Although the roof is just a story high, it dizzies me a little to look down.
I lariat-twirl the cord of Christmas lights, and cast it to the weeping birch’s crown; A dowel into which I’ve screwed a hook which enables me to reach, lift, drape, and twine the cord among the boughs so that the bulbs wll accent the tree’s elegant design.
Friends, passing home from work or shopping, pause and call up commendations or critiques. I make adjustments. Though a potpourri of Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, Jews, and Sikhs, we all are conscious of the time of year; We all enjoy its colorful displays and keep some festival that mitigates the dwindling warmth and compass of the days.
Some say that Hayward. doesn’t suit the Yule, but UPS vans now like magi make their present-laden rounds, while fallen leaves are gaily resurrected in their wake; The desert lifts a full moon from the east and issues a dry Santa Ana breeze, and valets at chic restaurants will soon be tending flocks of cars and SUVs.
And as the neighborhoods sink into dusk the fan palms scattered all across town stand more calmly prominent, and this place seems a vast oasis in the Holy Land. This house might be a caravansary, The tree a kind of cordial fountainhead of welcome, looped and decked with necklaces and ceintures of green, yellow, blue, and red.
Some wonder if the star of Bethlehem occurred when Jupiter and Saturn crossed; It’s comforting to look up from this roof and feel that, while all changes, nothing’s lost, to recollect that in antiquity the winter solstice fell in Capricorn and that, in the Orion Nebula, from swirling gas, new stars are being born.
For thousands of years the Solstice turning points of every year have been honored and celebrated on this planet. We know that people all over the planet have honored the relationship between our earth, the sun, and the moon at key phases during the year.
I’d like to wish you a Happy Solstice.
The new lunar cycle is a spiritual time for many cultures, which include, the Zuni and Hopi , the Maya cultures stretching to Peru. This year’s winter moon initiates the Mayans’ year-long countdown to the end of the Long Calendar, which occurs during the winter solstice of 2012.
The winter solstice, when the Earth’s maximum axial tilt is the farthest away from the sun, occurs tonight at approximately 12:30 a.m. EST. It’s meaning extends beyond its ancient impact on the sowing of crops and management of winter reserves.
It is a sacred time of reverence and respect for the spirits.
Spend the season of gratitude and giving with friends old and new as we begin our Ascension into the Age of Aquarius. Renew the bonds to your higher self amidst an international spiritual community of inspired souls.
Expand your inner light with experiences that will prepare you for 2012 as we ascend into the Age of Aquarius –A time of rebirth, and renewal.
From birth we have all been conditioned by our parents, culture, education, religion, media, and country, to see reality in a certain way.
Who we think we are, and what we believe determines what we create and experience in the world.
Tune in.
Listen to the silence and solitude of the Winter Solstice energy.
Physical reality reflects our choices, and as you reflect on what has been in your life, know that whatever is falling away at this time is making space for something new.
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