Revolutions Not Resolutions
Because resolution culture doesn’t love you.
Resolutions are sown from shame.
Revolutions Not Resolutions is my annual teaching framework (formerly known as Seeding the Year) for engaging with Time at the Gregorian calendar shift. We root from your dream field. We plant from your desires.
It’s for people a lot like my younger self – a nerd for goal-setting who increasingly feels disillusioned by New Years Resolutions and misaligned with some of the toxic manifestation culture of New Age spirituality.
Resolutions try to override Time. Revolutions learn how to move with it.
Revolutions Not Resolutions is what I was always yearning for, but couldn’t find. It’s a way to relate to the New Year that builds from your dream field, not from a list of “should do,” “should be,” or “should have.”
Astrology is a technology for relating to Time. It’s here to support us, but not in the usual ways we’ve asked it to. I’m not talking about forecasts or predictions.
It’s not that I want to destroy the yearly horoscope economy, I just find it boring.
The cosmos is way bigger and weirder and more ridiculously amazing than we think it is. The cosmos wants to co-create with you. Right now. In this moment. Dreaming new timelines into form.
For those here for revolutions not resolutions!
For you. For your community. For our planet.
I have found it to be true that we were taught to relate to Time through the disciplinary lenses of shame and scarcity. From this perspective, the New Year becomes a deeply uncomfortable period for remembering failure and disappointment.
When Time becomes Terror, we invite the fear of failure into our dream weaving rituals and then blame ourselves for things not working out.
I had no idea how powerful I am until I rewired my relationship to Time.
That powerlessness was an illusion rooted in institutional systems. That powerlessness was a distortion from shame.
Revolutions Not Resolutions is how I protect the coming year from my fear of it.
Revolutions Not Resolutions is an invitation to trust in the power I always already have.
What “Resolutions” Represent
Resolutions are:
- Linear
- Willpower-driven
- Moralizing
- Often rooted in shame, disappointment, or self-correction
- Focused on controlling the future self from the present moment
They tend to assume:
- Time is scarce
- You must “fix” yourself quickly
- Change happens by force or discipline
- There is a right version of you to arrive at
Resolutions belong to a productivity-based, capitalist, and often patriarchal relationship to time.
What “Revolutions” Offer Instead
Revolutions are:
- Cyclical
- Relational
- Rooted in trust with Time rather than domination of it
- Aligned with astrology’s core logic: planets move, return, repeat, evolve
A revolution is not a demand you place on yourself.
It is a turning.
Revolutions imply:
- Returning again and again to what matters
- Letting change happen through repetition, seasons, and relationship
- Honoring that transformation is gradual, spiralic, and alive
- Allowing time to work on you, not just for you
A revolution does not ask, “What should I become?”
It asks, “What am I circling back to, more truthfully this time?”
We are resisting:
- Shame-based transformation
- Urgency as virtue
- The idea that growth must look clean, impressive, or fast
We are attuning to:
- The body
- The psyche
- The seasons
- The reality that love and trust take time
Because change rooted in love moves differently than change rooted in fear.
Revolutions Not Resolutions is a model for New Year’s dreaming, intentions, and manifestation. It centers my favorite word: EMERGENCE.
Because there’s no such thing as potential; there is only emergence.
I have found it to be true that in order to let your dreams and desires move through you into the physical plane, you have to become approachable to them.
How does one become approachable to one’s dreams and desires? This question is at the heart of all my work.
I will show you how I do this with the support of the cosmos.
What to expect
Revolutions Not Resolutions has 4 meetups (recorded & published right after) – all 12-2 pm EST
THE PAST IS ALWAYS PRESENT: Thursday, January 15
ORIENTING TO PRESENT TIME: Friday, January 16
THE 7 TIME SECRETS: Saturday, January 17
DREAMING INTO YOUR HORIZON: Sunday, January 18 (New Moon in Capricorn)
Each of these meetups will be incredibly catalyzing and mutating. All of this potency will be initiated under a Sagittarius Moon and then grounded by the Capricorn Moon.
We’ll be diving into my wild Emergence Astrology teachings on Time, and clearing the distortions that keep us in loops of failure, doubt, and depletion when we hit January.
These transmissions will be similar to as well as evolutions of what I’ve spoken in the past. Every revolution of the wheel, I feel myself on a new spiral with what this framework has been teaching me for 8 years now.
As always, I thank my Younger Self who listened and stirred the pot. And I trust my Future Self to take what I offer today and transform the teachings however she pleases.
This year’s version falls inside the Mystics Making Money curriculum, inspired by the genius of Capricorn.
Thus the focus will turn toward unshaming ambition, unshaming goals, unshaming time practices, unshaming self-respect, unshaming boundaries, unshaming rituals, and unshaming mountain climbing.
I’ll be sharing all the ways that I energetically practice and embody the formidable power of Capricorn as a woman with horns growing from her head.
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS POTENTIAL
Overculture—the dominant culture whose constructs are followed by most people—tries to sell us on a different version of our future self. Its version is all about maximizing potential, but it is never attainable. Overculture’s future self dangles keys to your potential just out of reach, like a bully, laughing at you for your inability to grab them. Here’s the hot truth: There is no such thing as potential. There is only emergence.
Potential is the same performance-oriented, results-based urgency that separates you from the present moment.
