Winter Solstice 2024 and Woman Unleashed

Winter Solstice 2024 and Woman Unleashed 

I haven’t been inspired to write a blog post for several, difficult months. Health challenges, a stunning and shameful election that revealed the ugly truth about America, and the overwhelming depression and anger resulting from both, immobilized me. That changed with the arrival of winter Solstice 2024 and the Woman Unleashed retreat. Watching the solstice sunrise from Stonehenge was deeply moving. Of course, as always, the dense cloud cover obscured sunrise, but the experience of watching it live (at 1:30 am PST) with others (though virtually) was gratifying and inspirational. 

Beginning on winter solstice, the Woman Unleashed retreat commenced. I can’t thank Amber Kuileimailani Bonnici enough for this much-needed retreat. Her opening meditation was so beautiful and spoke to me so profoundly. So much so, that I was inspired to create two spreads in my beautiful new journal (made for me by my dear friend Karen). Beginning each new day of the retreat with her meditation has grounded me like never before. I wrote out the meditation and enclosed it in an attached envelope in my journal so that it is always available to me. I told my husband about the experience of this meditation, and he agreed to join me in the journey. We had a deeply connecting moment sharing our insights and our things “to let go.” I am making a piece of wall art that represents both of our journeys and includes our “let go” committments, which we will both sign and refer to when we find ourselves forgetting to “let go.” He even asked if we could do the meditation together this morning. 

I am so grateful that this retreat was focused around the solstice, as it was a much more meaningful agent of change than just a typical “New Year’s resolution type of thing (which never really worked for me). Blessings!