12/21/2025
Today is Winter Solstice which is the shortest day of the year. Today we honor both the darkness and the light, since It’s the darkest day of the year and we celebrate the light returning. It’s a time of introspection, final shedding, and hope.
There’s lessons in the darkness. Many of us have felt heaviness of the world this year and heaviness through our own journey throughout our lives. But darkness isn’t just there to toughen us up or be inconvenient… it provides us wisdom and new opportunities for gratitude.
Yesterday was an interesting one. I woke up nauseous, feeling light headed and off, not really understanding why. I also woke up with tears coming from my eyes, from the overwhelming gratitude I have for my environment, the beautiful people in my life that really love me and support me, and just the overall life I’ve arrived at. I realize writing this, that this was a perfect example of honoring the darkness… the contrast of the two at the same time.
I also went a little rogue yesterday. I try not to comment on post threads regarding politics or controversial issues, since it’s generally just a toxic hole that has no true purpose. But yesterday… I decided to comment and inquire things on gun violence on a post. For the first time I’ve ever experienced or even heard of, I went back and forth with a stranger so respectfully, each stating views and reasons for them, where we both ended it by complimenting each other as people, appreciating that we were both respectful, and how the back and forth like this is something that just doesn’t happen. This gives me a glimmer of hope.
As I continue to grieve my great-grandmothers passing, think about things in the world, and just things within myself and my own journey, I honor the whole story of myself, how I am able to experience the most joyous parts of the light because I honor and respect the dark. I am able to see the divinity of it all and how the pagan significance of the collective energy of this time. That is a beautiful awakening.
Happy Winter Solstice!
