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Solstice celebrations?

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Levanna · 23/11/2004 00:16

The plans are underway for our Solstice celebrations this year, is anyone else celebrating Solstice and if so, do you have any particular rituals that you like to carry out?

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Papillon · 04/12/2004 19:25

I like Coromandel cos its an area of NZ - and its quite renown for being a spiritual place. Also Yonghy-Bhongy sounds fun. Can be literary with a funny title perhaps?

jingleballs we will be bringing up our dd to be open minded (I hope) to spirituality. I mean not just follow one ethos / religion. I really hope she learns to love the earth as much a I do. dh is not into the idea of Christmas and Father Xmas... a coco-cola creation he regulary tells me!

glitterfairy · 05/12/2004 08:30

I love Christmas Paps. It is absolutely brill and the camper and more glittery it becomes the more I love it. I love Turkey, Christmas cake, pudding etc etc crackers, Tinsel, everything! Tell Dh it was the Germans that started Christmas being as it is today with Father Christmas and nothing to do with Coca-Cola!

melsybells · 05/12/2004 09:29

Have been following this with interest , but didnt post as havent really followed it b4 and felt I shoudnt butt in to soemething I dont know much about.I would like ti know more now. Going to ask really silly question now ; are the celebrations for the fact that we are getting nearer to the sun ?? or the fact that it is a demarcation of change in season??

I was brought up in right confusion : jewish so did chanukah(menorah candles and all) but also had a xmas tree !!!! My mum always did turkey(KOSHER!!!) and we had the exchange of gifts. A few days b4 , mum would pack us into the car and take us round all the great department store windows. It was an age of innocence and I saw it as something special. Now it is so very very manufactured and commercialised that I too have become very cynical aboiut it all. But I still like to get into the mood,even though it just doesnt do the same for me anymore and may even start the dept store windows tradition again with dd this year !!! I know what paps dh means, but I like some of it !!! I expect full turkey dinner with all trimmings , crackers and revolting wrapping next week paps !!!

Only joshing dont expect that AT ALLL!!!

glitterfairy · 05/12/2004 18:16

Melsy are you visiting the home of Paps next week then?

Papillon · 06/12/2004 07:29

Melsybells is indeed visiting the home of paps this coming Wednesday.

I did a thanksgiving dinner once at a cafe in the US I worked in... but it was vegetarian... had temph/tofu faux turkey... it was very popular.

dh knows all about saint nicholas who is dressed in brown and green I think, he comes now for the kiddies and not at Xmas which the red and white version made by coke company does. He has improved since baby paps arrived about Xmas. We are going to see Saint Nick today as it happens.

glitterfairy · 06/12/2004 09:10

Paps the red and white version isnt made by coke honest! Wink

I am sure you will have a great time with melsybells and the babies! Wish I was there too but alas am working in a hospital this week and today am off to London town after having done spped awareness course for speeding.

I am really scared of being too truthful and saying I love speeding and being sent back to the police as a hopeless case.

Papillon · 06/12/2004 11:42

You had better buy a broom stick Glitter -- no speeding restrictions :o

Melsy I cannot help it I kept thinking of you as Milsytletoe - or rather mistletoe!
Also I posted a link below and have pasted some info for you Melsy about the Yule Solstice. Although Snugs or another wiccan enlightened type might have a more brief overview of things.

Yule, also referred to as the Yuletide, Winter Solstice and Christmas is the shortest day of the year and the longest night. This is usually around December 20th or 21st. With the shortest day, Yule marks the time when the days begin to grow longer and the nights shorter. Yule begins on 'Mother Night' and ends twelve days later, thus the origin of the Twelve Days of Christmas. On this day the Holly King, who represents the death aspect of the God, is overcome by the Oak King, who embodies the rebirth of the God, also referred to as the Divine Child.

Love, family togetherness and accomplishments of the past year are celebrated.

This is also a good time to reflect on your achievements of the last year and what you desire to achieve in the coming year.

Yule is a solar festival, celebrated by fire and the use of the Yule log. The seasons colors are red and green, originating from Pagan celebrations of this time of year. Red represents the females menstrual blood, while the color green represents the fertility of the coming growing season. Fancy breads, cookies and holly wreathes are also a part of the original Pagan (Witch) tradition. Food is prepared for the after dinner Yule celebration when the tree is lighted and the Yule log is burned. A portion of the Yule log is saved to be used in next years lighting of the Yule log. This piece of the yule log is kept throughout the year to protect the home.

FLOPSEYfairylightswithBUNNIES · 10/12/2004 23:51

so exactly what day is the solstice on, i've read somewhere it's on the 22nd, but here your saying between the 20th and 21st. am a little confused please could some one enlighten me. thank you.

jabberwocky · 11/12/2004 00:55

My calendar puts it on the 21st.

FLOPSEYfairylightswithBUNNIES · 12/12/2004 21:11

thanks

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