02/03/2026
Imbolc, babes. Mid-Winter. That halfway point between Solstice coziness and the first signs of Spring peaking through the soil. For many (myself included), Winter hits the hardest right around this time. The juxtaposition between deep trust in the turning-inward process and yearning to burst out the proverbial shell is real.
Lately I've been revisiting the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali as part of my Mid-Winter spiritual "balm", and Sutra 33 is something I'm really trying to work with, and I wanted to share with y'all to see if it offers any resonance.
"By cultivating attitudes of friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and disregard toward the wicked, the mind-stuff retains its undisturbed calmness."
The state of the world is as it's always been: volatile, unjust, magical, complicated, disheartening, and beautiful, all happening at once, all the time, whether we're aware of it or not. But it's only in this technological age of constant connectivity and instant knowing, not to mention the search for gratification and "likes", that our nervous systems are bombarded with so many ideas and viewpoints (and Godforsaken advertisements) that the stimuli has become too much to handle. We are becoming numb to the human experience and losing sight of how to feel true compassion (strictly speaking to my experience and merely inferring that maybe others agree).
Now back to the Sutra...
It's so easy to get wrapped up in the judgements of others that we (I) often forget to care for our own hearts. Please consider this post an invitation to read and re-read the words of Patanjali (quoted above), and know that the calmness of your heart and mind (ALL OF YOU) is of utmost importance, and letting go of comparing your situation to another's can be an incredibly affective way to achieve that.
Sending out Imbolc love to all of you.
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