#Stoney-Littleton #Long-Barrow | Stunning #Winter #Solstice #Alignment 3800 BC | Megalithomania
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U5Ycs3TP0k

Stoney Littleton Long Barrow, near Wellow in Somerset dates back to 3800 BC and is aligned to the winter solstice #sunrise.

#HughNewman visits the site in December 2023 to take a look. It has a chamber nearly 50 feet long with various chambers on either side of the main corridor. Its alignment is oriented to the sunrise but the sun has to come up over hills to then beam into the chamber so its orientation is further south than normal. See Dr. Terence Meaden’s analysis here:
https://www.silentearth.org/stoney-littleton-long-barrow-winter-solstice-alignment/

22.12

#solstice #portrait
#afrofuturist #experience
#sundaygimp #mywork #photo

🌞 Joyeux solstice à toutes et à tous !... 😊

Bandcamp : Seelie, par Clann.

Le 22 décembre se fête le solstice d’hiver, également appelé fête de Yule. À ce moment précis de l’année, la nuit est la plus longue. Le soleil est à son plus haut point, proche du pôle Nord.
On arrête les récoltes dans les champs. La nature est au repos. L’hiver est arrivé. Mais le soleil va être de retour...

Dans les traditions scandinaves et germaniques, le retour du soleil est lié à la fertilité et à l’enfantement. Cette renaissance du soleil est accordée par les déesses de la fécondité. De même, chez les Saxons et les Celtes, la figure de la mère est associée au renouvellement.
Les foyers sont décorés et illuminés par des bougies, ainsi la lumière et la chaleur du soleil s'invitent dans les habitations.
La tradition des cadeaux est ancienne. Dans la mythologie nordique, le dieu Heimdall descend sur la terre à chaque fête de Yule pour apporter des cadeaux aux enfants.
Dans l’Antiquité romaine on célèbre les Saturnales, la virilité et la force du soleil, en l’honneur de Saturne, dieu de l’agriculture.
Après les Saturnales, les Romains fêtent le règne du soleil fixé au 25 décembre par l’empereur romain Aurélien. Il instaure la fête du Sol Invictus, soleil invaincu. Cette divinité du soleil est inspirée du dieu Apollon et de Mithra, divinité perse.
Quelques décennies après, l’empereur romain Constantin, récemment converti au christianisme, fait coïncider la fête du soleil avec la commémoration de la Nativité. Dans la Bible, la date exacte de la naissance de Jésus n’est pas précisemment expliquée.
Noël remplace ainsi les cultes païens de Yule, des Saturnales et de Sol Invictus. Et près d’un siècle plus tard, au concile d’Agde, Noël devient une fête d’obligation.
Mais à l'origine, il s'agit bien d'une fête du retour de la lumière et de la fertilité.

#solstice #Yule #Sol-Invictus #célébrations #astronomie #cycle

L'illustration est de Seb McKinnon. The Moon’s Daughter.

Seelie, by CLANN

10 track album

Happy Solstice, my friends who bring light into my life.

#solstice

Frohe #Sonnenwende allerseits!
Happy #Solstice everyone!

Crows summon the sun on solstice morning

#crows #winter #solstice

Happy Winter Solstice! *

Our days will be getting brighter and longer each day now! 😎

*Offer void in Southern Hemisphere

#PaulWinter #winter #solstice #WinterSolstice #music #musica #musique #musik

Nothing like a #solstice #Postfix #security #bug to brighten your day.

Happy holidays!

https://www.postfix.org/smtp-smuggling.html

Happy #Winter #Solstice!

This is my second winter living on the edge of Lion Wood. Tough very small, it is designated ancient woodland, legal jargon indicating that #trees have been growing here for centuries. There are certainly some big old ones.

I've never felt the myth of the Oak King and the Holly King as strongly as I do here. In winter, the oaks, beeches, birches and sycamores lose their leaves, and the major source of green is #holly.

@Pagans Of The Federation #pagan

https://andrewbwatt.com/2023/12/20/sun-in-capricorn-i-22-31-december-2023/
#astrology #solstice
Sun in #Capricorn I (22-31 December 2023)

..."The Sun enters Capricorn I The Headless Body (as named by Austin Coppock) on 21 December 2023 at 10:28 pm EST. Although ruled by Saturn, it’s administered by Jupiter, whose favorable trine from the safe vantage point of Taurus I promises that things that are seeded and fertilized now shall deliver positive growth in six months or so. Mercury urges us to attend to detail as the Sun prepares for its annual part in the degree of the winter solstice.
...
The Sun is below the horizon in this Night Chart, stealing dignity from all the other planets except Saturn, who are all in the wrong parts of the sky to benefit from sect placement. Even retrograde Mercury, just a day away from cazimi (exact from 1:47 pm to 1:54 pm EST), is currently serving with the night sect planets, and delivering messages from Moon to Sun by back channels, as she prepares to confront the solar system’s king at the full moon on December 26 at 7:13 pm EST.

