Song of Solomon 2:11 · World English Bible
Song of Solomon 2:11 Meaning For Behold
For behold, the winter is past. The rain is over and gone.
What does Song of Solomon 2:11 mean?
Old age of the inner life closes and the frozen season of the soul breaks. In the body this is the pass-over of the energy from its cold, dormant state toward its spring, the moment the sun of the self begins its upward arc again after standing still in the dark.
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Old age of the inner life closes and the frozen season of the soul breaks. In the body this is the pass-over of the energy from its cold, dormant state toward its spring, the moment the sun of the self begins its upward arc again after standing still in the dark. The same turn the year makes at the solstice happens inside a person as the buried life starts to move.
The grief and the long downpour that belonged to that stillness lift with it, and the ground of the mind, soaked and heavy, is ready to bear again. What was locked and waiting is released, and warmth returns to a self that had gone still.
Winter: old age, the cold and dormant season of a person before the inner energy begins its rise Rain: the long spell of grief and heaviness that settles over the mind in that dormant stretch
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Live Song of Solomon 2:11 today
- If you have been in a flat or heavy season, name it as weather rather than as who you are. Then do one small thing you used to enjoy, badly if necessary, just to feel the ground loosen.
- Reach out to one person you went quiet with during a hard stretch. A single message, no explanation needed, is often how the thaw starts.
- When tiredness or grief shows up again today, let it pass through without treating it as the forecast for the rest of your life. Rain ends, and usually not because you fought it.
What in me has quietly started moving again while I was still braced for winter?
The same truth in other traditions
Tao Te Ching 40
Returning is the movement of the way; what goes out to its furthest point comes back. Winter is not the end of the cycle but its turning.
Zen · Dogen
Spring flowers, the summer cuckoo, the autumn moon, winter snow. Each season is whole in itself, and the cold one is not a mistake.
Stoicism · Marcus Aurelius
The seasons of a life turn like the seasons of the year, and resisting the turn is the only real suffering in it. Let the cold stretch be a stretch, not a verdict.
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