Solstice and Capricorn

As we feel ourselves aligning with the stillness of Winter Solstice, we are experiencing something more complex than the simple desire for inner silence. 

Solstice creates a fulcrum in Time. It offers the support we need to move into the returning light with renewed inner balance. 

And as we regain that balance, we come back into alignment with the subtle, elegant movement that begins in stillness. We’re helped to understand that finding our way into a more still center doesn’t mean we aren’t actively engaged with Life.

When we remember that the still point we experience on Winter Solstice is a fulcrum, we realize that we aren’t going into hibernation or some state of inaction as much as we’re fine-tuning our equilibrium. 

There’s a difference, I think, between stopping all together and realizing we’re realigning with the pure flow of our essential self. This kind of realignment can’t be rushed so we go slowly for awhile. And as we return to the world, we find new boundaries, allow ourselves to let go of some of the weight we’ve taken on if it gets in the way of the essential work before us now.

Because this turning point occurs each December when the Sun enters Capricorn, we have access to our inner Yoda, to the wise elder knowledge that we’ve gathered through lifetimes and which is always available when we quiet our need to conquer Time.

So as we’re guided back into the world without a need to rush at windmills, Capricorn offers a steady hand. It reassures us that we have the time we need. That we don’t have to carry all the world on our shoulders because we’re being supported in ways too mysterious to fathom. Capricorn is energy designed to help us carry on in the face of every single thing we face and it begs us to be gentle with ourselves. It knows we can be our own worst critic as we build lives based in kindness and integrity. 

So as you light a candle and allow yourself time to sense all that is still magnificent and beautiful in the world, please know that you have all you need to continue to create a foundation here in Time for your sturdy soul.

I’m wishing you, and all Being, more peace and love and laughter than you can imagine.

Deborah

Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief.
Do justly, now. 
Love mercy, now.
Walk humbly, now.
You are not obliged to complete the work,
but neither are you free to abandon it.

~ The Talmud   

The work of the mature person
is to carry grief in one hand
and gratitude in the other
and to be stretched large by them.

~ Francis Ward Weller

Bring me the sunset in a cup.
~ Emily Dickinson