Happy Winter Solstice Blessings!!
Today is a day celebrated in many traditions and marks the point as the shortest day of the year, honoring the sun and light that will build into “longer” days once again. It is a time of darkness, but also a time of great hope for the spring that will once again come and this renewal. This signifies the light within each of us, and we can focus on this as a worldwide prayer.
Take a moment and send out this light of knowing and honoring that we are more alike than different, sending a ripple of love out to all our brothers and sisters, knowing that WE are truly powerful and this love will create the answers we seek to make the changes for greater peace and unity.
This is a perfect time to start setting intentions for the coming year. We have so many planets still retrograde: Mars, Jupiter, Uranus and Chiron. Not only this, but it was only recently that Mercury, Saturn and Neptune stationed forward. While they are out of retrograde, they technically are still in their shadow phase, which intensifies them. So we are continuing to be in this energy to hone in on ourselves to revise, review and reinvent.
Let us set intention during this magical time and celebrate today in ritual. It can be in as little as 5 minutes where you sip some tea and sit in a window thanking yourself and the growing light within you. Or it could be lighting a candle, or having a small fire where you write out what has been holding you back and what patterns are no longer serving you. After you write it out, burn this paper in the fire of renewal. Then write in your journal what you are bringing in and send thanks to your higher self already knowing of this to BE.
Because of Neptune stationing recently, we are still feeling this outer planet intensely. This planet speaks to us about the liminal space, and so pay attention to your dreams and write them down over the next week. Also pay attention to the ways that ancestors may be reaching out through memories and in conversation with family and friends. Light a candle to thank them for what they are bringing to you. And see in what ways you are becoming more intuitive and psychic. As you do your ritual today, placing your hands over your heart in appreciation for this growing within you.
As we thank ourselves and dream into the ways in which we wish to become, we also stand with many ancestors today in honoring the returning light. We see this through ancient structures such as Chichinitza in Mexico, and many other places around the world. They align perfectly with the sun on Solstice Day, in honor of the light within each of us, and the life giving abilities we have. May we too come into our hearts and embody greater alignment today.
Blessings and Honoring the Light within YOU!
Korenna