At 15:04 GMT, Sunday, 21st December, the winter Solstice arrives. A few hours that mark the shortest span of daylight and the longest night.
This year’s winter Solstice comes with something unusual: a New Moon.
The Solstice marks the lowest point of natural light all year. It’s around this time of year that the vanishing light becomes more poignant, even without noticing, we experience this change. Training feels harder, motivation tougher to build, and recovery takes longer. The New Moon intensifies this moment, the sky will go blank - a moment of reset.
This stretch of darkness is a moment to pause, realign, to process our achievements and what we have overcome. Use it to refresh.
The Solstice is the moment in which the cycle begins refreshed as well, the longest day of darkness marks the break and return to sunlight, days will begin to become longer, slowly at first. This is the start of the Season of Return, the phase of the year when light edges back into our lives and energy starts to rebuild.
Today, our relationship with the Sun is very different. We aren’t waiting for daylight to decide when to wake, work, or gather. But even with all our technological progress, that old rhythm of light and dark remains. With sunlight, we can begin anew. We can understand the challenges we’ll seek, great or small - what we strive for in the future.
The Solstice represents our deeper connection with the planet, with nature, with things immaterial that still affect us - a connection deeply ingrained wholly natural.
We are light seekers - sunlight to inspire our adventures, our journeys, sunlight to focus our paths ahead. But we can only witness light when there is darkness. Now the cycle is reset, it is time to chase the longer days ahead…
