Winter Solstice officially occurred at 5.30am on 22 December 2011. At Winter Solstice the sun is closer to horizon than any other time of the year. The shortest day of the year, with just eight hours and twenty three minutes of sunlight, in the northern hemisphere Winter Solstice is the date marks the first day of winter, and the slow transition back to longer days. Continue reading
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One Red Candle and Seasonal Favorites
This Winter Solstice on the eve of December 21, please consider joining me. Go outside and settle into the night. Listen. Think about the night as if it were an island.
Have in mind what is important to you — what you want to release from your life and what you want to welcome into your life in the coming year.
Breathe each thing you want gone, one at a time, into the palm of your hand, then blow them away into the winter sky.
Do the same with each desire you wish to enter your life. When you are finished, go inside and light a red candle.
Put it in a safe place to burn out completely. The candle is a symbolic guiding light to draw your desires to you.
