Julia Neumann

What is a solstice?
Solstice is that potent moment when Earth leans closest toward or away from the Sun, gifting one hemisphere its longest day and the other its shortest. A cosmic pause, a turning point in the wheel of the year.

Long before modern Christmas, humans gathered around this time to honour the winter and summer solstices with light, feasting, and evergreens. Christmas later grew around these midwinter celebrations of the “return of the Sun.”

Solstice reminds us we belong to something vast and alive. This awareness invites us to ground in nature, remember our place in the larger whole, and realign our direction in life.

Solstice is a doorway into togetherness: to celebrate, to experience community, to honour the love we share. Presence is the greatest gift we can offer each other and the living world, holding immense healing potential.

Ancient cultures marked solstices with rituals of life, death, and rebirth—fires, dancing, feasts, monuments aligned with the Sun. These celebrations wove human life with celestial rhythms and agricultural cycles, honouring the power of light.

If this season feels stressful, pause. Feel the Earth beneath your feet, come back into your body, breathe, soften. Let yourself relax into presence. All is well.

At Solstice, the Sun’s path seems to stand still for a moment before reversing - hence “solstice,” from Latin sol (sun) and sistere (to stand still). A perfect metaphor for us: to stand still, listen deeply, and then move on with renewed clarity.

Who are you when you allow life to flow, for this miraculous force to unfold through you?

It sure keeps surprising me.
When I truly let it happen and trust the next step, I end up in the most divine, inconceivable, unplanned experiences.

For example, I found myself in awe, wondering about the intelligence of life, as I sat amongst a circle of 25 powerful women this past weekend, most of which I had never seen in person or online. I sat amongst healers, midwives, soul guardians, musicians, film makers, coaches and trainers, and more. Of most of them I have no idea (yet) what they do. I do have an impression of who they are, however. I met women who are reconnecting with their roots, their indigineity, their belonging to the Earth. I met them because I followed the impulse and creation force of .frank.einfach.sein .

Without knowing each other, we all came together for the purpose of addressing our women’s shadows with each other, of making ourselves visible with all that we are, and of sharing this visibility also on screen. Stay tuned if the outcome interests you!

There was this hunger of being real with each other, of radical honesty. It wasn’t all pink and fluffy, for sure. This isn’t a walk in the park. It is a walk straight into the heart of the darkness, from which our new shapes can emerge. It was chaotic. It was divine. It was gentle. It was connective. It was triggering old mechanisms. It was real, and raw.

I came out of this immersion with a warm, open and softle heart. My life is this richer from this experience.
I am touched by the Beauty of us Women in all our gentleness, wisdom, and fierce strength.

In Love,
Julia