gloaming [ˈgləʊmɪŋ]
n
Poetic twilight or dusk
[Old English glōmung, from glōm; related to Old Norse glāmr moon]
The days are shorter, darkness comes earlier, and the chill air settles into your bones. November into December is a slow dance with a sleepy partner. Things move through molasses. You're urged to take your time, because if you attempt anything rashly, it will undoubtedly bop you on the head.
These lessons, and many more, have wended their way into my day-to-day dealings. It's been an interesting road as of late. Nothing particularly hard or desperate or difficult. But rather profound.
The time around Halloween or Samhain was dappled by visits through the veil, from one side of it to the other and back again. Mom dropped in, either audibly or by sending her messengers. I learned things about long-forgotten relatives that either I'd never known before or had forgotten.
But this November into December has been quite interesting. Quite interesting indeed.
A bop on the head. Literally and figuratively.
A number of times in the last week or so, I've had things fly through my fingers because I've behaved rashly. I've seen folks get into scrapes because they didn't slow down or thoughtfully proceed. Case in point: my poor, sweet hubby got frustrated with a toilet repair, threw a wrench, which subsequently ricocheted off the toilet, cracking it at the base, bumping off the base and smacking him in the chin, creating a gaping gash which took hours to stop bleeding. Glad it wasn't his eye or a tooth.
And now, I feel a need to retreat. It's that gloaming of the year, the time between Halloween/Samhain and Christmas/Winter Solstice where it's really best to not start up something new, but to cast off things that no longer serve, to go deep within and really assess the importance of what you have, what you need vs. what you want.
And to add to the list of things to carefully assess: just yesterday I viewed a film entitled, "Zeitgeist - the Movie" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitgeist:_The_Movie - and was thwacked in the head yet again. The portion of the film we viewed was about Christianity and it postulated that, essentially, it was all made up, a highly-detailed fable, based on age-old mythology that spans the centuries and belief systems.
Afterward, the study group I was with dove deep into conversation about the topic. Some folks were agitated by it, others felt betrayed by organized religion. I looked at it this way: it's the time of the year to delve deep, so there was no coincidence that I was met with it now. It was a rough paradigm shift (like a bulldozer shoving through a brick wall), but I was game to take it on.
So today, I took a walk in the woods. And I had a nice conversation with God. And I asked for wisdom to separate the truth from the scam, the light from the dark.
Because in the gloaming, sometimes one can't tell the difference.
And now, I feel a need to retreat. It's that gloaming of the year, the time between Halloween/Samhain and Christmas/Winter Solstice where it's really best to not start up something new, but to cast off things that no longer serve, to go deep within and really assess the importance of what you have, what you need vs. what you want.
And to add to the list of things to carefully assess: just yesterday I viewed a film entitled, "Zeitgeist - the Movie" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitgeist:_The_Movie - and was thwacked in the head yet again. The portion of the film we viewed was about Christianity and it postulated that, essentially, it was all made up, a highly-detailed fable, based on age-old mythology that spans the centuries and belief systems.
Afterward, the study group I was with dove deep into conversation about the topic. Some folks were agitated by it, others felt betrayed by organized religion. I looked at it this way: it's the time of the year to delve deep, so there was no coincidence that I was met with it now. It was a rough paradigm shift (like a bulldozer shoving through a brick wall), but I was game to take it on.
So today, I took a walk in the woods. And I had a nice conversation with God. And I asked for wisdom to separate the truth from the scam, the light from the dark.
Because in the gloaming, sometimes one can't tell the difference.
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