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  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.…

Today is the Winter Solstice, the first day of winter. The beginning point of the return of the light. I send blessings of illumination to all Queens everywhere. xxQueen Mama Donna   Winter Solstice Prayer by Mary Saracino, CO  www.marysaracino.com/ Deep night, Dark night Night of the longest sigh Soulful night, Sacred night Night of…

It is from the state of original chaos, the elemental ether, the black void — The Great Uterine Darkness — that the old creatrix goddesses are said to have brought forth all that is. That the world started with the sacred spark of creative potential contained within the primordial womb, is one of humanity’s oldest…

The light has been steadily retreating each day since the summer solstice, the longest day and shortest night of the year. Tip toeing slowly, silently away. The decrease has been so gradual that we barely noticed the almost imperceptible shift, the subtle loss, until the autumn equinox when the light of the day and the…

  Surely the essential quality of winter is its absence of light. And that, so much more than the attendant cold weather, is what so many people dread about it. The long, dark, isolating chill of winter understandably renders many of us susceptible to sadness. Seasonal Affective Disorder is considered to be an affliction, which…

  This comes from a sister Queen  in response to an article that I wrote.   Celtic View of the Dark Time By Jo Coffey, CA /Ireland It was really a lift to read your piece about the Dark Time. I have been feeling out of sorts, but it helps just to realize that other…

This, the week leading up to the Winter Solstice on December 21/22 is the darkest time of the year. True, the week following the solstice is just as dark, but the energy is different. After the solstice, the dark gets a tiny bit lighter each day as we in the Northern Hemisphere inch toward spring.…

Santa Lucia, “Holy Light,” is celebrated on December 13. Like Her sister-in-spirit, the Mexican Our Lady of Guadalupe, whose day is December 12, She is celebrated at the Winter Solstice according to the Julian calendar. Saint Lucy was a 2nd century young woman from a wealthy family in Syracuse, Sicliy. A Christian, she pledged her…

I adore Our Lady of Guadalupe. I admire the creative images, amulets, and altars that She inspires. And I especially love the passionate adoration bestowed upon her by Her legions of devotees, among whom I am one. My huge loft is filled with folk and fine art representations of Her and every surface is a…

Mid Life Crisis: What is it? Is it inevitable? Is it even a real phenomenon? Or is it an invention of the media — that is, corporate advertising trying to sell us things we don’t need? (Not only do we not need these cosmetic and quasi-medical accoutrements, they are downright insulting and sometimes even dangerous.)…
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