Let us know peace.
For as long as the moon shall rise,
For as long as the rivers shall flow,
For as long as the sun shall shine,
For as long as the grass shall grow,
Let us know peace.
— Cheyenne Prayer
Winter Solstice Blessings!
During the Solstice, we begin something truly sacred — a moment to connect with spirit, be still, and remember who we really are
If you’re feeling overwhelmed by the world’s turmoil this year, I encourage you to intentionally pause on December 21, take a breath, and drop into your heart.
I know I am feeling the longing for a deeper connection. It’s been a challenging year, as evidenced by the devastating chaos of American politics and the sweeping changes affecting our society. Witnessing these changes is exhausting and discouraging.
The pursuit of reassurance and hope for healing in our current times involves a passion for seeing loved ones flourish and keeping them close. To experience safety in our environments where we live, we unite in community.
By being mindful of the last days of Autumn, we honor the season of transition by keeping our guides close. It’s an extraordinary moment in our year to anchor our good intentions and pause for still reflection. The opportunity to reclaim and acknowledge our unique selves in the Sacred is upon us.
In this post, I’ll show you how to transform your fatigue into hope, love, peace, and a deeper relationship with the Sacred through a Winter Solstice Ritual. I’ll share how I use my Fleur vibrational products to shift awareness and help us rediscover ourselves in the Sacred.
Before we begin, let’s first delve into the fascinating cultural significance of the winter solstice and its relationship to Yule. Exploring these traditions will deepen our appreciation of the holiday season.
Pagan Customs & Traditions that Unite Us
This year, the Winter Solstice is on Sunday, December 21. It is an excellent opportunity to honor diverse traditions, embrace the beauty of darkness, and joyfully welcome the returning light in our lives. It symbolizes a turning point, a threshold, a powerful pause.
For nearly 12,000 years, our ancestors celebrated this time by marking the seasonal shift and embracing the darkest night of the year. Although some solstice traditions have been integrated into Christian, Jewish, and secular practices, the pagan roots remain a vital part of our shared history.
The winter solstice is a sacred day for many cultures and a powerful time to offer prayers of gratitude for our blessings. Around the world, people gather for ceremonies, share food, and spend time with family.
Psychologically, the winter solstice has historically represented the rebirth of humanity. This annual event embodies a spiritual significance, as reflected in phrases such as “the triumph of light over darkness.” It signifies “the end of long nights” and carries various religious interpretations linking light to hope and renewal.
The days leading up to the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere are the holy days of Yule—a pagan festival observed by Germanic and Nordic peoples, involving feasting, singing, and gift-giving.
Our traditions remind us that transitions deserve respect and mindfulness. They encourage us to pause, reflect, enter a dream state, and intentionally set our intentions for the upcoming season.
As the world accelerates toward the holiday season, I invite you to reclaim the gifts the winter solstice offers through stillness and reflection, just as our ancestors did thousands of years ago.
Santa as Indigenous Shaman
The legend of Santa Claus has its origins in shamanic cultures in Siberia and the Arctic. Sami Shamanic interpretations view Santa Claus not merely as a jolly gift-giver, but as an archetype of the spirit guide.
Symbolically, Santa’s journeys with flying reindeer or spirit animals from other realms represent spiritual transformation, inner sacredness, and the threshold between the mundane and the mystical.
Santa brings gifts down the chimney (a symbolic portal/birth canal) from the spirit world (North Pole/sky), much as shamans travel between worlds to bring healing or knowledge.
In essence, Santa is a modern, culturally diluted shaman: a figure who traverses boundaries (sky/Earth, conscious/unconscious), brings sacred knowledge (gifts/toys), and facilitates inner awakening, transforming the mundane into the magical through belief and spiritual connection.
The Iconic Mushroom that Opens Pathways to the Unseen
This legendary figure of Santa connects the unseen worlds, where red-and-white elements, reminiscent of Amanita muscaria mushrooms, are consumed during vision journeys.
Amanita muscaria has a significant role in human history, especially in spiritual and shamanic practices. Ancient cultures worldwide esteemed this mushroom for its capacity to open pathways to the unseen. It served as a tool for transformation, enabling shamans and mystics to gain insights, facilitate healing, and connect with the cosmos.
These mushrooms were most commonly found directly at the base of pine trees, which, in many ways, were gifts to the people the shamans served. After harvesting them, they would dry them by hanging them from the lower branches of the pine, like ornaments.
