A Winter Solstice Meditation

Get comfortable, sit quietly, close your eyes.  Pull yourself down into your heart chakra.  Picture that chakra as a cosy cave.  Sit there for a couple of minutes, breathe deeply, relax, feel your heartbeat.  When you feel quiet and calm visualize a tunnel that leads down through your body out your feet and into the earth.  It is a safe warm tunnel.  Follow it down deeply into the Mother Earth.  Go very slowly and very deeply, down into her womb.  Eventually you will come out into a warm dark cave.  It is the center of the Mother.  Sit, relax, breathe deeply.  Feel your heart beat in time to hers.  Feel her comfort you and pull out all of your stress into the earth.  Relax, feel the Mother huggging you.  Slowly open your eyes and notice that the walls of the cave are covered in crystals.  Sparkling crystals!  Perhaps one specifically calls out to you!  Reach out and take that crystal in your hands, it is yours.  Hold it close to your heart and fell the light that shines out from it.  Spend a minute enjoying that light within the womb of The Mother.  When you are ready, follow the tunnel back up through the earth, bring your crystal with you.  Follow the tunnel back up through all of the layers of The Mother, back up through your legs and back into your own heart center, that warm cozy cave.  Pause a minute and hold your crystal.  Feel the glow of it's light, the light of The Mother, fill your heart chakra.  Feel it fill your body and feel it expand out into your whole energy field.  That light will warm and comfort you thoughout the coming cold days of winter. When you are ready, come back into your waking consciousness.