Year-End Stocktaking Is Work of Judgment, Not Looking Back
Stocktaking done at the end of the year is not for looking back over the year and holding impressions. It is work of lining up anew the work you are in charge of and the judgments you have made, and deciding what to continue and what to stop. If it is ended as looking back, even after the year changes, the same form continues as it is. Advancing to judgment is the purpose of stocktaking.
The pillar of this article is the judgment to stop. The end of the year is a period suited to placing a judgment to stop, rather than a judgment to start. We read that reason layered with the Sun's movements.
The Period When the Sun Is in Capricorn Connects with a Reading of Fixing in Place
The Sun moves into Capricorn on December 22, 2027, and the end of the year falls on the Capricorn period. Capricorn is a sign read in connection with the quality of giving form to what has been built up, and fixing how responsibility is placed. The end of the year, a period when work breaks gather, and the quality of this sign overlap in terms of reading.
What fits how to use this period is not increasing new things. It is lining up what has been built up, checking the parts that have not taken form, and narrowing what to carry over to the following year. The few weeks when the Sun is in Capricorn can be used as a marker for placing that work. Talk to start in the new year, in an order of thinking divided after stocktaking has finished, is a way of proceeding without strain.
The Objects of Stocktaking Are Two: Work and Judgments
The objects of stocktaking are, broadly, two.
The first is stocktaking of assignments. Divide the assignments you currently hold into those to continue, those to hand to the next person, and those to stop. The standard for dividing is not only whether something is important. It is whether that assignment is needed in the same form in the following year, too. Something that can be continued if its form is changed is placed not in "stop," but in the division of changing its form.
The second is stocktaking of judgments. Among the judgments made in this year, you check whether there are any whose conditions have changed. Even a form that was right at the time it was judged can need review if assignments or structure change. Stocktaking of judgments is not for blaming the past, but checking for placing anew into a form matching the current conditions.
For example, for a regular report continued every month, deciding in this period whether the same form and frequency are needed in the following year, and whether it cannot be changed into a form that brings things together, corresponds to this. This is the concrete work example placed in this article.
The Reason for Placing the Judgment to Stop First
In stocktaking, if you begin from checking what to continue, in the end everything tends to enter the "continue" division. If you place the judgment to stop first, the remaining divisions are decided realistically.
What is important in the judgment to stop is not treating stopping as a failure. Breaking off work whose role has ended is a normal result of stocktaking. If you decide the time to stop and how to convey it to the related parties, the judgment to stop becomes arrangements that prevent later confusion. Conversely, if you postpone the judgment to stop, the following year's assignments will be decided as a mere extension of this year's form.
Ending by Putting into Words What to Carry Over to the New Year
What is done at the end of stocktaking is putting what is to be carried over into words. Assignments to continue, assignments whose form is to be changed, and matters where judgment is to be carried over to the following year. If you write these three out briefly, at the start-up of the new year, you do not need to redo judgments from the beginning.
The period when the Sun is in Capricorn is not a flashy break. However, it is a period that fits work of fixing the foundation in place. Placing year-end stocktaking as work that includes even the judgment to stop, without ending it in impressions. That way of using it is the form of using a Capricorn period reading in the following year's work arrangements. Please use the end of the year as preparation for starting a new year not from increasing, but from a narrowed form.