“If we could set up a stop-frame film of the solar year and point it up toward the northern heavens, we would see revealed the dance of the circumpolar stars about the polestar in a fantastic circle dance. Among the peoples of the north, the polestar is called “the nail of heaven” because of its unchanging position in the sky: an unfailing and welcome guide to travellers and sailors in the darkest night.
Discovering our own true north as the compass point of our soul’s direction is a worthwhile enterprise on our spiritual path. Our true north may not be an actual belief system or ideology, not a religious figure or archetype, if we are still searching. It may be something that is nearer to an instinct or feeling of travelling in the right direction, something that we sniff in the wintry air or intuit from the glancing rays of the sun through the leafless trees.”
From The Celtic Spirit: Daily Meditations for the Turning Year by Caitlin Matthews
King Edward Street Chapel 