Showing posts with label Winter Solstice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Winter Solstice. Show all posts

Sunday, December 21, 2025

Winter Solstice


Winter Solstice

By Dreama Vance

December 21, 2025


December 21st is Winter Solstice for the northern hemisphere. It is my most favorite day of the entire year!

Yin energy is at its peak and calls us to settle down with a warm cup of herbal tea and reflect on the past year. It calls us inside ourselves to contemplate, meditate, and rest in the reassurance of the Presence.

You can feel this energy pulling you. The energy calls you inward. It is one of the reasons we experience so much stress during this time of the year. We are running around madly, busy as can be, exactly opposite of what the energies of Nature are calling us to do. When we are in harmony with the Earth and her energies, we move into flow and grace. Stop and rest today. Be still and quiet your mind and allow reflection.

I have been reflecting during Winter Solstice for several years now. As I reflect on the past year, a single word or phrase will come to consciousness that identifies the energy of the year just lived. It will be the theme or topic of experience that life has given me in my journey.

QiGong by Sifu Anthony

In January of this year, I started a new Qigong course with a new teacher. One of the many benefits of this class was I actually started practicing every day! It is absolutely amazing what practicing every day does, no matter what skill or habit you are trying to develop. I have been studying Qigong for many years now, but my practice was inconsistent. So I can speak of the difference that I see as a result of daily practice for almost a year now. It is like the difference between night and day! In fact, I would say I have learned more and benefited more from this past year than all of the previous years combined, just because I practiced every day!

This one concept, “Practice Every Day,” has such profound impact, that I hope you will take it to heart and apply it in your own life to what you are working to develop.

Applying this “practice every day” to daily meditation is life changing!

One of the benefits I noticed both in my Qigong practice and in my meditation practice is this: Your practice changes from something you “make yourself do” to something you love doing! It happens rather quickly, too. Can you imagine loving meditation?

Here’s the second benefit from daily practice both in Qigong and meditation: The benefits from each begin to build exponentially. Daily practice carries more impact than the same number of days practiced randomly.

The third benefit is this: What you learn and achieve begins to move out into your daily life. In other words, the benefits that you experience during the practice of Qigong or during your meditation don’t just last during that time period. Those benefits begin to grow and blossom and they start to manifest in the rest of your daily life. Your life begins to reflect more peace. You find yourself remaining calm in spite of discord. You find yourself responding with compassion instead of aggravation when others are ranting.

It is amazing really!

This concept of daily practice has expanded into other areas of my life once I figured out the many benefits. You start your daily practice with small, easy, doable short periods of practice. With Qigong, I started with two minute drills and, with meditation, you can start with three to five minute periods. This is your foundation. Soon you will find yourself naturally expanding the time without effort. You can start just about any habit this way. The key is establishing the habit. To do this, practice every day. That is the goal – every day practice – not how long you practice. Like I said, the time will increase naturally as you practice daily.

You can do this with just about anything you want to develop, like an exercise program, or journaling, meditation, or even cleaning the closet! You can even create changes in your diet, like with my favorite, starting a daily juice program!

Daily practice has been the theme running throughout my past year and indeed, the results are so powerful that I will continue to use this technique when starting anything new in my life. The energies of the year are never discarded in the new year, but instead, they add to the wisdom of our experience of life and continue to light our way.

I hope you will take the time this Solstice to go within and allow Spirit to reveal what your word or phrase has been this year so you may explore what you have learned and the wisdom you have gained.

As we reach the tipping point of inner, still, Yin energy, it begins to flow into Yang. May your word or phrase of this past year be a light to the beginning new Yang energies as they start to become active and begin to flow as we move into the New Year.

Many, many blessings to you!

Dreama Vance


 

Sunday, December 29, 2024

Children Of The Sun

Children Of The Sun

By Dreama Vance

December 29, 2024

 

 
I remember many years ago getting an email inviting me to join a group going to Machu Picchu, Peru. It was addressed to the Children of the Sun. As soon as I read those words, it was like a bell began ringing in my head! "Oh, yes!" I said, as I ran off to tell my husband we had to take this trip.

We are, indeed, Children of the Sun. Our life on Earth literally revolves around the Sun. Winter Solstice is my favorite day of the year. It is the longest night for those of us in the Northern hemisphere and the deepest and fullest yin energy, that natural energy that draws us inward to deep reflection. Then we move, literally, toward the light. The Earth tilts back toward the Sun.

