Each night starts earlier and earlier. We are moving, like we do every year, into the shortest day and the longest night of the year. Though our current culture doesn't pay much, if any, attention to the Winter Solstice on December 21, in the Northern Hemisphere, in ancient times this day/night was the most sacred.
As the day approached the people responded to going into the darkness in harmony with the rest of nature - the leaves falling, revealing stark bare branches, the grasses browning, the bears going off to sleep in their lairs, the lakes and steams freezing. And the Earth, the Great Mother, drawing all her children into the depths of the darkness where she embraced them all in Her dark blanket of rest and the promise of rejuvenation - New Light -
And, so honoring Her rich darkness they slowed down. They rested like the plants and the animals until just before the Solstice, when those who were called began gathering wood to build giant bonfires to celebrate the Light In the Darkness. - The promise of a new year coming. Not right away, days would still be short and nights long, but the cycle was now set in motion to return to longer days and finally the rebirth of Spring.
So, though, we in our crazy unhinged culture are rushing around buying gift, sitting in traffic jams, planning and giving parties, working long shifts, tearing our hair out with year end tax preparation, and business and corporate plans for the new year, deep in our DNA is the memory of the ancient appreciation of the darkness and the deepness within ourselves as part of the cycle of life and our Divine Mother Earth.
Thus, on this day before the Solstice, I invite you to slow down. Take a break from the chaos, and allow yourself to snuggle down, maybe wrapped in a soft blanket, perhaps with incense burning, and breathe into your own dark coziness. And dream about a time when the night was the realm of the Mother and Her nurture. We were safe in the dark, because we knew She loved us, and took care of us. This is the darkness of the womb, and from Her womb we all were born.
Allow yourself to breathe into that ancient knowing that is held in your DNA. Allow the experience to infuse you from within. And continue to breathe. Breathe until breath is the only thing there is.
You may begin to get a feeling of emptiness. That may feel scary, but put your attention back on your breath and welcome in the nothingness. Remember you are in the womb of the Great Mother. And it is in this moment that all of your life's potential is.
And it is in the moment, in this nothingness that you may feel a wild new you pulsing gently through you. And it is NOW that you have the power to ride the monstrous wave of your own pure potential. To connect with your Courage to let go of all that has held you hostage in the past, and go for it.
Who knows what "it" is. You don't need to, this is not about some old goal or ego created idea of what you want to be or do, but it is the intense desire of your immortal spirit to express itself through the magnificent vessel that you are.
Be with this for as long as you can. Relax and allow whatever is happening within.
ALLOW ALLOW ALLOW ALLOW ALLOW and Breathe ---------------------
As you find your way into the rest of your day, allow that feeling, that sensation of your own courageous Inner Being accompany you into tomorrow and the Solstice.
And then on the Solstice, Honor the Divine Mother, and gather your candles and your crystals and you sacred objects, and your sacred beverage and your warm cozy blanket and speak with The Great Mother. Ask her what She wants for you in this next moment. Listen. Listen with your feeling self and your sensing/intuitive self. And Light your candles and drink your sacred wine or juice, and celebrate your courage to be YOU.
Have a blessed Solstice.
With so much light, and love, and joy, Barbara | 
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