Allegedly, if the groundhog sees his shadow today, he is scared back into his hole, and we will have six more weeks of winter. Apparently the groundhog could use some time with a Jungian analyst, learning to embrace, rather than be frightened of, those unclaimed parts of his personality that Jung called the Shadow.
What do you do when you come face to face with your Shadow?
We think of the harvest as coming when the apples are ripe in the fall, but apple blossoms provide their own kind of harvest, in ephemeral moments of beauty.
What moment of joy or beauty have you harvested recently?
Although the winter solstice falls in December (for those in the Northern Hemisphere), it never really feels like the days grow longer and the light brighter until well into the new year. As winter wears on it becomes ever more important to notice the places of brightness, and to create those places where we can.
How will you find or shed a little extra light today?
When we walk on a bridge or pier we see the “right side,” the side designed for traffic, the side meant to be exposed to the world. But what holds us up is the unseen underside, the structure that makes the rest possible.
What beliefs are so foundational for you that you rarely think about them?
This mailbox looks as if it’s been waiting for the mail to come for some time, with deliveries, perhaps, few and far between.
What have you waited and hoped for the longest?
