Attuning to the Week Ahead with Cacao
Welcome to the final Soulful Sundays Ritual Guide for 2024.
This year, we’ve journeyed together through themes that have deepened our connection to ourselves and the universe, explored ways to cultivate a daily wellness ritual, and embraced the essence of spiritual alchemy—transforming life’s challenges into gold through mindfulness, intention, and cacao. Each week, we’ve uncovered the power of aligning with our inner truths, one practice at a time.
As we close the year, this week’s theme, “Intention as Prayer,” invites you to reflect on the reality you’ve created and the energy you want to carry forward. Let us honour the cycles we’ve moved through in 2024 and step into this solstice season with gratitude and clarity.
Cacao has been a sacred ally in these rituals, gently opening our hearts, enhancing presence, and grounding us in the now. It bridges the physical and ethereal realms, helping us move from intention to aligned action. Let it anchor your practices this week as we celebrate the close of one chapter and prepare to welcome a new beginning.
We’ll return on January 5th, 2025, to continue this beautiful journey of intentional living. Until then, may this guide support you in navigating the magic and stillness of this sacred season.
Theme of the Week: Intention as Prayer
As we conclude this year’s Soulful Sundays, we reflect on how your intentions—spoken, thought, or enacted—are the threads that weave your reality. Words are spells, actions are prayers, and each small choice becomes part of the larger tapestry of your life.
This solstice season is a perfect time for stillness and recalibration. For those in the Southern Hemisphere, it marks the height of light and abundance, a time to pause and celebrate all that has flourished. For the Northern Hemisphere, it signifies the return of light, an invitation to reflect inward, plant seeds, and dream of what’s to come.
Let this week’s practices guide you in using intention as a tool to align with love, clarity, and purpose.
The Daily Rituals
acao is a sacred plant medicine that enhances and supports your daily practices by gently opening your heart, grounding your energy, and fostering a deeper connection to yourself and the present moment. Its active compounds, such as theobromine, encourage a calm yet focused state of mind, while magnesium helps relax the body and release tension. The natural mood-boosting properties of cacao, including its ability to increase serotonin and dopamine levels, create a sense of joy and clarity, making it an ideal companion for intentional living.
This week, cacao will serve as an ally in deepening your awareness, aligning your intentions, and amplifying the energy of each practice. Allow its warmth to invite you into stillness, its grounding nature to anchor you in the moment, and its heart-opening qualities to guide you toward love and clarity as you move through each day.
Monday: Awareness of Words
- Practice: Reflect on the words you’ve spoken most often this year. Are they aligned with your truth? Journal on how your words have shaped your experiences.
- With Cacao: Begin your practice by sipping cacao slowly, allowing its warmth to relax your body and open your heart. Let its gentle energy bring awareness to your inner dialogue, helping you identify which words resonate with love and which may need re-aligning.
Tuesday: Visualising Your Ideal Reality
- Practice: Spend 10 minutes visualising the reality you’d like to step into in 2025. Imagine every detail—how it feels, looks, and sounds.
- With Cacao: As you drink your cacao, let its grounding properties help you anchor into the present moment, while its heart-opening qualities amplify your connection to your vision. Allow yourself to feel as if this reality is already yours, aligning your emotions with your desires.
Wednesday: Intentional Actions
- Practice: Choose one action to complete with full presence today, honouring the journey you’ve taken this year.
- With Cacao: Drink your cacao mindfully, savouring its taste as a practice of intentionality. Let it remind you of the power of doing even small actions with purpose, connecting your body, mind, and spirit as you move through your day.
Thursday: Prayerful Reflection
- Practice: Write a prayer of gratitude for 2024, expressing thanks for its lessons and blessings.
- With Cacao: Prepare your cacao as an offering of gratitude. As you drink it, allow its nourishing energy to help you connect to a sense of reverence and stillness. Use this sacred moment to deepen your prayer, feeling the gratitude flow through your body.
Friday: Empowering Boundaries
- Practice: Reflect on the boundaries you’ve set or need to set to protect your energy in the year ahead.
- With Cacao: Sip your cacao slowly, imagining its warmth creating a protective shield around your energy field. Let its grounding properties bring clarity to where you need to draw boundaries and the courage to maintain them with love and firmness.
Saturday: Choosing Love Over Fear
- Practice: Journal on any moments this year when you chose love over fear and the impact it had. How can you carry this energy into 2025?
- With Cacao: Hold your cacao close, letting its heart-opening qualities guide you into a space of compassion for yourself and others. Reflect on the times you chose love and imagine this energy expanding, filling your heart with courage for the future.
Sunday: Honouring the Solstice
- Practice: Create a solstice ritual that feels meaningful to you. This could involve lighting a candle, meditating, or setting intentions for the year ahead.
- With Cacao: Conclude your week with a cacao ritual under the energy of the solstice. As you sip, feel its essence connecting you to the rhythms of nature. For the Southern Hemisphere, celebrate the abundance of light and life. For the Northern Hemisphere, honour the return of light and the seeds of potential waiting to grow.
Bringing It All Together
As we conclude this year’s Soulful Sundays, let us honour the journey we’ve shared—a year of cultivating intentional living and embracing the transformative power of spiritual alchemy.
Cacao has been our sacred companion, opening our hearts, grounding our practices, and bridging the physical with the spiritual. Let its magic continue to support you in the year ahead, inviting more love, clarity, and purpose into your life.
The solstice reminds us of the beauty of cycles and transitions, offering an opportunity to pause, reflect, and recalibrate. Whether you are celebrating the peak of light in the Southern Hemisphere or the return of light in the Northern Hemisphere, may this time bring you clarity, peace, and inspiration for what’s to come.
Thank you for allowing Sol Alkhemi to be a part of your year. We wish you a joyful and restful solstice season, filled with love and light.
We’ll see you on January 5th, 2025. Until then…
Your ritual awaits.
