Posts Tagged ‘winter’
The Rest of Winter
Winter is the time of rest and reflection. The time for family and home. The time of quiet. While the days are getting longer and the Light getting stronger, we continue to be in this season of going within and resting. With this time period, comes cold and flu season. We often view illness and dis-ease as a bad thing, something to avoid. Which is understandable when we feel miserable. I wonder if we could consider that illness has a role?
Finding Our Wings
There are large paradigms and power structures that need to shift. While things may get a bit messy (okay, they are already messy), we need to keep the focus on the goal. Anyone who has experienced a major life change knows that there is a time period of dissolving. When the world as you knew it breaks apart, turns upside down. This can be disorienting. However, if you can continue through this (or sometimes simply breathe and be), you come to a period of finding your new center. There may be a trial and error period of figuring things out, seeing if they fit, until the center is established. But once, you emerge, you are renewed and grateful and would not want to go back. The metamorphosis of a Butterfly is often used to describe this process. And for good reason. For a caterpillar has to completely dissolve before growing ki’s wings and becoming a Butterfly. And we are in the metamorphosis stage. How lucky are we that we have chosen to be on the Earth at this time?! We get to determine the next stage for humanity.
Experience the Dark: Quietly and Slowly
We are beginning our journey out of the dark and into the light as our days are getting longer. This begins our time of rest and reflection. Our dreaming selves are re-ignited. Let’s listen to the cues from Nature and hibernate. Our hibernation may look different, but it will serve the same purpose, to nurture…
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