The Turn of the Wheel
Happy Winter Solstice December 21, 2011
"Winter Solstice is the longest night of the year. Now darkness gives way to the increasing light. The breath of nature is suspended; all is still while within the cauldron the infant awaits birth. We watch for the coming of dawn, when the Great Mother again gives birth to the Divine Child Sun, bearer of innocence, and the transparency of the Divine, bringer of hope and the promise of summer. In this opening we can find the stillness behind motion, when time itself stops; the center becoming the circumference of all. We are awake in the night. We consciously turn the wheel to bring the light. We call the sun from the womb of night." Starhawk
As we move into the final full turn of the wheel from Winter Solstice 2011 to Winter Solstice 2012, we have a year ahead of both clearing what no longer serves our expression as Essence, and preparing for the birth of the Divine Child of that essential nature. This whole year is a trigger point in the collective mind field of Earth to both clear the field of our past limiting perceptions and to simultaneously plant the seeds of the new reality that is emerging THROUGH OUR CHOICES!
WHAT AN EXCITING TIME TO BE ALIVE!
We are so fortunate to participate in the miraculous changes that we are going through as a species. It could be easy to get caught up in despair looking only at the outpicturing of the screen of life, but when viewing the transformation we are going through from the greater viewpoint and gestalt of the whole, all the "perturbations in the system" (as quantum physicist Illya Prigogine refers to "chaos"), all is unfolding as is necessary to enter into a higher level of organic order! In this process, we are becoming open systems both personally and planetarily, moving from separation, judgment, limitation to expansiveness, integration, cooperation and unification. This means stepping out of the "them and us" separation that duality has held us captive to, by practicing loving kindness toward ALL BEINGS! This year we are making a conscious choice to FOCUS ON WHAT WE WANT INSTEAD OF WHAT WE DON'T WANT, to step into being open systems who dance fluidly with the moment as it unfolds like an aikedo master, rather than holding on to past structures that would contain or limit us! This implies the practice of SURRENDERING to our Divine Selves in listening/feeling/sensing moment by moment guidance. There has never been a more urgent call to take time to BE STILL AND LISTEN to the Divine within.
Where becoming "open systems" is leading us, is the reclaiming of our innate nature as delightened beings, Divine Children playing in the fields of consciousness here on Earth. We have been mightily deceived and programmed, desensitized by all forms of media and education, into believing that to be trusting, innocent, transparent, open hearted, unconditionally loving, is to be unsafe and in fact, stupid. Far from that perception, it is those very qualities that lead us moment by moment to the most expanded outcomes available! So we are called to cultivate those very qualities and learn to trust navigating with them. As you trust and surrender, you will discover you ARE divinely supported and held, that you ARE precious to this Universe, and your consciousness in innocence can be trusted to give you the signals and guidance you need to navigate these intensely exciting and fulminating times!
I honor the timeless magic within me. It springs forth from the jeweled fountain of my heart knowing. I open my hands as a child to receive blessed droplets alighting upon tender bared skin There, in this sacred clearing Trust is preserved and the angels' sing praises to the child who plays there! Transparency, trust, laughter, innocence are called upon Earth a child, but in the heavens where love and vision dwell such a being is called a God and the light wielded by such is like no other It is indeed the pillar that unites heaven to Earth.
By Aurora
Stepping into the Divine Child that you truly are in your innate BEing, take time to ENJOY this season of Solstice in sharing the real gifts of this time of year in love, open heartedness, caring and sharing. Consider moving out of the hurried, cultural insanity of doing, social obligation, proving your love with the "value" of gifts and into the heart, to share the food of unconditional love that all beings are actually craving!
Your Sister in the One Heart,
Ariel
