Solstice

I love summer solstice. I love winter solstice. I love fall and spring equinox.

While astronomical events, they are also sacred holidays according to pagan traditions, a religion older than christianity.

Quietly, these days ask us to contemplate, reflect, and honor the meaning of light and dark, as well how these two “opposites” (but what is opposite can be flipped inside out, becoming its opposite) play out in our life: What is the significance of the light and dark in your life? What has been shadowed that the light can bring clarity to?

Solstice also begs the question, what is light? And while I think black and white (or light) can simply mean dichotomy in different situations (I realized this when acknowledging that I often overthink things, especially paradox), I’ll speak to the spiritual interpretation.

Light often signifies awareness, or consciousness. It’s the mindfulness, the observation, or “witness” behind meditation. Yet what I’ve also realized in my life is that simply being conscious is nothing without Love.

We can bring awareness to our thought, our wounds, and our imperfections all we want, but without Love, returning to wholeness- reuniting the light and the dark- cannot be complete.

*And just a reminder- when I say “Love”- I mean love in its highest, truest form. We give it terms like “radical” or “unconditional” to define it from “conditional” love- which really isn’t love, but fear and control, albeit love often lies underneath, at least when I think of most parents. Unfortunately, that message of Love is not what comes across. So Loving ourselves fully is actually what returns us to Divine Self, the one that is made up of Love and Light.

Love,

Ray & Pacey