Page 18 - My Indigo Sun November - December 2025

The Light Within the Dark:
The Winter Solstice and the Sacred Pause
After many years in Texas, where the year
flows gently from very hot to hot, and
cooler, moving to West Virginia has made
me experience the rhythm of the seasons
in a profoundly new (or rather forgotten
old) way. Here, fall arrives in a cascade of
color. And winter has a cold breath and
occasional snowfall; it is not just a
change of weather- it’s a transformation
of energy too.
Now, observing the final leaves fall and
the world begins to quiet, nature invites
us into her most sacred season — the
season of stillness. The Winter Solstice,
the longest night and shortest day of the
year, is not a moment of death but of
pause — a divine inhale before the next
great creation. It is the turning point,
when the sun, having descended into its
deepest rest, begins its slow return
toward light.
For those attuned to the rhythms of the
Earth, this is more than an astronomical
event; it is a mirror of our own inner
cycles. The Solstice calls us to stop
striving, to step away from the noise of
doing, and to rediscover the quiet power
of being.
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Modern life urges constant movement —
productivity, achievement, forward
momentum — yet every seed knows that
before it can sprout, it must rest beneath
the soil. The Solstice whispers that this
stillness is not emptiness but preparation.
When we allow ourselves to be dormant, we
are not losing time; we are aligning with a
deeper rhythm that sustains all growth.
In the long nights of December, nature
retreats inward. Trees draw their sap down
to their roots. Animals curl into burrows.
The land itself holds its breath. We, too, are
invited to withdraw into our inner sanctum
— to nourish our roots, to listen to the quiet
voice of the soul that is so easily drowned
out by the noise of the world.
Stillness teaches patience — the trust that
what is germinating in the dark will one day
bloom in its own time. The gestation of
dreams, ideas, and transformations cannot
be rushed. Just as the Earth knows when to
awaken, so too do we, if we learn to listen.