20/12/2025
Winter Solstice Blessing and much Love and Light as the season shifts and changes.
Mist envelops the Earth like an invisibility cloak, hiding the secrets of the land beneath its woven threads. The world pulsates and the northern hemisphere silently slips into the longest night, darkness embraces the season with a gentleness of a mother comforting a child. A beautiful peaceful screen that hides the distractions of over bearing commercialism, that is so invasive at this time of year. It is a safe haven where Nature offers us the gift of recharging, resetting our boundaries and remembering that simple things are so much more important.
Winter gives us the time to listen to the deeper voices, the ones that sing the seasons songs, rooted in the heart of nature, composed out of her wisdom, and played through an orchestra of root and stem, trunk and branch, skin and bone. Enabling us to realign and refine our natural intuition, fine tuning into the frequencies that enrich and define us.
Resetting our basic rhythms can offer the chance to see more clearly through the rhetoric that is continually being flooded into our world. So many ideals of the extremes, the artificial intelligence that is simply based on a millennia of opinions, of voices that throw statements filled with “billions” in there narratives, of having to give every thing a label and a boundary.
Rather let us see beyond all this, for whom is the richer? The one who see richness on a materialistic level, or those who deem it something far greater. In fact it is the ultimate achievement, priceless, for it can not be bought or sold, but is with in the reach of every single one of us, It is the very accomplishment of compassion, kindness, adventure, achievement, experiences, good or bad. Of learning and growing, of love, life and so much more all rolled into one word “Rich”. So misused.
If we need evidence of this let us look to nature, to the land, and to those that share this earth with us. Even in the darkest of nights there is a flow of activity, a beautiful emergence of wisdoms passed down through the ages, ever moving, like the tide it ebbs and flows, but never ceases. Where one light goes out anther is lit, a cycle of regeneration and balance.
The natural world does not question, or try and change things, they simply accept and adapt. Observe the bare soil, covered in a carpet of leaves, if you gently move them, revealing the soil beneath, you see not stagnant ground, but life, the first signs of a little bulb seeking the surface, a Beetle carrying off what we would consider, a most unappetising meal of rotting leaf, but to this ground walker it is a delightful treasure. In the tree above a small grey Squirrel precariously balances from twig to branch with a Quince, clasped in its jaws almost as big as itself, retrieved from the compost pile, now the prize it intends to stash in one of its many hiding places.
The Buzzard above circles attentively, the perfect opportunist hunter patiently waiting and watching, or the little Robin who sits so close, as we tend the winter vegetable patch, by no means shy, as it boldly dives in, as the turned soil reveals a Grub or Worm, An appreciated reward for such diligence and bravery. The Spider who weaves miles and miles of web, or the Hedgehog, nested down under the decking, dry and snug in its duvet of last seasons leaves. Just beyond a line of trees at the top of the hill, silent and majestic, silhouetted by the rising sun, is a small herd of Deer, so mesmerising, that the camera hangs untouched, my faithful dog and I watch, caught up in the beauty of the moment, as they wander off over the horizon.
The seasons change and the longest night shift as we awaken after the Solstice to the hints of days lengthening. But please do not wish these hours away, they are there for us to benefit from, to keep a cycle within our selves attuned to that without, to balance us in all things and to remind us the importance of just being.
It is with in the depths of silence, shielded by the Winter Solstice darkness, where we will hear the greatest wisdoms, whispered through time and space, Just like the seasons change so do we, embrace those changes and feel the transformations that they bring.
Let your intuition be your wisdom.
I found this beautiful Winter Solstice blessing, I do not know who wrote it, but here, I share it with you.
May you find peace in the promise of the solstice night,
That each day forward is blessed with more light.
That the cycle of nature, unbroken and true,
Brings faith to your soul and well-being to you.
Rejoice in the darkness, in the silence find rest,
And may the days that follow be abundantly blessed.