Something Exciting Before Xmas

At this time of the year, as the sun goes down earlier and earlier, the days are getting shorter and shorter, while Xmas is approaching fast, what excites me the most is the idea of reaching the 21st of December, the Winter Solstice. Once we reach this point in the year, having weaved through summer and growing slightly sombre during the autumn months, suddenly that's it. The shortest day of the year has come, and we can start looking at the new year, the new dawn. From the 21rst or 22nd of December  the cycle of a New Year starts again. In pagan times, this was the real new year to celebrate.

From then on we climb back and I feel life stirring up in me, even if I am fully aware that really we are only at the beginning of winter. Life stirs up inside me, while the inevitable hibernation time of winter catches up and I spend more time indoors, going to bed earlier, staying quiet and connecting to an inner world that gets richer and more magical as I withdraw into a peaceful place that has taken me years to find. It's like the seed in the moist and warm earth, settling in contently, knowing that it can rest waiting for Spring to come.

Then Xmas comes a few days later, with all the fuss and the presents, and the the binges and indulgences with glorious food that I would not normally contemplate eating, and I forget for a few days about the excitement of the days getting longer. I don't have to think about it any more. It's happened. I don't have to look outside my window marvelling at how 'oh my it's only 3.30 pm and it's already dark'. It's all happened, I can relax now, I don't have to count the days any more. The New Year has already started for me and like the seed I settle in myself and spend time planning and resting, looking at not just this year but the years that have disappeared as 2012 approaches even faster now.

I think of the things that I have achieved that seemed unreachable a decade ago, and with greater clarity I spend more time visualizing the world that I want to create. In 2011 the energy is going to accelerate 100,000 fold from last year and things are going to manifest even faster. I smile as I tell myself  "Choose with great care, your words, your thoughts, your feelings and your wishes, if you don't want to create what you don't really want any more".

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