Solstice Blessings to You!

Winter Solstice takes place late Wednesday 12/21 or on Thursday 12/22 depending on your time zone.  Can you feel the stillness, the inward pull of the shortest day of the year--despite the external pull of all the holiday festivities and busy-ness?  

In the cycle of nature, the solstice is the time of seeding our dreams and visions of what we want to plant, grow and harvest in the next growing cycle.  Even though all in nature appears still and underground, it is a potent time.  So try to find a little time in your day, early in the morning, noon or in the evening, to be still and listen.  Use breath and slow movement to find that still place. 

Many blessings,
Ellen

Here is more Solstice and New Moon info from Lena Stevens, from http://www.thepowerpath.com/.

"Winter Solstice is Wednesday, December 21 at 10:23 PM Mountain Standard Time. This solstice is a time to celebrate your life, your responsibility to yourself, your power, your talents, your purpose, your vitality and your inspiration. Make a list of everything that stands in the way of this celebration and burn it with ceremony. Take note of where you are, what you are doing and who you are with. How is it? If you don't like it, change it. Since we are in an accelerated time, allow things to move and shift and manifest without the need to control or micromanage. Trust that your intentions are well set and step aside to allow them to manifest.




The New Moon is Saturday, December 24 at 11:08 AM Mountain Standard Time. This is a time for anchoring, for affirming, for sticking to your boundaries and for inserting order into something you can control. A good day to organize any space that is yours or improve your environment in some way. Being as this is also a holiday in many traditions, make sure you are not compromising yourself with unwanted distractions, but rather that you are in control of your decisions around how you are spending the day. It's OK to say "no" to what you don't want and "yes" to what you do want."