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Winter Solstice, the longest night of the year, calls us to brood and turn within. Retreating to the unconscious is a psychic wintering, calling our life force down into our archaic patterns. It can trigger a sorrowing that helps us adjust to inevitable losses, just like the forest that silently drops its foliage without lament. At the nadir of darkness, light is reborn, and each successive day grows longer. Ancient and modern rituals celebrate the light’s triumph over darkness. No matter our background, attunement to light is woven into our bodies, for we are all part of the cosmic progression.
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I believe that a light shining in the darkness may be the oldest image known to human awareness.
Wonderful podcast, Thankyou. That life is there underground ready to burst out in the spring, when all is seemly dead above, is the world of the plant kingdom. Seeds being activated down in the earth made this time of year the start of the new year for pagans. According to excellent book – Environmental Art Therapy and the Tree of life
I’ve been reading and highly recommend Louise Gluck’s Averno, a book of poems inspired by the place that the Romans considered the entrance to Hades. Lots of amazing poems about the Persephone myth and our own descent into the darkness of winter.