Winter Solstice: Embracing the Light and Shadow of the Season
Winter Solstice, Apricity & Umbrosity
The Winter Solstice Highlights The Dance of Light and Shadow: Apricity and Umbrosity
Saturday is the Winter Solstice, the shortest day and longest night of the year.
There is a poetry to the way the world balances itself—how warmth and coolness, light and shadow, embrace and retreat.
These sensations stand as quiet metaphors for a duality: apricity, which means being warmed by the basking light of the sun in winter, and its opposite, umbrosity which refers to the cooling shade that soothes us in the midst of summer’s heat.
