May you find some time to rest and reflect today as we honor the winter solstice. Astrologically, the winter solstice is when the sun ingresses into Capricorn in the tropical zodiac.
Winter solstice is a time of rest and renewal. It is the darkest day of the year encouraging the next crop’s seeds to incubate in that darkness. As the sun is reborn in the coming months, the seeds that we incubate in the season’s darkness will sprout and grow. What are you seeding for your coming year?
We can feel the season in our ancestral bones as we all descend from agricultural societies. We are still dependent on that land for survival in our modern day though we may not be the ones personally tending and harvesting the land. This connection to the land and our ancestors carries forward as we respect and honor the seasons and the agriculturally based holiday times of our ancestors.
This winter solstice is especially powerful as a time to set intention for the coming year and beyond. Today we are also seeing the Great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, which only happens every 20 years. The conjunction today marks the beginning of a new era as the two planets conjoin at 00 degrees Aquarius. For the last 200 years, the conjunctions between Jupiter and Saturn have happened in earth signs (Virgo, Taurus, Capricorn) except for one in the 80s which was in the air sign of Gemini serving as a herald for the ushering in of the new age of Air that we are now fully crossing the threshold of.
Over the next 200 years, we will see our society change from a very earth centered material world, into a more technology based, community-based society. We are planting those seeds on this darkest day of the year and will watch them start to sprout over the coming years. This change will be slow, methodical and follow the rules of Jupiter and the structural limitations of Saturn.
Take some time to reflect today on what you want to bring forth in the coming year. What do you want to expand in your world that will take discipline to accomplish? Now it is the time to do what you may have been putting off but you know is your destiny. Leave what doesn’t serve you behind and step forward into a new age of yourself. Enjoy the restorative long night of darkness and nurture the seed within.
