The Wild Hunt (https://wildhunt.org/tag/darkness)
“This is the solstice’s quiet gift,” writes Erick DuPree. “Its power isn’t in revelation, but in the small, stubborn persistence of light. The sun returns not with fanfare, but with a flicker — a single flame that dares to whisper not yet done.”
As the year darkens, Yule invites something deeper than celebration. The solstice season calls for honesty, rest, and reckoning—listening to what the long nights reveal, releasing what no longer belongs to us, and preparing, quietly, for the light’s return.
Like the god, Janus – we are able to look forward and backward at this time. Whether it is the cold, turn of the calendar pages, or just the break in time when we can simply sit and be with ourselves – we see who we are, where we have been, and where we wish to go.
Sheri Barker writes about the energy of bears, the call of Hecate, and the coming of spring.
In the long nights of winter, Sheri Barker recalls her encounters with darkness made manifest.