Merry Solstice!

Dec 21

Merry Solstice Everyone! Today is one of my absolute favorite days of the year. It feels like a rebirth for me because Winter is my favorite season. The Sun has moved into Capricorn and thus begins a new season. The Sun will stand still for 3 days, taking a pause, then the worlds starts to tilt again driving the sun into longer or shorter days depending on your place in the world.

Are you able to allow yourself a pause like the sun?

When I am teaching yoga classes, I often share with my students to build their pose from the ground up. This is especially important when coming into strong foundational poses like Warrior I, Warrior II, and High Lung. Taking your time from a low pose like Table Top or Down Dog to establish strength and grounding your feet, ankles, and lower legs, keeping the gaze low and then slowly lifting the torso and eventually the arms will establish safety, security, and trust in your yoga pose.

This is exactly what Capricorn does as a sign and an archetype. Ruled by Saturn, it creates a stable foundation, a steady discipline, and a rhythmic process to keep everything in line and working. It is an unmovable force of a mountain that brings persistence and practically to our lives. Building from the ground up and considering all the risks and aversions, just like in yoga knowing we will wiggle and wobble in those standing balance poses, we have to ground down through the standing leg and stay steady with the breath to balance it all.

2022 offered us all gifts of the journey, reflect back on the seasons of your life for the past year and let it culminate into the sacredness of the Solstice. Capricorn seasons advises us the we already have that foundation under from how much we have grown over the past year. It is time to build from here as we continue into the cycles of our life.

Where is Capricorn in your chart? There is a lot of activity happening here over the next 30 days, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Pluto, New Moon! Oh my!

In-Joy,

Sirena