Happy Solstice!

It’s the Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, the darkest day of the year, before the turning of the light. Now we open the portal to winter, as well as Capricorn season. This is a time to dive into our innermost beings, feeling the warmth of solitude and retreat. It’s an opportunity to acknowledge our regrets, resentments, and fears, offering them to the light of our self-awareness and acceptance. Sitting by the fire, we can feel loving-kindness embrace our imperfections, messiness, and vulnerability.

This year’s Solstice is particularly potent. We’re standing on the precipice of a new year,  new decade, and new age. As we begin winter, eclipse season is underway as we prepare for a rare Saturn-Pluto conjunction on January 12, marking a profound paradigm shift. We may feel tension between the old and the new, as we begin to shed our skin and rise from the ashes of deep transformation. The planets are pushing for a big release of all we’ve outgrown, emptying our cups so that fresh, revolutionary energies can take root.

In the process of letting go, we could feel overwhelmed by the uncertainty of great change. But the planets are helping us assuage our fears and remember the stillness and infinite nature that lie within us. We’re in this together. Healing our divides, we can work with one another to destroy what is harmful—with love in our hearts—as we make room for something kinder, freer, and more aligned….

I made a Winter Calendar with medical astrologer Emily McDonald for the Alchemist’s Kitchen. Check it out here: