Blurry Time

Chaz Hutton draws Outlined here on Substack. One of my favorite follows here, he created the perfect visual for this time of year – a calendar page where the last two weeks of December are a bunch of wavy lines.

Beth Owl’ Daughter wrote a lovely piece about the halcyon days of Yuletide HERE.

Both things capture the blurry, soft-focus energy this time of year. I think it is stronger this year, because 2023 needs it. It’s been a heckuva 4-8 years and we all could probably use a little cocoon time during the dark time and down time with a cup of coffee and a good book, or a nap on a grey and cloudy afternoon or a cup of eggnog or all of the above.

That dark, quiet sort of energy is beneficial in the context of the larger, chaotic stressful energies that have dominated the past several years. It is a much needed yin time in the furious roar of recent yang times.

Today’s card, the nine of swords, gives us a heads up to the pitfalls of this kind of down time. Blurry time can slip in to despair time.

That isn’t to minimize the very real issues of post traumatic stress, depression or healing from any sort of emotional trauma.

This is a reminder for the more fortunate of us to don’t drama.

The real ghosts of emotional healing and loneliness are bad enough without adding imagined drama on top of it all.

So do care for yourself and your loved ones. Do sit with your emotions and honor them. Don’t make drama. Let unnecessary details go. Focus on the things that speak to your heart, not to habits, traditions or other people’s expectations.

Smaller than usual holiday celebrations are good, memorable ones too. Sometimes the best things come in the littlest packages.