The Winter Solstice – the moment of the long night and shortest daylight. I went to the beach to take in the depth of the winter dark.  I made my prayers for myself, my friends and family and the world. I thought about the things that I want to release in the coming months and what are the bare bones of my intentions.   There is no better starting off point than the point of the calendar that is the most quiescent.  I used the stillness for contemplation.

I thought about the divisions and separateness, and I found myself going again and again back to the idea that all we need is love.  Must I return to the 60s to find the path that makes sense to me?  The sixties that I remember were very hard with the politics, war, sexism, racism, and inequalities.  Now we have all the same problems and the progress that I thought to be evolutionary were actually fragile.

Maybe it is because the 3I atlas comet came close to us on the new moon on the 19th.  The comet which is at the Galactic Center making a direct line to us has given rise to spiritual global expectations. Maybe I’m experiencing the message that so many people hypothesize about an elevation of consciousness.  I go back to the lyrics and the knowing that All we need is Love.  I’m feeling into it and embracing it.  It’s such a love filled time despite what is happening. (Are we in a Borat movie?  If we are will someone wake me up?)  In what avenue of your life can you allow yourself to experience a higher form of being?  Where can your heart sing?  How can you change the way that you live your life to shift into a higher heart vibration? Will it come from meditative practices where you let go of the difficult emotions clouding your way? Will you open the heart through the love of people, animals or plants?  Whichever the avenue stay open to the possibilities you might not have considered.