Happy Solstice everyone

http://dragonflihost.net/bring_back_the_light.htm



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What a coincidence that this is so close to Jesus' birthday - Not!

Daylight will get longer from here on...

I hope you are able to take some time during this, the darkest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, to reflect upon Life and Mysteries shown in the changing of the seasons.

TOMORROW it gets longer.

Glad Jul!

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Today IS the shortest day, but what I learned from some googling just here is that the sunrise and sunset times are not in perfect sync. For example, where I am in NY, I find out that the earliest SUNSETS were around December 4th through 10th at an early 4:27 pm - at that low point it turned the corner and the sun set today at 4:31. The sun keeps RISING later and later, today it rose at 7:17 - but it will keep gettting up later until the it no longer rises until 7:20 - it's low point - from December 28th to January 10th next year.

http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS_OneYear.html

So you were probably right! (If not living in Australia or something.) You are to be congratulated on your fine sensitivity to issues of light and sun. I think that's always a good sign in people. (As long as you're not one of those broken souls who actually prefer it when we have less light.)

It was the shortest day where I live.
This link is very helpful at pinpointing the earth's position relative to Seasonal Cusps and your specific location.

http://www.archaeoastronomy.com/myclock.shtml

gutes Neues Jahr oder etwas wieso.

by golly the plum trees will blossom in Febuary!!!! Spring!

Where do you find music like this? That is sooooooo bookmarked

but it can be found here - http://www.paganpresence.com/gypsy001.html



I recognize that cute little dog !!! (remember me now?)

How ya been?

I have bought the cd that has this music. What a great song. Thank you and Happy Yule to you and yours!

from up here in Alaska it's a very important date. For me it means winter is almost over, not just starting and we will soon go back to enough day light to actually do something. Right now where I am the "daylight" (sunrise to sunset) is something around five hours, gets light about 1030 am and then dark by 330 pm. Lots of SAD depression here (Seasonally Affected Disorder)but it makes a good time to sleep.

n/t MKJ

http://dragonflihost.net/may_the_circle_be_open.htm

http://dragonflihost.net/winds-of-change.htm



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It is not listed on the list of music on Gypsy's enchantress cd and I would really like a copy of that. Thanks.

Along with some other chants that I've found around the web

I hope ya'll have, too! :toast: Days will be getting Longer!

My Yule Card:



Remember today it can literally be said, "The dawn shall come only after the longest of nights"
Reminds me of the state of our nation. Dawn is coming after this long dark night of our country's soul. The Dawn will great us before official fascism. I believe this because I am an optimist.


also I thought I would mention that Gypsy's music (posted above)
can be found here - http://www.paganpresence.com/gypsy001.html

That music is perfect for today. Just bookmarked the site.



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If I wasn't Deeply in love with my Wife I would marry gypsy (or try to).

44F at 6:30 a.m. today. I rode my motorcyle to work for the first time in 4-weeks.

a really meaningful day for people throughout time
Good day for a winter holiday and party

:hug:

....I hope the sun doesn't keep dropping in the sky until it disappears....if it disappears, I'm in trouble....no more sun-tea.... :)

We are finishing our 4' well lit peace sign for the front yard to mark the beginning of a new season. I will try to post pictures of it later.




HAPPY SOLSTICE, EVERYONE!!!!!!!

We celebrated the Longest Night yesterday, and the return of the Sun today (1;35 in NYC)

Solstice means...

standing-still-sun

Many, many cultures the world over perform solstice ceremonies. At their root: an ancient fear that the failing light would never return unless humans intervened with anxious vigil or antic celebration.



An utterly astounding array of ancient cultures built their greatest architectures -- tombs, temples, cairns and sacred observatories -- so that they aligned with the solstices and equinoxes. Many of us know that Stonehenge is a perfect marker of both solstices.



But not so many people are familiar with Newgrange, a beautiful megalithic site in Ireland. This huge circular stone structure is estimated to be 5,000 years old, older by centuries than Stonehenge, older than the Egyptian pyramids! It was built to receive a shaft of sunlight deep into its central chamber at dawn on winter solstice.


Hundreds of other megalithic structures throughout Europe are oriented to the solstices and the equinoxes. The blossoming field of archaeoastronomy studies such sacred sites in the Americas, Asia, Indonesia, and the Middle East. Recent research into the medieval Great Zimbabwe in sub-Saharan Africa (also known as the "African Stonehenge") indicates a similar purpose. In North America, one of the most famous such sites is the Sun Dagger of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, built a thousand years ago by the Chacoans, ancestors of the Pueblo people. Even cultures that followed a moon-based calendar seemed also to understand the importance of these sun-facing seasonal turning points.

http://www.candlegrove.com/solstice.html

TYVM & bookmarked



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Long live sun!

:)

probably just a nasty rumor from a freeper.



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It's my brothers birthday too.
Better call him.
Thanks for the reminder.

Good Yule in Norwegian. :toast:

And by the way, that song absolutely rocked. Made my evening.

Small story--a few years ago, for no reason, Christmas trees started grossing me out. It was this strange repulsion. I had no explanation other than the thought of- why are will killing a bunch of young trees for a very temporary, albeit pretty, reason? Stopped getting them. I've felt better about holidays ever since. (I have a very difficult time explaining it, because I'm a very pragmatic person.)

For the source of that music & more



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This is really beautiful. Thanks!

I nearly forgot.

Happy Solstice to all and I sure hope this winter is a short one.

Solstice marks the end of the "retreat" of the Sun, and we welcome it back again with lights!

:party:

to youkliljedahl!

May your new year be bright and full of good cheer!

and may yours be also.



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my favorite day of the year,

Leaving the house for the office this morning, I noticed the grey skies were not going to yield any sunlight so I reveled at the darkness as I drove from the house, the skies of dark grey morphing into a silvery grey. No sun at noon when I went out for lunch. Left work only to see darkness once again. But I enjoyed the brief hours of sunlight knowing from this day forward, the daylight hours will be longer again.