Light is radiance, white, birth, regeneration, activity.
Darkness is confinement, black, death, hibernation, suppression.
Recently, I was listening to a guided meditation and a part of the guidance was to accept into oneself light energy and cast out darkness. As nothing is disconnected, this line of guidance made me think of a composting video that I had watched just days before where the composting expert kept calling the end product “black gold”. She went on and on about this elixir that could do wonders for one’s garden, packed with nutrients. In a healthy state the compost would be a nice balance of airiness and compact, dark and rich like soil, and bursting with organic matter. I had never heard of something that was dark and of the earth spoken of with such reverence.
So why then do we cast out the darkness without so much as a backwards glance? Why are we afraid of the dark?
From an evolutionary standpoint, in the darkness, things hide. Things that could be dangerous, things that could hurt you. We associate the darkness with the unknown, an unforeseen future, that which we don’t have control over. In the darkness, there is a lack of control for, after all, how can you control that which you cannot see?
But some animals only come out in the dark, or just as the light is starting to wane, because it is easier to hide and protect themselves when they aren’t illuminated by the blaring light of the day. They may come out closer to the night because it is cooler, when the Earth is not blasted by the energetic rays of the sun.
As all things are connected, if one looks at yin and yang, both the black and white halves of the one whole are important. They balance one another. They are inseparable and both sides, yin and yang, are made stronger by being in balance.
So once again, why cast out the dark as if it were the lesser of the two?
Both are needed.
As the Earth moves in cycles, there is birth, growth, decline, and death, a spectrum of energy, color, and light, a cycle of life. There are highs and lows. The day is made more precious because it is a finite window of activity and the night more precious because one may rest and regenerate before another day. When the two halves of a whole are understood and honored for what they are and the energy they bring there can be acceptance and balance.
As one cannot always be happy, so there cannot always be light. That is okay.
Life is not always filled with still, contemplative sadness, so there cannot always be darkness. That is okay.
Life is both dark and light, we are all both dark and light.
So why cast out the darkness and invite in only light?
Caia Rose 