This makes the Moon’s trine to Mercury and the Sun especially powerful, as she is separating from the Sun and progressing to Mercury, while also being in Taurus the sign of her exaltation. This Third Mansion of the Moon, The Many Little Ones is indicated by the Moon’s approach to the stars of the Pleiades, the ‘seven sisters’ riding on the back of the constellation of Taurus, and followed by Aldebaran, the bright red horn-star on the bull’s head. Indicating “many good things” and promising wealth and favor, the Third Mansion is one of the Moon’s favorite watering holes. It’s a favorable omen for Christmas and other winter holidays, when the Moon will be full in her own domicile — and dominant over the Sun between the Solstice and New Year’s."...

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/cosmicmagics/2023/12/the-longest-night-the-astrology-of-winter-solstice/

The Longest Night: The #Astrology Of #Winter #Solstice
StarLys

..."Since Samhain, we have been seeking out the seeds of the next cycle in the fertile dark. The spark of energy as the sun is reborn at the Solstice is the beginning of the return of outwardly focused activity. As the days begin to lengthen, we take our first tangible steps in manifesting our new vision.

#Saturn is the ruler of #Capricorn so carries special power at this time of year. We know him as Old Father Time, bringer of limits and structures. The goddesses of winter also carry this sometimes stark energy. The Crone goddesses remind us of the wisdom and power of maturity. For me, Saturn is the Old Bone Mother, who strips us back to bare bones. Capricorn energy forces us to examine our inner and outer structures. If they are not strong enough, or if they have become calcified, we tear them down, and break them apart. And so we learn our lesson, and so we build new and more flexible structures.
...
Capricorn energy builds slowly – taking our time is a powerful magic in itself. Pay attention to the bare bones of nature, noticing the shapes of the trees and the landscape. Seek out signs of the dying year in the seed heads and bare branches. Seek out also signs of the new cycle in the leaf buds on the trees. Allow yourself to sink deeply into the energies and sensations of your own body as well as the rest of nature.",,,

The Longest Night: the Astrology of Winter Solstice

This week is the Winter Solstice here in the northern hemisphere, marked by the sun moving into Capricorn. The darkness reaches its peak and in the same

#solstice #map europe #mars rising #ireland, #scotland..refugee related violence, on current form
.. #pluto rising #MOSCOW, KIEV ..revolutionary year..rebirth

from #ianwood

https://olivebites.blogspot.com/2023/12/weekly-astrology-december-18th-to-24th.html

WEEKLY #ASTROLOGY | #DECEMBER 18TH TO 24TH, 2023 - GOOD NEWS, RETHINKING OLD IDEAS AND CONVERSATIONS, LIBERATING JOLTS WITH LOVE AND MONEY, CAREER SOBRIETY AND THEN JUST IN THE NICK OF TIME - SANTA!
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2023
Cat Ivins

..."It is a good idea to check in with other people. See if they need anything we have to give. People are needing more than presents wrapped in big red bows this year.

In #Capricorn, the #Sun gets serious. We are heading into the serious time of year - the time our ancestors could starve if they hadn't stocked up properly or catch a cold that would turn into pneumonia. They would celebrate the #Winter #Solstice and go into hibernation for a few weeks (exhausted from the harvest, escaping the cold and, intuitively, the germs and bacteria, too, I'm sure), venturing back out sometime mid-Aquarius season for some social interaction and hoping to trade whatever they still had plenty of to restock whatever had grown scarce.

This is true for us today, too. Without structure, responsibility and discipline - mandated by Capricorn's ruling planet #Saturn - we'll be in trouble when the cold settles in and the stuff we need to survive is covered with two feet of snow and ice.

So Capricorn is a serious sign because it rules very serious things. Capricorn rules our collective 10th house of career, reputation, ambition, hard work, the pinnacle, fathers, patriarchal story-lines, safety, security, tradition, history, structure.

A chart drawn for the Cappy Ingress (like we do the New Moon and Full Moon charts for the lunar cycles) - Sun into Capricorn - Cappy being a cardinal sign that launches a new season, can tell us quite a bit about what to expect in the weeks ahead.

