The season turns, and with it, a great cycle shifts.
Winter 2025–26 arrives as a threshold:
a time when long patterns draw to completion,
when what has been carried for years
finds its rest.

You, dreamer, stand at the entrance of the forest.
Upon your arm rests the golden shield mirror—
guardian of your mind, protector of your energy.
Beyond the trees lies your destination, unseen but felt in your soul. The way forward is not a straight path.
To force your steps in this manner is to strike self against the trees.

Instead, attend to the komorebi-
forest medicine of light threading between branches,
in spaces where illumination flows.
watch how life reveals its openings.
See not obstacle, see not blinding light. by gazing into the reflection of your golden shield, a softening reflection of tree and light merge.
witness the energy moving, guided by instinct and presence.
dance forward through these spaces as you learn to shape-shift,
to turn, to yield, to pass through forest with grace.

And when weariness arrives, allow the rest.
A tree which once seemed an obstacle
becomes your sanctuary, for you have come to understand it’s essence.
There, you may weave yourself a chrysalis ,
formed from forest threads of light you have come to know well.
within this stillness, nothing enters but the Creator’s light.
Here, transformation is sealed in quietude.
Here, you grow the wings which will carry you onward come spring.

In your deep silence of soul, call upon Kerido, the Beloved,
who is in the stars and trees and rivers and night… within you, around you, and as you—
in the warmth of the eternal embrace.
lift your prayer, and hear the whisper returned:
I am always here.
Be loved, Beloved. Simply— be-loved.

This winter, release with grace what has ended.
Move through the openings revealed. Rest in your own containment of light. Feel the warmth of the eternal flame within you.
Awaken the dreamer within the dream we share…
and walk on.