Solstice — Tyler Thompson, LMFT, LPCC

Solstice

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My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year

—Robert Frost

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The days were longer then (for time, like money, is measured by our needs), when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings.

―George Eliot

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Both the Winter and the Summer Solstices are expressions of love. They show us the opposition of light and dark, expansion and contraction, that characterize our experiences in the Earth school so that we can recognize our options as we move through our lives.

―Gary Zukav

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What good is the warmth of summer without the cold of winter to give it sweetness?

―John Steinbeck

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This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year’s threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the place of caught breath, the door of a vanished house left ajar.

―Margaret Atwood

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In the depth of winter,
I finally learned that within me
there lay an invincible summer.

—Albert Camus

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When it is dark enough,
you can see the stars.

―Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Poem: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Poem: Toward the Winter Solstice

Poem: Blessing for the Longest Night

Poem: Solstice