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Light Amidst Darkness

As we enter the season of light here in the northern hemisphere, it reminds us to appreciate the apex of darkness. Begin the quiet down. Spend time intentionally noticing. Look for refractions of light surfacing while in the depths. Listen for signal in the silence. Hold still in possibility and potential. Appreciate the zero-point moment this time of year offers. Embrace the annual polarity we sit in, richness on offer.

• Light lots of candles
• Hang sparkly objects
• Grow paper whites or amaryllis
• Play music
• Wander outdoor markets
• Take many looks at the winter sky
• Bake sweets
• Gift without needing to purchase anything commercially
• Appreciate your people

Ultimately, feel reminded of the cycles of nature that are the basis for all the ceremonies. Practice being the light. Cast shadow on and fortify internally amidst the darkness. Filter through your hearts. Put an arm's length between you and your minds.

The beauty of participating in a globally unifying, shared experience draped in festivities, ceremonies, feasting, and joy reminds us about our collective humanity. All that is good, beautiful, and kind amidst all that is not good, ugly, and unkind.

Light amidst darkness.

Polarity

Contraction eventually leads to expansion. We know change works this way. Perhaps counter-intuitively, but nonetheless. At the end of the day, we have to live into and feel the contraction — as uncomfortable as contraction can feel.

We'll wonder —

How bad does it have to get? How dense is my thinking? How retracted is my being? How repetitive my actions and reactions? Might I be able to bypass and navigate around this discomfort? How tested am I willing to be? How dark, and for how long? What is the wait time before I give in? Where am I and what am I fighting against? How long before I submit, and thus find the release to open? When might I cease creating my own suffering? When might I be willing to stand in the truth?

Fear works this same way. She accumulates all the attachments until you become so burdened, smothered, and immobilised by the storyline and shoulds. An invisible shackling by the structures we wind around ourselves, and allow winding around us. These accumulations act as living anesthesia: fear, contraction, and their accoutrements numbing out the vast expanse of possibility.

The mind hardly notices.

It's just doing what it does best, reinforcing itself from within the contraction. Whether negative or positive, the mind always promises you the fear is real, and you ought to keep doing what you are doing to stave it off. Yell at it. Weave sharp-witted words to deflect it. Avoid. Double down. Flick away those pesky, annoying interrupters to your regularly scheduled amnesia. They may dangerously result in a new way of knowing or, god forbid, an expansion of consciousness.

Realistically, we still do need polarity. We do need the contraction. We do need the contrast. We do need the lessons. We do need the positive and negative. Why? Magnetism. The metaphorical, literal, and archetypical zero point is where we mine the jewels. In the tension of contraction we have opportunity to stare into the abyss. There we find truth, ourselves, and the flint to ignite the new spark. For light to then arise. Expansion to catapult.

Embracing contraction, duality, and working with polarity without fighting or running from it brings us into acceptance. Acceptance returns us our power. Our power walks us out of immobilisation and amnesia, delivering us into the/our light.

This time of the Solstice is a celebration of that light. The utter, quintessential uniqueness of each individual within the vast, mysterious whole. Light within light within light within light, leading a perpetual partnership and dance with darkness.

Consciously.

Heart Mind Acting

At all costs, do not be or become everything you think. Hundreds of years have wound everyone into a manifestly unwise sense of their thoughtflow. You want to practice rigorously not feeding the thinking mind e.g. the ego personality. He always wants to create from a lower vibration, from down in the depths rather than up here in the light.

To learn abstaining, you practice more stillness. More arm's length.

You come to observe your mind without forming opinions about what it is so damn busy narrating. You learn to be dynamic with your mind. As he desperately wants to gorge on duality, spin storylines, and put the shackles of fight/flight on, you consciously create space between you and him. This space you practice creating abates the unfurling madness of mind — and stillness begins to settle as normal. Your stillness also becomes your power. She serves to shift this masterful dynamic anew.

