Shiny stars and the festival of lights! Happy Hanukkah, and a Merry Yule to you all! However you celebrate this season of enchantment, may it be filled with contentment and wonder.
Make the most of the high spirits, and create your own meaningful traditions. You better believe I"ll be soaking up the atmosphere, while tuning in to the deeper stirrings of the New Moon. Even if you're not a celebrant of Christmas Eve and Day, the day-out-of-time quality makes it ideal for New Moon visioning -- letting go of the old and preparing the ground for the new. I'll be off traveling soon, so fare thee well dear readers and friends!
- Winter Solstice (Dec 22nd): longest night, incubating and hibernating, dying to old and rebirth, end of solar descent.
- Capricorn New Moon (Dec 24th): A square to Uranus Aries awakens buried inheritances (gifts, ancient memory) and the tenacious courage to commit to the person you're becoming.
- Shining Star of Bethlehem, a Christian astrologer's look at signs in the sky.
Whatever ones faith or outlook on life, holidays are always welcome are lights that brighten up long winter nights. Happy holidays and a joyous 2012!
The Shortest Day
So the shortest day came, and the year died,
And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world
Came people singing, dancing,
To drive the dark away.
They lighted candles in the winter trees;
They hung their homes with evergreen;
They burned beseeching fires all night long
To keep the year alive,
And when the new year’s sunshine blazed awake
They shouted, reveling.
Through all the frosty ages you can hear them
Echoing behind us – Listen!!
All the long echoes sing the same delight,
This shortest day,
As promise wakens in the sleeping land:
They carol, fest, give thanks,
And dearly love their friends,
And hope for peace.
And so do we, here, now,
This year and every year.
Welcome Yule!!
by Susan Cooper (the author of the Dark is Rising series)
May the Winter Solstice bring bright and beautiful blessings to you, Molly, as well as to those who read your blog.
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