Do you suffer from SAD? People with Seasonal Affective Disorder get the winter blues and I recently have become aware of how prevalent and serious this problem can be. Deprived of sunlight, people see their mood drop and it stays that way until May or so when the days get longer.
Now, I am not prone to depression at all and I don’t have SAD, but I do have Leo in my chart. And I think people with Leo absolutely need exposure to the sun. Since I grew up in the desert, I never lacked sunshine but then I moved to Colorado. And though it’s colder here, it’s very sunny. So I never noticed anything until I spent a winter in a mountains in a shack with northern exposure.
Now if you live in the desert, you don’t think about which way your house is facing because not matter what you do it is way too hot. But this shack was in high in the mountains and it was very cold. There was a lot of snow which we would shovel to keep the front of the place clear. To the great shock of this desert rat, that snow just piled up and up and up all winter long.
So come February, I noted the snow around the shack was 12-15 feet high and I realized we were living in shade. . . constantly. At the time this was an incredible novelty to me, and nothing more. But apparently it did register because ever since then I have insisted every home I live in face south!
Anyway, this winter I am closely associated with more than one person who suffers from SAD and it’s enormously enlightening (no pun). No pun because the preferred treatment (that helps 85% of those afflicted) is light therapy. And I got to thinking about this.
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