To carry Spirit\u2019s light to world-winter night<\/p>\n
Strives blissfully the impulse of my heart,<\/p>\n
That shining seeds of soul<\/p>\n
Take root in grounds of worlds,<\/p>\n
And Word of God in senses darkness<\/p>\n
Resounds, transfiguring all being<\/p>\n
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There are cycles within cycles of life and change.\u00a0 This beautiful verse was written for Winter Solstice Week in The Calendar of the Soul<\/em> by Rudolf Steiner.\u00a0 It speaks of the ascension process as he saw it early in the 20th<\/sup> century.\u00a0 Here we are preparing to enter 2022 — approximately 100 years later — and it is the very thing we are still doing, but in a much more comprehensive way, thanks to all that went before.\u00a0 This experience is the awakening to unity that allows us to co-create the new world in partnership with the One that many call God.<\/p>\n Winter Solstice is the darkest day of the year and the longest night.\u00a0 During this darkness we have to call upon our reserves of light, love, trust, gratitude and endurance.\u00a0 With so little light in the world, we are forced to go deep to access those reserves.\u00a0 And in doing that we awaken our deeper potentials for truth and wholeness, though we may find those basements of our souls also hold darker elements we have to heal and ascend while we are there.<\/p>\n Our world is in one of those longer cycles of darkness where we have to exert ourselves to stay in our true co-creative reality.\u00a0 Everywhere we turn there are troubles.\u00a0 It takes a deliberate choice to make a quiet, peaceful and joyful place for ourselves and within ourselves.\u00a0 And once we do, the demands of life don\u2019t let us just stay there. \u00a0But we can and need to use that peaceful place as a retreat to recharge our depths of soul with light and love and truth.\u00a0 Whether we do that through meditation or relaxation, self-healing or time with family and pets, we need to make the time for it regularly or else burn out.<\/p>\n You are beautiful, strong souls, and this is your time to shine.\u00a0 Like stars in the sky on the long Solstice night, you are lifting the world into a better place moment by moment in your lives.\u00a0 It is a birthing process, and like most births it has challenges.\u00a0 Stay centered and strong and hold faith with the light within, even if it is just a tiny seed of hope and trust sometimes \u2013 a reaching toward gratitude and love from a tired soul.<\/p>\n Recognize that the very darkness and weight of the old world and the discomforts it brings on every level of our being forces us to do the very workout that will open the doors of the new world experience.\u00a0 You never know when in forgiving, accepting, finding gratitude for and letting go of the darkness and focusing on the light within your own experience, something huge will release and clear for the world.\u00a0 When this happens, the light opens up within us and we see everything in such glorious clarity and beauty that all doubt flees.\u00a0 In these moments we know why we are here and what we are about at this time in the world.\u00a0 We are not here to suffer, though it is very hard to be here sometimes.\u00a0 We are here to bring the light into the darkness so the new world can be born.\u00a0 We are co-creators with God of a unity and wholeness, beauty and experience that is the destiny we have worked toward since the dawn of creation.\u00a0 Now is the time we let go of the old suffering so we can receive the fruits of our long labors.\u00a0 So don\u2019t identify with suffering.\u00a0 Identify with the light that breaks through during those moments of success, that is who we really are.<\/p>\n Thank you each for being here on earth at this time.\u00a0 This would be a great time of year to read or re-read my book Riding the Wave of Change \u2013 Hope, Healing & Spiritual Growth for Our World.\u00a0 It will give you courage, faith and focus to move with confidence through this journey.\u00a0 Or share it with someone who seems ready for it and who needs this understanding. \u00a0For the right person it could be a great Holiday Gift. See Resources<\/em> below this post.<\/p>\n Winter Solstice is Next Tuesday.\u00a0 There is a depth of peace to be discovered when we surrender to and accept the dark, cold night with trust and an open heart.\u00a0 It is like an available womb ready to receive the light of unconditional love into our world, into our homes, families and lives.\u00a0 To co-create the new.<\/p>\n Meditations and rituals involving candles, fires, prayers for healing and ascending can be particularly potent to help co-create the new world within that available womb during this season. \u00a0I like to do a simple ritual\/meditation using fire in any form within a container that will allow me to burn small pieces of paper safely \u2013 a cooking pot lined with foil with a tea candle or two within it works well.\u00a0 On the paper I write my prayers and let the fire burn them and carry them into the Oneness.\u00a0 These may be prayers for forgiveness and healing or prayers for co-creating.\u00a0 I like to do this anytime between now and the new year.\u00a0 It can be very private or with friends.<\/p>\n But any moment when you stop and breathe the winter air, honor the darkness of the night and welcome unconditional love to be born into the world is a potent ritual of healing and ascension.<\/p>\n Blessings and love to you dear friends,<\/p>\n Eve<\/p>\n Resources for the Journey of Ascension:<\/strong><\/p>\n To carry Spirit\u2019s light to world-winter night Strives blissfully the impulse of my heart, That shining seeds of soul Take root in grounds of worlds, And Word of God in senses darkness Resounds, transfiguring all being \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ~ Rudolf Steiner\u2019s … Continue reading \n