For many years, the holiday season has been my least favorite time of year. But starting this year, I am changing my perspective. Here’s how…
The holiday season presents us with a juxtaposition of yin and yang energy. Winter is yin in nature, but the busy-ness (business) of the holidays forces us to be yang. Winter is the Water phase in the Five elements cycle. The Five Elements cycle is the life, death, and rebirth of all things with each element representing a season or phase.
The Water phase tends to be most people’s least favorite of the Five Elements.
I remember a time in my life where I would have opted hibernation and wake up in Spring. This isn’t too far off from our natural biorhythms. Winter, or Water, is a quiet, contemplative energy ushering in death and rebirth. Death is never really death, it is transcendence into a new state of energy.
But this phase also gives us our closest connection to God, or Source.
The veils are at their thinnest. It is a time to go inward. It is a time for reflection, journaling, meditating. It’s no wonder that many religions have chosen this time of year to celebrate their deities. Holidays were originally intended to be Holy Days.
Travel, presents, commercialism, family obligations, which can lead to financial strain, inordinate pressures, and loneliness, have confused our natural biorhythms of what this time of year is for. Perhaps we have devised these as distractions to not face the Water phase and avoid looking inward.
However we’ve come to a point in our evolution where we can find more comfort in looking inward than outward, or at least we are able to see that our external world is merely a reflection of our internal world.
The real work takes place on the interior. And, as a result, our exterior world will reflect a much better version of ourselves.
Consider how you can take advantage of the Water phase to make the upcoming holidays holy for you. Some ways are starting a mediation or spiritual practice, do morning pages, 12-days of gratitude practice, sleeping and dreaming, journaling or writing.
The point is this: How can you get closer to God?
It is internal, not external. The more you can touch that, the more inspiration you will receive that will then be put into physical manifestation come Springtime. These days are holy with or without you. Join me in making this season truly magical.