Happy Holidays
Hannah Green
Image: Kay Nielsen Snow Queen
Dear Community,
Here we are, approaching the longest night of the year. We are deep in the mystery, wrapped in the chrysalis, our transformation now well underway. These are the days of resting in the unknown, trusting the process and surrendering to the cycles of life.
Simple but not easy.
I hope you take some time to consider all the ways you have grown and changed this year. I hope you reflect on this year's gifts and challenges and how inextricably linked they are.
Imagine how joyful our ancient ancestors must have been when reliably the light began to return after Winter Solstice. The light brought hope and the promise of warmth, sustenance and Spring.
For now we must keep the seed of our transformation warm through the long night. Protect it and let it be still inside the incubating earth.
Rest, Reflection, Recovery...these are some guiding principles for the holiday. Perhaps this simply means taking breaks, noticing what we are grateful for and practicing new behaviors where we can.
Below are a few of my favorite songs that speak about the seasons and cycles of life. The final scene from It's a Wonderful Life always makes me cry. This scene depicts that shift in consciousness where we see our life with new eyes...and our hearts are filled with gratitude for what was here all along.
Sending warm wishes for a season full of rest, reflection, recovery and whatever you need most.
With Love,
Hannah
Temperance Modern Witches Tarot Deck
December is Sagittarius season and is linked to the Temperance archetype in the Tarot.
This archetype is about art and the integration of opposites. This is about alchemy and the wisdom that comes from combining different elements and cooking them down to make something new. In this process nothing is rejected or lost but is transmuted by allowing things to mix, mingle find common ground.
Questions for Reflection and Working With the Temperance Archetype
What are you integrating in your life?
What are you mixing and making?
Where are you being invited to see things from a "BOTH/AND" point of view and how does this benefit you?
A few of my favorite holiday films:
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE - The incredible realization of gratitude!
MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET - Imagination is essential!
ONE MAGIC CHRISTMAS - So 80's and Harry Dean Stanton stars as a Christmas angel.
A CHRISTMAS TALE - Wonderful, very French family drama starring Katherine Deneuve.
DECEMBER POEM
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
BY ROBERT FROST
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.