This is Part 3 to the blogs November 2020: Descending Into The Darkness and Descending Into The Darkness: Gathering Your Spirit

I wrote previously that the energies this year are inviting us to go even deeper within ourselves, to find and rediscover something more of who we are. In the outer world, the darkening evenings and the approach of the longest night in the Northern Hemisphere are calling us to go much deeper within ourselves, and experience radical inner transformation.

Systemic, structural racism has been raging beneath the surface of the UK’s culture for centuries and it permeates every aspect of our current lives, whether we realise it or not. Like a disease, we are all affected and no-one is immune.

This is Part 2, an accompaniment to the blog My Personal Experience of Miscarriage.

I was inspired by the image in this blogpost by Mysi and the accompanying words from Cloud Cult (see end of blog).

It seems to perfectly match the culmination of this year’s soul work and the extraordinary changes that are taking place around us.

Recently, I had the very lucky opportunity to spend some time with Claire Ryall and her horses (and donkey!) of The Healing Herd in Somerset.

This was my first experience of working with horses in a mindful, spiritual and healing way - and it was simply amazing.

A breaking of the bond between mother and infant can happen at any time - in utero, during birth or while growing up.

The breaking of this sacred bond between mother and child, no matter the cause, will have significant effects on the developing baby’s connection to self and spirit.

Period pains, cramping, emotional mood swings… the list goes on. For many women, menstruation can be painful, challenging and generally just gets in the way.

Learning to recognise the wisdom of your body, rejoice in your capacity for creativity and to reduce the pain associated with periods is a journey many women have taken. Perhaps now it is your time to reclaim your female power.

There is a theme alive at the moment, which is the importance of connecting with our feminine energies (whatever your gender) and honouring our need for these yin qualities in sufficient quantities.

This is not a temporary necessity, but rather a shift into a different way of being and meeting the world. We can only be truly present when we honour these yin principles of the sacred feminine.

The theme I am noticing as we come towards the end of 2018 seems to be coming home to yourself.

As preparations get underway for the merriment of Christmas and New Year time, whatever your circumstances or beliefs, wherever you are travelling to or visiting, this feels like a beautiful opening of potential, inviting you to come more deeply into yourself.

We have been working through individual and collective themes of masculine and feminine qualities for some time now. (See my previous blogs here, here, here, here and here)

This has included both the inner experience of these aspects of our psyche and the outer expression of them in the world, as well as seen on a greater scale in global society.

As we reach the tipping point between dark/light of the longest night and shortest day in the Northern hemisphere, we are able to access a new place of balance with our own sense of feminine/masculine.