Hello, you.

How are you doing, my friend? What are you feeling and experiencing as we enter the often busiest time of the holiday festivities?

For me, the most important part of living in rhythm with the seasons, is to actually live in rhythm with the seasons. To remember that change is constant. To not hold on too tight, but to also not give into despair.

Amazingly, right in the nick of time before all hope is lost, we have just crossed over the winter solstice threshold and find ourselves in the middle of what I like to call “the yuletide portal”, a liminal season from the winter solstice to the 12th day of Christmas (January 5). A portal of shifting and transitioning and dreaming and resting. This is a time of hope and magic and peace and quietness.

Now that we have crossed over the threshold, there is no obvious change in the darkness of our winter days. And, there is no reason to rush it either. Just as the darkness began to slowly creep in all autumn long, so will the sun’s strength slowly begin to return. And, to me, that is my invitation to continue to move slowly through the entire month after the solstice, to move slowly through the yuletide portal, and to move slowly through the week ahead and the beginning of the new year.

There is no rush. And there is much magic and rest to be found in the long winter that lies ahead.

My friend, I wish you the most merriest of holidays and celebrations both great and small this week. But, mostly, I wish you blessings of peace and love that fill your soul and spill out into your life.

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