Winter Solstice

Happy Solstice!

Emerging from the longest night of the year, we begin another journey around the sun. In the days of growing darkness leading to the Winter Solstice, in the Northern Hemisphere, Earth sheds her greenery and all of her energy is focused within - on the roots.

In these darks days, it is appropriate that, like all of Nature, we go within, and reflect on where we have come from. It is time to be grateful for all we have experienced and learned from the past, and to examine what supports life in the present, and what no longer serves us that we can release to the earth to be composted and used as energy to nourish new growth and new ways of being in the season to come. In the darkness, we can also reflect on where we would like to go during our next journey around the sun.

During this season, we come back to our roots to be with family and those who are the mirrors through whom we see ourselves most clearly. Amidst the joy of these reunions, shadows appear, old wounds surface, old emotions stir, old behaviors are triggered, we long for people and times we have loved and lost.

Note the feelings. Where do you feel them in the body? What are they telling us about ourselves? What are the issues in our lives we need to give our attention to? What can we learn about ourselves from the situation/s we find ourselves in? What do we need to heal and let go? Observe and listen closely to the wisdom of your heart. The pain and discomfort is our opportunity to let go of the old. With your next breath out, release what is past into the earth, and with the next breath in, start anew and move into the future.

May our reunions be joyful, our reflections in the darkness enlightening, and our next journey around the sun a dance of abundance, peace, joy, love and light.