THE RITE OF WINTER SOLSTICE

Winter to me is solitude, which in turn leads me to creativity and healing, because to create is a healing experience in itself.  A deeper sense of self is prominent this time of year. 

Yet, I seriously dislike winter, mainly because I don’t like the cold.  Did you know that thermal (heat) energy also has an effect on the vibrational frequency of the physical body?    Yes it’s true, so like it or not, the season demands change.  There’s no escaping this outside influence and it’s affect upon our lives.  Winter is like a wave of change, all you can do is roll with it, and keep the light kindled inside.

 

THE RITE OF WINTER SOLSTICE (by Ted Andrews, “Nature-Speak”)

As the sun moves into the sign of Capricorn in Northern Hemisphere, the winter season begins.   The movement begins with it a change of energies that touches all life.  The energies of the planet now work to bring the etheric and astral energies of humanity and the planet in alignment with the physical. 

The time of the year is preeminent.  The spiritual energies of the heavens converge upon humanity through the realm of Nature to awaken the feminine powers within us all.  Because of the alignment that occurs at this time of year, along with the awakened feminine energies, many of those of the angelic hierarchy and devic beings of the earth are more easily perceived.  They are beheld and sensed by many – if only through the dream state. 

The energies of the winter solstice and those of all festivals celebrated at this time of the year are connected to humanity’s life of healing, new birth, and creativity.  This season deepens the life feeling, which flows to us through the astral.  It can release opportunity to bring peace to the soul and new birth to the inner potentials.  It strongly plays upon the hearts of all.

This is the time of the year in which the Inner Light is kindled in spite of outer darkness, and thus it is a powerful time for revelation through dreams and meditations.  It is a time to go within us to free ourselves from separateness.  It is a time in which the feminine energies are stirred in all life upon the planet, so that their seeds can sprout within the darkness and begin their growth toward the light.

The spiritual forces of Nature affecting us at this time of the year brings opportunity for healing and the expansion of consciousness for those who would open more fully to it.  It is a time that opens perceptions of what we must still face within ourselves if we are to give birth to the higher.  Spending time in nature now re-awakens your inner dreams and visions.

This is actually a time for withdrawal from outer activities, so that we can give birth to the light within our own darkness.  To bring new life from the darkness of the womb is the goal of this season, and the purpose of the quickening of Nature’s spiritual energies at this time upon humanity.  These universal rhythms converging upon us are keyed to enable anyone who is seeking to awaken the interior gifts and light.

This energy is most appropriate for learning how to balance our emotions and to use our astral energies constructively.  This is a time to cleanse the heart and the astral so that the profound feminine mysteries can unfold within our lives – the birthing capabilities within each of us.  The energies at this time stimulate introspection and inspire seriousness for greater depths of meditation.  Anyone wishing to succeed in meditation and dream work – or those who have difficulty with them – could choose no better time to initiate efforts along these lines.  This is augmented tremendously when done in Nature.  This is a time when doors open to approach the angelic hierarchy more easily.  It is a time in which the universal energies facilitate illumination, forgiving and forgetting petty resentments and great wrongs, and it is a time for new initiation.