Closing Out the Years: A Guided Ceremony to Clear, Let Go and Open to New

Light of the Way by A Line Within

Ashley Hämäläinen

Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.8 • 818 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Happy New Year! This episode isn't a regular episode, it's a ceremony. Over the past few years, so many of us have carried weight, change, grief, growth, and deep transformation. Closing out 2025 (and truly, the past five years) feels not only important but necessary before stepping into the energy of 2026. In this episode, Ashley guides listeners through a powerful closing ritual to help release what has been held, reconnect to truth, and open to what comes next.

Ashley guides you thorugh this deeply powerful ceremoyn that can quantum leap your energy and leave you feeling clear, present and heart-open. Ashley will guide you on how to prepare your space for this ceremony, guide you through a Line Activation and then begin the ceremony. You'll need more time than an hour for this episode to fully sink into the experience. You will also need a pen and a journal, as well as anything else to create a beautiful space -- Ashley will guide you through everything. Enjoy!

Journaling Prompts

What did these years ask of me that I didn't know I had?
Where was I stretched, humbled, softened, or broken open?
What identities did I outgrow — even if I clung to them for safety?
What am I finally ready to release from this cycle of my life?
What truths surfaced that I can no longer ignore?
Where did I abandon myself — and where did I return?
What blessings arrived disguised as disruptions?
What have I learned about who I am when everything falls away?
What am I proud of, even if it felt messy or incomplete?
What am I grateful for that I didn't see clearly until now?
What part of me is ready to rise again?
What is opening that I can finally allow myself to receive?
What feels like light on the horizon in my life?
What would it feel like to stop dimming myself?
What am I committed to honouring within myself this year?
What am I officially declaring complete?
What am I leaving behind with love, gratitude, and release?
What am I stepping into with open hands and an open heart?

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome here. I'm Ashley Hamalinen, host of Light of the Way and founder of Aline Within. And here I share
0:09.4	personal stories, lived experiences, and the guidance I receive through the Akashic Records to support
0:15.9	and nourish your soul as you awaken and return to yourself. May this show be a light of the way for you,
0:23.4	illuminating your path as you rise. Welcome, welcome, welcome here, my loves, welcome. Thank you so much
0:35.9	for being here today for this very special very important
0:40.6	ritual episode practice of closing out the years i say the years because we're not just closing out
0:49.6	2025 if you're like me i closed out 2022 to 2025 maybe you're closing out 20 to 2025 maybe, I closed out 2022 to 2025. Maybe you're closing out 2020 to 2025. In any case,
1:00.3	this is not a regular podcast episode. We are going to be going through a lot of reflecting,
1:06.7	a lot of journaling, a lot of digging deep, and it's important. It's really, really,
1:13.7	really important because 2026, if I have received anything at all about 2026, it is that
1:23.0	if you did not do your work in these past five years of releasing, of letting go, of surrendering,
1:31.9	of allowing yourself to go through the deep rebirth experience that we were all guided to go through,
1:41.0	it's going to be a lot faster in 26. I used the analogy to you. So I said, like,
1:51.3	it felt fast for us. It did, but it was over three years. Well, we're still kind of in it.
1:58.4	But this practice that I did that I'm going to share with you
2:04.2	in this episode, it really helped me close out a lot and see a lot and release a lot. But it was over
2:12.6	many years for us of releasing, of surrendering, of letting go of identities, of letting go of physical things,
2:19.9	for me, letting go of a marriage, my house, my things, who I was in this company, many identities,
2:29.1	money, safety, security, like letting go of all of that, like literally surrendering home and food
2:37.4	to God, like letting go of everything. It was stretched over a few years, really, and it felt fast,
2:46.0	but I said to you so, ours was like, it's like shaving really slow really slow actually 2026 feels like if you have not
2:55.0	let go of what you need to let go it's going to be like waxing like it's going to be just ripped out
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