12/22/2025
Winter Solstice: Sitting With the Dark Without Needing It to Fix Us
The winter solstice is not a promise.
It is not an activation.
It is not a turning point that magically makes life easier.
It is simply the longest night.
And that matters.
In a world that is constantly asking us to move forward, improve, manifest, heal, transcend, and become something more… the solstice asks for something radically different.
It asks us to stay.
To sit with what is quiet.
To sit with what feels heavy, unresolved, unfinished.
To sit with what hasn’t bloomed yet — without demanding that it do so.
Nature does not rush the return of the light.
There is no announcement.
No declaration.
No celebration of arrival.
There is only stillness.
The earth rests.
Roots deepen in the dark.
Life conserves itself rather than proving itself.
And we are not separate from this rhythm.
Winter solstice is not here to rescue us from our pain or confusion.
It is here to remind us that rest is not failure, and not knowing is not wrong.
There are seasons in our lives where clarity does not come from effort.
Where healing does not come from insight.
Where growth does not come from doing.
It comes from allowing the body to soften.
From letting the nervous system exhale.
From no longer forcing meaning onto what is still unfolding.
The solstice doesn’t ask us to shine.
It asks us to listen.
To listen to what the dark has been holding for us — not to fix it, not to release it, but to finally let it be felt.
There is a quiet intelligence in the darkness.
Not dramatic.
Not loud.
Not urgent.
It moves slowly, patiently, without explanation.
And when the light returns — as it always does — it does not arrive because we earned it, aligned enough, or believed hard enough.
It returns because that is the natural order.
Just like your breath returns after an exhale.
Just like the heart keeps beating without being told.
Just like life continues even when you stop trying to manage it.
If this solstice finds you tired, uncertain, tender, or quiet…
Nothing is wrong.
You are not behind.
You are not missing anything.
You are not failing your spiritual path.
You are in winter.
And winter is not something to get through.
It is something to honor.
Tonight, you don’t have to set intentions.
You don’t have to release anything.
You don’t have to claim a new timeline.
You can simply sit with the dark —
and trust that the light knows how to return on its own.
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