Today is a visually dark day. But not an emotionally dark one.
8:27 p.m. in Colorado (MT) will mark the moment in 2023 when the northern hemisphere is its farthest from the Sun.
On a spiritual level, the Winter Solstice asserts its influence as the apex of a three day period where the Earth’s axis slows, then stops, and then starts to move back in the opposite direction.
Think about that. This giant globe upon which we orbit the Sun at around 67,000 mph, appears to shift its axis momentum and change direction.
The darkest day of the year transitions into its longest night.
It is a time for needed endings and new beginnings.
A great day to set intentions for those major events in the upcoming year. Why wait for New Year’s Eve?!
It is a time of burning candles and stringing lights to get us through this darkest of days.
For the next six months, each day will now get a little longer and brighter.
As a writer, I know what I want 2024 to bring me. With any luck, before its Summer Solstice (June 20, 2024, 2:50 pm MT).
WTLLM launches in April 2024 and completes The Claire Saga as a literary series. Over the past few days I’ve noticed momentum building as WTLLM’s sales rankings start to crack the top 100 in a few of Amazon’s categories. As of 3:30 am this morning (four months before it actually hits the shelves):
- Best Sellers Rank:
I’m very excited about the upcoming launch of this final book. It really is an ass kicker. Claire is ecstatic.
I want 2024 to open The Claire Saga to a much wider audience in a new visual medium. Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Paramount, pay attention. Many more people have watched the Harry Potter and LOTR films than have read the books.
Some young gun trying to break into the movie business is going to spot a group of Clairettes (non-gender) excitedly huddled around dog-eared copies of the five volumes TCS in a Starbucks, or on the beach, or in the park, buzzing about the characters, the storylines, the magic, the ghosts, the extraterrestrials, the seemingly never ending adventure, while weeping and laughing in equal measures and refusing to finish WTLLM, just because they don’t want it to end.
I hope they do force themselves to read to those final pages and are all pleasantly surprised.
That young gun is going to go on-line while they finish their “half caf doublé de cap. No, make that a single caf cap reg cap” (Steve Martin – LA Story) and read all of those wonderful reviews, immediately download the complete set of TCS on their Kindle and bury themselves in an Adderall fueled marathon read of the epic over a long weekend and then race breathlessly into their uncle/aunt’s office the very next business day shouting “You need to option these film rights today.”
Hey, it could happen. It will. You heard it here first.
I’ve got my intention candle burning. I’m too old to play it safe. Go big or go home.
So let us all embrace this briefly dark and wonderful day, and set our intentions on longer and brighter moments.
And as with all my days, this will start with some kitty cuddling and my rounds.
And since its Thursday, I’ve also got to get that recycling out to the road.
I hope all five of my fine readers have started the Christmas holidays and are already safely at, or close to arriving with their loved ones at their holiday destinations. For those still holding the fort at work, find your joy in exchanging your Kris Kringle gifts at extended liquid lunches while your Scroogey bosses are in their offices counting this year’s profits, and sneak off early when they are out making that year-end deposit.
And whatever each one of us are doing, don’t forget to set your intentions and to make today a great one.