The mushroom’s dual nature—both toxic and enlightening—intensifies its symbolic power, embodying the intricate balance between danger and reward in life.
These remarkable mushrooms offer profound spiritual insights, embodying blessings that create a strong connection to the sacred essence within us all.
One well-known psychedelic effect of Amanita muscaria in humans is the sensation of flying, which might explain the origin of the myth about the man clad in red and white soaring through the sky on his reindeer-drawn sled, dispensing tokens of love to the world.
Sacred Holiness
Many people struggle with the idea that the sacred should be easily understood or neatly defined. However, this perspective encourages us to reconsider that notion.
By embracing both traditional and non-traditional methods of marking the seasons, I discovered something that helps me remain centered and connected to what is both holy and sacred: a celebration that uplifts the spirit and renews our sense of sacred purpose.
During the winter solstice, we create space for the Holy to be simple. Like sacredness, it is the foundation of everything, flowing through every breath, a quiet truth opening in the Sacred.
The moments we regard as sacred are essentially those when certain events exert a psychological, spiritual, or energetic influence on their surroundings. Our recognition of their importance stems from their deep significance for human consciousness and the celestial forces that shape our lives.
Evoking the sacred means learning to enact conscious rituals or create contained experiences that bring forward a sense of belonging to the greater whole. We can commemorate significant transitions in the year with meaningful rituals that we blend from our history and current values.
Embracing Darkness to Rediscover Sacred Self
Darkness can be a powerful source of creativity, healing, inspiration, and hope.
Although I won’t be using mushrooms this solstice night, nature teaches us that growth is cyclical, with distinct phases. The transition from Autumn to Winter offers an excellent opportunity to slow down and embrace the darkest days of the year.
The longest night symbolizes the darker, often unacknowledged parts of the self—fears, doubts, and unresolved wounds (the “shadow self”). The Solstice invites us to sit with this discomfort and stillness rather than avoid them, recognizing their necessity for healing and growth.
Unlike the summer solstice, which centers on growth and expanding light, the winter solstice invites us to descend into darkness, go within, be receptive to discovery, and honor the illumination of our soul. It’s a natural time to retreat, conserve our vitality, and listen to our inner selves, much like seeds storing energy in the dark soil.
The Winter Solstice is nature’s cue for deep rest, introspection, and cultivating energy before the surge of spring. It’s a time of “yin within yin,” where deep rest seeds new growth, symbolized by the tiny spark of Yang within the longest night, a moment of rebirth and potential.
As we embrace the longest night of the winter solstice, we are invited to reflect, pray, and appreciate nature as we set our intentions and participate in meaningful rituals.
May you dream in the lap of the still, fertile dark we long for.
The Gifts of the Sacred Feminine
The dark time of year, specifically this time near the Solstice, the seemingly fallow ‘death’ phase of late Autumn and Winter, corresponds to the sacred feminine, and the archetypes of old age, wisdom, and generativity.
The Sacred Feminine teaches us that in the darkness of fertility, we reconnect to the magic, beauty, and mystery within us. It is where our potency and power lie. But we must be willing to do the work of unraveling our conditioning to access its gifts.
Her feminine energy focuses on intuition, feeling, nurturing, receptivity, and interconnectedness. It is about healing and growth, and about communal harmony, starting with herself. She prioritizes the winter Solstice prime time for deep listening, self-care, and connecting with ancestral wisdom through rituals.
Sacred Pause Initiation
In this sacred pause—like the stillness between an out-breath and the beginning of the next in-breath—we are invited to witness the miracle of existence itself.
A “sacred pause” is the intentional act of pausing automatic reactions and behaviors for a brief moment to create space for awareness, reflection, and deliberate choice. It is a powerful tool to interrupt habitual patterns driven by stress, anxiety, or emotional triggers, allowing me to respond thoughtfully rather than react impulsively.
The practice is considered “sacred” because it honors the inner self, creates an opportunity for the mind and spirit to align, and fosters a sense of wisdom and clarity that is often lost in the busyness of daily life.
Holding still provides access to a profound initiation. This significant turning point moves an individual from ordinary awareness to a deeper understanding, involving challenges, rituals, and a commitment to a way of life.
We invite stillness, allowing sacred holiness to surface. A sacred solstice moment signifies a transition and rebirth, allowing us to connect with what is holy in ourselves. With mindfulness comes stillness. In silence, we discover who we are and what we truly want, the keys to happiness and wellbeing.
