The rhythm of life is a living wheel. It's one that is always in motion. That's part of what makes it challenging, it is always in motion, on the move, like the Wheel of the Year, always turning.
Right now, this day, we are at the point in the wheel of the winter solstice. It feels a little bit like its name's Latin roots: "solstice," "sol" for sun and "stice" for "standing still." We are in the time of standing still.
Yet we're still in motion, it's just become very subtle. We cannot make it stop. We have to go along with the flow of time. Yet we can take a breath and feel the energy of this time. We can be present in this moment, right now, and feel the world slow down, and just be what it is, in this moment.
Imagine, in your mind, this wheel turning through day and night, through winter, spring, summer and autumn. It keeps on turning. We are here in this moment of stand still energy.
For now, for today and the next few days of this "sun standing still energy," take time to notice the stillness. Make time to notice the sun. Watch the sky as the sun sets, notice the sky in the morning as the sun rises in this moment of stillness, notice how far south it is on the horizon, this is is southernmost point before it begins it's journey back to the north, back to us.
