Integrating 2025 Cacao Ritual
This month, our Cacao Ritual is designed to help you integrate, reflect and evaluate this year.
It gives you that sacred time to remind yourself you have:
Shown up, when you could have hidden.
Overcame the obstacles, when you could’ve fallen.
Kept going, when it all got too much.
Learned so much about yourself.
This powerful cacao ritual is an opportunity to take stock, restore balance, and prepare yourself mentally and emotionally for a clean start.
It offers sacred time within sacred space, so you can gain perspective, find closure, and set more intentional foundations for what comes next.
It is also a moment to pause and celebrate you, and where you are now, as we stand at the threshold of 2026.
By integrating your experiences now, you can step into the new year with more focus, clarity, and a renewed sense of direction.
🌿 Preparation
Your favourite delicious cup of ceremonial-grade Ritual Cacao (CLICK HERE for ideas if you don’t have a favourite brew yet)
A quiet space where you won’t be disturbed
A journal + pen
A mirror
A song that makes you feel uplifted, positive or reminds you of this year.
An open heart
(Optional altar items) Place anything that symbolises achievement, growth, resilience, joy, or transition for you this year.
🍫 Opening the Ritual
Once you’re ready, get cosy and sit comfortably.
Hold your cacao with both hands.
Take three slow breaths.
On the inhale, imagine pulling your scattered energy back home.
On the exhale, release the pressure of what you “should have done this year.”
Whisper (or speak aloud): “I honour myself. I honour what I’ve walked through this year. I honour who I’m becoming.”
Take your first sip.
✍️ Reflection: The Quiet Applause
In your journal, answer the following:
1. What am I most proud of from this year, even if it feels small? Micro-wins count. Showing up counts. Rest counts.
2. What challenge did I make it through that I haven’t fully acknowledged? Give yourself the credit you skipped at the time.
3. What quality in myself grew stronger this year Patience? Courage? Honesty? Boundaries? Tenderness?
4. What do I want to say “thank you” to myself for? Write it as a love note: Thank you, [your name], for…
💫 The Mirror Moment
Let the warmth of Ritual Cacao amplify the warmth of your self-love and recognition.
Place your hand over your heart, look in your mirror and look deep into your eyes. Concentrate all your focus on your eyes until you go beyond the physical into a deeper place. If you are penetrating deeply your mind will become quiet. In that quietness, your heart can speak.
Ask your reflection what was the most important lessons you needed to learn in 2025. See what messages come bubbling through, and write them in your journal.
Once you have received the messages say to your reflection:
“I see you. I’m proud of you. You made it through 2025, and you are amazing!.”
Drink again.
🔥 Embodied Release
Play your chosen uplifting song(s).
Dance with yourself and let your body move how it wants to reflect this year. How does 2025 feel in your body? How can you express is in movement?
Let your body dance the truth of your love for yourself.
🌟 Closing
When you have come to stillness, place your hands around your Ritual Cacao cup.
Say: “May I continue to honour my journey.
May I embrace both my blessings and my burdens this year.
May I walk into 2026 aligned, connected and ready for the next adventure.”
As you finish your cacao, ask the Cacao Spirit for any final messages She may have for you to help you integrate and understand why things happened this year.
Take a final breath of appreciation for yourself, and everything this year has given you, knowing that you are stronger, more courageous and more able to embrace the new year.
For a deeper experience, join Rebekah Shaman for her final live online Cacao Ceremony of 2025 to reflect, evaluate and integrate 2025, by celebrating your achievements, mourning your losses and clearing the way for the new year.