Winter Solstice 2025 & the Invitation of the Season
There are moments in the year where the veil between what has been and what could be becomes thin enough to feel. Getting a sense of what lies between is compelling and tangible.
This Winter Solstice is one of them.
Not just because the days have shortened, or because we’re naturally being called inward — but because the cosmic corridor around this year’s turning point is more alive, more insistent, more potent than usual.
What’s happening in the skies:
On 19th December, the rare celestial visitor Comet 3I Atlas will make its closest pass to Earth. Comets have long been seen as carriers of change — sweeping in messages from beyond our day-to-day field, stirring things that have long laid dormant.
On 20th December, the New Moon in Sagittarius invites us to tell the truth — not just the palatable versions we’ve trained ourselves to speak, but the whole-hearted, dream-shaped kind of truth that reaches beyond the “shoulds.” It brings fire to our clarity and boldness to our intentions.
And on 21st December, as we arrive at the Winter Solstice, the longest night meets the return of the light. It is a sacred hinge in time. The ancient turning point where pause isn’t indulgent — it’s intelligent. Necessary. Regenerative.
This particular corridor — comet, new moon, solstice — opens an energetic opportunity:
✴︎ To shed what has grown heavy
✴︎ To claim the clarity we’ve resisted
✴︎ To plant what we want to rise with in spring
And not just in thought — but in our nervous systems. In our breath. In our bodies.
The Stillness Mini Retreat this Sunday is my way of honouring this window of potential with others who want to step into the new year not with resolutions, but with resonance.
Not with pressure, but with presence.
And even if you're not with us in the room — I invite you to mark this week with intention.
Pause.
Get quiet.
Ask yourself what has become too noisy to carry any longer.
Ask what you desire to feel more of.
And exhale it like you can feel yourself letting it go - breathe like you mean it.
The seeds are already sown. Let’s tend to them with care.