by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Dec 10, 2023 | Transitions - General |
We are approaching the shortest day and longest night of the year in the Northern hemisphere. In this week’s Gathering Gold episode, and in preparation for the winter solstice, I invite us to anchor ourselves in time and find communion with the luminous dark.... by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Dec 17, 2017 | 20s, Aging, Holidays and Seasons Collections, Anxiety, Highly Sensitive Person, Transitions - General |
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about. Rumi When we’re being asked to unpack a new layer of wound that will lead to healing, it can feel... by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Dec 22, 2014 | Anxiety, Holidays/Holy Days/Seasons, Relationships |
There’s a vulnerability on the planet during the holiday season. I see it in people’s faces: beneath the stress and tightness and frantic pace lives the softness of an open heart, as if the emissaries of grief travel from broken heart to eyes and softening... by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Dec 8, 2014 | 20s, Aging, Holidays and Seasons Collections, Anxiety, Holidays/Holy Days/Seasons, Transitions - General |
There’s a natural rhythm to each season and each month of the year, an archetypal energy that, if we could allow ourselves to tap into, would guide us toward loving actions that would serve our inner selves. In spring we’re guided toward the energy of... by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Dec 7, 2011 | Holidays/Holy Days/Seasons |
A member of the Conscious Weddings E-Course linked to this post on the forum, so I thought I would offer it here as well as a source of context and comfort during this holiday season. *** Since life isn’t a Hallmark card or a Hollywood movie, the holidays are often a... by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Dec 28, 2010 | Holidays/Holy Days/Seasons |
Last Wednesday, the day after Winter Solstice, Everest and I went out into the yard to check on our tree. The night before we started what we hope to be an annual Solstice ritual inspired by a beautiful book by Eve Bunting called “Night Tree.” It’s... by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Dec 24, 2010 | Holidays/Holy Days/Seasons |
Since life isn’t a Hallmark card or a Hollywood movie, the holidays are often a time when fantasies and expectations for how things “should” be jut up against how things actually are. And since the winter holidays also coincide with the shift in the... by Sheryl Lisa Finn | Dec 23, 2010 | Holidays/Holy Days/Seasons |
If you live in the Western Hemisphere, you’ve just walked over the line of the Winter Solstice. The days of diminishing light have bellied over into days of increasing light, and while this might give a ray of hope to those taken down into the muck of...
