Winter Seed Catalog Moon
At Michaelmas the soul turns inward, following the darker path occasioned by the rising length of the night and the dwindling of the day. By Samhain that turn is well underway and the work of the study gains dominance as the outdoor work diminishes like the sunlight. At the Winter Solstice the deep center of the interior work has been reached. The work of the interior fully alive.
Now in the New Year that darkness nourishes writing, translating, creation of new projects. And, too, a portion of the soul begins to move outward, gathering in the seed catalogs, plotting the garden yet to be.
These two movements, inward and outward, reinforce or provoke our natural tendencies. Those of us on the introverted side welcome the coming of the dark, the movement down the corridors leading away from the light. The extroverts gladly follow the sun up those same corridors, headed toward the day.
The turning of the Great Wheel does not allow us to become too comfortable in either spot, reminding us throughout the year that both the interior and the exterior are important; that both have their nuances and richness.
Some of us will continue to wander those labyrinths within even as the Summer Solstice dawns, while others even now see the rays of sun bouncing off the labyrinth’s walls.
(hades and persephone)
