Tag Archives: Winter Solstice

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 […]

SOLSTICE @ EarthGaia JUNE 2025 C.E.

Earth enters the Season of Solstice at this time in Her orbit around our Mother Sun – one of two Solstices for the year. As the Southern Hemisphere enters the fullness of the dark part of the annual cycle, towards Winter Solstice when it will turn/ return to the growing light, the Northern Hemisphere enters the […]

Solstice @ EarthGaia December 2024 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 […]

Packing it Up after Winter Solstice – Entering Larger New Being

As I clear and put away the decorations after Winter Solstice this year, I feel it as perhaps the ending of the decades of the Winter Solstice ceremonies I have created and facilitated. I have gathered and created these decorations in those years. I feel the words “I am packing it up.”  I am an old […]

Solstice @ EarthGaia June 2024 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 December. The Southern Hemisphere enters the magic of the Winter Solstice fullness of the dark, and out of that fullness of darkness, the turn/ return to the growing […]

A Southern Hemisphere Wheel of the Year

I was born in the Southern Hemisphere – in the Great South Land of Australia – and as a white Western European girl child.  Most of the texts and graphics explaining the Cosmos to an Australian and white child were (and still often are) drawn from the Northern Hemisphere perspective. The Moon in her phases were […]

December Solstice 2023 – Summer/Winter

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 awesomeness of the Summer fullness and peaking of the light, and the turn /return to the growing dark […]

The Universe Story and Winter Solstice

One may contemplate the personal and collective primordial relationship with the Sun:  How five billion years ago the hydrogen atoms, created at the birth of the universe, came together to form our great Sun that now pours out this same primordial energy and has done so since the beginning of time. How some of this […]

Solstice – Winter/Summer June 2023 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 December. For the Southern Hemisphere June Solstice is the magic of the Winter fullness of the dark, and the turn/ return to the growing light out of that […]

December Solstice EarthGaia 2022 CE

For the Southern Hemisphere December Solstice is the Summer peaking of the light part of the day, and the turn /return to the dark part of the annual cycle. Out of the fullness of light the seed of dark is born: henceforth it will grow. It may celebrate the fullness of being, and the pouring […]

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