Happy Holidays

The leap from “human beings have always celebrated the return of the light after the winter solstice” to “things have essentially the same meaning to all peoples” is shockingly easy for some cultures to make.

This is an important converse to something I often emphasize: The Earth and Sky are the shared context for all people, yes. They are the basis of all relationship. But inherent to the very nature of relationship is the difference between points of view.

The assumption that all peoples will see the same thing when they behold the same world depends on a particular point of view that — proudly, often blindly — regards itself as objective: that of the singular, unifying perspective. I call that the Sun Cult.

Rather, different cultures are the REFLECTION of the same heavenly light off of different surfaces, in different environments, at different times in different places. Those DIFFERENCES are what comprise the world AS WE KNOW IT, which is, for all intents and purposes, our world.

I wish you — no matter where your people come from, no matter where you are now, no matter what you believe or observe or know in your heart — a most integral manifestation of this Winter Solstice and New Moon as you, yourself, and those around you, in your particular wholeness.