I love the rhythms of the Earth. When we first moved to Florida, we would jump up every morning and race off to the beach to walk first thing in the morning. Over time, as we did this every day, I began to notice a rhythm, not just the tide coming in and going out, but also what would come in, or appear in the shallow waters. It was like different things had a season. For several weeks there would be a type of shell, and then they would be gone and replaced by starfish, or manta rays. Also, over the years, we noticed the shoreline changed and buildings that used to be far from the shore were closer and some that were originally near the water were farther away.

For about ten years we were snowbirds, moving to our mountain home in the summer. Here, too, I noticed that each summer we would have a different type of bird that was predominant. The first year it was hummingbirds. The second year there were Steller's jays everywhere. Then we had magpies the next year, and then for some unknown reason, the following year we had dandelions all over the yard and no particular bird!

If you have ever lived on a ley line, you will also notice the migration of birds, like robins filling your back yard while there are just two in your neighbor's yard. Again, you will notice the seasons of different things... one summer stick insects, the next summer moths, the next year lady bugs. It is fascinating to behold the wonders of Nature. I'm not even a gardener. I'm just watching out my window.

In March of 2020, (remember March of 2020?) I watched a pair of tiny chickadees build a nest on a beam over my porch. I have big sliding glass doors onto the porch so they were visible when I came around the corner of my stairs in the morning and from my kitchen when I was washing dishes or fixing food at the counter. So I watched them for days. They actually built two nests. I guess they didn't like the first one, so built another one a few inches away. I got to watch them everyday. The eggs hatched. The babies were fed. The babies began to explore outside the nest and then finally there was only one little baby left. He would fly off a little distance and then come back and sit on the back of my patio chair and just look out at my acreage out back. The patio is protected on three sides and provided shelter. I watched him doing this for a few days; it was like he was gathering courage to face the world. Then one day he didn't come back. I could hear him, though, when I was upstairs in my office. (And yes, just like a mother, you learn to recognize their sound.) This was a gift to me. While the world thought the sky was falling, I watched as Nature continued. The grass still grew; the birds still nested. The buds still bloomed into leaves on the trees. Spring still arrived.

The rhythm and harmony of Nature. You can close your eyes and feel it.

Take time in the stillness and reflect on your past year of spiritual growth. A word will come to you that describes it. Just let the word come to you. You may be surprised at it. It may be an epiphany you had this year, or it may be a gradual accumulation of a realization.

Then, let a word come to you that describes what spiritual quality you want to develop or focus on for the new year coming. Print or write it out and place it where you will see it every day.

I've been reflecting on the past year for many years and there is always a word that comes to describe what I've learned. But I've only been choosing a word for the New Year to come for about three years now. The interesting thing is that, at the end of the year, the word given to you on reflection is never the word you have chosen at the beginning of the year! However, I find that what I have learned at the end of the year reflects my practice of the word chosen at the beginning.

I hope you enjoy this practice and it gives you new insight on how you have grown in consciousness and brings you inspiration for the New Year.
 

Dreama Vance

*Recommendation: For the how-to manual on achieving bliss consciousness, see Owen Waters latest e-book, “Higher Consciousness: Finding Peace and Joy Above the Noise.”
 

Tuesday, December 26, 2023

The Light of the Season Lives in You

The Light of the Season Lives in You

The Angels

Channel: Ann Albers

Posted on December 24, 2023

 
 
 

My dear friends, we love you so very much,

Happy, holy holidays to all of you who celebrate, and happy, holy days to all, for all days are holy, all days have the potential to be happy, and all days can be a celebration of the light that you so beautifully focus upon this time of year.

Whether you celebrate the babe in a manger, the miracle of the oil, or simply the return of light after the winter solstice, you are celebrating a light that lives and breathes within you. This is your essence and your truth, and when you align with that light by choice—be it through a kind thought, word, or deed, for yourself or another—you will feel its radiance shining to you and through you.

This light is nothing less than your Creator, beyond form. This light can never be diminished. It cannot be put out. It burns brightly even in the toughest of circumstances, and as you surrender to it, attune to it, it guides you to all you seek.

