SOLSTICE: Why is the Longest Night So Magickal?
Channel: This Jungian Life
Date: 2023-12-21

Winter Solstice, the longest night of the year, calls us to brood and turn within. Retreating to the unconscious is a psychic wintering, calling our life force down into our archaic patterns. It can trigger a sorrowing that helps us adjust to inevitable losses, just like the forest that silently drops its foliage without lament. At the nadir of darkness, light is reborn, and each successive day grows longer. Ancient and modern rituals celebrate the light’s triumph over darkness. No matter our background, attunement to light is woven into our bodies, for we are all part of the cosmic progression.

Prepare to discover who interacts with the winter solstice, from ancient to modern cultures, how solstice triggers introspection and transformative mourning, what cultural and psychological themes it embodies, whether solstice is a profound inner experience or merely an astronomical event, which aspects of culture and psychology are connected to the solstice, why winter solstice has such historical reverence, and so much more…

Find the Dream We Analyze Here: https://thisjungianlife.com/solstice/

GET INVOLVED WITH THIS JUNGIAN LIFE:

Suggest a future podcast topic: https://bit.ly/thisjungianlifesuggesttopic 

Share your dream with us: Submit your dream for a possible podcast interpretation: https://bit.ly/thisjungianlifeshareyourdream

Please give us a hand: become our patron and help keep This Jungian Life podcast up and running: https://bit.ly/thisjungianlifepatreon

Join Dream School, our year-long online dream interpretation course. Transform 
your sleep into the greatest adventure of your life: https://bit.ly/thisjungianlifedreamschool 

Yes, we have merch! https://bit.ly/thisjungianlifemerch

Check out all our previous episodes: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcE4RL3VIbzGWHI-Sq0Y2lZc7R6Zxmfb6

FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisjungianlifepodcast/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ThisJungianLife/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThisJungianLife/

ARE YOU INTERESTED IN A SERIOUS STUDY OF JUNG?
Take a look at the Philadelphia Association of Jungian Analysts, Advanced Clinical Practice Program: A case seminar for experienced clinicians to read, explore, and apply Jung's concepts to clinical practice: https://bit.ly/cgjungphiladelphia 

Enroll in the Philadelphia Jungian Seminar 2023 Fall Semester and start your journey: https://bit.ly/cgjungphiladelphiaseminar