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12/20/2022 4:54 pm

Winter Solstice

Happy Winter Solstice!

Winter Solstice, long used by many ancient sun and earth based tribes as a ceremonial event. The shortest day and longest night of the year. Many today take a moment to honor what has come and gone in their lives over the past year. A moment of solitude and reflection. An opportunity to reflect on the past year, to remember loved ones who’ve passed, those who’ve newly come into your life, as well as sow the seeds for improvement in the coming year.

Honor the lost who meant so much to you. Reflect on your triumphs, but do so humbly, with an eye towards making them a habit. More so, reflect on your failures and disappointments for here is where the growth lies, waiting to become a strength and positive in your life. To those you’ve hurt, make amends with yourself first, stop beating yourself up, for only then can you truly change your behavior which caused the hurt. For those that have hurt you, release the pain and forgive them, or at minimum forgive the deed and release it’s grip on you. Doing so will exorcise the grief and pain. Lastly, focus and manifest putting yourself in a more positive, enlightening, accepting environment within yourself and your outside surroundings as well.

The beauty is, it doesn’t require an elaborate ceremony or any official proclamations of a guide, shaman or priest. Simply go out after dark (the darkest night of the year), a quiet place to be alone with your thoughts. Light a sage or cedar bundle or any incense you may have on hand, or even a candle. As you work through the process of reflection (triumphs, remembering, pain, improvement) the rising smoke from the smoldering sage will carry and lift your reflections to a higher universal energy. Leaving you with clarity, renewed spirit, and sows those seeds for the coming new year. (Also don’t worry if you can’t do your personal ceremony right on the night of the winter solstice. It can be done a few days before or after….you’ve got a solid one week window to prepare and take part).

Happy Solstice

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12/20/2022 4:56 pm

Happy Solstice 2022 to all those here at the Alt blogs!

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