You train in sitting with, not reacting from. You allow all that thoughtflow to simply be. You skillfully build more awareness in observation — as action now moving from your heart mind, not any longer from your ego mind. From your light. The higher vibe emanating from within you, your heart mind, your truth. Always now operating at an arm's length from your dualistic, addicted, mental maniac.

More soul you, less shadow you.

More and more acting from heart mind, stillness, and individual power is a world building itself on peace, love, strength, discernment, and kindness, rather than on war, separateness, weakness, triggers, and control. A world that reflects a mean, stable, persistent frequency of light with moments of darkness, not one of darkness with mere glimpses of light.

Heart mind acting.

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Through The Looking Glass 

Phew!!!!! How about this year we call 2024? WTAF just happened? Here are some things you all share:

• You incubated babies
• You birthed babies
• You braved leaving jobs
• You elegantly took on new, demanding roles
• You moved house
• You moved countries
• You upstarted companies
• You slowed growth down
• You evaluated and re-evaluated who you wanted to be moving forward
• You changed how you showed up
• You cared for aging parents
• You raised kids
• You covered for colleagues
• You questioned if you are where you ought to be
• You reconnected after time disconnected
• You learned to love, value, and consider your worth better
• You grew outside the lines of your "professional" personality
• You sat with big and life-changing decisions
• You moved in together
• You sat on your hands to remember listening first rather than reacting
• You grew a garden
• You traveled to new places
• You launched new products
• You released control and attachment to outcome
• You began to better master your energy field
• You worked with honoring boundaries without feeling triggered, abandoned, or defensive
• You gave love another shot, learning its true, not patriarchal, Hollywood architectures
• You practiced communicating from clarity and truth, not broad strokes and platitudes
• You tasted a new sense of freedom dying to rise up from within
• You found gratitude in the depths of despair
• You showed up from your truth
• You sat with awareness about shadow features
• You dipped your toes or dove head first into quantum, mystical, or cosmic lingo to work with the WTAF of it all
• You did the work
• You grew, evolved, and changed — over and over again.

Now, we don't want to get ahead of ourselves. We have a serious ride ahead and every single one of us is needed to stay on it. Take rest. Gather strength. Find stillness.

2025 is going to move even faster. If 2024 was about healing, purging, and integrating new information, making key decisions, and laying groundwork for new builds, the architecture for 2025 is flight planning and prep for take-off.

Structuring change is imminent. Take off will be a minute before we're full tilt boogie into freedom, innovation, expansion, and refreshed models of collaboration. New technology. New structures. New beingness. New awarenesses. New connections. New industries. New builds. New needs. Personally. Organisationally. Operationally. Systemically.

As is inherent in all systems — creation, maintenance, and destruction work in cycles, as a system themselves. Work hard on neutrality as you witness shedding and structural deconstruction. Neutrality is not indifference, it is another form of mastery you are honing. We understand and appreciate the cycles. We build skill in right expectations.

We are learning new ways of being, what love toward ourselves and with others actually is, and how to organise alternatively to serve one another and a future that meets the needs of human people, not simply profits and distorted power. The space this community does this change work as a collective is in organisational life. The amorphous boundaries of what that means coming out of the several hundred years past and for this future have all been a part of the dissolution work of 2024.

The future is officially upon us.

You are participating actively in its build. Language is limited, so I continue to use leadership as the convergence term. It is the idea that knits all system designing, because designing systems without people self-mastering their continuously emptying, elevating, expanding vessels is merely masking, performative, control-based theater.

• Self-directed growth,
• working on and from one's power,
• distribution of leading within and across systems,
• voices activated,
• mindsets and mental models opened up for scrutiny,
• structures to deconstruct and confront embedded norms and habituated operating, and
• vibing with intention in the direction of or at higher frequency systems designing is what we're doing.

At a whole new level and with far more critical responsibility on these local and universal (if you will) builds.

The future.

Sending a huge Solstice hug and love to you all as we wrap this one up and turn another page into the new, unknown, and possible. Thank you for your help, trust, guidance, referrals, support, and for coming alongside this launch with us.

Cheers to casting all the light. Can't wait to see you on the flip side.

You’ve got this. x

Kathryn
Head of Theeo