Please enjoy this video of the play of light – our precious light – the beauty of the night time sky, the sun coming and going each day – and now the days becoming longer once again.

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I am reminded of the sacredness of the Winter Solstice and the celebration of the light with these words:

The Solstice is a time of quietude, of firelight, and dreaming, when seeds germinate in the cold earth, and the cold notes of church bells mingle with the chimes of icicles. Rivers are stilled and the land lies waiting beneath a coverlet of snow. We watch the cold sunlight and the bright stars, maybe go for walks in the quiet land. . . . All around us the season seems to reach a standstill — a point of repose.

~John Matthews, Celtic and Arthurian wisdom keeper

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