I sit here in my four season porch this morning watching the snow fall, it is so pretty and serene. Winter Solstice is almost here, December 21. I am thinking about this past year and how much I had fun teaching feng shui, space clearing, drum making and Rainbow, 12 Gifts and A Song ascension process. I had a very busy year traveling to different states to teach and teaching from my sanctuary (my home). I reflect on what I know about this time of year and I snuggle in to imagine, to dream, to sow the seeds that will germinate over the coming months.

Ted Andrews, author of Nature Speaks, calls the Winter Solstice the Awakening of the Magician. He states that the Winter Solstice is a time to slow down outer activities, deeper meditations, strong angel contact, intuition, healing, new birth, emotions and dream work.

My thoughts go to the Celtic Ancients and the Native American Medicine Wheel. The Celts called this time of year the Betwixt and Between (where magic occurs). When contemplating the Medicine Wheel, the Winter Solstice (and the Summer Solstice) ride the cross winds of the Wheel. These cross winds are like a switch that brings change – a pause between a change in Nature. When I think about this pause, it feels like the top or bottom of a full breath. When at the top or bottom of a breath it is the time when we are either about to inhale or about to exhale — change.

The Winter Solstices are opportune times to bring completion of what has gone before and to fix intentions for what will come as we plant the seeds that seem to be dormant but are gathering strength to push through the soil in the Spring. The Winter Solstice is the time to go within and sort out what intentions will be brought forth. For me this such an exciting time.

In Kenneth Meadows book, Earth Medicine, the wind is North North West (NNW) on the Medicine Wheel—Renewal Time. The north winds encourage patience and inward growth, a renewal of the mind and body. The north winds also assist to establish intent and purpose. The north is the direction of the mind and things in the mind – knowledge and wisdom.

The Goose is the Birth and Animal Totem for the NNW December 22 through January 19. Those born under the Goose Totem have imaginative minds, a great Dreamer.

In my work with Rainbow, 12 Gifts and A Song, which is an ascension process system, I use numerology. In numerology the new year begins on the Winter Solstic, December 21. So for instance, if you were born on December 22, 1986, your birth year is 1987. The reason the new year begins on the Winter Solstice is because it is the return of the light. The return of the light cleanses the soul and the soul prepares for the new year.

As we prepare to exhale that full breath on December 21, Winter Solstice, we are at the place to begin to dream about the coming year and what we would like to create.

Thank you for reading Between the Beats.

I look forward to connecting with you again. Wishing you a wonderous, magical and joyful Winter Solstice.
Neshi

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