Here in Ireland, we approach the Winter Solstice of 2025. Whether you are in the northern or southern hemisphere, the Solstice marks a turning, the day when the light pauses, either a longest day or longest night, and then begins to change direction.

But the Solstice is a pause point. My ancestors celebrated this as a returning of longer days, a celebration of return of the sunshine and the promise of a new and perhaps easier year. But the Solstice is the pause, and there is no hurrying the new...

 The sacred pause is something I’ve been exploring deeply in the last twelve months. It might sound like a lovely, restful process, but it has in fact been one of the hardest ever aspects to move through.

The sacred pause asks us to shed everything that has been moving us on a certain trajectory.

And in that process, it might feel like procrastination, lack of motivation, stuckness, confusion, lack of clarity. These feelings are more about how we experience it rather than the actual energy. ...