Listening to the wind in our sails

It's Odin's day... and the winter Solstice in Okieland continues with Northerlies, and a full “Cold Night Moon”...

On this date in 1831 Charles Darwin set sail from England on the HMS Beagle for the Galapagos.

Marlene Dietrich was born today in 1901. And in 1947 the first "Howdy Doody Show" premiered on the NBC television network.

The last retrograde of the year continues to Jan. 1, 2024. To help with some of the shifting going on with the Mercurial winds:

When we are no longer able to change a situation … we are challenged to change ourselves. – Viktor Frankl

These Winters can engender psychic darkness, notwithstanding longer days ahead. That said, it's not a necessary consequence.

THE WINTER OF LISTENING

No one but me by the fire, / my hands burning / red in the palms while / the night wind carries / everything away outside. /

… What is precious / inside us does not / care to be known / by the mind / in ways that diminish / its presence. /

… Inside everyone / is a great shout of joy / waiting to be born

… So let this winter / of listening / be enough / for the new life / I must call my own.

– from David Whyte, The Winter of Listening, Essentials, Edited by Gayle Karen Young Whyte, Many Rivers Press, 2019.

The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails. – Sri Ramakrishna