Celebrating the Winter Solstice

The Winter Solstice is not the death
of the life-giving sun, it is its rebirth!

Down Through the Darkness of Mother Earth of wet, cold, wet, cold dark, sometimes seems gloom, always dark, the Root gets tapped the Soul is touched the Fire ignited and is stroked by the Powerful Returning of the Light, the Eternal Cycling of the Sun. A Call slowly, slowly upward rises penetrating layers of dust, ice, grit, snow, and wet stone. Another Root gets tapped, Another Bulb responds Stirrings in the cells of all beings As all feel the calling of the Light, the calling forth of the Sun. Circles hear this rising Call Make their way to Gathering Places Celebrate the Joyous Returning of the Light Renew their covenants to cherish each and all And make their thankful prayers for Eternal promises kept and manifested through the Returning of the Light. Material is property of Tending Sacred Circles Brightner of darkness, hail! Keeper of Clearness, Opener of the Depths. Gifts of plenty are arising, Winter wonders, white snows' fall. Joyful be the heart within us, Open up the guesting door. Wisdom waken in abundance, Warm our beings to the core. From Celtic Devotional By Caitlin Matthews