On Winter’s threshold, we honor not only the end of an old cycle but also the beginning of a new one—an invitation to rest, reflect, and nurture the dreams that are quietly taking root within us. Pausing at the cusp of the Winter Solstice, we take this moment of stillness as a perfect balance of Yin and Yang, a quiet pause before the light returns.
Thus, what a magnificent opportunity we have on Solstice to embrace what our culture often avoids: a treasured, sacred moment that invites us to pause, shift our attention away from external distractions, and embrace a calming inner silence.
I warmly invite you to give yourself the gift of this quiet moment—embracing the peaceful stillness of the Winter Solstice, when the Earth pauses and is poised at its most polar point.
Prepare your Sacred Space
Your Environment Becomes Your Sacred Space
Every year, I look forward to creating a winter solstice and Yule altar. I decorate it with natural, seasonal elements. Some suggestions for your altar may include:
- Mistletoe symbolizes the sacred seed and embodies life during the dark winter months. It stands for abundance and fertility and is linked to winter holidays around the world.
- Evergreens symbolize the eternal aspect of the Sacred because they never die. Trees such as pine, fir, juniper, and cedar are commonly associated with protection, prosperity, continuity, and renewal.
- Holly: believed to bring luck, so keep a sprig of Holly near your door to invite good fortune into your life in the coming year.
- Bowls filled with winter nuts—hazelnuts, walnuts, and pecans—serve as a powerful symbol of Mother Earth’s dormant seeds, embodying the promise of new life waiting to awaken.
- Fresh, vibrant fruit, including oranges, persimmons, pears, and apples, serves as a powerful representation of the sun’s bright energy.
- Winter pomegranate spiritually symbolizes fertility, abundance, life, death, and rebirth. It represents prosperity, blessing, hidden knowledge, and the cycle of life, symbolizing both earthly wealth and spiritual promises.
- Snowflakes, a bowl of snow, or ice cubes to represent the element of water in her winter form.
- Candles in gold, red, green, and white represent our northern ancestors’ heritage and the sun’s energy.
- Fairy lights evoke luck or mimic fireflies and sunlight, creating magical, festive glows at seasonal celebrations. They represent light conquering darkness, adorning trees, jars, and spaces to bring warmth and magic for both the shortest and longest days of the year.
- Bells, chimes, and tingshas, when sounded, signify the beginning, middle, or end of ceremonies, prayers, or a specific sacred moment.
Intentions are Seeds
Ritual and intention are deeply connected.
An intention is the explicit purpose or goal you set for yourself. Intentions are like seeds buried in the soil, waiting for the warmth of inner light to help them grow.
Rituals are meaningful, intentional actions that bring focus, setting it apart from a mindless routine. When you clarify your intention within a ritual, it becomes anchored, linking thought and action. This process helps ensure your ritual outcomes.
At the Solstice, we connect intention and ritual in a still moment to foster the potential for new life. Like a dormant seed in the dark soil of the Earth, waiting for the right conditions to sprout, we lay the ground for our own dreams – personally and collectively. We nurture the seeds of light within ourselves, caring for them with patience and dedication.
No matter your beliefs, the Winter Solstice offers an excellent opportunity to write down your intentions. Some examples are:
Inner Growth
“I honor the deep darkness as a womb for my dreams, nurturing my roots for the future of humanity.”
Connection
“I am attuned to nature’s rhythms and grateful for the wisdom and love surrounding me.”
Action/Process
“I approach my life with curiosity, contribute value daily, and find balance in all areas of my life.”
Self-Care
“I rekindle radical self-love and deep-rooted compassion and caring acceptance, sharing my true self unapologetically.
Finding Oneself
“In stillness, I rediscover the sacred source that is me and is you.”
A Winter Solstice Ritual
Rituals introduce a sacredness and focused energy to our intentions. They align our mind, heart, and spirit with our desires, making it easier to manifest our aspirations.
Creating new rituals or blending the ones we cherish with those of our loved ones allows us to invoke a sense of the sacred, making the holiday season both meaningful and personal. This practice helps us feel a connection to the traditions we hold dear.
Various winter solstice rituals celebrate the rebirth of the sun, focusing on themes of receptivity, visioning, and profound transformation. These practices often include fire ceremonies, drumming, shamanic journeys, and a reverence for ancient spiritual traditions. They serve to welcome the returning light of the sun and the possibilities of the new year.
