21/12/2025
The grey area, the in between
The ambiguity and the transition.
The end of the darkest period of the year and the beginning of the return to light, accompanied by complex emotions, the dark moon, shadowing and mirroring. It is the Turning point when the days begin to get longer, but the physical environment often remains grey for months, the time inbeteeen, the void, a time of confusion and anxiety about the unknown before fully embracing the new beginning of Spring.
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You, darkness, from which I come,
I love you more than all the fires
that fence out the world,
for the fire makes a circle
for everyone
so that no one sees you anymore.
But darkness holds it all:
the shape and the flame,
the animal and myself,
how it holds them,
all powers, all sight —
and it is possible: its great strength
is breaking into my body.
I have faith in the night.
Poem by Rainer Maria Rilke
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To go dark is to see the darkness bloom. To turn from outer light to inward light. The inward light radiates and illumines wisdom that is needed for this time, for it emerges from the dark unknown. To see without intention to shape the world or our lives in a certain way. To see without explaining or making meaning with the mind.
words from poet Fred Lamotte
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The Solstice invites us to surrender to the wisdom of the dark, the initiation of the heart, our intuitive knowing, connection with the web of life.
It invites us to go without sight and develop other capacities that lie within us.
A different way of seeing.
The grey area.
The inbeteeen.
Blessed Winter Solstice 🙏 ✨️
Anna ###
