The shortest day and the longest night has arrived in the Northern Hemisphere as we celebrate the winter solstice,
A turning point,
The marking of a paradigm shift.
The planets,
The stars,
The light and the dark are aligned so that we can be too.
Please join me in stillness as we close our eyes and find a comfortable position,
Whether you're sitting down or lying down.
To capture this moment,
To let go and to be,
We gently close our eyes or bring our gaze downward as we turn in.
We notice our breath and we give thanks for it,
This life force that breathes vitality,
Creativity and inspiration throughout our body and being.
We give thanks for our breath as we notice its natural rhythm of the inhalation and the exhalation.
Bringing your awareness onto your belly and seeing and feeling it expand as you inhale deeply filling your lungs,
Oxygenating your organs and then exhaling,
Releasing the carbon,
The oxygen out into the air.
We feel ourselves get heavy as we sink into our seat.
Our energy and awareness begins to melt downward,
Traveling from our bellies down through our hips and legs as everything begins to sink and get heavy.
Our energy draws down through the bottom of our feet and into the imaginary center of Mother Earth.
She has us as we ground in our connection to her.
She begins to draw any and all low quality thinking,
Lower vibrations,
Toxicity,
Misalignment.
Anything that is ready to let go,
We give to her.
Our fears,
Our pain,
Our disconnection,
Our perceived disconnection.
She takes it,
She transmutes it,
She transforms it.
We allow ourselves to rest in the center of her belly.
In the dark,
We become still and we let go.
We allow her to take any and all things that no longer serve us.
Any limitations and fears,
Scarcity of thought,
Repetitive patterns and habits,
Known or unknown.
She pulls them from us,
From ourselves,
From our muscles and bones,
From our psyche.
And she pulls it down to mulch it.
Using her alchemy,
She brings the moss,
The insects,
The microbiome in the soil to hold it and to turn it into fertile soil.
We rest here.
We allow.
We release.
Our awareness turns to the light as we see a sparkle high above in the center of source,
Whatever you can imagine that to be,
High up in the sky in the center of the universe.
This sparkling dancing light captures our attention as we are rooted in the earth,
In the darkness.
We see the sparkle of light,
Imagining it growing in its glow like the rising sun in the early morning.
We see the light,
The fractal diamond light of colors of radiant hues begins to expand and descends upon us,
Envelops our body and our being in a cocoon of protection.
It may be pure white light.
It may be a rainbow spectrum.
Starting now,
You're drawing that light down around you at the top of your head.
It's glowing and it descends as a soft light in your brain,
The top of your head,
Bringing peace,
Bringing clarity,
Bringing harmony between your right and left and frontal lobes,
Your masculine and feminine self,
Your intellect and your intuition.
It brings harmony and integration to our mind and quiets our monkey mind in the light,
Helping us to see clearly our path,
To hear clearly the signs and the whispers along the way.
As it travels down,
It expands and brightens our throat chakra,
Our ability to speak our truth with kindness,
With compassion,
With care.
And it travels down and takes occupancy in the center of our heart space,
Glowing softly,
Sparkling in synchrony.
We expand.
This light cares for us as it is within us.
And it turns our attention to love,
Unconditionally loving ourself for all that we've accomplished,
For the messy lives we've lived in,
For the ups and downs of this year,
For the choices we've made,
Expansive,
Contractive,
It all.
And it gives us the invitation to more deeply love ourselves as we love others.
And it softens us to open,
To heal.
We feel our presence of light more strongly than ever as this light now travels down through our bellies,
Our center of knowing,
Our gut instincts,
Our will to proceed,
Our will to carry on,
Our will to create,
Our will to make this world a more harmonious,
Loving place to be.
And it illuminates our knowing which way to go,
What step to take next as it unites and connects with our presence to know what to do when.
And it travels down now through our pelvis,
Our hips,
Lightening our legs now and traveling down through the bottoms of our feet into the center of Mother Earth,
Illuminating the darkness and bringing life,
Vitality to our passions here where we plant the seeds for what we wish to come.
Our deepest desires,
Our highest longings,
Our finest creations that benefit all beings,
All parties,
All people for the highest and greatest good.
We see the seeds.
We may not know exactly what they are,
But imagine you're planting the seeds in this fertile soil of Mother Earth and she brings it nutrients and nourishment to sprout in the coming year.
In this connected space,
In the light that you are,
You are open,
You are free,
You are loved,
You are healed.
Allow yourself to dream of what you wish to come,
Knowing it is possible there are no limitations.
You are worthy.
You are enough.
You are the light.
You are the love.
Taking a few deep breaths and soaking in this expanded space of connection,
Setting your intention for the year to come and imagining the better world that you seek to see.
You are that powerful.
Gently bringing your awareness back to your toes and feet and legs and gently moving your body to bring your expanded space back into your physical form.
Gently wiggling your fingers and toes and fluttering your eyes open.
Taking a few minutes after to settle,
You can stay here as long as you'd like.
Inviting you to find a pen and a journal and write down what it is you seek to create.
Blessed be.
Latin.
You
