This year, I’m really being called to do more around celebrating the Winter Solstice. It started in early December, when I did my workshop on Winter Spiritual Journaling and discussed the spiritual qualities of Winter. Then on December 11, I gave our Spiritual Center’s Wednesday night service talk/discussion on the Winter Solstice. One of the things that came up was that while Christmas and Hannukah have been highly commercialized, there isn’t really a big celebration of Winter Solstice in the US. So it’s easier to focus on its spiritual essence than all the public celebrations of other holidays around this time. While I try to observe the spiritual essence of Christmas, which to me is Joy, Love, and Peace, practicing Winter Solstice traditions is helping me feel more spiritual during this celebration of light..

So this Monday’s Motivational Music offering is a Solstice song called “Winter Solstice Song” by Lisa Thiel. On the Solstice, I wrote about how this year for the first time, I was practicing a Germanic Solstice tradition called Rauhnaechte. I’ve been listening to this song as I burn that night’s paper and just before I go to sleep. I’m trying to be open to the idea that these 12 nights can produce especially meaningful dreams. I did have some powerful dreams on the night before the Solstice, so I am paying attention to what my dreams may be trying to tell me.

Anyway, here is the song. I hope it inspires you during this time of the dark but turning towards the light. And may your dreams come true in 2025!