Happy Winter Solatice to you! This year, it’s a powerful one. I spoke about its importance to our spiritual journey during my last Global Channeling Forum. There are HUGE energies bubbling and brewing, billowing clouds packed in probabilities of genius in the year to come.

This is the transition time for the next chapter in our life paths.

In the world to come.

It’s a powerful time, a time when all the energies that have built up over 2023 begin to dissolve into the ether of light, overcoming darkness; between letting go of the old and making space for the next most brilliance imaginance of the application of our whole selves into our lives and into the world.

The ancient peoples who followed the rhythm of nature knew this day as the darkest day of the year, yet they didn’t dwell on the weight of the darkness. They did not gnash their teeth and shake their fists at the cloak of blackness that surrounded them mid afternoon. They instead took to lit oil lamps and torches and fire pits, and used nature’s darkest day to illustrate the power of light, creating glowing, warm beacons of hope.

Because this is the innate nature of humanity—to always seek the light.

Take some time today to feel these energies. We no longer take the time to “steep” in the energies around us, past the stewing of our own minds over minutia that seems catastrophic, like politics, work issues, and the most mundane fixation of all—money. We tell ourselves that we MUST observe these things in a hyper-vigilant way, to stay safe.

Yet it’s nothing more than a form of mental busy-ness we create that imitates true oneness with our surroundings; we frenetically hyper-fixate on all the wrong things, and call ourselves a champion of focus.

We become the blinding darkness we fear so much.

Yet today, the 21st of December, the energies ring in a timeframe of exquisite miracles this year. Be ready to accept them. When we observe darkness in 2024, bring the oil lamps, the fire pits, the gatherings. Bring the light.

Today marks the balance point on a scale between our own choices. In our modern American society, there is much focus put on “good” and “bad”, “wrong” and “right”, great polarities where the bridges between each learning modality simply do not exist. And though there are certainly energies that are destructive, and are not in our own (or society’s) highest interest, this polarized way of viewing the world is not longer functional.

For instance, most can agree that stealing is “wrong”. Most can agree that letting one’s children starve is “wrong”. However, if a child’s parent steals food to feed their children, what then what of the polarity? What then of the zero-sum-total game?

Dec. 21st asks us to use the darkness to create glowing palates of light. To embrace the possibility of illumination within ourselves and within our life path. The specific energies to Dec. 21st, 2023, are palpable today, clean and clear today, full of brimming yet soothing excitement for what’s to come.

Feeling a little extra-stressed, up until today? There’s an actual reason, according to physics:

Like a raging river corralled by a canyon, ALL world energies have been squeezed into the most tight canyon wall turn. Just like water, billions upon billions of cubic tons of energetic pressure are currently smashed into this tiny exit point in the timeline, like a firehose being capped by a funnel. The subsequent “water-pressure” is so intense it could cut a pipe in two.

We feel this build-up of pressure.

Yet on Dec. 22nd, these wildly powerful and uncomfortably pinched energies blast through this extra-tight canyon, dramatically exploding into free space as an ecstatic waterfall, floating free and taking air for hundreds of feet, as the sun makes bright gold each and every bead of water, glowing with new-found-freedom and hope for even more flow.

So don’t despair today. Understand that today we are rafting through the tightest place in that canyon pressure point, the high canyon walls creating a cold and shady darkness below, our headlamps illuminating a blinding spray of water, as we can no longer paddle the raft in the monstrous torrent of raging current that is billions of times stronger than we are.

Our job is simply to hang on to one another, and let our headlamps glow, and know that there is, beyond a shadow of a doubt, only one way out.

Yet unlike the past, where erupting in a raft over a waterfall means plummeting to one’s doom at the bottom, this is a new timeframe.

This awareness of the new physics is the very point of this year’s solstice; something else besides doom will happen this year.

Instead of the heavy-gravity plummet, our raft, too, takes to the air, just like those liberated beads of water now floating like fireballs in the sunshine. We float gently down, the sunshine on our faces, enjoying for a brief moment a stunning view in front of us, a vista that can only be seen from a vantage point of traversing our own worst personal fears, and great sacrifice.

Not many take the moment to see this breath-stealing view. Many will have their eyes clenched closed, clutching the raft for dear life, too fearful to open their eyes and realize that they are not falling, but floating downward.

Because on this side of the canyon, the physics are different.

This is the year to float, not fall. Let your being expand into the brilliant light around you. It is not about “succeeding”. It is about letting what we call “succes” have enough space around us to expand into us, and sweep us along with it; an unstoppable current.

Many in the raft with us will still be in deep fear, clenching the side of the boat, convinced they’re going to die. We cannot bring another perspective other than “fear and death” to these folks. This is their experiential choice.

Be kind to them, in their fear. Do not berate them because they won’t open their eyes. Do not take a toothpick to their eyelids. Simply pet their back, to let them know they’re not alone.

Because unlike you, they’re missing the view, and the experience of flying. With their eyes clenched shut, they’re blind to the experience of transformation.

So know that the pressures you’ve been feeling this past year may be felt today as exponentially tight, if perceived that way. OR, today will feel like a rush of great power, barreling its way to an inevitable freedom.

The definition is simply in how we process the transformation.

Bless you, today and everyday. May you accept your greatest adventure that we are all moments from being thrust into. May you do so without fear, without clenching your eyes shut as to create a familiar darkness, but instead, opening your eyes wide to the sun, to experience the miracle of flying, instead of falling; to feel the weightlessness in the light.

Happy winter solstice, my beautiful human family. You are all miracles. You are all so very precious.

May we all wrap ourselves in the warmth and safety of the early sunset tonight, to celebrate the POWER of a single candle in the darkness. Look how it lights an entire room. One flickering wick creating such warmth, and such magnetism and illumination, from such a tiny source.

Now. Imagine what the light in YOU will do.

Steep in love. It is your birthright.

—Danielle x x