February 21, 2026

These are dark times.

I will not be writing those words again. Not because these times aren’t treacherous. They are. But because I’m choosing to reconsider my relationship with the dark. For me there is an important distinction to be made between the darkness of evil, which is what we are experiencing in these times, and the natural dark, which is an energy and place of many gifts and blessings.

Natural dark and evil dark. Through history and cultural conditioning, these have often become synonymous. Although it hasn’t always been so, which we shall explore. We live every day and every year with the beauty and majesty of the Earth seasons and cosmic cycles, a harmony of light and dark. Yet we have come to inject a discordant note of judgement in this harmony. We have come to a place of welcoming the light and rejecting the dark. 

At Winter Solstice, in the northern hemisphere, we celebrate and welcome the return of the Sun’s light. And we are so anxious to put those months of dark long nights behind us. Yet at Summer Solstice, we never celebrate the return of the dark. We mourn the shortening days. When we embrace this human judgment about light and dark, we lose many gifts and insights present for us in that universal harmony.

How did we get here? It’s a question worth asking. How we move beyond this judgmental perception is the more significant question. For there is great wisdom available to us in this harmonic rhythm of day and night, light and dark. Wisdom we need in these evil dark times.

Blessings of the dark,
Judith