Stillness of Winter - Capricorn

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Season of winter. Saturn’s earthly kingdom of Capricorn. Walking through the frozen landscape, we can clearly see the material shape and form of things around us. Everything is stripped to bare bones. There are no embellishments. Even the color palette is limited to different shades of whites, greys and browns. Yet when we look at a snow-covered landscape with the sun coming through there is this almost ethereal kind of beauty.


Imagine walking through heavy snow. The air is crisp, it takes a lot of effort to move forward, to breathe. It feels like someone put some extra-weight bags on your body. You are exhausted.  

But then you pause, take a slow, deep breath, calm down and look around. You notice the stillness of nature. You notice the world, transformed by the winter, resting. Moving through the wintery landscape can be arduous labor but if you allow it, it can feel like a contemplative walk through a sacred temple.

Saturn in its earthy, feminine expression of Capricorn encompasses both of these energies as Saturn dwells on the edge of earthly and spiritual and marks the boundary between these worlds.

During the winter season, there is an overall sense of contraction and conservation of energy. Life force is pulled back to earth, back to the roots. The homing instinct. Cold, frost and long dark nights by the fire. Gravitational pull back to one´s roots, to what we’re bound to. When it’s cold we are drawn to warm and cozy places – the fireside, hearth, family home. We are drawn to spaces that are safe and secure. 

It is hard to imagine, in our year-round abundance world, but the winter season used to be about survival. People stayed closer together as resources were limited and a community-oriented life gave them a better chance of making it through the winter.

But despite the harshness that winter brought, winter has always been a season of imagination. And that is a beautiful paradox that Capricorn holds within. People gathered to tell stories that helped them get through the darkness, to lift their spirits, to face the hardship of life through imagination. 
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Every winter brings the necessity of sacrifice for new life to take root. Capricorn asks us to face ghosts of the past, to stay calm and strong, before the snow melts and the life cycle begins once more.

Keep hope alive, keep dreaming.
Petra

 


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