cliffs – your goals and challenges – where it is you’re going in (and throughout) 2025, and what the obstacles are to get there)
• Create the right tension between your goals & obstacles for you to stay the course
• Think about what life best represents your integrity, because integrity is strength and endurance
• Create a “map” using the tarot through a yearlong reading with a card for every month in 2025 + your yearly “navigation” card
• Look at who/what is with you in the passage (the “crew”), the wisdom and connections you have in your life to assist you, and how to keep them nourished
• Think through what would happen if you capsized in turbulent waters, and how you’d get back to the journey
• Work with the questions, opportunities, and anxieties you see moving forward

A navigato is a worldly person; a journeyer.
And we’re all worldly now.
Let’s chart the journey ahead together.
Let’s stay the course, stay close to best self, navigate the passage with equanimity and calm endurance.

DETAILS / HOW IT WORKS / FAQs
Go to the AEWCH STORE to get access. When you’re there, be sure to use the discount code below.

Access for paid Patreon Patrons – $432.00.
Access for free members & non-patrons – $475.00.

The package includes:
1 x 90 minutes online one-on-one meeting with me, which features in-depth discussion, Q&A, year-long tarot mapping, spiritual & social techniques, tactics, and insights.

When you sign up:
You’ll receive a receipt from Square, and an intake email within 72 hours at via the email address you provide at point of purchase. Please use the email you’d like to be contacted at. Your intake email will provide you with all the information you need, as well as link to the calendar to sign up for a spot that suits your schedule.

You can buy as many packages as you like:
If you’d like to buy access as a gift for someone, email me at

against everyone with connerhabib at g mail dot co m 

with instructions on how and when you’d like me to reach out to recipients.

There is an option to pay in installments
via a boosted patreon membership, but it costs a little more, mostly because patreon takes a percentage out of every membership, but also to keep space open for those who can sign up all at once. I’m happy to offer this option to anyone in need; please email if you truly need it.

I’m very much looking forward to working with all of you via this offering.

I should note that this is, I think, the last time I will be offering a year-end / year-beginning one-on-one offering like this.

I hope to see you soon.

On course with you,
CH