Participating in a winter solstice ritual helps us reconnect with the sacred and immerse ourselves in nature’s rhythms, fostering unity and purpose in our lives. This is a time to root down in darkness so we can grow again in the spring.
Instead of pushing through the busyness of the holiday season, we are invited to descend with intention…so we can rise with purpose.
Individually or together, we can rediscover the sacred essence within ourselves and celebrate this vibrant connection when we
- Rest deeply
- Restore the body’s essential energy
- Touch and release fear and uncertainty
- Return to inner wisdom
- Listen to what wants to grow next.
“Practice listening to your intuition, your inner voice; ask questions; be curious; see what you see; hear what you hear; and then act upon what you know to be true. These intuitive powers were given to your soul at birth.”
–Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Flower Essence Aromatherapy Ritual Tools
- Seshen Blue Lotus Sacred Anointing Oil – To help me enter dreamtime so I may vision.
- Gateway & Initiation Ritual Essences – To cultivate a powerful vibrational state that inspires me to pause at the threshold and journey into consciousness.
- Calling Your Spirit Helpers & Hope Sprays – To call upon my spirit helpers during my ritual to reflect on rediscovering hope in the small graces and goodness that happen each day.
- Sea of Life 50/50 Salt Blend – To add to my bath water for its exceptional relaxing and restorative qualities.
- Nidra Rest & Restore Oil – By integrating this into my bedtime ritual, I harness its deeply restorative properties to rejuvenate my nervous system as I sleep, ensuring I wake up refreshed and revitalized.
These will help me drop into stillness at the threshold of the Solstice, seek new possibilities for the coming year through entering dreamtime, and connect me to the cycles of restoration and renewal.
Other tools I will use during the ritual are
- A glass of spring water
- A Candle and a lighter
- A chime
- *A Warm water bath
*See my previous Winter Solstice post: The Medicine of Replenishment
Prepare Yourself with Intention
Sacred Anointing with Seshan Blue Lotus
After I bathe, I anoint myself with the crown-opening Seshen Blue Lotus Sacred Anointing Oil (Nymphaea caerulea).
I love the aroma! Inhaling the exquisite scent of Seshen opens the Crown Chakra, fostering a unifying, comforting, and centered feeling. It is especially activating for its calming, euphoric, and dream-enhancing properties.
I anoint my forehead, crown, and temples to connect with higher consciousness and deliberately enhance my meditation.
This anointing practice before a ritual or ceremony elevates my awareness, opens my mind to cosmic wisdom, and supports spiritual development. It boosts my vibration and immediately aligns my mind, body, and spirit in the present moment.
Performing your Winter Solstice Ritual
The best time for your winter solstice ritual is just after sunset, on December 21, when we welcome the longest and darkest night of the year.
I have designed this ritual in three parts:
- Pause, breathe, intend, and contemplate
- Nurturing Yin
- Greeting Winter
Choose a time when you can be still and quiet. Put away phones, turn off electrical lights, and ensure you will not be disturbed for about half an hour.
We use winter solstice flower essence aromatherapy tools, intention, conscious breathing, and affirmations to align body, mind, and spirit.
Part 1: Pause, Breathe, Intend, and Contemplate
Phase 1: Begin your Ritual
Step 1
- Sit comfortably in darkness in front of your Solstice altar.
- Light a candle or your Yule fire.
- Place six drops of Gateway Ritual Essence on the top of your head at the crown.
- Close your eyes.
- Please take a deep breath, filling your lungs, pause at the top to hold it, then exhale slowly. Repeat three times.
- Imagine your crown opening and receiving sacred energy.
Step 2
- Sound your chime to anchor your attention, slow racing thoughts, and achieve open awareness.
- Pause: Let the sound reverberate, and observe the shift in the room’s energy as you follow it into silence.
- Again, close your eyes and turn your attention inward toward your heart.
- Please take a full breath, filling your lungs, pause at the top to hold it, then exhale slowly. Repeat three times.
Step 3
- In your glass of water, place six drops of Initiation Ritual Essence
- Sip your water with reverence for your journey inward.
- Invoke your Intention by reciting aloud your words 3 x.
Phase 2: Calling your Spirit Helpers
Step 4
- Mist Calling Your Spirit Helpers around your head and body, breathe deeply of its aromatic and vibrational essences.