So, we've got this solar energy of sobriety and responsibility, and what else do we see? The time is 10:27PM EST. The Moon is in Taurus, the sign of her exaltation.

Venus moves into an opposition with Uranus retrograde. Even though this isn't totally unexpected with Uranus retrograde, this can provide a JOLT. Our Scorpio house, or a Scorpio issue - debt, taxes, intimacy, loans, intimacy, reproduction, secrets - can experience a FAST CHANGE. Financial and romantic shocks are possible. And remember, with this happening on the Capricorn Ingress, the energy of FAST CHANGE is pulled into the season ahead. Breakthroughs, breakdowns, breaks for freedom.

Mercury repeats his/her opportunistic sextile with Saturn. Plans, conversations, information are OPPORTUNISTIC. Stabilizing. Mature. This might connect to an idea or conversation or news from around December 2nd. Watch your language. Mean what you say. This is a confident aspect where we better know what we are talking about. Verbal and written commitments are sticky - although subject to changes because, again, Mercury is retrograde. Saturn is awash in Pisces this year and next year, so any chance for him to get back to himself in stable Capricorn is useful. Talk and think about your goals. Make plans.

Mars inconjuncts Uranus - this is Sag/Taurus. Big moves vs security and stability. The greener grasses over there being incompatible to what we want to hold onto over here. There isn't a winner here. The way through would be the Mercury/Saturn we just talked about.

This is alot to be happening at this solstice moment. Our ancestors celebrated the solstice for hundreds/thousands of years and this energy is in us even when we are not conscious of it. "...

jersey girl looks up: weekly astrology | december 18th to 24th, 2023 - good news, rethinking old ideas and conversations, liberating jolts with love and money, career sobriety and then just in the nick of time - santa!

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The #December #solstice is on December 22, #2023, at 3:27 UTC (that is December 21, 9:27 p.m. in central North America).

https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/everything-you-need-to-know-december-solstice/

November Full Moon

https://moon.nasa.gov/moon-observation/daily-moon-guide/#1701102696558::0::
https://www.moongiant.com/moonphases/november/2023/
https://mooncalendar.astro-seek.com/moon-phase-day-27-november-2023
https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/moon/beaver.html

The #FullMoon in #November is named after #beavers who build their winter dams at this time of year. It is also called #FrostMoon and #MourningMoon, depending on the #December #solstice.

#astronomy #astrology #gemini #november #moon #luna #lunar

Daily Moon Guide

NASA's interactive map for observing the Moon each day of the year.

A tad late for the very beginning of summer/winter (2 weeks ago), but never late for a new Simple Minds song....

Solstice Kiss

#SimpleMinds #Solstice #music #musica #musique #musik #SolsticeKiss

Feu de la Saint-Jean - Solstice d'été

Depuis toute petite, dans mon village, le week-end d'après le solstice d'été, c'est la fête et il y a ce grand feu de la Saint-Jean. Je ne sais pas quelle signification y a mis l'église, mais le feu du solstice d'été dans la tradition celtique est la célébration de l'apogée du soleil, de la nature, de ce qu'on a semé, c'est le début des moissons et c'est un feu sanctificateur et non pas destructeur.

Pas de ronde ni de jeux pour sauter par dessus, vu la taille, vaut mieux pas, pas de danse ni de chant ni de tambour même si ça me démangeait, mais j'y ai déposé mon mat de mai et sa couronne de Beltane en souhaitant retrouver une union sacrée avec un homme. Trois mois après la rupture la plus incompréhensible de ma vie. Et en même temps j'ai beaucoup appris sur moi. Je récolte des choses étonnantes cette année. Quelle abondance vais-je vivre ces mois d'été?

Et vous, quelles récoltes commencez-vous?

(oui je sais, c'est pas écolo du tout...)

#feudelasaintjean #solsticedete #solstice #feu #galembrun #hautstolosans #fete #celebration #saintjean #village #fetedevillage #rituel #paganisme #fire #paganism #photo

Ah, Inspirobot knows.

(Shortest night of the year.) #solstice

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The annual tradition at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, in honor of the solstice.

Paul Winter's 28th Annual Summer Solstice Celebration

#summer #SummerSolstice #solstice #PaulWinter #music #musica #musique #StJohnTheDivine #PaulWinterConsort

Happy Summer 2023!

Nature and people, moving on, recovering, enjoying, and (wishfully) improving it all for seasons to come.

#solstice #summer #summer2023

Summer Solstice 2023: The First Day of Summer

The Summer Solstice happens on Wednesday, June 21, 2023! Find the answers to common questions, like: What is a solstice? Is the solstice the longest day of the year?—and more!