Let your body sense into the experience of half light Feel the way it shivers on your skin as you conjure up the moment between day and night Let the experience of it seep into your skin Just as in the half light at the end of the day,
Boundaries between worlds seem to be thin Things fade and merge into one another Let your skin be one of those fading,
Merging boundaries Let the enchanted half light seep beneath the surface of your skin So that your sensations,
The experience of being in your body takes on a silvery,
Fairy-like quality At this moment,
At the boundary between the rule of the sun and the rule of the moon Reality shifts Things that were certain and solid have the chance to take on different forms Let your body begin to taste that possibility of transformation Let places that were heavy and hurting shape shift Drink in the enchanted moment of twilight Let it lead you into yourself Into places that surprise you,
Into wordless,
Dreamy spaces Into the places in you where dreams are formed Surprising places,
Places where ordinary sight and ordinary thoughts don't reach Meeting dreams that slip through your fingers like silvery fish And the more you try to hold on to anything,
The more slippery it becomes So there is nothing to do but let go into the depths of the gathering dark Gather the dark towards you like a cloak Bid farewell to the fading light with ease Greet the coming dark like an old friend Teach you that even as you stay with it,
Nothing stays the same In every moment there is a fading Light to grey to black and back again And in the fading there is also the possibility of stars So as you let yourself dissolve into the grey of dusk like smoke As you begin to surrender to the dark Beginning to float and drift in her all-encompassing embrace Let that embrace also be studded with stars Stars which can only show themselves As the daylight fades and the night rolls in Darkness falls and we fall with it The night pulls us downwards to intimacy with the earth The night pulls us downwards to intimacy with ourselves Each night the earth rolls itself away from the bright eyes of the sun Away from the life that the sun offers to earth And into the mysterious life-giving darkness Let yourself be pulled by the kind hands of darkness Let yourself be pulled to rest on the earth To rest in the earth of yourself Let the darkness pull you into your own interior Deeper and deeper Any discomfort or fear or tension Only tells us that there is deeper to go In the deepest,
Darkest,
Most private inner spaces There is no fear In the true dark There is nothing to grasp for Nothing to hold on to Nothing to push away The darkness holds us Reminds us we have always been held Reminds us we have always been held In true darkness There is no option but to surrender to rest To surrender our sense of sight And drop deeper and deeper into the cauldron of dark transformation Hidden in our beings Let yourself plunge into that mystery Surrender to all that is unknown there And in that sacred space of darkness There is no need for anything but the most gentle of rest There is no need for anything but the most gentle of rest There is no need for anything but the most gentle of rest In the depths of the night It can seem as if time stands still Darkness stretches out and out and out And then there is a moment when everything shifts There is a moment There is a moment when light begins to return And somewhere in our animal bodies we know it Let yourself tune into that instinct Let it begin to sing to you Like the first bird breaking the silence Beginning the dawn chorus One moment there is silence And next there is a tiny lone voice And the next moment another and another and another And as the birds sing Although they are singing goodbye to the stars And singing in the colour of the day Let your awareness brighten at the pace of the changing light Slowly but unfulturingly Let thoughts come in but let them in slowly Let your silent,
Wordless,
Wise body Be the ground upon which dawn breaks first Let it speak to you Of what this particular dawn means Let the dawn break over all of the shapes of your life The creatures and objects that surround you And the inner landscape of your own being Watch with the fresh morning eyes As each shape shows itself Watch as each shape emerges First from the greyness and then showing itself in colour See what these fresh eyes can show you Before the shapes around you and inside you Become so familiar that you think you know them Let your body and your fresh eyes Guide you into meeting this day As the rising sun draws back the curtains of the night See your whole world as a stage Every part of it flooded with the light of a new possibility Dance into this moment of choice This moment of choosing how to step onto the stage of the day Feel both a fine thread that still holds you to the gentleness of the night That may still pull you backwards But no more strongly The same awe that is asking your body to move That is showing it how The same instinct that is calling the birds to sing The same instinct that is calling you to sing There is the shimmering light of dawn Broadens into the clear light of a full day Let your body lead you into that full day Let your body's wise instincts show you how to move and think and sing in the day Let your body lead you into that full day
