Sunrise on the shortest day 2021

Yesterday’s winter solstice leads us to today’s shortest day of the year. This year I’ve followed the seasons of the year closely, observing Mother Nature’s cycle, and tuning myself to the cycle of which I am a tiny part. Winter is the time of deep rest, and with solstice comes the change in the light, as we turn once more towards the sun. It’s a time for releasing and for the germination of creativity. In celebrating the Quarter and Cross-Quarter days of the year, we can take part in rituals, small or large, private or public, to help align ourselves with the rest of Nature. In our modern times, with access to electric light, heated homes, supermarket food, blaring TV and constant chatter from mobile phones and social media, it’s all too easy to ignore where we are in the year. It is actually delicious to take time out!

Yesterday I gave thanks for the safe arrival of a new family member – a tiny, perfect solstice baby. Born into tumultuous times, what will this little person’s future hold? Without a doubt, love in abundance! Beyond that, who knows?

Humans have the gift of awareness or consciousness. We have an immense capacity for change through our own resources. Now more than ever is the time to tune in. To take time out to be still, to listen to our inner knowing, to be grateful, to join in our local communities, to make small changes in ourselves that will help move us collectively towards a more conscious world, where EVERYONE MATTERS. It doesn’t happen without a degree of desire for change and for acknowledgement that we must do better.

I invite you to disentangle where you can – listen more to your intuition and less to the chatter of the media, spend more time in Nature and less on your phone, be grateful for every little gift in your life, offer praise, love and acceptance of others’ differences. We have the power to create a new way of being on our planet. It’s not about you saving the world on your own, it’s about modelling quietly in your own corner, and leading by example.

Meantime, I hope you enjoy the shortest day of the year, and look forward to the return to the light, a time of blossoming creativity, for planting seeds of hope and love and continuing gratitude.

Season’s greetings to one and all ♥