How I Found My Way Back to Coming Into Focus

Juniper
7 days ago
3 min read

It's almost been two years - to the day - since I wrote a blog post on my website. 2024 was a year of great challenges & changes there was a lot of upheaval and my whole life shifted, and I feel like 2025 was a year of rest & recovery and as 2025 comes to a close something is asking me to return. It's a calling I can't ignore...

Me wearing a dark green shirt, with a mala, and my silver ankh necklace. I'm leaning against a tan coloured wall and have a slight smile on my face.

Every December, the world seems to quiet itself. The days shorten, the light becomes softer, and something within me begins to shift — a kind of inner turning. But I didn’t always know how to interpret that feeling.

In December 2022, I followed an impulse I didn’t fully

understand. I came across a ritual, different from setting New Years resolutions - a count down to Winter Solstice. I resonated deeply with me and so for 13 days I sat down in my sacred space with a candle, a handful of paper, and a heart that was aching for clarity. I wrote thirteen wishes — small hopes, quiet longings — and burned them one by one.

I didn’t expect anything from it. Honestly? I forgot about it almost immediately. I moved on with life, as we do, carrying my questions and dreams into a new year without thinking much about what I had released into the flames.

It wasn’t until October of 2023 — ten months later — that something nudged me awake. Looking back, I could see the threads. Subtle synchronicities. Moments that felt like whispers. Unexpected shifts. I realized that the 13th wish - the one I was responsible for bringing about had taken root quietly in the background of my life.

It was humbling. A little wild. And deeply comforting.

That simple ritual had become a catalyst — even when I wasn’t consciously tending to it.

In 2023, I felt called to share this ritual with a group of beautiful souls. I expanded the simple ritual into a beautiful group experience. We gathered together to burn our wishes, down to the last one - our intention for the new year. Then we walked with each other into 2024.

2024: The Year of the Pause

In 2024, I felt called once again to share this ritual with this group of seven souls. We began the year together, anchoring each other in reflection, breath, and intention.

But as the months unfolded, life asked something different of me. A deep personal transformation swept through my world — one I couldn’t ignore or navigate on the surface. I needed to step inward, to tend to myself with gentleness, honesty, and space.

And because of that, I wasn’t able to walk the entire ritual to the end with the group. For a long time, I wrestled with that. But sometimes the pause is the lesson. Sometimes surrender is the path.

2025: The Return

Here we are again — standing at the threshold of a new winter. After everything that’s unfolded these past few years, I feel myself being pulled back to the heart of this ritual. Not as a task or a responsibility… but as a homecoming.

A lit candle, a mala necklace, and a journal.

And so, Coming Into Focus is returning too.

This year, beginning December 8th, we’ll spend 13 evenings together — each with its own intention, ritual, and moment of release.

Each night we will:

• Light a candle

• Burn one wish

• Draw one card

• Reflect, breathe, soften

• Listen for what wants to come into focus

It’s simple. It’s sacred. And it’s meant to meet you exactly where you are.

Whether you’re joining this journey for the first time or returning after walking it before — you belong here. This ritual isn’t about doing it perfectly. It’s about giving yourself the space to be held, to reflect, and to come home to your own inner clarity.

Why This Matters

This practice has changed me — quietly, steadily, unexpectedly. It teaches me to trust timing. To soften into surrender. To recognize the way my soul speaks when I give it space. To let go of what no longer feels aligned so something true can take its place.

Which is why I was called to overhaul my online presence to make space to create the next Coming Into Focus, and allow myself to evolve into the 2026 version of me.

I want to share that with you. Not from a place of instruction, but from a place of companionship. We’re all weaving our way through this life, following threads we sometimes don’t see until they reveal their patterns much later.