“When you make peace with your shadow, your life will transform.” — Debbie Ford Each year, we pass through another summer solstice on June 21st — the moment when the sun’s rays strike the Tropic of Cancer directly, when the Northern Hemisphere experiences its longest day and summer officially begins. Whether it is the summer solstice, the winter solstice on December 21st, or the equinoxes on March 21st and September 23rd, only one thing truly takes place: the dance of light a

In the modern world, loneliness is almost automatically labeled as a problem. If you are alone, something is missing. If you are alone, you should be more social. If you are alone, you must "improve" yourself. Yet, for many of us, the experience is far more contradictory: We can feel lonely within a crowd, but sometimes, when we are left all by ourselves, we realize we are breathing for the first time. So, the question is this: Is the problem really loneliness, or is it the w

​ December 2025 – January 2026 | Burgberg – Hotel Victoria – Sole Therme Some journeys are not merely "trips." A city does not call you for a photograph; it calls you to remember . Bad Harzburg called me for exactly this: The Crown was in the well.  Did I have the strength to retrieve it? This text is not a route guide. Nor is it a list of "places to see." This text is the diary of an initiation spanning the final days of 2025 and the first days of 2026: An initiation into si