Can you fathom, dear ones, that the light of the Christ child lives in you? The miraculous light that burns in the darkness lives in you. The light that emanates from your star lives within you. There is only One, and every moment you spend feeling something that feels even remotely like love—be it even comfort or contentment- you are, to some degree, feeling that beautiful love beyond description.

If you celebrate Christmas, imagine that light being lovingly nurtured in your own heart. Mary is that within you that nurtures your light. Joseph is that within you that protects your light. The shepherds are that innocence within you that beholds your ability to live in love with wonder and awe. The kings are those within you who value the light and want to support it. Dear ones, these people were very real historical figures but were also archetypal, and those archetypes live within you.

If you celebrate Hannukah, the light in the lamp that burns without end lives within you. There is no limit to your love. There is no limit to the miracles that can be created as you surrender to love. Nothing can diminish that light nor gain permanent victory “over it,” for this light lives in all.

Love can be ignored. It can be pushed away. You can refuse to feel it by focusing on that which is not loving. Whether or not you experience the absolute, magnificent wonder of you—your true essence—is always a choice, but regardless, that light lives and breathes and burns within you. It calls you to that which feels better. In even a moment of peaceful distraction, good ideas can arise that help you move forward out of a difficult situation. In even a moment of surrender, your answers can come. In even a moment of what many of you call ‘not giving a care’ about whatever you struggle with, you release the struggle and open to what you desire.

This holiday season, imagine that light within you. Imagine that with every beautiful or uplifting or soothing thought you think you are tending to that light, nurturing that love, and allowing yourself to feel its never-ending, nurturing, uplifting, inspiring flow.

You don’t seek better thoughts and feelings to become a good person. You already are. You don’t seek them to pass some test or avoid some judgment. You are not being tested, and no one in the heavens is judging you. You don’t want to feel good to prove to anyone that you’ve achieved spiritual mastery. You want to surrender to anything that helps you feel more love, more joy, more peace, or more soothed—for your own sake because deep in your spirit, you know you deserve to feel that good!

Even in your grief, you can comfort yourself or be kind and allow that light to shine. Even in your confusion, you can be clear about your caring heart. Even in the depths of your pain, you can open the window of your heart a crack by breathing and allowing us to assist you in attuning your vibration to that love.

With every soothing, loving, comforting, kind thought, word, or deed that feels better, you allow yourself to feel that light, and as you feel it, it flows through you into your created world. It begins to light up your 3D path, at first with better feelings, then with better thoughts, and then with things starting to flow easily and miraculously into your life.

The Christ child was not born on a tropical island on a smooth, balmy day. He was born in a dark, cold, and humble manger. The oil in the lamp did not burn in times of peace and glory. It burnt despite conflict and chaos. Your light, too, can certainly shine when it is easy, but how much more miraculous can you and your life become as you shine this light, even when feeling the dark around you? So much more joy is accessible when you surrender to what feels more loving.

Dear ones, if your lives are wonderful, and you gather with family or friends, let that light shine brightly. If you are alone, bereaved, fearful, or upset, take a breath, focus on something soothing, and surrender to love. We are here to love you at all times. The Divine never ceases. Make room in the manger, light the lamp, and allow yourself to travel on the kindest and most joyful path simply by dropping into the moment you are in and asking your inner wisdom, “What feels like love right now?”

You are light. You are love. You are loved. No matter what you say, think, or do, this light remains constant and unchanged. Our wish for you is that you slowly but surely learn the benefit of releasing your upsets in favor of better feelings so this light can illuminate your mind, your heart, your life, and eventually, your world.

Merry Christmas
Happy Hannukah
Peaceful Solstice

We love you without end. 

Ann Albers

http://visionsofheaven.com/

©2016/2023 Ann Albers, All Rights Reserved
 

Friday, December 22, 2023

Happy Solstmas

Happy Solstmas

By James Gilliland

Posted on December 22, 2023

 
 

 

As those who have done their research and homework know many of the ancient Druid and Pagan holidays were buried under Christian Holidays. December 21st is the Winter Solstice where the darkest day begins its ascension gradually turning into the lightest day at the Summer Solstice. Jesus according to scholars was born in September, 3BC. Personally, celebrating love, joy, peace and good will is something to honor everyday so why not do it in mass on the day most agree upon. The figs were ripe and they were traveling to enter themselves into the Census so his birth could not have happened in winter.

