happy winter solstice

[strollingbones]

peace to all

 

[Againsheila]

Happy Winter Solstice to you too.

 

[sky dancer]

I love Solstice. It always comes as such a relief. Here is the darkness day of the year, which means we are returning to the light.

October 31st to this date is always challenging for me personally.

Happy Solstice.


"A handful of people, picked from a lottery of 34,000 names, celebrated the winter solstice at the Irish ancient burial site of Newgrange on Sunday.

On 21 December - the shortest day of the year - the sun shines deep into the tomb in County Meath, flooding the neolithic chamber with light.

" In the days before Christianity, festivals were held around the winter solstice to welcome back the longer, lighter days and pay tribute to the Sun.

The Newgrange tomb is one of Ireland's top tourist attractions.

It dates to about 3200 BC - 1,000 years before Britain's Stonehenge was built and 500 years before Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza.

People travelled from the United States, Canada, Italy, Switzerland, Australia, Poland and Britain for the experience.

The prehistoric tomb was carefully aligned by its Neolithic builders so the sun only cuts through the gloom of the chamber at sunrise through a small window above the entrance.

When skies are clear, the rising sun slowly shines all the way down the 19-metre long chamber into the centre of the tomb, lighting it for up to 17 minutes before the rays disappear and darkness returns.

The sun lights up where the cremated ashes of the dead were laid on large stone basins deep inside the tomb.

Newgrange is believed to be the world's oldest continuously roofed building."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7794445.stm

 

[KittenKoder]

Thank you Strolling, and to all I wish the same.

 

[Anguille]

peace to all

merci! To you as well!

 

[Againsheila]

I love Solstice. It always comes as such a relief. Here is the darkness day of the year, which means we are returning to the light.

October 31st to this date is always challenging for me personally.

Happy Solstice.


"A handful of people, picked from a lottery of 34,000 names, celebrated the winter solstice at the Irish ancient burial site of Newgrange on Sunday.

On 21 December - the shortest day of the year - the sun shines deep into the tomb in County Meath, flooding the neolithic chamber with light.

" In the days before Christianity, festivals were held around the winter solstice to welcome back the longer, lighter days and pay tribute to the Sun.

The Newgrange tomb is one of Ireland's top tourist attractions.

It dates to about 3200 BC - 1,000 years before Britain's Stonehenge was built and 500 years before Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza.

People travelled from the United States, Canada, Italy, Switzerland, Australia, Poland and Britain for the experience.

The prehistoric tomb was carefully aligned by its Neolithic builders so the sun only cuts through the gloom of the chamber at sunrise through a small window above the entrance.

When skies are clear, the rising sun slowly shines all the way down the 19-metre long chamber into the centre of the tomb, lighting it for up to 17 minutes before the rays disappear and darkness returns.

The sun lights up where the cremated ashes of the dead were laid on large stone basins deep inside the tomb.

Newgrange is believed to be the world's oldest continuously roofed building."
BBC NEWS | UK | Northern Ireland | Solstice magic hampered by weather

That's a lottery I would have loved to be in on. Up to now, I've only seen that on TV.

 

[random3434]

The Winter Solstice brought 25 below wind chill here!

May you stay warm snuggled up to someone you love!

Peace~

 

[sky dancer]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygmdn5suxSc&feature=related]YouTube - Theresa Thomason at Paul Winter's Winter Solstice Celebration[/ame]

 

[sky dancer]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXvVMoJv_vE&feature=related]YouTube - 2007 Winter Solstice Sadhana Celebration[/ame]

 

[sky dancer]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C4mfpIM7qM]YouTube - Lisa Thiel - Winter Solstice Song (Yule)[/ame]

 

[sky dancer]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDXZLt6EqQM&feature=related]YouTube - YULE Winter solstice Gwyl Canol Gaeaf /|[/ame]

 

[sky dancer]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_n1ObJNXhY&feature=related]YouTube - Turning Point of the Sacred Circle - 2008~2012 GoldRing[/ame]

 

[KittenKoder]

Okay ... this is just annoying to have to keep coming to this thread only to just find more links added for songs.

 

[strollingbones]

thank ya...i had a good solstice....i had hoped with the drought broken we could have a bonfire this year....wind gusts of 40 mph stopped that.....

and yes its like 4.5 degrees here ...

blessed be to you and yours...may the fates and muses be kind to us over the upcoming seasons

 

[editec]

Bite me, earth's axial tilt.

Your winter solstice shinaningans dumped about two feet of snow against my back door last night.

 

[Againsheila]

Bite me, earth's axial tilt.

Your winter solstice shinaningans dumped about two feet of snow against my back door last night.

We must have about 8 to 9 inches now. It's the most snow we've had here in many many years. I'm looking forward to a white Christmas for the first time in 18 years.