The winter solstice is one of my favorite spiritual celebrations at the end of the year. This year it’s even more important that we activate and celebrate the return of the light as we release a challenging 2021 and welcome a new 2022 filled with possibility. For many years, I have hosted a sacred winter solstice gathering for my family and friends. For me, it’s a quiet time of reflection, release, and intention. You can create your own winter solstice ritual with just yourself or a circle of soul-hearted friends. Here’s a Powerful Solstice Ritual to Activate and Celebrate the Return of the Light: Sitting around a fireplace or … [Read more...]
The Winter Solstice: Reflect, Let Go & Look Forward
For millennia, winter solstice celebrations have heralded the return of the light and are a time of quiet reflection and intention. In many Native American cultures, tribes and families would gather to start up a new year at the solstice and have a special celebration where they would make a request to the Great Spirit to eliminate certain things that they no longer wanted in their lives. As a way of representing this, they would craft six arrows: three to represent the things they did not want and three for the things they did want. They called them “death” arrows and “life” arrows because they held respectfully, the things they wanted to be … [Read more...]