March Collab
Winter Blues
Many times, Yule is considered the time where light and life is needed. Personally, the darkness and the depression doesn’t hit me until February or March. That is when I need light in my life. That is when good friends to draw me out of my dark, gloomy home is so important.I found this at The Light Network and with some modifications, I think it might brighten up the months of February and March.
The Light Network
Issue 28 December 1998/January 1999
The Wheel of the Year
by Christopher Penczak
Decorate your ritual space with the colors of the Sun: gold, yellow, orange and white. Light as many candles of these colors as you can, all with the intention of solar light. If you have a Yule Log, gather around its fire. Pine, oak, holly and mistletoe are other traditional decorations. Then invoke the God and Goddess, asking them to be present with you as you participate in turning the seasons. Feel your home filled with the warm, comforting light. Visualize the Sun above you, imagining there is no roof between you, or if you are hardy enough to battle the cold, go outside. The perfect orb of golden light is above you, hovering silently. The rays of light surround you, bathing your in a warm glow. Imagine the young god, a small child of light in the Sun. Welcome the new God into life. Incense like Frankincense can be burned as an offering and tribute.
Feel a beam of pure light descend from the Sun down through your crown until it reaches your heart. Hold the image of the young God in your heart, filled with love and golden light. Feel your entire being fill with love and solar energy. Feel your own love of creation within you. If you have a personal empowering intention at this time, like holding a brighter perspective in the coming months, tell it to the God and Goddess. Then visualize the remaining energy moving down your spine, through your legs and deep into the Earth below you. For a moment, the beam of light connects the Earth and Sun like mother and child. Thank the God and Goddess, now filled with light to brave the winter months. The young lord helped your own rebirth as you helped turn the wheel of the year.
I’m afraid I have cheated a little with this one. It is April already, but at least much of my depression is gone. ….
Well, I can’t say that either. I CAN say that my “unexplained” depression is gone, and now I have good reason to be depressed.
But if you are curious, you will have to come read 7 April 2002
Which, by the way, the evaluation was even worse than I imagined… But enough on that. Perhaps one day I will explain that more on another journal entry. For now, I am doing a conversational Collab.
It is tough, looking back now, to understand how dark and dreary the days seemed. How I simply did not want to do anything but sleep and eat and read. And play with my son. I did not want to work, I did not want to leave the house. There was no motivation for anything whatsoever.
Now, however, things are rolling back to normal. Well, as normal as they can be since I am looking for a new job. By choice. Thank you. By choice.
Spring and warmer weather has finally arrived, and with that, my belief in myself has grown strong again. I honestly don’t know where it went, before, or why it went away. I still firmly believe that the end of winter wreaks havoc and it takes the blossoms of spring to bring normality back. Depending, of course, on what you call normality.
Perhaps next year, when things get dark and gloomy again, I can look at this collab, and see that things really are not so bad, and that everything WILL get better and eventually, I will find a rhyme or reason for whatever is bringing me down.
Yes, I like that idea.
Blessed Be!
