I’m writing this for everybody who is feeling the ongoing knock-on effects of coronavirus, whether through health, mental wellbeing, local restrictions or who, like us here in the UK, are facing another long period of national lockdown.

Right now it is more important than ever that we be gentle with ourselves and kind to our own hearts, minds and bodies.

Days will be getting longer and, though the warm months are still some time away, we will be finding more light in our worlds.

What did you learn about yourself in your journey into the darkness?

The main theme that keeps coming to me is resilience.

We are continuing on our journey towards the Winter Solstice as the darkness wraps itself closer and closer around our days and the cold climbs more easily into our bones.

This is a time of stillness, of cooling. Of slowing down your awareness and breathing deeply into your bones.

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.

We are being called to gather our spirit for the wintertime. To gather our spirit by calling back the threads of our past experiences and future projections. Bringing them back into ourselves to conserve energy, to focus on our inner world and to wait for the next chapter.

For those of us in the northern hemisphere, we feel the growing of darkness as we travel towards the Winter Solstice in December.

As the days grow shorter and the darkness stretches its cool air around us, we are invited to descend deeper into the darkness.

How often have you looked at someone else and thought “I wish”?

How often have you looked at yourself and said “I can’t”?

Do you feel a sense of incompleteness or restriction of your inner self?

We have a choice.

After this crazy up and down, unknown roller-coaster of a year, we have a choice.

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.

Our warrior hearts are rising - those that are based on inner power, strength and positive actions which support the collective.

To support our warrior hearts we need to connect with our soul tribe, those who resonate with our vision of the world, and embody the beauty of our hearts.

Here is a collection of resources to support the grounded strength of your warrior heart, especially during this time.