A Ceremony to Celebrate the Winter Solstice

Mother leaves

Above is a video of the first enactment of this ancient Egyptian ceremony for around 2000 years, celebrated by people from this community in the San Francisco Bay Area. This ceremony is very similar to ones which were practiced in ancient times. It symbolizes the central processes contained in the birth of the spiritual sun, which is symbolized by the rising sun of the winter solstice. To read the full description of the ceremony with images, mantras, and diagrams see A Ceremony to … [Read more...]

The Spiritual Meaning of the Winter Solstice

The cosmic sun Christ

There is a profound spiritual significance to the winter solstice. The winter solstice has formed a central part of spiritual beliefs throughout the world since the beginning of history—in ancient Egypt as the birth of Horus, ‘The Birth of the Unconquered Sun’ in ancient Rome, Yule in old Europe, Yalda in Persia as the birth of Mithras, in ancient Neolithic sites such as Newgrange in Ireland, at the pyramid of the feathered serpent in Chichen Itza Mexico, and as the birth of Jesus at … [Read more...]