Tag: solstice
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December 21, 2009 01:01 PM EST --
Happy Winter Solstice today...longest night and shortest day--we're on the happy slip 'n' slide to summer time!
Anyone out there celebrate the day, or are you just . . .
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December 24, 2007 08:50 PM EST --
What a strange holiday.
It is nominally a birthday, but for a birth no one can possibly date. (Christians picked 25 December to coopt a pagan feast).
How easy it is to forget that it celebrates . . .
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December 20, 2009 11:24 AM EST --
This year, Winter Solstice falls on December 21st .
In the Northern Hemisphere, that means the shortest day of the year. In the Southern Hemisphere, that day is longer on that day than on any . . .
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December 24, 2008 06:07 PM EST --
I know they're commonly called "Christmas Lights" but the act of putting up lights at a time like this, when it's the darkest out, just reminds me of "sympathetic magic" - . . .
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December 21, 2008 11:59 PM EST --
Hope you enjoyed your Yule/solstice/first night of Hanukkah!
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December 06, 2009 10:29 AM EST --
Some people are re-writing history to make it seem that in the good old days we only said "Merry Christmas" ... and now godless PC has come so far to now make us all say "Happy Holidays" (especially . . .
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December 17, 2009 10:19 PM EST --
I can't afford to do much shopping for Christmas, but, I belong to many programs online that pay cash for doing things, or merchandise or merchandise and cash. Well, I had enough points in . . .
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December 21, 2009 05:25 PM EST --
If you don't, here's one:
(ha ha)
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December 21, 2009 06:41 PM EST --
For all who celebrate, I wish you a lovely and blessed Solstice Night.
I can't imbed the video so I apologize for the link.
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December 21, 2009 12:05 PM EST --
Tonight is a celebration in the Pagan world. It is the shortest day and longest night. A celebration of light and life. Lighting of the candles to represent the sun, it is a time to think about . . .
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December 21, 2009 12:20 PM EST --
Music is a big part of this evening...this is one of the melodies that I relate to this celebration.
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December 21, 2009 12:28 PM EST --
Below is a short video of a ritual. Thank you for watching.
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December 21, 2009 12:48 PM EST --
On this evening, the rede is read...a guide for those who live the Pagan word.
I hope that after watching/reading, you will see the beauty that Pagans live with, within one self and towards others. . . .
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December 21, 2009 09:52 AM EST --
Grab your candles and turn on all the lights! Today is the Winter Solstice here in the Northern hemisphere, the shortest day or longest night of the year! I checked out a few facts: "Winter solstice is . . .
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June 21, 2007 02:04 PM EDT --
Significance of the summer solstice. Fun information about the Summer solstice:
In pre-historic times, summer was a joyous time of the year for those Aboriginal people who lived in the northern . . .
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December 17, 2009 07:17 PM EST --
Today's post is about the origins of Christmas (other than celebrating Christ's birth) and is dedicated, in part, to Tory H.
There is no evidence scripturally or secularly that early Christians . . .
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December 21, 2009 08:54 AM EST --
Winter Solstice 2009 and the shortest day of the year arrive in the middle of the Snow Storm East Coast - State of Emergency with serious Snow Accumulation Totals and Snowfall Totals New Jersey . . . .
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December 20, 2007 09:47 AM EST --
Some of the shots I used in my Winter Solstice video come from my pre-digital camera days, and they still seem to hold up, althought they tend to be grainier than I remember (some of them were shot at . . .
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December 08, 2008 05:27 PM EST --
My Christmas Countdown post stirred a comment from a friend who said there was no evidence that the Celts celebrated the Solstice. I respect this friend's opinion greatly, but in this case, I had . . .
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December 20, 2008 01:44 PM EST --
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What If Everything You Believe is Wrong?
"And where does magic come from? I think magic's in the learning."
I think I was in first grade, but . . .
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