November and December carry so much weight for so many. So many of us experience this season as light and dark, this time of joy and sadness it’s a crazy roller coaster of comfort foods, holiday music, celebrations, colorful lights and decorations and our hearts so full yet somehow manage to be both lifted and heavy simultaneously… oh the joy of the holiday season.

Expectations and potential. Hope for new beginnings, sorrow for lost loved ones. Anxiety and overwhelm are abundant and are never far during these weeks of the year.

And still it’s my favorite time of the year. The quiet of the dark and heavy skies in contrast with the chaos of the season and all it’s wonders makes it even more in my heart.

I love the feeling of settling in for the winter. I love the charge I find I receive with the extended darkness as our days find their shortest hours. For me the feeling of hunkering down and charging up can sometimes last almost until February before I start to get ancy for more, for the manifestation of the transitions that have occurred thru the winter dark hibernation.

As we approach the last of the year and the darkest of the days please remember you are not alone. The light will be returning to our days in just a few weeks to help lift your heart and remind you it is never gone for long. The light will always return.