By Esther Frances

This month’s theme: Redeeming the Dark, Birthing the Light – in honor of the Winter Solstice taking place on Sunday, December 21st.

Dark has been the repository of the projection of what we have collectively deemed bad, unethical, frightening or lacking in integrity. I propose we redeem the dark by becoming aware of how we have been “programmed” to distort our experience of the dark, so that we can shift away from being manipulated by fear into being empowered by awareness.

The projection that uses the word dark as an all-encompassing term for what is “not good” is differentiated from the term dark when it is used to refer to that which is hidden, as in that which is kept “in the dark,” making sure that it can’t be seen for the purpose of concealing that it is not in harmony with the well being of those it is kept from. Continue reading →