Making It Through the Storms: The True Spirit of Christmas

Making It Through the Storms:
The True Spirit of Christmas

Rev Kat Carroll

What a whopper for California and other areas of North America!

Fault lines rattling, storms rolling in, and weather quite literally pissing all over our parades. A powerful atmospheric river, often referred to as the Pineapple Express, pulled tropical moisture from the Pacific and delivered drenching rains, flash flooding, mudslides, and high winds up and down the state. This prompted widespread evacuations and emergency preparations as of December 24, 2025. And as of Christmas day, it’s not over. We may even experience a bit of tornado activity according to news reports.

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The videos of flooding are dramatic. It’s not that we haven’t been through this before, but it hasn’t happened at this level in years, especially after years of draught. But what stood out even more was the relative calm with which much of the population handled the situation. And perhaps with a bit of divine intervention.

Residents were, and are still urged, to stay off the roads and evacuate areas scarred by recent fires, where vegetation no longer exists to hold back mud and debris. Many chose to stay put due to the holidays, relying instead on preparation and community support. Neighbors organized sandbagging efforts, protected homes and campers on burned lots, rebuilt gardens, and helped one another mitigate flood risks.

Emergency services, including the California National Guard, were deployed in advance. Public works crews worked continuously to clear debris, manage downed trees, and coordinate evacuations. While the storm proved deadly in several cases—some still under investigation—the number of fatalities remains amazingly low given the scale and severity of the event.

So, What Does It All Mean?

What follows is my opinion and spiritual intuition.

When I speak of fault lines, I mean this both literally and metaphorically. California’s seismic faults have always been part of life here, but so have the political and institutional cracks along the West Coast. Those fractures didn’t appear overnight. They’ve been forming for decades.

I was working in San Jose during the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989. It was profoundly rattling, in every sense of the word. You don’t forget the feeling of the ground shaking beneath your feet on what should be Terra Firma. Known fault lines can be monitored and respected. Ignored ones tend to make themselves known in far more disruptive ways. The USGS monitors such activity and you can see reports here.

Beyond the physical landscape, we are also living through a period of immense collective pressure. As long-standing lies, corruption, and systemic failures are exposed, the structures built upon them appear to be straining under their own weight. When systems reach a breaking point, instability doesn’t stay neatly contained within politics or institutions—it ripples outward, psychologically and emotionally.

As far as current events – It helps to remember:

Water cleanses.
Wind clears.
And the Earth, when it shifts, is often making room for renewal.

The Power of Collective Consciousness

Since we are all connected—socially, biologically, energetically—it raises an important question:

Is it possible that collective consciousness, when held in a prolonged state of fear or stress, contributes to physical responses in the world around us—responses that are both geophysical and atmospheric in nature?

There are also measurable indicators suggesting that human consciousness does not operate in isolation. Reports tracking the Schumann Resonance—the Earth’s electromagnetic background frequency—have shown notable spikes during this period, some lasting for hours. While lightning activity can influence these readings, it is not the sole factor. Increasingly, researchers and observers have noted correlations between prolonged resonance fluctuations and periods of heightened human emotional or attentional coherence.

One long-running effort to study this phenomenon is the Global Consciousness Project, which monitors a worldwide network of random number generators. These devices are designed to produce purely random data. Yet during moments of intense collective focus, major global celebrations, shared grief following tragedies, or emotionally charged events—the data has repeatedly shown statistically significant deviations from randomness. The project hypothesizes that large-scale human consciousness can produce measurable, non-random patterns in physical systems.

Historically, events such as New Year’s Eve, global vigils, and world-shaping tragedies have coincided with spikes in coherence across the network. Christmas, as one of the most widely observed holidays on the planet that’s marked by shared rituals, memory, emotion, and intention, would be a strong candidate for such an effect, particularly when disrupted by severe storm fronts and widespread uncertainty.

Some astrologers point to planetary alignments that emphasize water, emotion, and release. From this perspective, it can feel as though the planet itself is cleansing—moving accumulated toxicity, releasing pressure, and recalibrating balance.

What is striking is not the intensity of recent events, but their containment. Enormous energy was released, rain fell, land is shifting, winds surging… yet the loss of life, while tragic, was not commensurate with the scale of the storms. It’s as if pressure found an outlet without tipping fully into catastrophe.

I’m well aware that weather patterns shift over long cycles and that these changes are documented in ice core samples and historical records. Planetary change is not sudden; it unfolds over time. So does human consciousness.

We are still moving through a darker corridor, globally, collectively, and individually. But darkness is not static. It is transitional. The return of light is already written into the rhythms of the planet itself.

We are still moving through a darker corridor—globally, collectively, and individually. But darkness is not static, nor is it inherently destructive. In many ancient traditions, darkness was understood not as an absence of light, but as a womb of potential.

In ancient Egypt, darkness was a significant and even sacred principle. Deities such as Kek and Kauket personified primordial darkness and obscurity within the Ogdoad cosmology of Hermopolis. They represented the chaotic, watery mass that existed before creation—the fertile unknown from which the sun and the world themselves emerged. Darkness, in this understanding, was not the enemy of light, but its necessary precursor.

Kek and Kauket were also associated with the cyclical nature of time, described as the “raiser up of the night” and the “raiser up of the light.” Their presence affirmed a fundamental balance: light does not conquer darkness: it arises from it. Creation is not born of eradication, but of transformation and rebirth.

Seen through this lens, the darkness we are navigating now may not signal collapse, but transition. Pressure builds, systems strain, and energy gathers, not to destroy indiscriminately, but to reorganize and give rise to something new. The return of light, as the ancients understood, is already written into the cycle itself.

If something larger is indeed brewing—geologically, politically, or socially—then our response matters more than speculation. It’s important to remember:

Reactive fear amplifies instability.
Proactive coherence does the opposite.

Ancient wisdom captured this relationship succinctly: as above, so below; as within, so without. Each person who chooses to remain centered, who meditates, visualizes stability, and holds the intention that outcomes can resolve with less harm, contributes to the larger field. This isn’t denial or magical thinking—it’s participatory responsibility.

Taken together, moments like these become an invitation rather than just a disruption. A time to take stock of our lives, to feel genuine gratitude for what we have, and to steady ourselves, internally and externally. Practical preparedness between storms is simply common sense. But so is tending the inner landscape. Calm attention, gratitude, and intentional presence may be just as important as sandbags and supplies when navigating periods of sustained uncertainty.

It is also a reminder to look beyond our own doorstep. To check on neighbors, reach out to friends, and offer help to those in harder-hit areas—especially during the holidays. Christmas, at its heart, is about giving. And while resources matter, so does time, kindness, and loving attention. In times of strain, these simple acts of care help restore balance—not just in communities, but in the collective field we all share.

Light does not arrive all at once.
It returns gradually—through cycles, through seasons, through people who refuse to collapse inward when pressure increases.

If the ground is shifting, let us become steadier, more balanced.
If storms gather, let us be the calm that reduces their force.
It’s not ignoring what is happening, but by meeting it awake, aligned, and intentional.

What, then, is the true meaning of Christmas?

It was never about a fat man delivering gifts to well-behaved children. At its core, Christmas speaks to sacrifice, compassion, and care for one another, especially in times of hardship. It asks us to look beyond ourselves, to extend kindness where it is most needed, and to remember the example set by Jesus. May our thoughts and prayers for the world be guided not only by hope for gentler days ahead, but by gratitude, for the lessons we are living through, and for the enduring reminder – that love, freely given, remains one of the most powerful forces we possess.

Wishing a safe, and Happy Holidays season!

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