The Winter Solstice will be direct this year on Tuesday December 21st, at 11:38PM GMT/UT, 6:38PM EST, 5:38PM CST, 4:38PM MST, and 3:38PM PST.
This years Solstice has the extra added power and energy of a full Lunar Eclipse in Gemini opposing the Sun in Sagittarius. With both signs being at 29 degrees, this signals an ending of what was and new beginnings. This year’s event will take 3 hours and 38 minutes from beginning to end. The eclipse begins on Tuesday at 6:33 a.m. GMT/UT, 1:33 a.m. EST, 12:33 a.m. CST, 11:33 p.m. MST Monday , and 10:33 p.m. PST Monday, when the Earth’s dark-reddish shadow will begin to show on the edge of the moon. It will take about an hour for the shadow to cover the entire moon. Totality begins at 7:41 a.m. GMT/UT, 2:41 a.m. EST, 1:41 a.m. CST, 12:41 p.m. MST, and 11:41 p.m. PST and lasts for 72 minutes.
I offer up this blessing:
Great and Eternal mystery, Great Spirit; God, Goddess, All that is; The Infinite Radiant Is. I thank you for this light and this life. For this beauty way. I thank you for this season of deep contemplation, reflection and retrospection. It is this time of season that offers us the opportunity to grow inwardly as we await the coming of the outward growth of Spring.
In this time of the short day and the long night, I give thanks for all that I have achieved this past year, and all that I will achieve in the new one. I offer up prayers and blessings of gratitude, and thanksgiving for the lessons I have learned; the relations of all varieties I have helped, and that have helped me to grow.
I thank you for this time of stillness so that I can once again hear my heart beat in time with the true rhythm of the Universe.
As we move forward from this Solstice day, I give thanks for the renewing energy that fills all of our lives with the mounting warmth of the new Sun and the new year.
In Gratitude; In Thanks; In Peace; In Wonderment; In Joy I say Ring Out Solstice Bells!
Brightest Blessings to all!
Ross – “Tolemac”
Ring Out, Solstice Bells by Jethro Tull
winter is the glad song that you hear.
Seven maids move in seven time.
Have the lads up ready in a line.
Ring out these bells.
Ring out, ring solstice bells.
Ring solstice bells.
Join together ‘neath the mistletoe,
by the holy oak whereon it grows.
Seven druids dance in seven time.
Sing the song the bells call, loudly chiming.
Ring out these bells.
Ring out, ring solstice bells.
Ring solstice bells.
Praise be to the distant sister sun,
joyful as the silver planets run.
Seven maids move in seven time.
Sing the song the bells call, loudly chiming.
Ring out these bells.
Ring out, ring solstice bells.
Ring solstice bells.
Ring on, ring out.
Ring on, ring out.