WATER

Sagittarius season brings the mythos of the centaur to the fore. Endearing a sense of courage and confidence to dream and endure through the crisp cold dark skies. Sagittarius season takes us all the way to the 21st December - the ancient festival of Yule - the celebration of Winter Solstice. The Rebirth of the Sun

Rest as Ritual

In this deep and darkest tide deep rest is essential. Presence is key and yet (in true retrograding fashion) I want you to for a moment consider how far you have travelled over this thirteen moon journey - to notice your Earth body energy and how far it has bought you. You are worthy of rest. It is time to allow your nervous system to dial down. Watch the mother and learn from her. She is silent, still, slow. The spark of her fire is not dead, it lives on in the gestational dream time. Yet she is in her pause, her out breath lengthening, her slumber. Give yourself permission to assert ‘No’ and set boundaries, to create seasonal tradition in your own way. To have conversations in your home about how you can foster and nurture rest for everyone. Remove expectations (both your own and others), release burdens and external influences. Come back to simplicity. You are in a time of decay and death, a new you wants to be born but the impetus for that to happen is directly related with how much you take the agency into your own hands to change the story. Your practice is to notice when resistance comes and how to respond to it. If you take a little longer, if x,y, z doesnt happen, if you allow yourself more spaciousness how does your world respond? This is the time to take everything down into the deep earth of your being - for the death to release and decay. To be here with what needs to go. Is there resistance and discomfort in the not knowing? The trust and the faith required to fully let go will ultimately create so much more space for a new way of being to be born

Plant Allies

Mugwort is a key ally for deep winter dreaming and for women and their oracular wombs in general. Much like Sagittarius as the Centaur - Artemis draws her bow in confidence - helping us to get clear on our visions and protect us in the deepening of our dream states. Always work with her with reverence and gratitude. The more you do this, the more of her secrets she will reveal to you

Hearth Craft

Celebrating the darkness is one that comes with sweet simplicity. Intentional flame and candle lighting is more than enough. Candle or fire gazing supports the transitional time of dreaming. At this time you may wish to find or create a candle that you can annoint, wrap or paint with a sigil - have it be the guiding light on a daily basis and have it be the reflection of you invoking your own light. Tending to the light and learning to create sustained and sustaining fire is part of our task

Sending connection of hearth light from my own to yours