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christophs@diaspora.glasswings.com
Christoph S

recherche-nord on X: "This is Germany: #HitlerYouth Reloaded Last Saturday, the neo-Nazis #JungenNationalisten held a #Solstice celebration in a small Village in Lower Saxony. Even small children were allowed to march along with torches, an #NS rune was set on fire. #nonazis #nationalsocialism https://t.co/I09yuIlHY4" / X

In Lower Saxony (niedersachsen)
It's a shame :(
@girlofthesea@diasporasocial.net

https://x.com/recherchenorth/status/1804009303482695897

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nowisthetime@pod.automat.click
nowisthetime

#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/

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tina@diaspora.psyco.fr
Fifi

🌞 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

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noam@libranet.de
Noam writes

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

Thick green holly tree with bright red berries

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libramoon@diaspora.glasswings.com
libramoon

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.
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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."...

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