A Winter Solstice Meditation for the Heart, for Love and for the Land.

I shared this beautiful, channeled meditation at St Catherines Chapel, high on the hill in Abbotsbury, Dorset, close to wear I live and a powerful portal of Light energy that I was guided to begin to reactivate by the ancestors who once lived, worked and shared healing here in the Abbey many hundreds of years ago. Their calling for me to begin to gather us together here began at Summer Solstice 2025 and we hope to create ongoing community gatherings here on the Sabbats to honour this powerful place.

Feel free to share this meditation and use it yourself for any occasion, Solstice or Equinox and I hope it supports you.

So here we are, winter solstice, a beautiful gathering of friends, loved ones, and strangers.

The perfect space and the perfect setting for us to honour this sacred time of year as we arrive here today with the shortest day and the longest night, and at the peak of the dark time of the year. Shifting now, this is the turning point into light.

On Friday, we had the mysterious and sacred high-frequency interstellar object 3i Atlas coming its closest to Earth, travelling at around 60 km per second, (the fastest object ever anywhere) shining gold with a beautiful tail of light across our solar system, perfectly aligned with yesterday's new moon and today's sacred solstice.

Let us begin by calling upon the great and loving presence of Mother Earth. Feel her beneath you, holding you steady, offering her strength to your journey.

In your mind’s eye, see her crystalline heart at the very centre of the Earth, glowing with pure, unconditional love. This love is boundless, ancient, and deeply compassionate.

Solstice means ‘sun standing still’, and so today we come together to find stillness in our hearts and to breathe peace out to our brothers and our sisters across the world. We breathe out healing to our Mother Earth and bless her with gratitude for the opportunity to be here alive and witnessing creation unfurling with every breath and every moment that we continue to feel alive and full of vitality each day.

Taking a moment now to drop into your heart and honour the blessing of life, honour the blessing of being a part of creation, the great mystery that only the Divine and Mother Earth herself truly understands.

We stand today in times that are potent and powerful. To be alive now is to be alive at the great, grand crossroads in a cycle that has lasted nearly 13,000 years. As we travel through the galactic sheet, the photon belt, our ancestors knew that we would be here on the threshold of a new reality.

Prophesied by ancient cultures and tribes we stand here at a grand crossing into high vibrational frequencies on Earth that will take us back into our hearts, back into love for all mankind and womankind and bringing together at last the balance and the alignment of the divine feminine and the divine masculine energies, the yin and the yang, the sun and the moon, the light and the dark.

Our ancestors have been speaking to us through the eons with guidance of how to navigate these sometimes precarious and challenging times. And as we stand here at St. Catherine's Chapel, this incredible giant portal of beautiful earth energy, we can take a moment to listen and tune in to the whispers of our ancestors as they try to guide us onwards with the knowledge from the past that they wish to share with us all.

Lets take a moment now to honour the ancestors that stand with us here today at this chapel, the lineage that runs through each of us, the shared thread that runs backwards and forwards through the generations.

And asking our ancestors to help us to remember the truth so that we can work with these powerful energies that are upon us to help to anchor in the light, to help to anchor in the balance of masculine and feminine, to help us to align in our hearts so that we can let go of the many thousands of years of darkness that humanity has suffered on this planet and release into a time of freedom, of connection, of love for one another, compassion, kindness, care, support, equality, harmony, and peace. Unity for all beings and Mother Earth. Living in a right and honourable relationship with each other and Mother Earth.

Feeling in your heart, that peace that weso wish to see in the world, but in order for us to truly connect to peace, to love and to light, we have to let go of fear and we need to feel safe.

If you're comfortable too now, I'd like you to take hold of the hand of the person next to you and feel that collective energy that comes with togetherness. When human beings connect in sacred space as we are today, we can feel safe as a community and as a tribe. Feel that safety running through each of us now, feeling that togetherness, that we are united here today.

It will then becomes easier to soften and to find that gentle frequency of love and compassion within your heart and then using that energy

Find that gentle frequency of love and compassion within your heart and then using that energy from your heart to generate love. That's what your heart is for. It's there as a generator of love.

Creating love, using your mind to create images, pictures, scenes, feelings, emotions, sensations, the experiences of love within yourself.

Imagine yourself and your loved ones, your community, free and happy, supporting one another, loving each other, being kind, caring, no one left out, no one forgotten:

Mothers and young children being held and always firmly in stability.

