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It's Friday, so here is another FediCoven question.
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Question 11
December 6, 2024:
How do you celebrate the Winter Solstice, and what does this celebration mean to you?
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Paul.
in reply to Lydia Vvinters • • •It's always a new beginning and always I hope that humanity won't fork up even more.
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Lydia Vvinters
in reply to Paul. • • •@paul
That is such a lovely ritual. With all the pretty lights around, I can forget to appreciate the darkness at times. The world does seem a bit starved for positive energy. Perhaps I can find a way to join your intent. I'll meditate on that.
Paul.
in reply to Lydia Vvinters • • •I know several people who (try to) do the same, and in that way create a chain of positive energy around the world. ❤️
But to each their own way.
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Lydia Vvinters
in reply to Paul. • • •@paul
Oh, that is nice. A collective free-form positive energy spell.
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in reply to Lydia Vvinters • •@Lydia Vvinters I don't do anything in particular for Yule, but I do like to create a sparkling Altar with some evergreens and things like fur cones, and maybe tea lights and fairy lights.
And of course good wholesome food! Stollen is a must have for the Yule season.
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Simon Ashcroft
in reply to Lydia Vvinters • • •Ritual. Odd one. I do very little that would be so called in any formal sense, anyway.
For me, the winter solstice is the depth of Demeter's despair, waiting for Hekate to guide Persephone back to this world.
It is also "my time" of contemplative darkness. In which sense, I suppose winter becomes a ritual in itself.
Beyond that, I just go with the flow of familial expectation.
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Lydia Vvinters
in reply to Simon Ashcroft • • •@SJAsh_03
This is the time for introspective journeys.
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I love rituals focussed on helping our non-human neighbours through the dark time of the year.
I used to do some dusk-to-dawn rituals, but I have not managed one in a long time. Life sort of gets in the way this time of year. But It was always wonderful to make it through and greet the sun.
David Bridger
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mirabilos
in reply to Lydia Vvinters • • •it’s the beginning of the year to me, always has been. (For calendaric purposes, I consider the 22nd the first day of the year.)
It’s a feast of light. Make a fire, or at least a candle. (Urban rental appartements don’t tend to come with groves in the back garden.) Time to fully explore the new possibilities, the new beginnings, after the earth has had time to rest from Samhain on. A few days of holidaying… which may also include hedgehogging (including trying to avoid blood family duties) and just resting by oneself. Then enjoyment of the fresh air after the judeo-christians have had their hectic and the atmosphere can cool down again. A bit of cleanup, but not the spring cleaning yet, just out with the old year, and maybe start some side project, hack on something. Then avoid the gregorian new year celebrations, for one’s own sanity. (Lightshows are fine, the rest… not.) It’s really a slow/long thing, not just a quick night (even if it is the longest). The day after the longest night is fully a solar thing, even if you can’
... show moreit’s the beginning of the year to me, always has been. (For calendaric purposes, I consider the 22nd the first day of the year.)
It’s a feast of light. Make a fire, or at least a candle. (Urban rental appartements don’t tend to come with groves in the back garden.) Time to fully explore the new possibilities, the new beginnings, after the earth has had time to rest from Samhain on. A few days of holidaying… which may also include hedgehogging (including trying to avoid blood family duties) and just resting by oneself. Then enjoyment of the fresh air after the judeo-christians have had their hectic and the atmosphere can cool down again. A bit of cleanup, but not the spring cleaning yet, just out with the old year, and maybe start some side project, hack on something. Then avoid the gregorian new year celebrations, for one’s own sanity. (Lightshows are fine, the rest… not.) It’s really a slow/long thing, not just a quick night (even if it is the longest). The day after the longest night is fully a solar thing, even if you can’t always quite feel it yet. It’s also, sadly, the time when the others cease making as much music themselves; pity, while the lyrics are not ours, it’s always good to make music together. It’ll be missed.
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