A potent invitation to stand still

​In just a few days we will reach Solstice, the juncture where the sun reaches its highest point in the Southern Hemisphere and lowest point in the Northern Hemisphere.  A time of the year that our ancestors believed represented a pause in the world and a potent invitation to stand still.
 
Celebrated and honoured for thousands of years by our ancestors and it can also provide us with the same opportunity to stop and reflect, and to rest amid the crosswinds. A time to honour the depths of our exhaustion and to reflect on the grief of last year (both personal and collective) and to release what no longer serves us.
 
This year I feel the need to stop and stand still, even if just for a moment, to honour the solstice, like never before. To be able to stand at the still center, to fasten there, making powerful and intentional choices to releasing what no longer serves. And I have “plans” to do just that. Will you grant yourself this gift of honouring the solstice? Of joining the long line of our ancestors who have celebrated the solstice. Of holding space for yourself and the year that has just gone and of honouring the complexities of grief, renewal, and liberation.