Winter Solstice Dec 21st

Yule: Winter Solstice

Considered the beginning of winter, early pagan winter solstice traditions were created to celebrate

the “birth of the sun.”

The winter solstice is a celebration of the imminent return of sun and is the shortest day of the year. The Solstice happens twice a year and marks the exact moment that one of Earth’s poles is at it’s maximum tilt. On the day of the winter solstice, the sun travels it’s shortest path through the sky. It is also the turning point of the rebirth of the Sun, and the hours of daylight will increase until the Summer Solstice, when darkness begins it ascendance once more.

“And 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, feast, give thanks,
And dearly love their friends,
And hope for peace.
And now so do we, here, now,
This year and every year.
Welcome, Yule!
-- The Shortest Day, by Susan Cooper

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