Ah, the holidaze - when we find ourselves rushing around like chickens without our heads...trying to get work wrapped up before the end of the year, making plans to meet with family, figuring out travel arrangements, making time to find a christmas tree and get decorations up, finding that last minute gift...
It's a frantic frenzy of frenetic energy and it goes against the entire meaning of this time of year. At Samhain, we honored those who have passed and we rid ourselves of the dross from the past year. As we approach the Winter Solstice, we're SUPPOSED to be gearing down, not gearing up. Now is a time of reflection - of rest and of decay. The dark times are a chance for us to let go of past events, emotions and unneeded baggage and allow ourselves to truly open up to the divine source as we begin to form our seeds for the coming year.
This is a time when we lose many of those we love to the arms of death and rebirth. It is normal for this to be a time of passing over - for those spirits who are ready to begin anew to leave this earthly plane of existence, in preparation for their reincarnation into the next lessons of a lifetime. They choose to leave us now, at a time of year when we are SUPPOSED to have the time to reflect on what they meant to us, on how they impacted our lives, and how we can best honor them in our own lives moving forward.
We must personally choose to slow down, and to honor the internal wheel within us all - honor ourselves enough to take time for ourselves now. We can choose instead to go running around willy-nilly and completely give up our right to reflection and release, but is that truly how you want to enter the next turn of the wheel?
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