Potential is a fantasy that shames you. Potential feeds on attachments and expectations, which bring you disappointment and grief. Astrology wants to stop you from engaging so unkindly with yourself. The planets embolden you to love yourself, as you are now.
The death of the illusion of potential brings liberation. What would it be like to stop reserving your love for this fantasy Potential self?
YOU ARE RIGHT ON TIME
What if you could trust that everything you’re experiencing couldn’t have happened any earlier or later on your timeline? What if it was always meant to be right now that you have the realization, the revelation, the transformation that’s here for you today? What if the planets have all along been conspiring to bring the shifts of the cycle you’re in? What if you’re right on time?
Astrology creates the conditions for you to notice what you truly want as well as what you’re not showing up for anymore. Astrology helps you trust that you know the way.
your INTENTIONS ARE SENTIENT BEINGS
When you see your intentions as sentient beings, you externalize your intention so that it’s not all about you. You liberate it from fear of failure and self-mistrust. When your intentions are treated as sentient beings, they are independent spirits that have chosen you to care for them. And you are free to decline if you don’t have the capacity to care for them right now. This is rooted in the truth that everything is relational.
When your intentions are sentient beings, your job is to listen and tend, not to manage or push. It becomes a relationship of attunement. When I let my intentions come to me and commit to nurturing them, they come to life as if by their own spirit.
Trying to push something through that isn’t vitally alive is exhausting. The energetics of the pushed-through intention are just never as potent or interesting for others to experience. And then I end up feeling ashamed and disappointed on top of my depletion.
READY IS A FANTASY
There is no ready. We like to believe there will be a future version of us who will have the expertise or the confidence to be ready for a new experience. And so when we say we’re “not ready,” what we mean is that we’re afraid to try or trust because we don’t think we’re enough as we are now.
The fantasy of a day when we’re ready keeps us from engaging with the present moment. Let us have compassion for our not-readiness as a learned fear for a world that expects us to be perfect and standardized in order to be ready ie. worthy of showing up.
Together we’ll distinguish between “not now” and “not ready,” which has everything to do with trust and intuition. “Not now” feels soft and stable, unlike the charge of fear or panic in “not ready.” “Not now” is grounded in the loamy soil of deep trust that Time isn’t scarce and that all experience unfolds precisely when it means to.
Emergence Astrology’s Time Secrets
BEHOLD: The 7 Time Powers You Haven’t Tapped Into Yet!
Yes, you’ve got it. I’m talking about the 7 traditional planets. I have found it to be true that each has a different way of relating to Time. We were only taught Saturn’s way, and then we contorted it until Time became terror for us.
I will guide you in dreaming and listening with the planets to support you in accessing more ways to feel and relate to Time with the help of these teachers who love us so much.
I have found it to be true that astrology is an outreach program from the cosmos to help us cute, sweet, limited humans speak, feel, hear, and known the divine in every moment.
This is the part of our time together when I talk less so that I can hold space for your own knowings to approach you. This is where the real treasures come your way, because they come from a place wisdom home inside yourself. There is what you’re really investing in here. And with the replay you can come back to this expansion space any time you want.
There is no way you or I can predict what will happen for you. It’s a trust leap to new timelines.
Once I started practicing this framework in Capricorn season, I realized that these Time practices don’t just help me “hit my goals” or “make my dreams come true” – which they do by the way, bigger and beyond what I could even imagine.
It’s more than this. Revolutions Not Resolutions is a leap into new ways of being, of inhabiting my body in space, of relating to family and community – experiencing my aliveness in ways that my younger self thought were impossible for me or for this world.
I get hotter the more crone I become.
Revolutions not resolutions. Because it’s not just a goal we’re after. It’s a new timeline.
TUITION
Enrollment for this annual workshop is now closed.
I am in awe. This offering is a guiding light for any point in the year in which we’re longing to undo harmful conditioning, reparent ourselves, mourn loss or transition, and come into loving, compassionate authenticity with ourselves and the world around us. It really is years (if not decades) worth of paradigm-shifting, block-removing, infinitely loving wisdom, compacted into a manageable course. I kept feeling like “where has this information been all my life?”
I am so grateful to have found something devoted to bearing the inextricably intertwined vulnerability and power, the grief and wonder, that make up this human experience.
– T. R. participant last year
Hi, I’m Britten, and I’m a Time Witch.
My Aries Rising and Capricorn Moon nature have informed my public nature as a go-getter since I was a competitive figure skater and child actor as a kid.
I have always drawn to the challenge of seemingly impossible goals. I get giddy about planning itineraries, writing curriculum, and calendar nerdery. But before I found intuitive training, ritual crafting, astrology, and the tarot in 2017, I only knew how to take care of business in ways that led to depletion, comparison, and joylessness.
My approach in Revolutions Not Resolutions is rooted in practices that I gave myself in that period of life when I experienced a mystical awakening. I let my many Pisces placements out of the closet. I gave them permission to sing.
And so my life began to have a momentum of its own, as if beyond myself.
This is the eighth year in a row that I’ve brought people together with the frameworks I am teaching here.
I am regularly told that because I follow the siren song of my own voice, I inspire others to trust in their own. This is why I keep sharing.
The more I lean into my magical approaches, the more they deliver wonder – and I’m not interested in engaging in ways that don’t bring wonder any more.
I’m so excited to share what I’ve been learning with you and to support you in accessing more Time Magic for the New Year.