Old people, the ill and the vulnerable being held, supported and always stable in love.

Imagine those who are strong sharing their strengths with those who are weak.

Imagine those who feel love and joy sharing their love and joy with those who are sad.

Imagine those who have plenty sharing with those who are hungry.

Imagining those who are warm and comfortable sharing with those who are lost and cold and broken.

Feeling that this is how we, as humanity work. This is how we unite light and dark. This is how we move to balance which we will again find at Spring Equinox on the 21st of March. The balance of night and day, the balance of light and dark.

We can find that balance by coming into our hearts, feeling compassion for all beings, no matter what. Sharing and radiating out that love that you feel for others. And asking that all that is standing in the way of us being able to connect to the experience of love can be cleared. Any blocks in our heart, any cracks in our energy field can be released in this dimension, in this life, through all planes of existence so that our karmic energy field can feel whole and complete.

Feel that all that is out of alignment in our energy fields can be cleansed away with the elements of water. Feel that all negative, fearful, shadow emotions can be burned away with the element of fire in our hearts. Feel that all harsh words and harsh thoughts can be swept away with the element of air. And feel that our beautiful, sacred hearts full of love can anchor into the ground through the element of earth.

And then asking that we can transcend all ego that stands in our way through the element of ether, connecting us into our higher brain centres so that we can feel at one with the divine. So honouring this day, honouring ourselves physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually, honouring the importance of coming together in ceremony to mark these Sabbats.

Of coming together in ceremony to mark these Sabbats. This is a time of new beginnings, of fresh starts. It's a time to feel hope. A time to put our trust in ourselves and each other. It's a time to set intentions for the light that is coming. And it's a time to feel gratitude for the sacred energies that are beneath us, around us, and above us.

Ask her now to help you clear anything that is no longer aligned with your highest well-being. Imagine her sending up a river of golden light, flowing gently into your body, filling every cell with peace and balance.

Take a deep, steady breath into your root chakra, at the base of your spine.
As you inhale, feel the energy rising  a shimmering current moving upward through your body.
Allow it to flow slowly up your spine, touching, opening, and harmonising each chakra in turn.

From the root, the energy moves into the sacral chakra, just below your navel, filling it with warmth and creative flow.
It rises into your solar plexus, in the centre of your abdomen, lighting the inner fire of your personal power.
With the next breath, it flows into your heart chakra, front and back  a soft emerald light expanding in all directions.
From there, the energy moves into your throat, releasing old words unspoken and bringing clarity to your truth.

Another breath carries the current to the third eye, between your eyebrows. Feel the subtle activation here  a gentle opening of your inner sight.
Finally, the energy reaches your crown chakra, at the top of your head. See it blossoming like a thousand-petaled lotus, radiant with light.

With each exhale, imagine this energy flowing out through your crown, cleansing and clearing your auric field, making space for freedom and renewal.

Continue this rhythm breathing from root to crown, crown to root feeling the balance, the alignment, the readiness to release all vows and beliefs that no longer serve.

Breathe deeply, and with each inhale, feel your determination to free yourself from old spiritual contracts grow stronger.
With each exhale, imagine the weight of those vows beginning to loosen, ready to fall away.

Say within your heart:

"I now choose to dissolve, clear, and release all vows, promises, and contracts that limit my highest expression of love, abundance, joy, and freedom — in all directions of time, in this life and all others, in all realms and dimensions."

So much has been done to lower our own frequency as human beings and also to lower the frequency of Mother Earth around energy, her ley lines, her dragon lines.

So let's just take all of this beautiful energy and healing that we're feeling in our own hearts and imagine that we're sending it out on the ground, working to release any dark energy that exists here at St Catherine's Chapel, in the ruins of the Abbey, and indeed the landscape beyond.

If you'd like to, you can now go outside and really imagine that this golden light within your heart is radiating out. We're high on a hill here and we can see and sense expansion all around us. If you'd like to go outside and just take a moment to imagine this golden light radiating out.

Coming back together we give thanks and prayers, setting intentions for renewal, release and love going forwards into this Light part of the year.

Taking this loving, safe energy we have found her together, out into the world and shining our lights brightly for all to feel and see.

Thank you.

With love Saira xx

Saira at St Catherines Chapel Abbotsbury Dorset Winter Solstice 2025