Winter Solstice 2015: Shortest Day Of The Year Celebrated As Pagan Yule

Having natural bodies and hoping to get spiritual bodies in this system of things we do have to live in this world but that does not mean we have to live according to this world or according to man’s system.

Most parents get confronted more with life questions as soon as they get children and when those go to the primary school they are questioned even more about life and religious matters.

Santa Claus with a little girl (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

When those schools celebrate the pagan festivals and have the children dress up and parade with Halloween and when Saint Nicholas is celebrated begin December and afterwards the Christmas tree is put up in class and Santa Claus becomes the subject of the day, parents have to be strong not to go against those worldly fashions in the wrong way but have to deal with it diplomatic.

Though they should not be afraid to make it very clear to their child what is pagan and contrary to the Will of God. Such pagan festivals are the time of the year to show the right way to children and grandchildren. Such occasions we may not miss to witness about the Gospel of the real Good Tidings and how we have to prepare ourselves to a much better world than this one.

We have to show our children and/or grandchildren how we have a much more precious gift than all the material gadgets this world is offering our greedy consumer eyes.

Male and female essences shall receive their righteous place in a new universe and shall come to to operate fully as renewed beings, but only those who are justified and shall be allowed by the God given judge, Jeshua, the master teacher and saviour Jesus Christ. On him we should put our hope and look forward to receive him as our most important gift of the year.

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To remember

Illumination of Earth by Sun on the day of winter solstice on northern hemisphere. A view to eastern-hemisphere showing noon in Central European time zone (ignoring DST) on the day of winter solstice (on northern hemisphere – this is summer solstice on southern hemisphere). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

• In 2015, the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere will begin on Dec. 22 at 4:48 a.m. UTC. To calculate the turning point in your time zone, click here.
• Officially first day of winter > winter solstice > North Pole tilted 23.5 degrees away from sun => longest night of the year => days get progressively longer after winter solstice until summer solstice.
• winter solstice celebrated by many people around the world as beginning of return of the sun = darkness turning into light.
• Talmud > winter solstice = “Tekufat Tevet” ==== [Teḳufat Nisan, the vernal equinox (March 21) Teḳufat Tammuz, the summer solstice (June 21), Teḳufat Tishri, the autumnal equinox (Sept. 23), Teḳufat Ṭebet, the winter solstice (Dec. 22), when the sun enters Capricornus; this is the beginning of winter, or “‘et ha-ḥoref”(stripping-time), when the night is the longest during the year. Each teḳufah, according to Samuel Yarḥinai, marks the beginning of a period of 91 days and 7½ hours.]
• China, Dongzhi Festival >Winter Solstice celebrated by families getting together + eating special festive food.
• Until 16th century winter months = time of famine in northern Europe =>Most cattle slaughtered = wouldn’t have to be fed during the winter => solstice time fresh meat plentiful => merriment + feasting.
• pre-Christian Scandinavia > Feast of Juul, or Yule 12 days celebrating rebirth of sun god and giving rise to the custom of burning a Yule log.
• ancient Rome winter solstice celebrated at Feast of Saturnalia > honouring Saturn, god of agricultural bounty > characterized by feasting, debauchery + gift-giving = With Emperor Constantine’s conversion to Christianity => customs absorbed into Christmas celebrations. >>> Emperor Constantine appropriated Pagan holidays for Christian ones ostensibly to make them more palatable to his people who had been Pagan for generations.
• winter solstice in ancient ruins of Stonehenge, England > Thousands of druids + pagans gather there to chant, dance + sing while waiting to see spectacular sunrise.
• solstices chance to still ourselves inside, to behold the glory of the cosmos, + to take a breath with the Sacred.
• connecting with natural world (honouring sacred immanent in all things) => establish resonance with seasons
• Ritual helps to shift our consciousness => reflect outer world inside our inner landscape
• daughter  of 4 wants practically everything she sees toy and clothes-wise => real historic figure St. Niklaus who would bring gifts to children at Yule-time.

