Solstice @ EarthGaia December 2025 C.E.

Earth enters the Season of Solstice at this time in Her orbit around our Mother Sun. It is one of two Solstices for the year, the other being in June.

For the Southern Hemisphere December Solstice is the Summer fullness and peaking of the light, and the awesomeness of the turn /return to the dark part of the annual cycle, out of that fullness of light. The light part of the day is at its longest, yet it turns. It is a Moment for celebrating the ripe fullness of being, and the pouring forth of it, a fulfillment of purpose, a radiant giving away, and the remembering of change.

For the Northern Hemisphere December Solstice is the Winter fullness and peaking of the dark, and the magic of the turn/ return to the light part of the annual cycle, out of that fullness of darkness. The dark part of the day is at its longest, yet it turns. It is a Moment for celebrating the birth of all being, of all manifest form, and the renewed promise of ongoing Creativity: life will rise again.

The actual Moment of December Solstice @ EarthGaia this year is 15:03 UTC 21st, or 1:03 22nd EST Australia which is where I am. For other global times see archaeoastronomy.com

The two Solstices occurring co-incidentally as they do, mirror each other, in the wholeness of this planetary moment. The Summer peaking of light celebrating a radiance, the shining forth of all that a being is, which is at the same time a dissolving of self into the Source/Origins of all. The Winter peaking of dark celebrating the Origins/Womb of all, which is at the same time a flaring forth of being, a radiance.

The Solstices – both Summer and Winter, may celebrate an essential Cosmic mystery of sacred interchange, a reciprocity at the heart of life, the relational quality of existence, that “to be is to be related”.^[i] To be is to be in deep communion, whether conscious of it or not. Mother Sun may be a primary model for this deep communion, and generosity of being, as She pours forth freely everyday, generating every thought and action on our Planet. This essential quality of reciprocity has been named by Australian Indigenous peoples as “ngapartji-ngapartji”:^[ii] it is a primordial Maternal quality, understood by all Indigenous cultures, and Earth-based religious traditions. It is She in Her universal creative quality of Mother, who may be particularly celebrated at the interchange of Solstice – Summer and Winter: Her burgeoning fullness as light pouring forth and Her burgeoning fullness as dark birthing womb respectively.

Summer Solstice may be a remembering of the purpose/destiny of the fullness of being: to return to the Space/Void/Night out of which all arises, the re-union of this form we so love with All-That-Is. We may shine forth as Mother Sun does, be radiant. The small selves that we are may shine forth, giving our essence and our passions to the ongoing Creativity of the Cosmos in every moment, in every day.

Winter Solstice may be a remembering of the Space/Void/Night out of which all arises: Her dark Womb from which existence springs forth in every moment and in which we are always immersed: that is, in an ongoing miracle of manifestation, in every moment, in every day.

For Summer Solstice poetic video: PaGaian Summer Solstice 2009

For Winter Solstice poetic video: PaGaian Winter Solstice 2009

If you are celebrating Winter Solstice, The Birthplace of the Universe may be an inspiring contemplation of our Origins, the Womb in which we are. And whichever Solstice it is that you may be celebrating, these short clips of Brian Swimme’s DVD’s may be nurturant of that spirit: Radiance and Generosity of the Sun.

Here in country Australia, we will gather for Summer Solstice ceremony close to the Moment, and I invite others in my hemisphere in this way:

This is the Season when the light part of day is longest …

You are invited to celebrate

SUMMER SOLSTICE

Light reaches Her fullness, and yet …

She turns, and the seed of Darkness is born.

This is the Season of blossom and thorn,

fragrance and blood

– for pouring forth the Gift of Being.

The story of Old tells that on this day

Beloved and Lover dissolve into the single Song of ecstasy

– that moves the worlds.

Self expands in the bliss of radiance, the giving away.

Mother Sun ripens in us: we are the Bread of Life.

We celebrate Her deep Communion and Reciprocity

of our EarthCosmosHome.

…oOo…

PaGaian Cosmology blogs for Summer Solstice/Litha

PaGaian Cosmology blogs for Winter Solstice/Yule

Some Summer and Winter Solstice story, and offered ceremonial scripts may be found in Chapter 9 and 5 of my new book A Poiesis of the Creative Cosmos respectively, and also in Appendix F of PaGaian Cosmology. These Seasonal Moments in relationship to the whole Wheel of the Year may be found in Chapter 2 of A Poiesis of the Creative Cosmos, and also Chapter 5 of PaGaian Cosmology.