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A Ceremony to Celebrate the Winter Solstice

December 17, 2011 By 25 Comments
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...]

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Mantras to Celebrate the Winter Solstice

December 17, 2011 By 8 Comments
Vishnu

These ancient mantras are each relevant to the time of the winter solstice, which is a time about the process of creation, the birth of all life, and the birth of the spiritual within. In the sacred texts of the ancient Indians, the importance of sound was emphasized. They, like the ancient writers of Genesis, and the Gospels, knew that in the beginning was the Word, which is sound. The ceremony to celebrate the winter solstice, which is a time of spiritual understanding and experience of … [Read more...]

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The Spiritual Meaning of the Winter Solstice

December 15, 2011 By 24 Comments
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...]

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Ancient Sacred Sites Aligned to the Winter Solstice

December 15, 2011 By 14 Comments
Newgrange 2006 copyright by Shira

There are hundreds of ancient sites, and were many thousands, that align to the winter solstice. However, the following sites mark this solstice alignment in a symbolic way. By doing so, they have encapsulated a profound esoteric wisdom that can still be grasped even in our modern world – outlasting books and texts, which are easily lost and destroyed. These monuments speak to us through thousands of years about the true spiritual significance of the winter solstice. Read Ancient Sacred … [Read more...]

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