I feel like I’ve tried to cram ten pounds of Christmas into a five-pound Santa sack.
The days are almost at their shortest and there is more darkness than there is light in the sky.
This is meant to be a time of going within, a time of introspection.
And what do we do instead? Shop! Wrap! Decorate! Bake!
If you’re like me, you do all of those things at break-neck speed, promising yourself you’ll sleep in January and asking yourself if you can fit in just one more show, party, or get-together.
Today the Fool came up as my card of the day. And I knew what it was trying to tell me:
Let got of the fear of relinquishing control. Stop trying to live a normal life.
If we can relinquish control, our normal life gives way to one of curiosity. We start to experience a deep connection to the Divine.
Connection to the Divine takes many forms. It can also be called finding our true selves. And our purpose. Re can rediscover the Divine that has been within us all along and express it to the world.
The hard part is that what is called our waking life has a vested interest in keeping us rooted in normalcy. The world would prefer us to be sedated by busyness. Conform, it whispers. And conforming at the holidays means Shop! Wrap! Decorate! Bake!
With the solstice, we are encouraged to have faith. To believe that there is something more. We have to release all that we know and all that we’ve relied on. We must find our innocence, the purity, and the childlike wonder within. It’s there. It always has been. We either forgot or listened to someone who told us it was gone.
So, step into the unknown, into the darkness. Spend time in self-reflection. You’ll emerge once again with your inner light glowing and lighting your path, the path to your most powerful self.