Indigo Earth Healing Arts

For me, both the longest and shortest days of the year are powerful times.  I can usually feel the energy humming.  Even without all the intellectual and philosophical ideas I have learned about these times of the year, watching the sun go down resonates at a deep level that seems to be outside of mind, body and even spirit.

 I could explain it, if I wanted to, by researching what the long or short days do to our biochemistry.  I could write and enact a ritual that would mimic what the pre-Christians did to celebrate it.  I could study the myths of the sun god and fairies and use them to explain why I feel something special on these days.  But lately - just today, in fact, although it feels like it's been coming on for a while - I think there is something else, something outside of the confines of being human and the human idea of divinity or a greater power -  that happens when we take the time to stop and watch the evening light shimmer. 

I have the advantage of living in a more northerly place with lots of green foliage and green space.  The light slides in through my northwestern windows and sets fire to the sparkly things on my altar, something I just discovered a couple of weeks ago.  Different walls are illuminated in the summer than in the winter as that last slice of amber light finds its way through the leaves- corners that are dark most of the rest of the year.  Maybe it's an aberration of the wiring of my brain, but I've always found things like that to be magical and healing, if I let them.  My friends from the cities over the years have never quite understood why I think things in nature are so compelling and charming.  I can't really explain it.  Lightening bugs still make me happy, as does the thrill of a thunderstorm.

Whatever this is in me that responds to nature this way is the same part of me that does the real work when I do what I do, whether it be give a massage or energy session, guide someone into their own intuitive knowing, play music or make art or even write this blog entry.  It's good on special days like these to stop and honor that part of all of us. 

I challenge you to go out and soak in the twilight tonight, or whichever night you happen to be reading this.  Just soak it in, where ever you are, and see what it has to tell you about yourself.