• Christmas only been celebrated in the US since about the 1800s > In it’s current manifestation = more like a holiday invented by toy manufacturers to increase their profits.
• the writer of the article underneath believes that the dying god, the male esssence, is sacrificed (or dies in the winter) and goes into the Mother (Earth) for the winter in order to be reborn again in the spring => thinking of a figure like The Green Man.

• Incidentally a full moon this year on the Winter Solstice

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Preceding

Holidays, holy days and traditions

Focus on outward appearances

Autumn traditions for 2014 – 1: Sinterklaas and Zwarte Piet

Traditionalists Vow to Fight Charges of Racism in Netherlands

The imaginational war against Christmas

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Additional reading

1. Politics and power first priority #1
2. Eostre, Easter, White god, chocolate eggs, Easter bunnies and metaphorical resurrection
3. Jesus begotten Son of God #1 Christmas and Christians
4. Solstice, Saturnalia and Christmas-stress
5. Christmas customs – Are They Christian?
6. Christmas in Ancient Rome (AKA Saturnalia)
7. The Advent of the saviour to Roman oppression
8. Christmas trees
9. Manna from Sint Nicholas
10. Ignorance of Today’s Youth (and Adults)
11. Sancta Claus is not God
12. Brits believe Santa present at Jesus’ birth, new poll reveals
13. Wishing lanterns and Christmas
14. Christmas in the 1950s
15. Continued nostalgic Christmas memories
16. The Proper Place of Excess
17. Looking for the consummation of presents
18. One can buy a lot in the supermarket, but not hope
19. Objects around the birth and death of Jesus

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Further reading

1. Winter is Coming!
2. The Dark Side
3. Darkness to Light
4. Winter Solstice
5. Winter Solstice by Luna Beam
6. Long nights’s moon
7. Winter Solstice and Yule
8. Yule
9. Personal Festival of Lights
10. Celebrating the Winter Solstice….
11. Great Yule: The ancient and present holiday
12. Winter Solstice Festival
13. The Yule Countdown
14. In Praise of the Invincible Light
15. Hail the Return of the Sun
16. Yule is upon us!
17. Yule Fillable Ornament Magick
18. Yuletide Tunes
19. Saturnalia
20. Christmas
21. Christmas is Pagan!
22. From Sukkot to Saturnalia: The Attack on Christmas in Sixteenth-Century..
23. By Jove! It’s Christmas: Did the First Christian Roman Emperor Appropriate..
24. Christmas is Tammuz’s Birthday?
25. War On Christmas Memes: Saturnalia
26. War On Christmas Memes: The Yule Tree
27. A Little history on the holly tree
28. How to bring some real Christmas spirits into your Yule-tide
29. Santa Claus, Krampus,The Wild Hunt and Me.
30. Christmas, the Weridest Holiday of the Year; Part one
31. Christmas — Who gives a rip HOW we came up with the date we use?!?
32. Christmas: it’s all about money, not messiahs.
33. Jan 17 – Antony of Egypt
34. Tanguyan
35. Christmas Day Reads
36. Cheers to Hot Cocoa and Peppermint Schnapps
37. Set to Purpose
38. Yule 2015#18
39. Merry Yule!
40. Online Winter Solstice / Yule Ritual by Spirit’s Edge Shamonial Temple
41. Yule, Light, and rare events
42. Following the Yule Star
43. Cranberry & Hazelnut Peppermint Honey Cake: Hail To The Mothers!

 

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Mystic Myrelle

“Something in us needs to know that at the end of the longest night, there will be light.”

• HuffPost Religion EditorsThe Huffington Post

12/16/2015 02:35 pm ET

In 2015, the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere will begin on Dec. 22 at 4:48 a.m. UTC. To calculate the turning point in your time zone, click here.

Officially the first day of winter, the winter solstice occurs when the North Pole is tilted 23.5 degrees away from the sun. This is the longest night of the year, meaning that despite the cold winter, the days get progressively longer after thewinter solstice until the summer solstice in 2016.

The winter solstice is celebrated by many people around the world as the beginning of the return of the sun, and darkness turning into light. The Talmud recognizes the winter solstice as “Tekufat Tevet.” In China, the Dongzhi Festival is…

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