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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHappy Solstice!
And new moon. This is the real new year. May it bring you many blessings.
oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)MineralMan
(146,192 posts)Days start getting longer again. Never mind the snow. It's SPRING, dammit!
FLPanhandle
(7,107 posts)We've hit bottom and are going up!
belzabubba333
(1,237 posts)Lionel Mandrake
(4,073 posts)where today is the summer solstice.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)Warpy
(110,903 posts)because after today, the days will get a bit longer every day as we start to head out of the dark tunnel caused by winter plus standard time.
Milestones are having it still light at 6 PM and going back to DST, yippee!
And for my Wiccan friends, Blessed Be!
PumpkinAle
(1,210 posts)(This lovely photo from http://wildhair95.blogspot.com/2010/12/winter-solsticeadvent-reflection.html)
2naSalit
(86,048 posts)earthside
(6,960 posts)derby378
(30,252 posts)...I released this on Mixcloud a couple of days ago, just in time for the solstice. Enjoy.
http://www.mixcloud.com/derby378/hung-be-the-heavens-with-black/
Cyrano
(15,023 posts)Can't wait to see just how exotic their festivities get.
belzabubba333
(1,237 posts)RBInMaine
(13,570 posts)Don't get me wrong. I celebrate the Christmas holiday. BUT, the Christians co-opted Yule and other Solstice festivals from the northern Europeans because they wanted to capitalize on their popularity to promote Christianity. That is simply the fact. Yule logs, feasts, bonfires and candles, evergreens, etc. were all part of these pre-Christian festivals.
Jesus was most likely born in March at the time of the census taken in Bethlehem, the very purpose of his parents' journey there. The shepherds would not have been out during the colder rainy season in December.
So, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Solstice, Happy Kwanzaa, and Happy Holidays in this wonderful season of light, love, and life.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,153 posts)Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)Response to roody (Original post)
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LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)on this Yule.