- Close your eyes and invite your Spirit Helpers and Guides to join you during your ritual.
- Take another deep breath, enjoying the fusion of Palo Santo and Rose Otto scent, which will ground and anchor you in your heart.
- Sense, feel, intuit, hear, or visualize your ally’s loving presence and wisdom offered to you.
- Again, please take another deep breath, pause at the top to hold it, and then exhale slowly. Repeat three times.
Phase 3: Sitting in Stillness
This phase of our ritual is a devotional offering to pause in stillness and enter dreamtime.
Step 5
- Anoint yourThird eye at the center of your forehead with Seshen Blue Lotus Sacred Anointing Oil.
- With closed eyes, breathe deeply of its exotic, floral aroma.
- Feel its energy flow through the body-mind and auric field, creating a harmonic resonance that heals, balances, and awakens the innate ability to return to wholeness.
Step 6
- Maintaining your eyes closed, in the sacred moment of stillness, feel the energetic transition from Autumn to Winter.
- Pause and breathe deeply. Allow.
- Feel into the pause between your breaths:
- What’s opening?
- What’s closing?
- What’s falling away as you step into the portal of cosmic energies coalescing in this moment?
- Sink into the moment as you root into the ground of your being.
- Notice your inner spaciousness opening as you honor your own sacred light.
- Visualize the seeds of your intentions planted in the fertile soil of darkness.
Phase 4: Reflection & Introspection
In this sacred space at the gateway to the winter solstice portal, we sit in the presence of all that is. Solstice energy encourages introspection, embodying the rich darkness and silence from which our soul’s desires and new aspirations have space to emerge.
Step 7
- With closed eyes. Breathe deeply. Allow.
- Ask yourself:
- In this season, where am I being guided to rest and renew?
- What wounded parts of me did I feel, and how did I tend to them?
- What was the most challenging thing I traversed this year?
- How have I matured as a result of it?
- How have I changed as a person this solar cycle?
- What shadowed areas in my life do I wish to illuminate?
- What fertilizes the ground of my being?
- What dreams have grown within me?
- What dreams have faded away?
- What brought me the most joy?
- Where and with whom could I ask for help?
- Where could I help others more?
- What new things did I learn?
- What beliefs did I change?
- What lessons am I bringing forward, and how will they help me
- Allow your feelings to guide you, as they are your authentic truth.
- Continue to take deep breaths. Let your answers come naturally.
Phase 5: Harnessing Solstice Energy
Your body’s wisdom holds the essence of water. Water is the element of Winter. It is deeply connected to our feeling body, emotions, intuition, memory, and the subconscious mind, as well as the genesis of new ideas and spiritual exploration.
Step 8
- Continue to take full, slow, deep breaths,
- Quietly acknowledge that when the sun is distant, we can metaphorically ask for the return of light.
- In this moment of receptivity and openness, focus your attention on your feeling body.
- Ask yourself:
- Which areas of my life need to flow more?
- What resources can I gather for greater balance?
- What do I need to allow?
- What habits support effortless wellbeing?
- What self-care practices sustain me?
- When did I lean into my inner strength?
Let beauty guide you.
Let imagination lead.
Let meaning be something you participate in, not something you wait for.
The magic of the winter solstice is about seeing who you are becoming through the eyes of the Sacred Feminine.
Phase 6: Ignite the Power of Hope
The Solstice reminds us that even in our darkest moments, there is a turning point—a moment when the light begins to return. And in that light, we find hope, resilience, and the possibility of renewal.
Here, the generous nature of the infinite unfolds, inviting us to rest in the gentle truth that we are part of an unending flow of giving and receiving.
Step 8
- We conclude our transition through the Winter Solstice portal by misting Hope Spray around our head and body, anchoring patience and emotional truth.
- Take a deep breath, inhaling the grounding scents of frankincense and the uplifting scent of neroli as you settle into a period of gestation.
- Ask yourself:
- What areas in my mind, body, and spirit do I nurture hope?
- Do I believe I have agency by focusing on what I can control (your response, effort, attitude) rather than what I can’t?
- Am I motivated to take steps toward a better future, honoring my intentional choices?
- When do I keep promises to myself that align with my values?
- What small commitments and follow-through can I make to build a history of reliability?
- Do I believe in my own competence and inherent worthiness?
- Do I practice acknowledging and experiencing difficult emotions rather than avoiding them?
- What small daily actions can I take to increase my self-awareness?
