The Sun is now at its southern most point in the Northern hemisphere and gives the North its longets night and shortest day. In the southern hemisphere it is the converse, this is the longest day and the shortest night. Here we can see and feel the balance of the hemispheres at one the Mid-Winter Solstice and the other the Mid-Summer Solstice. Within the symmetry of this graceful elegance is a hint as to the key of the Solstices for us mere mortals, balance and equanimity. Whilst held in the arms of the Solstices is the dance of Yin and Yang, the balance of the year strib=ving to show us that even in extremes there is harmony and right purpose, and, right relationship.

So here we stand at the longest darkness of the year, being rightly told that the light is about to return and that it is in the true nature of things that the integral tension of balanced seemingly opposites are an example of right relationship.

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