Quiet nights and days that begin cold and get colder still. The snow begins its soft decent to earth and the air feels thin as the wind blows over the snow banks. I want to descend into the inner worlds falling like the snow; to go where it is dark and warm and full of shadow. I find comfort in the darkness as it allows me to put down the burdens I have so carefully been balancing on my shoulders. The weight of my world; what if I just allow it to drop away, into this darkness, and let the thickness of it take me away? Away to where I can finally breathe, and be open to my inner world. That world of listening and breathing and being with my Soul. Of seeing without my eyes and feeling without my skin. Giving myself this gift feels like sinking into the sensation of drinking warm hot chocolate, gliding slowly down my throat, coating it with a safe feeling of happiness and soothing love.
Just like the Nature Spirits, who take a break from the hard work of manifesting in the summer, I too must take this winter break from doing, doing, doing… Funny how this time of year is so full of shopping and gathering goodies and decorating and socializing with friends, when it is meant to be the quiet time, the yin time, of winding down and winding in. A time of making a space for the darkness, of being in the cave, the womb of the Mother. It is time to just BE. Be with myself, getting to know me again, my spiritual self, leaving the one behind who is lost in the thoughts and actions of the physical. Going here, going there, No! Now is the decadent time to BE STILL. This is the gift I will give to myself this year. Happy Winter Solstice!
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Beautifully written!