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Into the Darkness By Max Dashu, CA I love December. It’s a powerful time to absorb knowledge, write, create art, chant, dance. To conjoin and celebrate, feast and rejoice in community or – my great pleasure at this season – turn within to search out the brilliance within the deep night. What’s there, blazing up…

  Winter Song O’ Mother Sun By Laurie Corzett   Winter homage to our waning Sun that she will return, feeding us with light and heat, sweet energy. Mother Star, we enchant thee with ceremony, singing/dancing in glorious pageantry at your feet, a synergy of faith and formal prayer. We are your children, refining your…

A common theme of Winter Solstice ceremonies everywhere is the burning of fires to symbolically re-kindle the dwindling sun. People gather together to cheer on the ascendancy of the light, the victory of the very forces of life. The Hindu Festival of Lights, Divali, The Festival of Light, comes about six weeks before the Winter…

  Winter Solstice Prayer By Pauline Alma   A M A, Earth Mother Who art all around us, And within us NOW Blessed be our creations. Give us this day, The strength and trust To acknowledge and surrender our fears to the Light As we compassionately face that Which would use our fear against us.…
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