- Will I take ownership of my mistakes, apologize if needed, and learn from them rather than letting shame take over?
- Will I commit to practicing self-compassion by replacing harsh self-criticism with supportive self-talk?
- Will I reframe unrealistic expectations, which can undermine my resilience?
- Will I treat myself with the same kindness and encouragement I would offer a good friend?
- What is being incubated within that longs to be birthed in the Spring?
- Continue to take full, slow, deep breaths,
Phase 7: Closing Our Winter Solstice Ritual
Step 9
- When you are ready, gently open your eyes.
- In silence, gently gaze at the dancing flame of your candle.
- Return your breath to its own depth, pace, and rhythm, and fully re-engage your awareness in the here and now.
Step 10
- When you feel complete, sound your chime to anchor your ritual to signal the end, release built-up energy, seal your intentions, and mark your transition back to ordinary awareness.
- Listen to the sound reverberate through the silence and observe the shift in the room’s energy.
- Acknowledge that the potent alchemy of our winter solstice ritual together provided you with precisely what you need.
- No hurry or rush, take as much time as you desire. Sit as long as you like,
Part 2: Nurturing Yin
Step 11
- I invite you to take a warm bath with Sea of Life salts, mimicking the womb from which you began.
- Bathe in the dark, with only a candle to let go into the most profound relaxation, cocooning you in nurturing yin.
- Enjoy the pleasure of being with yourself.
Meditation with the One
- In the comforting sensation of the water, place one hand on your belly and another on your heart.
- Take three deep breaths through your nose, exhaling slowly through your mouth. Repeat three times.
- Feel your hand on your heart, remaining still, while your belly hand rises and falls with your breath.
- Feel the energy in your belly connecting to your heart. Notice the beautiful bond that forms.
- Allow yourself to be breathed by the infinite presence of the Sacred.
- In this sacred moment, repeat to yourself:
“I am safe, I am home, I am whole.”
Step 12
- When you are ready for sleep, apply Nidra Rest & Restore Oil to the soles of your feet.
- Smiling to yourself, offer your final intentional affirmation:
“I surrender to the natural cycle of rest before the return of the light.”
Part 3: Welcoming Winter
Celebrate the Return of the Light
After the longest night, we welcome the dawn with an affirmation that this season brings quiet rest and renewed hope to all.
“I welcome the return of the light and the hope new opportunities bring.”
Rise early to witness the first sunrise of the new solar year. This simple yet profound act symbolizes the return of light to your life.
- As the sun rises, acknowledge that the darkest night has passed.
- Take a moment to reflect on what the returning light means to you.
- Consider this a time to reaffirm your intentions and embrace the possibilities of the year ahead.
Give yourself the chance to reconnect with presence, joy, and purpose rooted in the sacred. This is the kind of gift that not only becomes a turning point, it is an experience that stays with you, and a practice that sustains you.
Breathing in, I welcome the living light.
Breathing out, I carry it into the world.
Breathing in, I am all that is Sacred.
Breathing out, I am a beacon of hope.
Summary
The winter solstice offers an opportunity to take “time-out-of-time” to honor our connection with the Sacred and realign with the Earth, and her rhythms. Even during this darkest time of the year, we look forward to the sun’s return and the many blessings that the upcoming seasons will bring.
That’s precisely why we need to tap deeper wells for a more resilient hope that enables us to persevere in the face of disappointment and prolonged adversity. Hope doesn’t remove darkness. It provides direction within it.
As we move through the darkest nights toward the returning light, I hope this ritual helps you slow down, turn inward gently, and reconnect with your sacred self.
We have once again traveled through a season shaped by pausing at the threshold in stillness.
In conclusion, the winter solstice can be a beacon of hope during the darkest days of Winter, reminding us that light always follows darkness. It encourages us to gather with loved ones, share warmth, and reflect on the past year as we look forward to new beginnings.
The ancient winter solstice traditions and celebrations, such as lighting candles and decorating with evergreens, symbolize resilience and renewal. Embracing these rituals fosters a sense of community, joy, and optimism. As we celebrate the Winter Solstice, let us carry its message of hope into our hearts and actions, inspiring a brighter future for ourselves and those around us.
May you turn toward what nourishes you most.
Because when you remember
–however faintly–
that to pause, to breathe, to feel,
is to say Yes to your Sacred self!
All my aromatic Love!
Winter Solstice Blessings!