It is finally here: winter in Maine. While the season actually changed on December 21, the winter solstice, nature has belied this fact until today when we experienced our first storm of the season.
Whether you enjoy winter or merely put up with it, this season remains a predictable aspect of life in Maine. Understanding the significance of the season that holds both the demise of the old year and the emergence of the new as daylight increases, might give new meaning to your experience of freezing temperatures, snow covered terrain and icy footpaths.
At this time of year we tend to remain inside much more and we can become closed off to the outside world. During this insular time, we are all invited into the paradox of experiencing the darkness around us in order to find our inner light.
With the backdrop of the winter solstice, it is useful to consider our own lives at this time of passage from darkness to light. Here are some questions upon which you might reflect and journal to tap your inner knowing and align with the season's energy:
* What does the darkness of winter evoke in me?
* What is the conversation that awaits me in this period of darkness and quiet?
* Is there a belief or attitude that I might release, strengthen or alter in order to embrace this time as purposeful?
* Like the seeds deep within the winter ground, what lies dormant within me?
* As I begin to prepare for increasing daylight, what am I hopeful about in my life?
* What activities, experiences or people keep my hopes alive?
"Without darkness nothing comes to birth,
without light nothing flowers." – May Sarton
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Where Barbara is presenting next:
•Women Supporting Women, a free event of the The Maine Women\'s Fund
February 6, The Woodlands Club, 7-9pm. Come hear about work and life balance and unleashing your investment Goddess!
•Maine Association of Personality Type
Using the MBTI in career counseling featuring Barbara Babkirk and Amy Jaffe
Free, Tuesday, February 27, 6:30-8:30pm, Falmouth Library
•Yarmouth Wellness Fair, sponsored by the Yarmouth Chamber of CommerceSaturday, March 3, 10-3pm, Yarmouth, HS
•Hardy Girls, Healthy Women Conference
Saturday, March 24, KVCC
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