Honor Your Darkness and Kindle your Light

We all are both light and shadow. Today, as I watched a bird flying overhead in the sun and it cast a dark shadow beneath it created a beautiful juxtaposition of light and dark, existing together in harmony.

In North America, as the days grow shorter, these longer nights may illuminate our own shadows. Doubts, fears, and densities may surface as higher frequencies enter our awareness. When light increases, heavier energies often rise as well—asking to be seen, felt, and alchemized.

Both light and dark are nutritive. Like the night sky, darkness holds a quiet luminosity within it. In shamanic traditions, there is a sacred concept known as "Willka", the Black Light. It is a profound, transformative frequency. Black Light is experienced as luminous, shimmering, rich, and deeply nourishing. It is not an absence of light, but a formless, primordial frequency that cuts through illusion and supports spiritual cleansing and self-confrontation. It facilitates the release of  blockages on all levels of being.

The Black Light is also associated with the Divine Feminine Frequency- the creative principle behind all visible light and matter, much like dark matter as the source of a star birth. It is aslo assiciated with the sacred womb space. This cosmic and spiritual center exists within each of us, female and male alike. ON a microcosmic level, it serves as a fertile seedbed for ideas, art, relationships and new life, embodying the  ideas, art, relationships, and new life, embodying the generative power of creation itself.

Right now, I am here in a small coastal town called  Lo de Marcos, Mexico surrounded by sea. We are enjoying daily swims in the nourishing ocean. Here in Mexico, there is a deep balance between light and dark—vivid color, flowers, art, and aliveness, alongside unfinished homes, stone roads, and a reverent honoring of death and ancestors.

Life and death. Light and dark. Side by side.

This juxtaposition makes the beauty richer and more meaningful. It carries a generative quality. Nature continually teaches us this sacred rhythm—day becoming night, and night returning to day.

As we move toward solstice, the longest night of the year in North America, may you honor your darkness and light and allow it to nourish and strengthen you in this next cycle to ignite and celebrate the light within. 

With love and beauty,
Ashera