DEEPENING CONNECTION & THE WISDOM OF WINTER

As we enter the dark winter months, I’m sensing the deep stillness that sits beneath the chores and busyness of daily life. It draws me inwards and downwards like an animal finding its way into hibernation.
 
It is the season of the Water element – the element of depth and reflection.
 
And yet, I am simultaneously drawn to this theme of CONNECTION. A theme that at first seems to contrast with hibernation with its outward reaching energy. But I am reminded that in order to reach outwards, we must first connect inwards.
 
I feel something opening up, collectively, around connection. A longing, perhaps, for a different kind of connection, one that brings great depth, presence, awareness and intimacy, with ourselves and with each other.
 
In a world so seemingly ‘connected’, we have somehow become more starved and disconnected from our primal, animal need for deep and intimate connection.
 
We scroll but we don’t feel. We speak but aren’t fully heard. We reach out but rarely relax with a sense of belonging.
 
For much of human history, connection wasn’t something you had to seek, it was built into the fabric of life, in the way that we lived, through community, shared meals, time in nature, rituals, and interdependence.
 
Modern life has given us incredible tools for communication but it has also accelerated us. We live in the time of the QUICKENING. With more speed and more noise, it can be hard to keep up.
 
Yet beneath all of this there is a hunger. A kind of soul hunger. A longing to slow down, to feel, to belong and to live from a place of meaning and presence.

That’s why practices like meditation, prayer, dance, deep conversation, time in nature, and gathering together in circle feel so nourishing. They’re not luxuries, they are medicine for our hungry souls.

And so, just as nature slows down to restore her reserves, winter is our time to rest, to listen deeply, and to reconnect – with ourselves, with others, and with the unseen flow of life that sustains us.

It is here, in this deep, dark stillness that true connection is born.

Wishing you all a gentle unfolding into these winter months. 

Much love, as always, 
Rebecca