Love Jesus, Y’shua Bin Joseph was his real name and his teachings were impeccable, wish the churches were as impeccable. How many churches are actually inspiring people to make their own personal God/Creator/Great Spirit connection leaving behind the fear, guilt and unworthiness?

This Solstice has been preceded by massive coronal holes streaming consciousness, light and energy towards the Earth with X class flares and CMEs. In other words, everyone’s _hit is coming up. Very few will take personal responsibility for their _hit projecting and blaming others for their predicaments. Remember thoughts are daggers to the sensitive. It is time for a little Self Mastery. It is very hard on those who are clairsentient with all the collective processing and projections. Those who are sensitive are trying to find reasons for their feelings many of which are not even theirs. Pluto is coming up so everything hidden, shoved under the rug is being revealed.

Looks like a lot is being revealed and exposed literally in the Senate hearing rooms where gay sex has hit the headlines. Makes you wonder if some of the politicians started out that way as interns and just switched positions. Monicas became Kamalas. Okay trying to make light of the decadence. Most of our leaders can’t even lead themselves down a path of integrity and morality. Glad I won’t have their light review. Any wonder why the Epstein list has been censored?

You can see this great reveal in politics, UFO disclosure, business and basic everyday interactions. In disclosure the shills, planned opposition, those who are morally and integrity challenged, the narcissists, opportunists along with the bat _hit crazies are all being revealed. Fits right into contact with spiritually and technologically benevolent beings, NOT.

The UFO hearings in Congress are blowing the lid off the past contacts, agreements with aliens not in our highest and best good, and deadly force used to silence those who know. It is one level of disclosure and it is being met with extreme resistance. The government does not want to admit they have had contact since the 40’s, have entered into agreements, back engineered ships, allowed abductions and used deadly force to silence anyone aware of it. They also don’t want to admit they have absolutely no control over our airspace when it comes to the advanced technologies used by UFOs or UAPs.

Wait till the people find out the majority of the UFO community is a controlled narrative and has been suppressing the benevolent high-level contacts. The depths of the false disclosure, the affiliations with the global elite, alphabet agencies and military by the top people in the field will shock most in the UFO community. Actually, I wrote a book on it. UFOs the Origin of Religion and Man. It is available at LuLu.com, soon Amazon and other outlets will have it. People want to know the truth and it is coming. New book purchase link

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Getting back to the Solstice rather than get overwhelmed by the energies it is a great time to process, release the past, take personal responsibility and not fall into victim mode. Personally, I have felt intense energies, deep sadness from friends and family who have lost loved ones or are going through their own process. I have felt the collective process on Earth which is intense lately. I have watched people one minute be loving and kind the next cold and nasty. It really throws a nasty gram down the spiritual connection. I have been having as little interaction as possible with people spending more time in nature. Picking coffee and being creative with projects is like a meditation.

As we move closer to the big switch realize it’s going to get crazy. Especially if you’re with family these holidays, they seem to know right where to go to push your buttons. Just say yes and smile to the woke, don’t let them bait you into an argument. If they haven’t figured it out by now, they don’t want too. You cannot instill want into another being. Always loved the sayings around this. “Can’t fix Stupid, Mama told me never argue with an idiot and my favorite, thank you for establishing your ignorance and your character, have a nice day.” You can borrow those. Don’t forget the only power anyone has over you is because you want something from them. Love, acceptance, agreement, this Christmas give yourself the present of finding it within. There is nothing worth joy so don’t give it up. We also might add try looking around and being grateful for what we do have, the opportunities to help others, serve, and don’t let friends, family or this dis-functional planet get you down. You didn’t come to be a part of the disfunction or fit in. If you are reading this newsletter you came to change it. Get plenty of popcorn, it is going to be quite a show. Always remember there is an unstoppable force behind the planetary liberation, the awakening and healing of Humanity and the Earth. Human means God/Man/Woman and the Creator in its most unlimited understanding is pure unconditional love, joy and bliss. It is the spark waiting to ignite into the full flame. Light it up.

Be well and happy holidays whatever you wish to call them.

James Gilliland

https://www.eceti.org/home.html

P.S.

People are being affected in a major way by negative influences during these shifts. Here is a link to clear yourself and loves ones. https://youtu.be/i25YHBvrU6Q

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