Theme “Winter Solstice”
Solstice blessings
May this moment hold you in gratitude
May your breath be an expression of thanks
May the risen sun be a guidance
May a togetherness take root as the core of your being
May a lovingness be everything you are finally seeing
May Solstice Blessings be the forever opening heart we are all invited to be.
Winter solstice blessing
Solstice, thank you
For providing goodness
Respecting pain
Oh humanity oh Earth!
Solstice rebirth
And ecstatic unity
Humanity and planet together
At solstice.
The light stretching
Open your mind to the light lengthening before you now
Prepare for guidance and gift
Form where the wind blows, caresses and ceases
As the rains dampen and sustain
Where the sun revolves allowing our evolution
Beyond every horizon
Of soil and ocean
I am in the light that stretches my journey from here
Into
The longest darkness
The longest darkness holds the shortest day
In the clasp of our future illumination
A necessary settling into the winter of becoming
Into a time of remembering
We welcome you into our winter heart
With the mist of your breath
And any snow soon to begin
Even the storms
We rest here on the shortest
These lengthening days of darkness
A lengthening darkness eases us towards the perfection of the shortest day
Lengthening darkness for some brings agitation – almost dismay
Lengthening darkness is everywhere preparation
The lengthening darkness is the adornment of All That Is
The shedded leaf
The burrowed hole
The future relief
For each humbled soul
Be humble as each day shortens and darkness broadens across
Winter solstice meditation
We pause as the path of the sun reverses, seemingly holding its place for a moment of turning. Let us delve into the gifts of darkness at the winter solstice. We follow curiosity and contemplation down into the cold earth, taking a journey to the world below the surface. Here we find acorns, cached by
Chalice lighting for Yule (Pagan festival of the winter solstice)
At the time when the day is shortest
And the Sun shows herself only briefly above the horizon
We light this flame of hope
To represent the solstice fire on the hilltop
That ancient people lit to remind the sun to return
And we honour the cycle of the seasons
As their tides are echoed in our own
A solstice ritual, as darkness falls on 21 December
This originally appeared in The Inquirer, Issue 8001
https://www.inquirer.org.uk/pages/
We gather at the winter solstice
We extinguish the old candle
There is darkness – the days of light are shorter, the night
is longer, the trees are bare, and the cold bites into us.
We have reached the low point, the midwinter point, the
longest night