The Wild Hunt (https://wildhunt.org/tag/december)
December is a month of holiday festivities, near-nonstop sales advertisements, and many religious observations surrounding light. In the Northern Hemisphere, as we venture faster than dropping temperatures to the longest night and shortest day, it is only natural to think of the coming year and ask: where do we want to go?
I love December because it is a fresh way to stop being shackled to the past. Choosing to have difficult conversations with yourself allows a freedom to reassess a true sense of who you are and your own memories.
“At this season, we can ask ourselves what we are meant to learn from the ups and downs of the past year. The eclipse demands that we face ourselves and our life lessons. If we didn’t have the best of years or life we feel stagnant, we can look at what lies on the path ahead.”
Columnist Luke Babb on giving up Christmas and searching for a new form of winter praxis.